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exclusive industry. He says: " If«ever a country needed manufactures 

 this certainly does. Our wagons are shipped from Northern Indiana ; 

 plows, hoes, and even ax-handles, as well as every other manufactured 

 article, come from the North, although the country abounds in the finest 

 timber for manufacturing purposes." 



Eggs of grasshoppers in the soil.— Our correspondent in Mar- 

 tin County, Minnesota, reports : " Our people have been experimenting 

 by taking a quantity of earth and placing it in boxes by the side of the 

 stove, where, in about a week the grasshoppers hatch out ; showing that 

 the ground is full of eggs which the frosts of winter have not killed."" 

 But since the first freeze kills the young grasshoppers, he thinks there 

 is a fair chance that those hatched in the course of nature, in the spring, 

 may be destroyed in like manner. 



Peach-growing in Delaware.— The secretary of the Lincoln Ag 

 ricultural Association, Sussex County, Delaware, reports to this De- 

 partment that during the season of 1873, 3G,000 baskets of peaches were 

 shipped from that county by Lincoln Station, and 300,000 by the Junction 

 and Breakwater Eailroad, in addition to shipments, not reported, by 

 another road through the county. 



Eesult of seed distribution. — Our former correspondent in Union 

 County, South Carolina, rei)orts that, as the result of the introduction 

 into that county by this Department, through him, of four quarts of 

 Tappahannock wheat, that variety has now come into general use, and 

 is regarded as the best produced. He also represents that the turnip- 

 crop and several varieties of garden-products have been much improved 

 in consequence of the distribution of new varieties of seeds which were 

 first obtained from the Department and tested on a small scale. 



Minerals in South Carolina.— Mr. Charles Petty, for the past 

 eight years our correspondent in Union County, South Carolina, has re- 

 cently taken charge of a female seminary at Limestone Springs, Spar- 

 tanburgh County. He reports that the seminary building rests on the 

 bed of marble from Avhich the " South Carolina block" in the Washing- 

 ton monument was taken. He adds that blue limestone and iron-ore are 

 abundant in that locality, and that a " flexible sandstone" and lead in 

 unknown quantity exist there. 



MARKET-PRICES OF FARM-PRODUCTS. 



The following quotations represent the state of the market, as nearly as practicable, at th3 



beginning of the month. 



Articles. 



NEW YORK. 



Flour, enperflne State per bbl 



extra State do.. 



Enperflne western do.. 



extra to choice western, 



per barrel 



comiuoa to fair southern 



extra, per barrel 



good to choice southern, 



per barrel 



Wheat, No. 1 spring per bush 



No. 2 spring do... 



winter, red, western . do . . . 

 winter, amber, western, 



per bushel 



winter, white,, western, 

 per bushel 



New Yohk— Continued. 



Rye per bush. 



Barley do 



Corn do 



Oats do 



Hay, first quality per ton. 



second quality. do 



Beef, mess per bbl . 



extra mess do. . . 



Pork, mess do . . . 



extra prime do . . . 



prime moss do. .. 



Lard per lb . 



Butter, western do.. 



State dairy do.. 



Cheese, State factory do.. 



western factory do.. 



$0 98 



1 83 



80 



56 



24 00 



21 00 



10 00 



12 50 



14 00 

 14 75 

 9i 

 30 

 35 

 15 

 13 



to $1 03 



to 



to 88 

 to 63 

 to 25 00 

 to 23 00 

 to 11 50 

 to 13 50 

 to 16 73 

 to 14 GO 

 to 15 75 

 to 10 



38 

 45 

 16J 

 16 



