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tested, and lie reports that the silk is, to all appearances, strong and 

 of excellent quality. I intend to make a business of silk culture as fast 

 as circumstances will permit. 



[Professor Glover, of this Department, four years since fed the silk- 

 worm (Bombyx mori) with the Osage orange with success corresi)onding 

 with the foregoing experiment.] 



HOPS IN AXABAMA. 



Sumter County, AUibama. — Dr. E. H. Sholl, of this county, states that 

 in February, 18GS, he and Mr. E. Kring planted one and a half acre 

 in hops, manuring liberally with home-made superphosphate. The vines 

 grew vigorously, and were poled May 8. At date of June 3, some of 

 the hops were fully matured, and the entire crop was gathered by July 

 20. In January, 1869, seven and a half acres were set out, and there 

 was promise of a large yield, but owing to the impossibility of procur- 

 ing pickers at the proper time, the enterprise was necessarily abandoned. 

 Dr. S. is satisfied that, with a proper supplj' of labor, hops can be raised 

 here very successfully, with a yield of fourteen hundred to eighteen 

 hundred pounds per acre, and that the product can be put on the market 

 from the 1st to the 10th of August, the crop being thus made especially 

 valuable by early availability. Good cotton land — in other words, a 

 light sandy loam with clay subsoil — is our best hop land. 



CLOVER IN j\nSSISSIPPI. 



Willdnson County, Miss. — On land deeply plowed and well prepared, 

 red clover does well here, although in much the greater part of the 

 county there is too little lime in the soil. Yellow clover succeeds finely 

 in every locality in which I have seen it tried, furnishing a great amount 

 of nutritious grazing during winter and spring, being very luxuriant 

 from March to May inclusive, when pasture is most needed here. Even 

 this si)ecies is grown here to a very limited extent, however. 



SALT UPON CORN. 



Clinton County, Penn. — I have tried salt upon my corn mixed with 

 Kova Scotia plaster, at the rate of one bushel to three of i)laster, with 

 very favorable results, but have never tested it by measuring the ground 

 or the grain and comparing with other ground not salted. The mixture 

 was applied at the ratio of one bushel to the acre. 



SORGHUM IN PREBLE COUNTY, OHIO. 



Preble County, Ohio. — Sorghum is a success here — for molasses — and 

 I take pleasure in stating that the molasses improves with age ; some 

 placed upon the table lately was as clear as the finest strained honey, 

 and free from any of that peculiar rank taste that renders sorghum so 

 unpalatable to many jjersons; it was made five years ago and then of 

 about average value. 



TOBACCO AND BROOM CORN IN BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO. 



Butler County, Ohio. — Our farmers are paying more attention to the 

 culture of tobacco and broom corn ; for the latter a ready sale can be 



