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same price to ship, and when in Saint Louis brmt^s about 75 cents per bushel, thus 

 costing one-third of the value to ship. Cost of cultivating 966 bushels of wheat on 

 40 acres of land, §473; part of the crop, 550 bushels, brought §1 per bushel, amounting 

 to $550; and 416 bushels brought $1.25 per bushel, or |520; total, $1,070; leaving a net 

 profit of $597. 



Nebraska. — Otoe: The exceedingly favorable season having been happily adapted for 

 the growth and maturing of wheat, it has proved our most profitable crop. Jefferson : 

 Wheat the principal crop of the county ; oats and barley do almost equally well. 

 Thayer : The yield of spring-wheat was from 18 to 20 bushels per acre, and is now- 

 worth §1 per bushel. Antelope: Spring-wheat has been the most remunerative. Mad- 

 ison : Wheat-raising is the only branch there is any profit in ; all the other crops were 

 failures. 



California. — Santa Clara: This is emphatically a wheat-producing county. Napa: 

 Wheat-raising has greatly predominated in Napa County for the past year. It is esti- 

 mated that the production of this cereal will reach 10,000 tons ; this estimate is based 

 upon statistics furnished by warehousemen, middlemen, and from other sources. 



Oregox. — Lane : There is no doubt that the raising of wheat has been the most 

 profitable both in the aggregate and in individual examples. In fact, some branches, 

 and those not a few, are neglected by our people in order to avail themselves of the 

 immediate results of selling w^ieat. 



Utah. — Washington : Our wheat-crop has been particularly profitable the past season 

 owing to a majority of the farmers having sown in the fall. 



New Mexico. — Taos : Wheat has proved most profitable during the i^ast year in our 

 farmers' valley. 



Montana. — Leu-is and Clark: Wheat, although somewhat damaged by the grasshop- 

 per, has proved most profitable of the crops. 



DIYERS CROPS. 



A considerable proportion of tlie returns of the Central and Western 

 States indicate no positive preference for particular crops, but ex- 

 press the true idea of successfnl general agriculture, which embodies 

 a wise selection of a variety of crops in rotation, chosen with reference 

 to soil or market or other modifying circumstauce. Many discussed 

 the obvious advantages of general cropping over restriction, more or 

 less exclusive, to a specialty. As this investigation has to do rather with, 

 the comparative profit of the various crops comprising the rotation 

 than with the relative profitableness of specialties and general farming, 

 these extracts are mainly confined to such comparisons, for the i)urpose 

 of showing what branch of the rotation is most promtueut at the pres- 

 ent time. 



Ehode Island. — Xcicport: Farmers living within three or four miles of the city 

 find it most profitable to give most of their elforts to producing milk. Some of them 

 add more or less of market-gardening. A largo number, who are too far from the citj' 

 to carry milk profital^ly, make most of their profit by selling hay. A third class, 

 whose laud is adapted to growing early potatoes, have made this most profitable the 

 past year. The small size of the farms, and the high price of labor, rent, manure, &c., 

 render it almost impossible to make any profit by growing grain, stock, wool, or pork. 



Connecticut. — Hartford: The paying crops are tobacco and garden- vegetables, and 

 grass and hay turned into milk, sold in the cities and manvifacturiug villages. On 

 account of the high price of labor few other farm-products pay. 



New York. — Lrie: Potato raising has been the most profitable, according to the 

 area occupied. The yield has ranged fiom 100 to 300 bushels per acre, and the price 

 from 70 to 80 cents per bushel. F. R. Davis sold, July 20, from one acre 300 bushels of 

 early rose for $240. (The ground had been planted with potatoes on the sod the year 

 before and yielded aljout the same.) Expeuse of cultivating, including seed and 25 

 loads of manure, at .^1 per load, §60. On the 25th of July the acre was sown to turnips. 

 ff arreti : On farms adapted to grass, making butter and cheese; on light soils, corn 

 and potatoes. We have dairymen who report $00 wor h of butter and cheese per cow. 

 I raised §75 worth of potatoes per acre last season. Schenectady : In some sections the 

 hay-crop has been the most i^rofitable. 'i"he potato-crop yields the most money per 

 acre of any crop raised the past season. In some sections the white peach blow has 

 netted !? 100 per acre. Otsego: The staple product of the county, hops, has probably 

 been the most successful with those who, by reason of favorable location, diligence, 

 and care, have secured a good crop — GOO to 800 pounds per acre. The price has raised 

 from 2o to 50 cents, according to quality and date of sale. Oneida : Hops in the 



