465 



$14,740,194, aA'aiiisc $17,353,721; of uninanutactared wool, $02,754, 

 against $72,109. 



Crops in Michigan. — The following: statements are condensed from 

 a comiunnication to the Department by Mr. J. P. Thompson, secretary 

 of the Michigan State Pomological Society: Wheat cnlture in Mich- 

 igan is making progress. Preparation of soil, fertilization, and the 

 quality of seed are receiving more attention. The crop of the past 

 season proves, on thrashing, to be full average in quantity, and better 

 than was anticipated in quality. In Mr. Thompson's place of residence. 

 Cascade, and surrounding towns, the average yield reported by the 

 thrashers is 20 bushels per acre, and the product of the county, Kent, 

 is 800,000 bushels. Though corn was somewhat cut by frost, yet the 

 crop is the largest and best ever produced in the State. The same is 

 true of the crops of potatoes and buckwheat. An unusually large area 

 of the former was planted, owing to the high price of potatoes at the 

 time of planting; and of the latter, owing to fears of a failure in the 

 wheat- crop. The potato-beetle has been easily kept at bay, and is 

 receding before the combined power of " parasitic enemies and the vig- 

 orous application of Paris green. . All root-crops have done well. 



Our statistical correspondent in Mecosta states that 7 acres of Diehl 

 wheat which escaped frost yielded 35 l>ushels per acre ; 28 acres of Diehl 

 and Treadwell, 37 bushels; 1 acre of Clawson, 41 J bushels; and a field 

 of " white amber," 40 bushels. He adds : " Had it not been for the June 

 frost, our average yield would have been enormous. All the yields men- 

 tioned are products of the natural soil, without fertilizers of any kind, 

 and with just fair cultivation." 



Wheat -YIELDS in W^isconsin. — A correspondent in Outagamie Coun- 

 ty has ascertained from the thrashers that in that county the varieties 

 of wheat have j- ielded at the rates stated : Deihl wheat, 34 bushels per 

 acre; Fultz and " Russian wheat," (lately imported from Eussia by a 

 miller at the village of Neenah,) each, 33 bushels. The latter is a white 

 wheat, said to be equal to the Fultz in standing the winter, and there- 

 fore thought to be preferable. The variety of spring-wheat producing 

 the largest yield was the Canada Club — 33 bushels per acre. Our cor- 

 respondent states that, owing to the large yield of winter-wheat, a large 

 acreage will be sown this fall. 



An unknown disease among- hogs. — A correspondent in Juniata 

 County, Pennsylvania, states that a new and fatal disease is prevailing 

 among hogs in that and the adjoining counties of Perry, Snyder, Dau- 

 phin, and Northumberland, and that it has already resulted in losses 

 amounting to thousands of dollars. He describes its symptoms and 

 effects as follows: 



Most of the animals affected live only a few days after the first noticeable attack. In 

 some it commences witli costiveuess, and in others with diarrhea. The excrements are 

 black and very offensive. From the lirst attack all breathe with great difficulty. Some 

 refuse food altogether, while others seem to have their appetite scarcely'- diminished 

 until, perhaps, a few hours before they die. The disease seems to be altogether in the 

 lungs. Post-mortem examinations have prov^ed that in some instances the lungs are 

 entirely decayed or rotten, crumbling apart iu whitish particles by a very slight touch; 

 in others the lungs were found to be only a mass of slimy white matter, emitting an 

 offensive smell. So far no remedy has been discovered either as a i)reventive or as a 

 cure. 



Diseased- cattle. — Our correspondent iu Medina County, Ohio, re- 

 ports that Mr. F B. Chamberlain bought August 13, at Bast Saint Louis 

 stock-yards, 37 th es-year-old Illinois steers. He shipped them by rail, 

 via Toledo, to Elyria, Lorain County, and drove them thence, about 



