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Dutchess county, New York.—The Tappahaunock wheat received from the 
Department last fall did not fill, there being no grains in the heads. 
Berrien county, Michigan——Last year I received three varieties of wheat 
from the Department—Tappahannock, Tasmania, and Chiddam—the quantities 
being equal. I sowed them side by, side, the Chiddam in the middle. The 
Chiddam was completely destroyed by the weevil, while the other varieties 
were not injured in the least. The Tappahannock and Tasmania made a very 
fair yield. I think the Mediterranean is ahead of anything that has been 
imported for many years. 
Nashville, Texnessee-—The Tappahannock wheat has had a favorable test in 
this section. Last season one farmer in Maury sowed 120 acres, from which he 
had an average yield of about 30 bushels to the acre. 
CATTLE DISEASE. 
Vernon county, Missouri—Our best cattle are dying with Spanish fever, and 
there are fears that one-fifth of the cattle in this county will be destroyed by 
this plague the present Season. 
Chatooga county, Georgia—The cattle in this county have suffered much 
from “murrain” or ‘‘ Spanish fever.” No cause properly ascertained, and no 
remedy successful. The pasturage is unusually good, yet the mortality is much 
greater than last year. 
Kankakee county, Illinois —In this portion of Illinois, where the Texas cattle 
have been allowed to graze, the native cattle have died in large numbers. I 
think the State has lost this year, in consequence of the introduction of Texas 
cattle, not less than one million dollars. 
Gordon county, Georgia —-The murrain or distemper has been very fatal 
among the cattle this season, two-thirds of those attacked having died. The fly 
has also been very bad on cattle and horses. 
HORSE DISEASE. 
Rio Grande, Cape May county, New Jersey—HEarly in September a dis- 
temper, like black tongue, prevailed among horses in this county. About 20 
high grade animals died in the vicinity of Goshen, in two or three days after 
being seized. 
BEES. 
Washington county, lowa—Mrs. Tupper writes that the past season has 
been the poorest ever known for bees. In some of the best honey regions, like 
southern Illinois and Missouri, thousands of colonies have starved to death 
already. In no part of the northwest has there been an average yield of honey. 
“T have received over one hundred letters within a month, all telling the same 
story ; and yet, have not heard of a single Italian colony that has failed to 
gather sufficient winter stores, and some have even stored a surplus when black 
bees side by side with them have done nothing.” 
SECOND CROPS OF FRUIT. 
Sulphur Springs, Rhea county, Tennessee-—Owing to the wet season, or 
from some other cause, our strawberries have this year produced two crops. 
Morris county, Kansas—Indian summer commenced September 26. Apples 
and Siberian crab are in fresh bloom and set with new fruit. Pasturage fresh 
as in May, owing to abundant rains. 
