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is a mere nothing compared to the supply required for deep-sea fishing. There 
are four large deep-sea fishing boats at Newhaven, which generally go out three 
times a week thirty weeks in the year; each boat carries a crew of eight men 
and eight fishing lines, each line 800 yards in length; to bait each of these long 
lines, 1,200 mussels are required. Add to the four deep-sea fishing boats sixteen 
lesser craft that go fishing every day, wind and weather permitting, (Sundays 
excepted,) for the annual supply of which 3,456,000 mussels are needed for 
baiting the lines, and the number of these shell-fish consumed each year in New- 
haven only will be seen to be something enormous. Quite as many, if not more, 
are used at Musselburg, Buckhaven, Elie, Anstruther, and elsewhere in Scotland. 
Grain ESTIMATES FROM LOCAL DATA.—A gentleman in the wheat trade in 
Jerseyville, Illinois, writes as follows: 
In my dealings with the farmers—for my purchases are mostly from them—I have frequent 
occasion to correct wrong impressions. Many of them form the willing opinion that when 
their own crops fail partially, or a severe drought threatens their destruction, as has been the 
case for the past two months, that the whole country is suffering in like manner, and that, 
consequently, grain must materially enhance in price before another crop can be produced ; 
and again, becanse wheat went up last year, it must necessarily do so this year. With these 
views many of them hold back and will not sell until they see another bountiful crop staring 
them in the face; when they often take much less than they could have obtained months 
before. Many of them are laboring under this delusion now, notwithstanding every State 
nearly has produced a surplus. 
Tue Paterson Porarors.—The Paterson seedling potatoes, from Dundee, 
Scotland, which have been mentioned heretofore in the reports of the experi- 
mental garden, produced last season as follows, in Celle, Hanover, kingdom of 
Prussia, in light, sandy soil, while other varieties were disastrously blighted: 
Victoria, per imperial acre, 74 tons, contains starch-------.--~------------------- 21.15 
Napoleon, per imperial acre, 52 tons, contains starch ..---.---------.------+----- 16.50 
Regent, per imperial acre, 7} tons, contains starch ....-----+-------------------- 12.00 
Early, per imperial acre, 74 tons, contains starch -..---------------------------- 16.50 
Seedling Rock, per imperial acre, 92 tons, contains starch...-..-----------------. 14.00 
_ Red, per imperial acre, 9 tons, contains starch -..------------+ +--+ +----+---+-+-- 17.63 
Blue, perimperial acre, 74 tous, contains starch....--...-------+---------------- 14.00 
Roor Cuurure in MaryLanp.—George F. Armor, of Ellwood, Baltimore 
county, Maryland, communicates the following result of an experiment in the cul- 
ture.of the Mangold Wurzel, undertaken to test the profit of such a crop in that 
neighborhood. ‘The yield, as will be seen, was something more than four bushels 
to the square rod, or about 700 bushels per acre, produced at a cost of a little 
more than ten cents per bushel : 
I had a piece of ground prepared 15 by 120 feet, southern exposure, slightly rolling, but 
inclined to be wet. After ploughing and manuring, (with stable manure, ) the seed was run 
in drills three feet apart, making six rows 120 feet long, on or about May 10. Upon thin- 
ning out, enough plants were cast away to have run at least 12 rows additional. The roots 
were gathered November 8, and the result was 28 bushels. The tops I fed to the cattle, and 
they were eaten with great avidity, and the roots were greatly relished. So far as I can 
judge from so limited experiment, the result is highly satistactory. The whole cost, includ- 
ing 12 ounces of seed, (Long and Yellow Globe mixed, ) at $1 per pouud, three cultivatings, 
including use of horse, does not exceed $3, or about $72 per acre. 
Resuut oF Pig Feepinc. —Daniel Edwards, of Little Genesee, Alleghany 
county, New York, gives the following statement of his experience in feeding a 
pair of Chester White pigs, showing very satisfactory results, except that he 
claims too much for the meal, forgetting the sour milk and the clover: 
Permit me to relate my first experience with the “Chester White pigs,”’ a pair procured 
last June. On the 10th of July the sow. pig weighed 65 pounds, the boar 55 pounds. 
They were kept in a pen until after the clover bloomed, after haying, when they were let 
into a clover field. Their principai food was unsifted corn meal, couked by boiling, with 
alittle salt, every pound of meal being weighed. They had about a pailtul of whey or 
sour milk daily, besides the meal and clover. On the 6th of October the sow weighed 187 
pounds, the boar 159 pounds, a gain of 226 pounds in 88days. They ate 315 pounds of 
meal, 3 pounds and 9 ounces daily, producing 114 ounces of line flesh for 1 pound of meal. 
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