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but two to be obtained here, and very few of these. One caii get only- 

 two or three phmts and wait for their increase. 



Figs. — These grow ahnost spontaneously, and are wonderfully pro- 

 ductive, but there are few varieties here. 



Bananas fruit in three years from the offshoot, oranges in three years 

 fi'om the bud, and figs three years from the cutting. 



AVERAGE YIELD OF MILK. 



Linus D. Sheldon, of Vernon, Ohio, writes as follows: My favorite 

 cow Star was ten years old last spring. She is a cross between the Hol- 

 derness and the Durham. She calved Christmas eve, 18G8, and I com- 

 menced weighing her milk on New Year's morning following. Her 

 Aveightwas then 1,590 pounds, and at the close of the year 1,580 pounds. 

 The yield per month during the year was as follows : 



Lbs. Ozf. 



January 1,-147 12 



February 1, 038 14 



March 1, 079 12 



April 1, 001 8 



May 1, 148 12 



June 1,152 8 



July 1, 037 



August 881 



September 900 



October 887 



November 575 



December 339 



Total 11, 118 



The largest daily yield daring the year was forty pounds ; the last 

 day she gave only nine i)()unds — within eight weeks of calving. In a 

 previons year she gave during the month of June l,'i07f pounds. She 

 will come in the first of March next. 



BEET SUGAR. 



Foreign statistics represent the consumption of sugar of all kinds, in 

 the last nine months of the year 1809, in France, to amount to 295,000 

 tons, against 253,000 tons in the same period of 1868, in the following 

 projjortions : 



The exportation of refined sugtir for the same period in 1869 was 



