MONTHLY REPORT. 
WASHINGTON, D. C., February 1, 1868. 
Sir: I herewith report, for publication, the following matter, collated in 
January, including subjects as follows: Special Statistics of Farm Resources 
and Products; Table of Yield and Prices of Farm Products; Productions of 
California; Greensand Marl as a Manure; the Potato Bug; Comparison of 
Imports of Dry Goods; Extracts from Correspondence; the Liverpool Wool 
Trade; Linseed Oil and Cake; Manures in Great Britain; British Imports 
of Russian Wheat; Prices of Flour in London; Condensed Milk in Europe; 
Roquefort Cheese; Prussian Agriculture in 1867; Various Matters; and 
Meteorology for December, 1867. 
Respectfully, 
J. R. DODGE, Statistician. 
Hon. Horace Capron, 
Commissioner of Agriculture. 
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SPECIAL STATISTICS OF FARM RESOURCES AND PRODUCTS. 
A digest and analysis of returns, in response to the following queries, are 
herewith presented : ’ 
1. What is the average percentage of increase (or decrease, if cases of decrease 
exist) in the price of farm lands in your county since 1860? 
2. What is the average value of wild or unimproved tracts of land? and what 
is the character, quality, and capabilities of such land ? 
3. What marked or peculiar resources have you in soil, timber, or minerals ? 
and what is the state of their development, or inducement for attempted de- 
velopment ? 
4. What crops, if any, are made a specialty in your county ? and what facts 
illustrating their culture, quantity, and the profit derived ? 
5. What kinds of wheat are cultivated ? and which of them are preferred, and 
why? What is the time of drilling or sowing? For harvesting? And what 
is the amount and mode of culture? What proportion is drilled ? 
6. What grasses are natural to your pastures? How many months can farm 
animals feed exclusively in pastures? What would be a fair estimate, per head, 
of the cost of a season’s pasturage of an average herd of cattle ? 
7. What are the capabilities of your county for fruit? What fruits are best 
adapted to your soil and climate? Give some facts concerning yield and profit. 
It was not expected that subjects involving so wide a range and so extensive 
a field should be exhausted, scarcely even approached, but the design was to 
show the results of peculiar and various causes affecting prices of farms and wild 
lands; to compare the length of the pasturage season in different States and the 
differing seasons and modes of wheat culture; with such isolated facts as might 
be deemed of interest relative to certain specialties of production. Returns have 
been general, and a mass of facts elicited, from which the following statements 
are condensed. The eastern and middle States are included in this number, 
