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dry gmin. He had many pi <xs that on December 1 wonld dress 180 

 pounds each, Avhile pigs from the same litter, fed on dry grain at a mill, 

 would not dress half as much. For about two weeks before killing, he 

 gives them all the corn they want. 



It is stated that smutty wheat can be made into good and wholesome 

 flour by adding one quart of finely pulverized air-slacked lime to each 

 eight bushels of grain, thoroughly mixing it before it passes through 

 the cleaning apparatus of the grist-mill previous to grinding. The lime 

 seems to cut the smut which adheres to the fuzzy end of the wheat, 

 and both are blown out with other dust and dirt. 



An Ohio correspondent, writing from Butler County, gives the weight 

 of eleven lots of hogs, in all 537 head, raised Avithin two miles of Monroe. 

 They were of the big China and the Poland blood, and were 22 months 

 old. The average gross weight was 54:0 pounds each. Ten choice hogs 

 averaged 763 pounds. One lot of 80 averaged 574 pounds each. The ten 

 which averaged 703 jiounds ranged from 076 pounds to 935 pounds. 

 It is further stated that a lot of eleven-months pigs, thirty in number, 

 averaged 384 pounds. Another lot of thirty averaged 386 pounds. 



Another correspondent, at Woodbury, Kew Jersey, states that he 

 purchased four pigs, at $15 each — 160 ; paid for corn, 82 ; mill feed, $27 25 ; 

 liog cheese, (chandlers' scrai:)S,) $28 30 ; gTonnd rye and corn, $17 60 ; 

 small sweet potatoes, $9 ; forty-eight bushels of corn, ground, $51 20 — 

 total expenses, $195 41. When slaughtered the total weight was 1,963 

 pounds ; average 490| pounds. The 1,963 iiounds of pork, at 14 cents 

 per i>ound, brought $274 82 ', for the manure he is offered $40 ; total 

 receipts, $314 82. Net profit on the four hogs, $119 41. The pigs were 

 penned January 18, 1869, and were never allowed to go out. They were 

 killed December 11, 1869, aged 15 months and 19 days. 



The shipments of butter, by freight, from St. Albans, Vermont, dur- 

 ing the year 1868, amounted to 2,875,060 pounds'; and of cheese, 736,920 

 l)ounds. These figures would be considerably increased by the addition 

 of the amount of the same product shipped by express. 



The Winona Eepublicau states that the exports of wheat from that 

 city in 1809 were 3,769,450 bushels, against 2,453,086 bushels in 1868 ; 

 and the exports for the whole State, 10,016,116 bushels, against 6,990,584 

 bushels in 1868. 



The imports of molasses, (exclusive of receipts on Pacific coast,) in 

 1869, reached 50,016,167 gallons, against 55,502,989 gallons in 1868. 

 The total consumx)tiou in the United States of foreign and domestic, 

 including sugar-house sirups, and sorghum and maple molasses, is esti- 

 mated at from 98,000,000 to 100,000,000 gallons. 



The imports of sugar for the year 1869 (exclusive of receipts on the 

 Pacific coast) were 501,354 tons, against 470,975 tons in 1868. The total 

 consumption in the United States during the year is estimated at 574,399 

 tons, against 543,033 tons in 1868. 



There were exported from San Francisco during the year ending 

 December 31, 1869, 427,497 barrels of flour, 5,011,022 centals of wheat, 

 314^755 centals of barley, and 27,000 centals of oats. Of the flour 

 shii)ped 152,193 barrels^ went to China, 64,469 barrels to Australia, 

 37,236 barrels to Eio Janeiro, 33,370 barrels to Montevideo, 26,751 bar- 

 rels to Great Britain, and 22,976 to New York. Of the wheat, 4,785,872 

 centals were sent to Great Britain, and only 136,200 centals to New York. 



The receipts of wool in San Francisco for 1869, according to the Com- 

 mercial Herald, California, were : spring clip, 8,735,484 pounds ; California 

 fall clip, 4,469,136 pounds ; California pulled wool, 1,698,340 pounds ; 

 Oregon and northern coast, 1,104,000 pounds ; Sandwich Islands, 23,909 

 pounds ; total, 10,030,869 pounds. The total California product reached 



