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a strong mule could pull it, under the roots of the old stalks, and with a one-horse 
turning-plow threw all the old bolls and stalks on the ridge. Tais he did each year, 
and did not suffer any stock whatever to go on the lot. The crop nearly doubled 
itself each year; the first year if made 350 pounds of seed: cotton, the last 2,200 pounds. 
No manure whatever was used. 
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GRAPE-CULTURE IN OREGON.—A correspondent in Jackson County, 
which borders on California, reports that in that section experiments in 
grape-culture have proved entirely successful. That county already 
manufactures most of its wine for home-consumption, and those regarded 
as good judges of wine pronounce the quality excellent. As a result of 
this successful trial, several vineyards have been greatly enlarged this 
season. 
AVERAGE’ YIELDS IN ILLINOIS.—The secretary of the Butler Agri- 
cultural Club in Montgomery County, Lllinois, reports that the members 
raised, in 1872, products as follows: Total acres of wheat, 465; product, 
6,304 bushels ; average yield, 134 bushels per acre. Acres of corn, 708; 
product, 30,745 bushels; average per acre, 43$ bushels. Acres of oats, 
326; product, 16,400 bushels ; average per acre, 50,4, bushels. Acres of 
meadow, 342; product, 5485 tons; average per acre, 12 tons. Acres of 
Hungarian grass, 15; product, 25 tons; average per acre, 12 tons. 
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OF SANTA CrRUz.—The island of Santa 
Cruz (under the jurisdiction of Denmark) has an area of about sixty 
square miles, and, according to a census taken in 1870, a population of 
23,194, in which there were 1,022 more females than males. The surface 
of the island, which has scarcely a running stream, is generally elevated 
and rolling, in some parts mountainous. Its scenery is represented to be 
charmingly picturesque and fascinating, and its highways, kept in perfect 
order, to be almost equal in attractions to the drives in the Central Park 
of New York. Its agricultural industry is almost wholly limited to the 
production of sugar, molasses, and rum from cane. It is estimated that 
at least four-fifths of the provisions, lumber, and implements of culture 
and manufacture for the supply of the plantations are imported from the 
United States, while by far the largest portions of the molasses and rum 
produced are exported to the United States. The sugar is chiefly ex- 
ported to Denmark. The crop of sugar in 1871, amounting to 16,000 hogs- 
heads, was much larger than had been produced for many years previous. 
The exports of the island, for the year ending September 30, 1871, were 
23,618,873 pounds of sugar, of which the value was $1,136,564.79; 
1,054,568 gallons of molasses, value, $243,394.83; and 358,894 gallons of 
rum, value, $78,602.95. The total value of its exports to the United 
States for the same year was $334,336.42, which was $433,389.99 in 
excess of the value of its exports to this country the preceding year. 
