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Jefferson County, Iowa. — The cauker-worm is doing great damage to 

 some orchards. 



Kings County, K. Y. — The cabbage-worm has made its appearance by 

 thousands ; their first appearance here upon early cabbage. We had 

 them hist year on late cabbage and cauliflower, and did much damage. 



]\j:iSCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 



Flaquemines Parish, La. — Eice crop ten per cent, below the average 

 last year. 



Uast Baton Rouge Parish, La. — Irish potatoes planted 10th of Jan- 

 uary ; marketed 10th of April. 



Moreho2ise Parish, La. — Crops utterly destroyed by a hail-storm the 

 27th of April. Hail-stones eight to twenty inches in circumference. 



Matagorda County, Texas. — Schonen oats have done splendidly, 

 although sown too late, and suffered two months' drought; did not 

 rust, while other kinds did; crop prospects fine. 



Lavaca County, Texas. — Sheep are doing well; sheared twice a year, 

 April and November. 



Nueces County, Texas. — Wool-clip unusually heavy this season; some 

 few wool-growers shear but once a year ; the Mexicans shear spring and 

 fall. 



Live OaJc County, Texas. — Have had severe drought for six months 

 past; recently some fine showers; some stock have died for want of food 

 and water. 



Bexar County, Texas. — Fine rains over nearly all of Western Texas 

 from 18th to 21th of May. 



Galveston County, Texas. — Schonen oats, received from the Department, 

 and sown February 14, were ripe for harvest May 14 ; some stalks meas- 

 ured four feet in length, and had the heaviest heads we ever saw. The 

 variety seems to be well adapted to this climate. 



Titus County, Texas. — The Hamburg oats received from the Department 

 promise well; the olive- shaped radish a success. 



LI Paso County, Washington Ter. — Winter and spring have been ex- 

 ceedingly wet; have not had (May 20) twenty sunny days since the 

 middle of November, 1870 ; ground too wet for tilling. 



Walla- Walla County, Washington Ter. — Farmers and stock-raisers of 

 the Great Columbian plains are greatly enlarging their farms and herds 

 of cattle and sheep, in consequence of the building of the North Pacific 

 Eailroad. 



Thurston County, Washington Ter. — Winter has been mild and wet; 

 spring very wet; has been too wet to work for a week past, (May 21.) 



Lewis and Clarhe County, Montana Ter. — Prospect for good crops favor- 

 able ; the unusual spring rains have brought out the native grasses in 

 fine growth. 



Beer Lodge County, Montana Ter. — Coldest May ever experienced here ; 

 crops backward ; grass better than usual, owing to excess of cloudy 

 and damp weather. 



BEET-SUGAE MANUFACTUEE. 



George T. Chapman, of New York, who has been examining the pro- 

 cess of beet sugar manufacture in Europe, informs us that prominent 

 merchants and capitahsts in New York will organize a company, to 



