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AGRICULTURAL SPECIALTIES. 
Baltimore, Md.—Dairying and gardening are our specialties; fine dairies near Balti- 
more, and along the railroads large quantities of milk are daily sent to that city; an 
improvement of cows is noticed; the business pays well. : 
Orleans, Vt.—The leading industry is dairying. In this town (Craftsbury) there are 
600 cows; there are nineteen towns in the county, some of which have an equal or 
greater number. Iestimate the total number at 9,000, averaging 150 pounds of butter 
per cow, and making a total product of 1,350,000 pounds. It sells at 30 to 35 cents per 
pound, but at an average of 25 cents it amounts to $325,000, an aggregate greater than 
any of the crops except hay. 
4 GOOD AND BAD CROPS. 
Hancock, Ind.—Last year the best crop year I have ever known in this county; this 
year the worst. 
COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS. 
Laurens, S. C.—ULast spring the farmers bought vast quantities of guano, expecting 
to pay for it by the Ist of November with cotton at 17 and 18 cents per pound, but as 
cotton only commands 12 cents they feel much discouraged. It is generally believed 
that the most of this guano is swamp muck or alluvial soil. 
Tamenburgh, Va.—Nearly all depend on manufactured fertilizers. These are applied 
mostly to the tobacco crop, to be followed by wheat, and then by corn or oats, and 
then one or two seasons uncropped. The amount of money going out of the county, 
from the best information I can get, will nearly or quite equal the profits of the crops. 
Could the money be expended in labor, in the feeding and care of cattle and sheep, and 
the making of stable and yard manures, it would largely increase the productiveness 
of the lands. 
IMMIGRATION OF FARMERS. 
Baxter, Ark.—This county is filling up with northern farmers, who are quite wel 
come; they are good farmers, and seem to be well pleased with the country. 
EPIZOOTY. 
Boone, Ill.—Epizooty not so general as last year, but more serious. Discharge from 
the nostrils more copious; head, glands, &c., severely swollen. 
CATILE FATALLY DISEASED. 
Jefferson, W. Va.—Two or three cattle died from what is called “mad itch,” caused, 
as is supposed, by eating corn-stalks that had been chewed by hogs. 
RAISING SHEEP AND LAMBS. 
Orange, Va.—Much attention has of late been paid to sheep husbandry, more with a 
view to raising Jambs than wool. Very many common sheep have been introdnced 
recently and bred to fine bucks. 
EARLY WINTER FEEDING. 
Tazewell, Ill.—-Farmers beginning to feed cattle earlier than for thirty years. 
SCARCITY OF MONEY. 
Miami, Kans.—No money in circulation ; the county verging upon bankruptcy; from 
500 to 700 farms mortgaged at high rates of interest, (20 per cent. ;) farmers generally 
despondent. 
BAD SEASON FOR RICE. 
Georgetown, S. C.-—The season has been most disastrous to our specialty, rice. The 
heavy rains of August and September were so slow to run off that the swollen rivers 
delayed harvest four weeks. Rice cut and stacked in the field was almost a total loss. 
That uncut became over-ripe and tangled so as to cause great waste in harvesting. 
The loss will be 40 or 50 per cent., while the quality will be poor. 
GOOD CROP OF RICE. 
Clinch, Ala.—Rice-crop very good ; average yield of uplands 20 bushels per acre. 
CUBA TOBACCO. 
Gadsden, Fla.—Prior to the war the Cuba tobacco was cultivated as a staple market 
crop, the annual product of the county amounting to about 4,000 boxes of 400 pounds 
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