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rust-proof oats, sown side by side, the same day, will soon be ready for cutting, and 
are as fine as I ever saw in this section, while the potato-oats are about knee-high, and 
of a yellow, sickly appearance. The “Beeler upland” cotton is doing well. The silver- 
hull buckwheat is too young to tell much about it yet. 
And our correspondent in Greenville County, South Carolina, reports, 
under date of June 5: 
The “black-eyed marrow-pea,” planted on the 15th of March, produced the first dish 
to-day. They are of excellent quality, well adapted to this climate; “5 feet high; 
strong and vigorous.” The garden was manured from the barn-yard—plowed and 
harrowed in February—cultivated with a plow. The yield of peas is enormous. 
CLOVER IN SouTH CAROLINA.—Our correspondent in York County 
writes : 
A few years ago clover was scarcely ever seen growing in this county, unless upon 
some small lot belonging to what the people called “a book-farmer;”’ now nearly 
every farmer grows from one-half of an acre to twenty acres. No machinery for thresh- 
ing out thé seed, that I am aware of, has thus far been brought here, and seed brought 
from northern markets is exclusively sown. In this county, on clay soil moderately 
fertile, clover has succeeded well; still, as yet, it is rarely planted as a crop, most 
farmers preferring to experiment on a small scale before seeding down with it any 
valuable portion of land. Its introduction here is a success, and its width will increase 
every year hereafter. 
HARD TIMES IN ALABAMA.—Our correspondent in Franklin County 
writes : 
Corn is scarce and high, commanding readily $1 per bushel. The farming interest is 
much depressed owing to the fall in cotton. 
AGRICULTURAL ADVANTAGES AND DISCOURAGEMENTS IN FLORIDA.— 
Our correspondent in Wakulla County represents that in that section 
the people have become impoverished, lost all enterprise, “‘ are deeply 
discouraged, and moving away.” Plantations which, before the war, 
were among the most flourishing and famous, are now common grazing- 
erounds. And yet Wakulla County “lies contiguous to the Gulf, the 
sea-breezes are free and fresh, the climate is salubrious, and the soil 
productive.” He concludes: “A full flood-tide of enlightened and ener- 
getic immigration is my only hope of immediate redemption.” 
ADVERSE SEASON IN NEw Merxico.—Our correspondent in Mora 
County accompanies his statistical report for May and June witha 
statement which shows that the farmers in that Territory are passing 
through trying times at present. It is as follows: 
You will see that the prospect is somewhat gloomy for the people of Mora County 
and from what I can learn it is not much better for all of the Territory. I have re- 
sided in this valley seventeen years, and in the Territory generally I have never 
seen so unfavorable a year for farmers and stock-raisers. My farm-book reports the 
fall of only about 8 inches of snow on the flat land during the winter; in fact, since 
September 6 of last year the ground has scarcely been moistened. The injury and 
loss among cattle and sheep are deplorable. The loss has been general, but individual 
cases of much greater loss than that reported are not unfrequent. I have heard of one 
gentleman who visited his ranch a short time back and found six hundred lambs 
already dropped by his ewes, and in scarcely ten days afterward his mayordomo wrote 
him that there were barely a hundred living, and his ewes dying at the rate of scores 
daily. Hunger and thirst are making sad havoc on the grazing-plains in every direc- 
tion, for the spring-pasture is dried to the roots and the streams are so many dried 
gullies. 
Many of the farmers residing at a distance of fifteen or twenty miles from the 
mountains have not planted a seed of any kind, and the probability is that two-thirds 
if not three-fourths of the farm-land in this county will lie idle this year. 
AGRICULTURE IN ARKANSAS.—The following is a condensed statement 
of facts and views communicated by our correspondent in Garland (for- 
metly Hot Springs) County. The soil in that section of the State, for the 
most part, is of a mineral cast. It yields not only vegetable products, 
