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the basis for a county, State, and national one. It is not desirable that 
such an organization should be political in character. Its whole aim 
should be to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number. The 
time is at hand for the marshaling of the mighty forces that have hith- 
erto been apparently at rest. The worth and value of the producer must 
be acknowledged. It is time that equitable and just laws be enacted in 
the interest of farmers and workingmen. The World recommends united 
and immediate action among those directly concerned. 
SILK-CULTURE IN INDIA.—The Agricultural Gazette of India states 
that of a large number of silk-worms’ eggs distributed in the Mysore 
district, nearly all have failed to germinate, owing to climatic causes. 
In the Bangalore and Kolar districts the worms were hatched, but 
nearly all perished. The symptoms attending this malady were remark- 
ably uniform. The worms assumed a reddish color ; their heads became 
enlarged, and a greenish fluid exuded from their mouths. 
COTTON-CULTURE IN INDIA.—The experimental culture of cotton is, 
this year, to be greatly extended in the northeastern province of Brit- 
ish India. This crop has become an important one throughout the - 
northern and eastern portions of the Chittagong, including the newly 
acquired Garo territory. In Assane and along the ranges between that 
province and Sylhet, cotton is cultivated on a large scale. Seed for ex- 
perimental culture is to be distributed among the government officers 
along the frontier. Thus the Anglo-Indian authorities are making 
energetic efforts to secure a large cotton crop. 
WHEAT-AREAS.—The following interesting statement is quoted from 
the Prairie Farmer, (Chicago :) 
Years ago the city of Odessa, situated on a bay of the Euxine, between the Dnieper 
and the Dniester Rivers, was the greatest shipper of grain in the world. Odessa is 
the one shipping mart of all Southern Russia, and the growth of its trade represents 
the growth and development of that large country. But Russia, though large, is slow. 
She has few railways, no agricultural machinery, and the area of her wheat-fields has 
not enlarged in anything like the ratio which has marked the growth of farming in the 
Western States of America. In 1840, when Odessa shipped 170,000 tons of grain, 
Chicago shipped only 10,000 bushels. In 1850 the shipments of Odessa were 250,000 
tons; of Chicago, 3,000,000 bushels. Between 1860 and 1870, Chicago passed the Rus- 
sian port, and in 1872 the value of grain sold at Chicago for shipment east was 
$100,000,000, and the transactions of trade larger than those of any other city on the 
continent but New York. The elevatorsof Chicago now have a capacity for 13,000,000 
Dushels at once, and this capacity is rapidly increasing as the wheat area extends to 
the new lands of Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, and the far West. 
FRUITS IN WASHINGTON TERRITORY.—Mr. Manning, secretary of 
the Western Washington Industrial Association, states that the chest- 
nuts received from the Department are thriving finely. One tree in the 
town of Olympia has already attained a height of 30 feet. Butternut, 
walnut, and almond trees are all growing well, all perfecting their fruit. 
Ice has been formed over an inch only once in six years. Prunes, apri- 
cots, nectarines, quinces, thrive well. 
The chestnuts above referred to are of the Spanish variety, and were 
planted in the experimental gardens of this Department in 1867, and 
the trees subsequently distributed, beginning in 1868. 
PRODUCTS OF DAVIESS County, KENTUCcKY.—Our correspondent 
makes a very careful statement concerning the leading products of this 
county. According to the books of the assessor 10,549,240 pounds of 
tobacco were raised, of which 1,013,100 pounds are credited to negro 
proprietorship. Of corn, 1,067,700 bushels were raised by whites; by ne- 
groes, 63,930 bushels, or a total of 1,131,630 bushels. Of wheat, by whites, 
