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SWT^ET POTATOES, POULTRY, ETC., EN NEW JERSEY. 



8aJe7n County, N. J. — Our sweet potato crop was lar^e, aud the returns 

 throughout that section of our county adapted to the culture of this 

 crop have averaged about one hundred dollars per acre. I know of one 

 farmer that leased sixteen acres, he furnishing the team and manure, 

 and the lessees paid him one thousand three hundred dollars clear of all 

 labor and other expense. One small farmer, the o^vner of twenty acres 

 of superior truck land, not counting his own labor or the expenses of 

 raising aud marketing his crop of sweet potatoes, realized the sum of 

 three thousand dollars therefrom. 



Poultry is an item uovv' witli us, and there are cases in our county 

 where the good housewife and her girls have realized over five hundred 

 dollars in cash for their poultry. Owing to railroad facilities, milk^ 

 cream, and butter can now be sent to the Philadelphia market within 

 two hours, and the returns therefrom to those, who have made this 

 "item" of produce are quite large. Three first-class cows, well cared 

 for, will furnisli milk, cream, aud butter for a firmily of seven persons, 

 and will, in addition, furnish for market a surplus of more than two 

 hundred dollars in money. Land is at this time rather dull of sale, but 

 wherever there is a good farm offered at public sale, a choice and well- 

 cultivated tract, there are good bidders. One hundred and fifty dollars 

 and upward per acre is not considered out of the way for property of 

 this description. Stock is not high, but there is a fair demand for it. 

 Let a good horse be heard of that can trot a mile in three or three and 

 a half minutes, or is a superior roadster vrithout such speed, and his 

 owner will find no difficnlty in obtainiug a piu'chaser at a high figure. 

 The same rule applies to an extra pair of mules, oxen, or a iirst-class- 

 cow. 



CATTLE DISEASE IN MONROE COUNTY, N. Y. 



Monroe County, K. Y. — The cattle disease reported as existing in this 

 county has now almost, if not entirely, disappeared. The disease com- 

 mences with small pustules between the fetlock and hoof, which increase 

 in size till they break and a thick matter runs from them, and for some 

 time afterward there remains a running sore. These pustules continue 

 to spread toward the body, an'd finally to the lulder, and may cause a 

 cow to give bloody milk — the same as any other sore upon this i^art. 

 The pustules, however, soon heal, aud, even if nothing is done to the 

 animal, cause but little loss in flesh, and only for a short time a diminu- 

 tion in the quantity of milk. 



Many ijersons think this the old cow-pox, but most people attribute it 

 to the work of some iusect, in connection with the unusually cold and 

 wet autumn. It appears to be souiewhat worse w hen cattle are pastured 

 upon low, wet land, and exx)0sed to muddy places to lie down upon at 

 night, and less severe when cattle are stabled. 



The remedy is very simple. A mixture, in about equal proportions, 

 of sulphur aud lard rubbed upon the pustules a^s they appear, and one 

 or two doses of sulphur giveii inwsirdly, has always in a short time 

 effected a cure. 



I doubt if this disease has in any instance i)roved fatal to an animal. 

 Some cows were said to have died with it, but, on inquiry, I have always 

 found that thev had some other disease in connection with it. 



