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$304.92. The next day, June 12, at Springfield, Edward Iles sold at 
auction from his herd thirty-seven head. Eight were bulls, and sold as 
follows: Cherub, three years old, imported from England, $6,000; sired 
by him, 1 calf, $150; 1 yearling, $525; another, $1,300; 3 yearlings, (not 
of Cherub’s stock,) average $135 ; and 1 two years old, $185. The twen- 
ty-nine cows and heifers brought: 1 calf, $525; 5 yearlings, average $771; 
10 two-year-olds, average $763.50, the extremes being $185 and $1,125; 
4 three-year-olds, average $1,037.50, extremes $625 and $1,650 ; 2 four- 
year-olds, $755 and $1,700; 4 five-year-olds, average $1,546.25, extremes 
$650 and $2,500; 2 nine-year-olds, $310 and $500; 1 ten-year-old, $625; 
average price per head for the 29, $904.82; for the 37, $940.70. The 
average price per head of the 35 yearlings sold at the two auctions 
was $378.30; of the 27 two-year-olds, $499.63. 
FLAX-CULTURE.—This branch of farming is on the increase in the 
Northwest. About 4,000 acres were this season sown in Marshall 
County, lowa. In Watonwan County, Minnesota, where last year 1,000 
acres were sown, the acreage has been enlarged to 7,000. Flax is also 
raised in Nicollet County, Minnesota, farmers generally receiving about 
$12 per ton and realizing a fair profit. It does well upon the highlands 
overlooking the Clackamas River, Oregon.. Very few lint mills are to be 
found in these new flax growing regions, where the crop is grown mostly 
for seed. The lint is therefore only a waste product. It would be well 
if some manufacturing enterprise should be aroused and a new margin 
of profit secured to the farmer by utilizing this material. In Washington 
County, Nebraska, flax culture is also increasing rapidly. The results . 
last year were very Satisfactory, averaging 144 bushels per acre, worth 
$1.20 per bushel. 
RECLAMATION OF SWAMP LANDS.—A company of enterprising farmers 
in Holt County, Missouri, are constructing a ditch twelve miles long, by 
which an immense tract of overflowed and swamp land will be effectually 
reclaimed. 
PROGRESS IN NEBRASKA.—An Adams County, Nebraska, correspond- 
ent says: 
This county, two years ago, was an unbroken prairie; now there are very few por- 
tions of it not taken up and improved. In all respects it is an excellent agricultural 
region. 
PROGRESS IN Eaypt.—As one of the signs of progress in agricul 
tural industry in Egypt, it may be of interest to our people to know that 
His Excellency Chérif Pacha, minister of foreign affairs, has recently 
made an order in behalf of the government on R. Habersham, Son & Co., 
Savannah, Georgia, through R. Beardsley, esq., consul-general of the 
United States at Alexandria, Egypt, for fifteen tons of sea-island cot- 
ton seed, for culture in Egypt, under the express direction of the enter- 
prising ruler of that country, Ismail Pacha. 
Hart Country, GEorGc1A.—The statistics of Hart County, Georgia, 
for the past year, are furnished as follows: 
Number of acres in cotton ............ Soaicra'd Acc eee aes al eyacie's aa) soar 9; 293 
Namie of acres in wheatreme sesso. <2 5 < «. « 5.2 sen eeteerydieeia cia dals, cows) s aidan 4, 283 
MERE Of ACTOS 11! TY kas see aa onic 3) «= a oso Sei ceeeheean we S656 a we Soee + oeee 22 
Murminomot acres In Darl ya geste ss cals 0 sa aaecteete = ejoae = S= Sen em Seats 
Niner of ACTES IN OAbSis Nseries ess o- = we no oak ee Me cat a, ac, sl ne ct Salateletrere 4, 202 
Namuemon aeres im Indiami conway ss. 5.2.6 won cuales cle SSS sacle reac eee 12, 762 
Nima beror acres in Sweet POUAbOCNvaacds 3.2015 -, 4-14 See sicie cis ooo sa\n's wc ojos yeieeeye 229 
NM BOe On aeres 11 Trish) PObBUOCS eres (sas aramid aaeese mee wvapae na eae eieemacleh ass 44 
