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TEXAS CATTLE.—Writing from Ellsworth County, Kansas, a corre- 
spondent says that 140,000 Texas cattle had arrived in that county, and 
were being grazed on the rich grasses of the country, the buffalo and 
the mesquite, of which there seems to be almostan inexhaustible supply. 
Ellsworth City, on the Kansas Pacific Railroad, is a great shipping 
point for thesé cattle. No Spanish fever has appeared among the native 
or Durham stock this season. 
SUMMER-PASTURE FOR CATTLE AND SWINE.—Our De Kalb County, 
Illinois, statistical correspondent calls attention to the fact that a new 
system of summer pasturage for cattle and swine is being adopted in 
that county. He says that winter-rye sown reasonably thick furnishes 
excellent pasturage; swine appear to thrive better upon it than upon 
timothy and clover. It retains remarkable freshness in a very dry season, 
even when ordinary pasturage is scanty. In connection with it little if 
any corn is necessary to keep hogs in desirable thrift. 
RED CLOVER.—Writing from Saint Joseph, Missouri, Messrs. H. M. 
‘and A. H. Varies say, concerning red clover seed received from the De- 
partment, that it was sown upon ground of ordinary fertility in the lat- 
ter part of March or beginning of April. Every seed seemed to grow. 
The clover bloomed almost as soon as that grown in fields of several 
years’ standing It grewlarge enough the first season to have yielded 
nearly a half crop of hay, and passed through the last severe winter 
‘unhurt, and in a luxuriant and healthy manner. Itseems to be hardier 
than the ordinary red clover of that section, though in appearance very 
similar. 
FULTZ WHEAT IN MARYLAND.—The wheat crop of Frederick County, 
Maryland, promises an abundant yield. The leading wheat grown in the 
county, Tappahannock, will average three and four grains to the side. 
The Lancaster (red) promises well, but will not yield as much, per acre, 
as Tappahannock. It is thought that the average yield in that district 
will be from eighteen to twenty-five bushels per acre. A corréspondent, 
to whom was sent a quantity of Fultz wheat for distribution, says that 
it is beyond doubt the most promising variety in the county, admirably 
adapted to the climate. At the date of harvesting (June 30) he is satis- 
fied that he can pick out acres of it that will yield 35 to 45 bushels, 
and is confident that it will average 30 bushels per acre. Commercial 
fertilizers are generally resorted to in the wheat-culture of the county.’ 
SHEEP vs. Docas.— Another plea in behalf of sheep, as against much 
worse than worthless canines, comes from Knox County, Tennessee. -Out 
of a flock of thirty-four, a farmer has lost twelve, having left only four 
ram-lambs for sale. To replace this loss with imported stock, he asserts, 
would cost him upward of $1,000. His flock was the principal means 
of making money for the support of bimself and family. His statement 
in detail is an interesting one, and worth the consideration of legisla-. 
tors and the tolerators of dogs in the sheep-growing regions: 
I would here say that I came to Tennessee through the strong recommendation of 
American emigration agents. I was assured that I should be protected both in person 
and property, and here I am, with a family of twelve children and my property, four 
thousand miles away from my native land—the property, which was my chief depend- 
ence, for a time, for the support of my family, swept away at a stroke by a set of 
brutes which are of no earthly use to any one. Iam told I have my redress in the 
courts of justice. I have very little hope of obtaining that justice which the case 
demands, when, as one gentleman at the recent farmers’ convention said, the members 
of the State parliament were afraid to offend their constituents by passing a law to 
prevent the depredations of such brutes—a pitiable state of things, truly, when public 
