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road and its connections. Mr. M. L. Sargent, general freight-agent of 

 the Atchison, Topeka. and Santa F6 Railroad, reports that, in the same 

 year, buffalo-products were shipped over that road as follows : pounds 

 of bones, 0,914,950; of hides, 1,311,300; of meat, 632,800; and in 1873, 

 of bones, 2,743,100; of hides, 5,180,480; of meat, 1,617,600. 



Butter-making. — A correspondent in Ashfleld, Franklin County, Mas- 

 sachusetts, states that the principal incomes, in that strictly agricultural 

 town, are from butter and beef. The butter is packed in circular boxes, 

 holding about 10 pounds, and costing 11 cents each. It is sent, through 

 " the storekeeper," to commission merchants in Boston. The freight and 

 commission amounts to about 3 cents per pound. In the winter, good 

 lots bring producers 47 cents per pound ; the price declines to 33 cents 

 in the summer. 



Forage in Arkansas. — Our correspondent in Garland County com- 

 municates the results of experiments by him in raising pea and corn 

 forage. On a lot of two and a half acres, immediately after taking from 

 it a crop of oats, he sowed and plowed in peas ; on two and a half acres 

 of new ground he sowed corn broadcast. The expenses were : Putting 

 in the peas, $12; clearing, fencing, and breaking up the i,corn lot, $35; 

 gathering and housing both crops, $8.60 ; total, $55.60. Eeturns : 

 Seven loads of pea- forage sold, at $10 per load ; twenty-eight loads of 

 corn-forage, exchanged for 10,000 feet of fencing stuff, valued at $15 

 per thousand ; sufficient forage reserved for wintering nine head of cattle, 

 estimated at $180 ; total, $400 ; gross proiits, $344.40. The corn was 

 cut when about waist-high, left in the sun two days, and then housed 

 or stacked. The pea-vines are put in an inclosure, with a tight inclined 

 floor, and inches above that a floor of poles. By trampling the vines, 

 the peas are shelled out, roll down, and are gathered into sacks. 



MARKET-PRICES OF FARM-PRODUCTS. 



The following quotations represent, as nearly as practicable, the state of the market at the 



beginning of the month. 



Articles. 



NEW YORK. 



Flour, superfine State per barrel 



extra State do 



superfine western do 



extra to choice western do 



common to fair southern extras. do 



good to choice southern extras. do 



Wheat, No. 1 spring , per bushel 



No. 2 spring do 



winter, red, western do 



winter, amber, western do 



winter, white, western do 



Eye do 



Barley do 



Corn do 



Hay, first quality per ton. 



second quality do 



Beef, mess per barrel 



extra mess do 



February. 



March. 



