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MILLVILLE FARMERS’ AND GARDENERS’ CLUB.—This club, located 
in Cache County, Utah, reports through its secretary, F. Yeates, exper- 
iments with varieties of seeds and small grains received from this De- 
- members o elub, now including nearly all the farmers in the com- 
- munity, ar ented as alive to their own interests, and intent on 
finding eut most successful modes of farming and gardening. With 
e resolved to hold monthly meetings for mutual in- 
he growing season, to send out committees to inspect 
eds, the different modes of cultivation in practice, 
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LEDSOE County, TENNESSEE.—The secretary of the 
of this county sends us a report of which the follow: 1g is 
f live animals driven or shipped to southern | arkets in 
13,000 fat hogs; 1,200 cattle of an average gross weight 
. and 200 mules and horses, the average value being $100. 
ig the year 10 per cent. of the hogs died of cholera and other dis- 
eases, and about 1,000 were slaughtered in the county. 
The products of the field are put down as follows: total of wheat, 
20,000 bushels; average yield per acre, 10 bushels; of corn, 280,000, 
average, 20; of oats, 30,000, average, 20; of Ivish potatoes, 10,000, 
average, 40; of sweet potatoes, 20,000, average, 80. Tons of hay, 250; 
average yield per acre, 1,500 lbs. The census returns give the corre- 
sponding products of the county for 1869 as follows: total of wheat, 
92,034 bushels; of corn, 201,667; of oats, 21,550; of Irish potatoes, 
6,256; of sweet potatoes, 4,714; of hay, 356 tons; of hogs, 11,048. Our 
correspondent reports that, notwithstanding fruit-culture receives in the 
-eounty far less attention than it merits, apples, pears, and peaches are 
plenty, and that the latter grow almost spontaneously. He says: 
An entire orchard can be hewn down, and in five years it will be bearing as vigorously 
as ever. Four or five strong shoots will spring up at or near the stump, forming a 
group of trees instead of the one hewn down. The old stump does not heal over, but 
decays in a few years. 
The first ‘Collins steel,plow ” was introduced into the county three 
years ago, and now the farmers are fast superseding their old bung- 
ling plows and tools by that and other first-class farm implements. 
Los ANGELES CoUNTY, CALIFORNIA.—A correspondent of the De- 
partment writes as follows respecting the county of Los Angeles. 
The soil is a rich sandy loam, at Westminster, where I live. Our surface wells are 
about eight feet deep. This season has been too dry for us to produce good crops. All 
the rains fall during the months from December to June. It is now over seven months 
since we had any rain. The average rain-fall is about ten inches. We have at West- 
minster over thirty flowing artesian wells, and intend to irrigate our crops during the 
coming season. Our greatest difficulties are found in the lack of wood, or timber, and 
the severe winds which sweep over our treeless plains during the winter months. 
These winds, which come from the barren region of Western Arizona, are generally dry 
and hot. Our soil isso loose and sandy that these winds move it easily. The sand- 
storms are very destructive to young grain, often covering a whole field in a single 
day. To prevent the destructive effects of this wind, many in this county are planting 
willow hedges, obtaining the willows from the vicinity of the rivers, where they grow 
in abundance. These hedges are intended to answer the purpose of wind-breaks, as 
well as fences. 
DESTRUCTION OF “THE BUFFALO.—There is more than a probability 
that the buffalo will disappear with the Indian; that both the native 
man of North America and the animal mainly relied upon for his meat 
and his clothing, will become extinet, The Atchison, Topeka and Santa 
