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Grasshoppers in Utah. — A correspondent in Cache County, Utah, 

 writes that " the grasshoppers ha.ve not deposited any eggs in our 

 vicinity, and we hope for better crop results next year." 



Diversified agriculture in North Carolina. — A correspondent 

 in Halifax County, North Carolina, writes: 



It is evident that the effort to make a large crop of cotton, to the exclusion of most 

 other farm interests, is the cause of the exteusive wastes of second-growth pines and 

 gulleys so common to the eye. Many of our people are waking up to the fact, and, so 

 far as their shattered resources admit, are adopting a mixed husbandry. Information 

 on agricultural subjects is eagerly sought by the more iutelligeut, and the system of 

 rotation of crops, with its necessary concomitants, is beginning to elicit inquiry. 



Pulaski County, Virginia. — A correspondent at Dublin writes : 



This county is a beautiful blue-grass country, and can compare with almost any 

 other region except Kentucky. The stock of fat cattle shipping to Baltimore and other 

 points from this county has been large this faU. Superior coal is found in the county, 

 and iron ore of good cxuality is abundant. 



Fish-culture in England. — It is stated that, under the care 

 bestowed by various associations and the legislature, food fishes are 

 rapidly increasing in numbers in the rivers and estuaries of Great 

 Britain. The increase in the salmon supply is especially noted. The 

 total quantity of salmon sold at Billingsgate during the year 1870 was 

 3,859,18i pounds, an increase of 224,784 pounds over the sales of 1869. 

 The total value is given at £213,059, or about 271 cents per pound. 

 The increase of salmon is not confined to the great salmon rivers. The 

 fishermen of the Cornish rivers, the Fowey and the Looe, agree 

 that where there was one salmon or salmon-trout ten years ago, there 

 are fifty now. Mr. Cuthbert W. Johnson concludes an article upon the 

 subject by remarking that — 



It is evident that in protecting the fish in their migrations up streams, by keeping 

 those waters free from the matters noxious to the fish, and from unlawful fishing, far 

 greater things are yet to be accomplished in increasing our supply of fish. That our 

 rivers may thus be made far more profitable than at present has bean clearly proved 

 by the results of the efforts made during the last few years. Our information on thia 

 national question has only recently been increasing. The same remark applies to our 

 great sea fisheries ; for it has only within the last few years been shown by the commis- 

 sioners appointed to inquire into those fisheries that the value of the fish annually 

 caught on the Great North Sea Dogger bank exceeds the value of all the yearly agri- 

 cultural i)roduce of the fine counties of Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk. 



South Australian statistics. — The report on the crops and live 

 stock of South Australia for the season of 1870-''71 states the area of 

 land under cultivation to be 959,006 acres, against 850,576 acres the 

 previous year. This was distributed as follows : Wheat, 601,761 acres, 

 an increase of 72,626 acres ; barley, 22,912 acres, increase 2,798 acres ; 

 oats, 6,188 acres, increase 1,750 acres; peas, 3,719 acres, decrease 133 

 acres ; hay, 110.316 acres, decrease 1,583. The remainder is divided 

 among other crops. The products were as follows : Wheat, 6,961,164 

 bushels; barley, 337,792, bushels; oats, 88,383 bushels; peas, 47,341 

 bushels; hay, 197,149 tons; potatoes, 9,563 tons; wine, 801,694 gal- 

 lons ; grapes sold, 35,847 hundred- weight. Average yields per acre : 

 Wheat, 11 bushels 30 pounds ; barley, 14 bushels 37 pounds ; oats, 14 

 bushels 11 pounds ; peas, 12 bushels 44 pounds ; hay, 28 hundred- weight; 

 potatoes, 57 hundred-weight. The cultivation of grape-vines occupies 

 6,131 acres, planted with 6,168,758 vines, of which 5,783,674 were in full 

 bearing. The average product of wine in the last five seasons is 820,000 

 gallons, of which only 123,041 gallons have been exported. Fodder 

 crops occupy 10,772 acres, and include wheat, barley, oats, lucern, arti- 

 ficial grasses, &c. Orchards and gardens cover 7,108 acres. The total 



