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Corn-culture. — Mitchell, N. C; Runners' white com takes the lead 

 Lere ; it is large and early enough to mature finely. 



Des Moines, Iowa : The surplus of corn in this county is being fed to 

 stock brought in from the West. The year 1875 will see corn higher 

 than for a number of years past. This county is drained of old corn, 

 and nearly every body is feeding new. 



Tree-culture. — Iberia, La. : I obtained a few seeds of the Eucaly- 

 ptus globulus, and succeeded in raising one of those beautiful trees. It 

 is now 5 feet high and se%'enteen months old. Other parties have had 

 excellent success in I'aising these trees. 



Cotton-culture. — Beaufort, N. C: Much disappointment at the 

 yield; the only consolation is, that there are no bills for fertilizers to pay 

 this year. 



Dooly, Ga.: Drought from August 2 to September 22 ruined the 

 crop. The planters are in a desperate condition ; short crops ; heavy 

 liens ; cotton worth only 13 to 13^ cents per pound, and bacon 16 to 17. 

 When, O when, will they learn to plant less cotton and more corn and 

 wheat? Not till starvation stares them in the fiice. 



Washiiif/ton, Miss. : Rained April 27, the cotton coming up, and 

 ceased suddenly. First rain on cotton and corn, July 11 ; second, Sep- 

 tember 21, of no benefit to the crop. The July rain caused about a 

 third of the crop to come, up, the seed previously failing to germinate 

 for lack of moisture. The crops that came up by reason of the July 

 rain are perhaps better than those that came up in April, and have 

 been made without any rain at all. Nearly all vegetation, except cotton, 

 and Bermuda grass, was burned up by drought. 



Grass and pastures. — Troup, Ga. : There was a good crop of brush 

 peas, but owing to the drought of August and September running peas 

 did not make a full crop. We rely upon them for fall pasturage, and 

 curing the vines for hay, which we consider equal to the best clover 

 hay ; it has no equal for milch cows. 



^V likes, Ga. : German millet has been grown successfully as a forage 

 crop. It requires rich land, but yields immensely of forage and seed. 



Fruit-culture. — Burlington, N. J. : Considerable blight in apple 

 and pear trees. In some orchards the ends of limbs have died. 



Allegany, Md. : For years my pear-trees were blighted with a prev- 

 alent disease. I planted them twenty years ago, but they never matured 

 a pear. In the spring of 1873 I commenced using soap-suds around 

 the roots, and last fall I had some pears. I then mulched the ground 

 around the trees with manure, and this spring scattered a peck of ashes 

 around each tree, again using soap-suds. This summer and fall, all my 

 trees bear full crops of sound fruit. 



Grant, W. Ya. : A good beginning has been made in grape-culture, 

 but of late years the dry-rot has greatly reduced the yield, and has dis- 

 couraged growers. Is there no reliable remedy ? 



Pulasl'i, III. : The scab or spot is increasing from year to year to such, 

 an extent as to make it nearly impossible to have any winter apples. 

 This disease, with a disease known here as '•' root-rot," seems to increase 

 with time in spots after it once makes its appearance. If the latter 

 disease kills one tree in a locality, other trees near it die out, and it is 

 almost impossible to get trees set out in the vacancies to grow. 



W^EATHER. — Wyoming, Pa. : Most severe drought ever known in the 

 county. 



