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IliKIGATION IN CALIFOENIA. 



Colusa County, Cal. — Our farmers are beginniugto irrigate on a small 

 scale, and are making flood-gates out of wronghtiron instead of wood. 

 Where tliere is no rain for six months wooden gates shrink, and are apt to 

 break the next season. ^Ye are now making round tubes, one to six feet 

 in diameter, witli the gate in the upper end. 



HOGS IN NOEXnLOIBEELAND, PENNSYLVANIA. 



Kortliumherland County, Pa. — Hogs have become so numerous, and 

 the corn crop is so large and good, that fresh pork will, it is thought, 

 by the holidays, sell for six cents per j)Ound by the luindred- weight. 

 Small pigs, four to five weeks old, can now be purchased for lifty cents 

 per head. In fact hogs are more plentj" now than before the war. Our 

 breeds have also been improved, being most!}' a cross between the old 

 country hogs and the large and famous Chester County white hogs. 



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 DISEASES OF STOCK. 



Gloucester County, Ya. — Horned cattle have been attacked with 

 " murrain," and large numbers have died. One farmer lost two-thirds 

 of Ms herd, embracing nine out of eleven milch cows. The mortality 

 lias been far beyond that of any previous year for the last twenty-five 

 years, and it still continues. 



" Knox County, Tenn. — Cattle, especially milcb cows, are still dying near 

 where the Texas cattle were fed as they were shipped through to Vir- 

 ginia. Cholera is again making its ravages among the hogs and chick- 

 ens in different parts of the county. 



Woodson County, Kans. — Many cattle have died of Spanisb fever in 

 the southeastern portion of the county during the last two weeks. A 

 drove of Texas cattle were driven through that part of the county in 

 August, and in about two weeks the disease broke out among the native 

 cattle. Several horses died of the same disease. The symptoms of the 

 horses were the same as of the cattle. 



Labette County, Kans. — Spanish fever is prevailing among cattle ; has 

 proved fatal to many herds. 



Lebanon County, Pa. — A disease among chiokens (said to be worms in 

 the throat) has in many instances destroyed nearly whole flocks. To- 

 bacco-smoke, turpentine, and drawing out the worms with small i^inch- 

 ers, are remedies used with more or less effect. 



Graves County, Ky. — Hog cholera is raging to considerable extent, and 

 chickens are affected by a similar disease. 



Spencer {Jountu, Ky. — Hog cholera is prevailing in isolated cases. 



Lucas County, loica. — Many hogs have died of cholera ; Some farmers 

 have lost all ; no remedy found. 



Newton County, Arlc. — Xumber of hogs reduced GO per cent, the past 

 summer by cholera. "Murrain " is making sad havoc among the cattle 

 of this county. 



SOUTHEEX AGKICULTUKE. 



The Department of Agriculture has omitted no opportunity to aid in 

 organizing anew the rural industry of the South, prostrated by civil war, 

 and limited by traditional usage to a few specialties, while its variety in 

 climate and soil actually adapts it to the widest range of possibilities, 



