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satisfiietoiy, largely increasing the profits of tlio farmer, with a bene- 

 ficial effect upon tlie conntry at large. 



WAitiiEN County, Ky. — The surplus productions of this county, 

 shipped on the Louisville and Nashville Eailroad, for the year ending 

 June 30, 1871, were : 03,015 hushels wheat, value, $77,550 ; 3,1517 bushels 

 corn, $1,009 ; 1,011 bushels other grains, $505 ; 2,700 hogsheads tobacco, 

 $331,920; 1,519 barrels flour, $12,100 f 221 barrels potatoes, $552 ; 45 

 barrels pork and lard, $1,350 ; 130 barrels liquor, $12,210 ; 520 horses 

 and mules, $77,000; 3,180 cattle, $95,400; 24,000 hogs, $384,000; 104 

 car-loads of coal, $0,150; 195 car-loads of Inmber, $32,700; 20 car-loads 

 of brick, $720; 5 car-loads of rock, $250; 2,300,003 pounds general 

 merchandise, $230,000 ; 78,323 pounds fruit, $3,910 ; 1,800 sheep, $5,400; 

 07 casks of bacon, $5,300. Total value shipped as freight, $1,280,854. 

 By express: 214,553 dozen eggs, $42,910; 140,500 pounds butter, 

 828,100 ; 175,500 pounds fowls, $22,815 ; 40,000 pounds wool, $10,000 ; 

 20,000 pounds feathers, $10,000; 2,000 dozen brooms, $5,000; 24,728 

 pounds peltries, $2,472. Total by express, $127,297. The grand total 

 v.-as $1,408,151 ; and as there is but little not the produce of the soil, the 

 record is worthy of consideration. There was but little corn shipped, 

 that going mostly into pork. 



Tree culture. — A farmer in Osage County, Kansas, has planted 

 within the past five years several thousand forest trees, such as oak, 

 walnut, soft maple, elm, white ash, sycamore, catalpa, Avhite and yellow 

 willow, mulberry, and cottouwood. Many of the cottonwoods are now 

 nearly 30 feet high and six inches in diameter. 



Silk cocoons. — The total product of silk cocoons in the United 

 States, as reported in the census of 1870, is 3,945 pounds, of which Cali- 

 fornia produced 3,587; Pennsylvania, 1 ; Virginia, 15 ; North Carolina, 

 95; Georgia, 14; Mississippi, 31; Louisiana, 1; Tennessee, 153; Ken- 

 tucky, 45 ; and Missouri, 3. 



Wheat Crop in England. — Mr. J. B. Lawes has published an esti- 

 mate of the wheat crop of Great Britain for 1871, in which he predicts 

 that the supply will show a great deficiency. He bases his estimate on 

 the fact that the census returns of 1871 show that the average number 

 to be fed in the British Islands, during the ensuing twelve months, is 

 31,843,970 ; and assuming the average consumption of wheat to be 5 J 

 bushels per head, the quantity required will be little short of 22,000,000 

 quarters. Taking the home produce at 24 bushels per acre, (of 01 pounds 

 ])er bushel,) and the area under wheat to be the same as returned for 

 1870, viz : 3,773,003 acres, the gross produce of the United Kingdom will 

 amount to about 14,000,007 quarters. Deducting from this 2-| bushels 

 X)er acre for seed, there is left for consumption as food about 10,250,000 

 quarters, leaving a requirement of 11,500,000 quarters to be supplied 

 from foreign sources. Other writers estimate the deficiency at 13,000,000 

 quarters, that will be required from other countries, besides enormous 

 ciuantities of other grain, meat, butter, cheese, eggs, &c. There are, 

 besides, several circumstances pointing to a large consumption of bread 

 during the coming harvest year. Meat is exceedingly dear in England; 

 labor is in great demand, and full wages are paid. The potato disease 

 has appeared, with a virulence unequaled since 1840, in various dis- 

 tricts, and although the extent of its ravages cannot yet be stated, it is 

 certain that this crop will i)rove lamentably short. The information at 

 present at command leaves no reason to fear that there will be any de- 

 ficiency of foreign corn to meet the above want, though prices have ad- 

 vanced in Hungary and Eussia, notwithstanding the accumulations of 

 old wheat. The imports of wheat into England for the first nine mouths 



