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ers. The only fertilizer iu use among ns is obtaiiietl from the baiTi-yartl. Osaye : The 

 grouud is plowed deeper, and better pulverized, and full crops ^own earlier ; the use 

 of the drill for seeding is more used. Callaway: An iucreasiug determination to get 

 the best farming tools, to facilitate work, and to economize labor. Lincoln : I have no- 

 ticed farmers are becoming more careful of their stravr, ricking it up in good order for 

 "winter use; and the better farmers have built barns, sheds, and other places of re- 

 treat for stock in inclement weather ; also a desire is manifested for a better and more 

 improved class of stock by purchasing of the best known breeds. Pettis : More labor 

 on less land has become the motto of many of our farmers ; and manure, but little no- 

 ticed a few years previous, has during the last season come extensively into demand, 

 and ere long will be an article of commerce. Mercer : At present almost every farmer 

 lilows his ground well before sowing, then puts it in with a wheat-drill, and the result 

 is that an acre of laud thus treated now produces more than three acres under the 

 old system of broadcast sowing and afterward dragging a brush or harrow over it ; in 

 this way the frost destroyed much. Lirinrjston : Improved machinery and breeds 

 of live stock. Franldin : Cleaner culture; less laud under plow; better machinery; 

 more and better agricultural reading. Phelps: Eastern farmers are trying to introduce 

 rotation. Howard : Very unsatisfactory. Carroll : Im])roved imi)lements enable one 

 man to cultivate well tifty acres of corn, double the former ratio. Xodawat/ : luiproved 

 stock, tools, and metiiods of culture. Javlson : Improved machinery. Taney: None. 

 Stoddard : Improved machinery. Eipley : Improved machinery and tillage. Ballin- 

 ger : Improved machinery. Callaway: Unreliable labor remedied by getting the best 

 implements. Capte Girardeau : Some improved machinery. Stone: Unreliable labor 

 has compelled economy. Saint Francois : None. Pulaski : Noue visible. Xewton : 

 None. Wright : Better tillage. Saint Clair : Better rotation. Douylass : None. 

 Christian: Some new machinery. AIcDonald : None. Pay: Not very decided. Polk: 

 Only iu isolated cases. Harrison: Improved machinery. Clay: Very little. Boone: 

 Noue. Attdrian : None. Palls : None. Iron : Slow and gradual. 



Kansas. — Doniphan : A decided improvement in all kinds of machinery, seeds, stock, 

 «S:c. Ellsworth : A great improvement in stock by crossing the native and Texas cat- 

 tle by thoroughbred Durhams. Nemaha : The best variety of seeds are sought after ; 

 animals for the improvement of stock have been bought at a high price and intro- 

 duced into dilTerent sections of the count}' ; grain is better protected, and straw better 

 secured and made available for feed and manure. Orchards, groves, and viuej'ards are 

 being planted. Jackson : The most economy is apparent in feeding their grain to 

 stock, thereby driving their crop to market ou foot. Washington : The introduction of 

 sheep, and a more mixed husbandry, the making of cheese, and the use of new and im- 

 proved farm-machinery. Wilson: New and improved machinery, and the use of the 

 drill particularly. Chase : More corn raised than usual, and therefore more cattle and 

 hogs fattened ; and instead of sending two and three year olds to Illinois, we keep 

 them at home, fatten them ourselves, and send them to market as beef-cattle. Bour- 

 hon : Greater variety of crops. Liion : Better implements : more manure saved. 

 Cowley: Better tillage. Peno : Better implements. Howard: None. Bepuhlic : A few 

 save more manure. Sedgwick: Farming a more settled business. Linn: Not worthy 

 of note. Labette : Improved machinery. Clay : Improved machinery. Morris : Im- 

 proved machinery and a better kind of labor. Brown : But little as yet. Cloud : 

 Nothing special. Piley : Very little. Jefferson : Improved machinery has enabled 

 farmers to hold their own through the panic. Marshall : Improved culture, machinery, 

 and economy. Butler : Better culture and machiticry. Aichinson : Farmers gaining 

 wealth. 



Nebraska. — Lancaster: Improved machinery. Merrick: Grain-drills. Webster: 

 Improved machinery. Antelope: Gi'eat efforts to secure the best implements; county 

 newly settled. Nemaha: Combining for the purchase of implements. Otoe: Gradual, 

 yet perceptible progress. Madison : Great efforts to secure best machinery. 

 Burt : Increased use of " headers " in harvesting ; great saving thereby. Jeffer- 

 son : We are testing the best ways of getting the best yield for the least labor. Cass: 

 There is but little system, efficiency, or economy of labor practiced here. Every one pur- 

 sues such a course as he thinks will pay him best with rhe le ist labor. If a man does 

 not sow from 60 to 80 acres of small grain, and plant and cultivate from 40 to 50 acres 

 corn, all with one team, he is considered as doing a smill business. Gage: Orchards 

 are beginning to spring up in all directions, and stock-raising to consume the sponta- 

 neous productions of the pastures. These are prominent evidences of advancement. 

 Richardson : Our farmers have comurenced building barns to save fodder and grain ; also 

 they have began to use improved machinery. Cedar: A tendency toward a rota- 

 tion of crops and the use of domestic fertilizers. 



California. — Klamath: Improved machinery. Santa Clara : Many of our practical 

 and intelligent farmers have commenced summer fallowing their lauds, the yield being 

 from 25 to 30 per cent, increase. The soil of this State, particularly of the valley 

 lands, can only be successfully cultivated iu this way. San Diego : We have all the 

 modei-n improvements, and are endeavoring to farm systematically, and with due 



