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BUTTEK AND CHEESE. 



Outagamie County, Wis. — Kot oue-fourtli the quautity of butter and 

 cheese made in this county in September and October that \ras made 

 in. tlie same months last year. 



Tnanhull County, Ohio. — The season will compare fully with last year, 

 for dairy products. Nearly all the milk worked up by factories. The 

 prices during the fore part of the season were very low, but later prices 

 have ruled much better, and the most of the August, September, and 

 October cheese has been sold at remunerative rates. 



FODDER IN THE SOUTH. 



Gladsden County, Fla. — Permit me to call attention to the fact that 

 neither in the last census report, nor in the forms for the Agricultural 

 lieports, is there a column for the noting of the '"fodder" crop. The 

 blade of the corn designated as "fodder" is our chief dependence for 

 long forage, supplying the place of "hay" in all of the South Atlantic 

 and Gulf States, and deserves some notice in making up the aggregate 

 value of southern products. An approximation to the amount and value 

 of this crop may be had by allowing 1,000 pounds of " fodder" for every 

 •80 bushels of corn, and valuing it at $12 50 per thousand. 



CLOVER IN GEORGIA. 



Willies County, Ga. — Quite an increase in clover-sowing. We look 

 iipon its culture as a decided success. I cut two tons from an acre at 

 one time. 



One of the most profitable lots I have is seeded with yellow or Chilian 

 clover ; now up and on good ground ; gives good grazing by middle of 

 January; dies in June; seeds itself no matter how closely grazed, and 

 comes up again during the rainy season in late summer. Seed from 

 Patent Office between 1856 and 1800. 



CLOVER IN NANSEMOND COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 



A correspondent at Suffolk, Virginia, writes : Much of our land pro- 

 duces clover well, and at present 1 have IG acres, a part of which cut 

 two tons to the acre last summer. We find that oats, (winter,) sown 

 either in the fall months or in January, yield much better than the 

 vspring oats. Some of my neighbors have done well with spring wheat. 

 1 have prepared a plat of five acres, clover sod turned under in Novem- 

 ber, on which I desire to seed with several kinds of wheat and oats, with 

 and without fertilizers ; (bones, 100 pounds ; guano, 100 pounds ; salt, 

 10 pounds, per acre, and two bushels of plaster on growing crop.) 



DEPRECIATION OP SUGAR-CANE. 



Liberty County, Fla. — Your attention is called to the depreciation of 

 the sugar-cane. It has been planted here so long that it has become 

 almost as hard as a hickory sapling, and contains but little saccharine 

 matter. We see Congress making liberal appropriations for everything 

 but the Agricultural Department ; this is always stinted. It is the cul- 

 tivation of the soil that makes a luition prosperous. Why, then, can- 

 not a small appropriation be made to introduce a few ship-loads of Afri- 

 can cane, to reinstate the planters in profitable seed? This would 

 increase the crop in five years 25 per cent. 



