389 



Yalahusha county, Mississippi. — The season has been the most remarkable 

 one in the memory of our planters. All crops have failed, more or less. The 

 cotton caterpillar [Anofnis xi/lina\ made its appearance about two weeks since, 

 and has done a great deal of damage in connexion with the rains of Septembei". 

 The regular boll worm [Heliol/ns annigera\ has also been at work, and in some 

 places done much injury to the crop. 



Jackson county, Florida. — Cotton has come to a sudden termination this 

 month, the caterpillar \^Anomis xylina] having cut off at least one-half of a 

 badly cultivated crojj, and not only reduced the quantity, but depreciated the 

 quality. 



Tensas county, Louisiana. — The second crop of cotton-caterpillars [Ano?nis 

 xylina] commenced their ravages about the 5th of September, and by the 15th 

 the entire crop of the county was stripped of its leaves. 



CASUAL NOTES. 



Flax in Ireland. — The official returns of flax acreage of Ireland, for 1866, 

 exhibit an increase of 11,966 acres over the area of 1865. The following is the 

 total exhibit for sixteen years : 



Acres. Acres. 



1851 140,536 1859 136,282 



1852 137,008 1860 128,595 



1853 174,579 1861 147,957 



1854 151,403 1862 150,070 



1855 97,055 1863 214,099 



1856 • 106,311 1864 301,693 



1857 97,721 1865 251,433 



1858 91,646 1866 263,419 



Grapes in North Carolina — Stanley county. — The grapes could not resist 

 the cold nights in June. The finest foreign varieties rotted, and the foliage of 

 the hardiest native vines perished from mildew. The Scuppernong alone seems 

 to bid defiance to the inclemency of the season. 



An apple congress. — The French Pomological Congress began its eleventh 

 session at Melun on the 14th September. Its object is to induce the rejection 

 of all mediocre and bad sorts of apple trees, and to promote the cultivation of 

 the finer and more profitable kinds. 



Medical jjroperties of the teasel — M. Beullard informs the French Academy 

 that the leaves of the teasel, (Dipsacus sylvestris,) pounded and applied to 

 wounds and bruises, has a powerful action in the prevention and cure of gan- 

 grene. He removes mortified flesh, washes the wound in chlorurated water, and 

 then applies a poultice of the leaves. He states that he used this remedy with 

 success for fifteen years. 



Odessa grain market. — Dates have been received at this department to Sep- 

 tember 20. Notwithstanding the news of a reduction in the Marseilles market, 

 transactions were brisk during September 1-20, and reached the number of 

 196,416 bushels removed, and 220,224 bushels to be delivered. 



Wheat 184,512 bushels. 



Rye 8,928 



Flaxseed 1,190 



Soft wheat to be delivered 160,704 



Rye to be delivered 35,712 



Flaxseed to be delivered 74,832 



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