397 



the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy road, and the hirgest shipment, 

 323,420, by the Michigan Central. The largest monthly receipt, 508,347, 

 was in January, and the largest shipment, 171,505, was in April. 



Of sheep, the largest total receipt, 78,977 head, was by the Chicago, 

 Burlington and Quincy road, and the largest shipment, 40,418, was by 

 the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago. The largest monthly receipt 

 and shipment was in January, the former amounting to 58,102 and the 

 latter to 41,898. The movement was very small during May and June. 



Of horses, the largest total receipt, 2,722, was by the Chicago, Bur- 

 lington and Quincy road, and the largest shipment, 5,200, was by the 

 Lake Shore aud Southern Michigan. The largest monthly receipt and 

 shipment was in March, the former amounting to 2,784 and the latter to 

 2,781. 



Crops in Nebraska. — A correspondent, under date of August 10, 

 writes, respecting the condition aud yield of crops in Dodge and adjoin- 

 ing counties, as follows : 



Corn promises the greatest crop ever growD ia the State. The stalks are 10 to 13 

 feet high, with from ] to 7 ears on a stalk, aud fully averaging 2, large in size aud well 

 tilled. As a proof of the general expectation of the yield, I will state that 75 bushels 

 of new black oats of splendid quality, weighing 41 pounds per bushel, machine meas- 

 ure, which I hauled last week, brought only 25 cents per bushel. I am satisfied that, 

 unless some disaster happens to the corn-crop, both that and oats will settle down to 15 

 cents the coming winter. Wheat on bottom-lands is injured by rain, in quality, 25 per 

 cent., but runs 25 per cent, above average in quantity ; on uplands it is superior every 

 way. Oats are enormous in yield and very fine in quality, but difficult to harvest, as 

 they were beaten down by storms when just about ripening, aud can only be cut one 

 way. Kye, superior iu quantity and quality, was harvested in good weather and is 

 safe in stacks. Potatoes are the heaviest in yield and best in quality ever grown here. 

 Our Early Rose cook almost into meal. They are worth only 25 cents now. The crop 

 of hay is so heavy and thick on the ground that serious fears are felt that the annual 

 prairie-fires may be more destructive than usual. Garden-stuff is, beyond all precedent, 

 enormous in yield aud good in quality, but is a drug in the market. 



Although the air was filled with grasshoppers for two weeks, but very few lighted, 

 and those that did had no appetite, evidently sick from the presence of the red miie 

 which infested them iu all cases. 



Unless the price of grain, &c., falls to lower rates than ever before in this State, the 

 farmers of this section will nearly regain all that they lost in the last two years. 



Southeastern Arkansas. — One of our statistical correspondents 

 in Southeastern Arkansas, in urging the claims of that section as a field 

 for emigration, gives the unqualified assurance of a perfect freedom of 

 political sentiment and action. He explodes the popular error that the 

 country is " swampy, miasmatic, and mosquito-infested." With a due 

 proportion of fine river, bayou, and creek bottom, this region is high, 

 dry, and undulating. The hills and ridges have a fertile surface, under- 

 laid with sand and gravel. The valleys are alluvial aud very produc- 

 tive. The salubrity of- the country is shown by the large number of 

 very old people, notwithstanding prevalent unhygienic habits. Pulmo- 

 nary affections are rare. 



Every farm, garden, or orchard jjroduct of the temperate zone can be 

 raised here. The long seasons admit of two crops per annum, and of 

 three crops within fifteen months. The bottom-lands will bring large 

 crops of cotton or corn, while the uplands are very rich, and respond 

 quickly to high culture and fertilization. A splendid wheat-crop has 

 just been harvested, of five times the acreage of any previous year. 

 Fine fruit is raised here, though the capacity of this culture has been 

 but imperfectly developed. Wild and cultivated grapes grow in great 

 luxuriance. The Scuppernong of the South grows here with a vigor 

 unsurpassed in any other part of the Gulf States; Ives's Seedling, Nor- 

 ton's Virginia, the Delaware, and other cultivated varieties have been 

 satisfactorily tested. It is believed^that wine-production could here be 



