89 



hundred and thirty bushels on the five acres, which weijj;hod G4 pounds per bushel 

 Yiekl per acre, at -weight, ibrty-niue bushels and four pouuds. 



Oil three acres and one linndred aud forty-four perches Mr. E. Kauf- 

 man reports a yield of IGG bushels of this wheat. 



Mr. B. J. McLin, Salisbury, West Tennessee, is much pleased with 

 the Fultz wheat. The young plants are much more vigorous than the 

 native wheat. 



Mr. A. J. Hamilton, superintendent of the western experimental farm 

 of Pennsylvania, finds the Fultz wheat to stand the rigors of the climate 

 very well, looking green and promising. 



Local statistics. — Our correspondent in Jefferson County, West 

 Virginia, Henry 0. Evans, communicates the following statistics of th« 

 county : 



This shows an increased acreage of 600 acres, and an increase in total 

 valuation of nearly $9,000, as compared with 1870. Clover seed, which 

 was a very light crop in 1870, was not included in the table for that 

 year, and the acreage of clover seed is not given in this table, because 

 it is a second crop. 



Livil STOCK AT Chicago. — George T. Williams, assistant secretary, 

 supplies the following report of receipts and shipments of live stock at 

 the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois, for the year ending December 

 31, 1871: 



KECEn»TS. 



Source of supply. 



Chicago, Eock Island and Pacific Railroad 



lllhiois Central Railroad 



Chicago, Burlington and Qaincy Railroad 



Chicago and Northwestern Raih'oad 



Chicago and Alton Railroad 



Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne aud Chicago Railroad 



Michigan Central Railroad , 



Michigan Southein Railroad 



Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad.. 



Chicago, Danville aud Vincennes Railroud 



Driven into yards 



Total in 1871. 



Total in 1870 532, 964 



Cattle. 



72, 406 



79, 438 



188, 682 



78, 697 



105,311 



486 



1,535 



3,989 



2, 395 



4, 3U0 



5,751 



543, 050 



Hogs. 



384, 562 



44!>, 548 



678, 501 



532, 242 



260, 058 



7,220 



18, 377 



28, 876 



10, 835 



17, 916 



948 



2, 380, 083 



1, 6U3, 158 



Sheep. 



38, 810 



74, 874 



n, 022 



53, 485 



27, 420 



941 



5,926 



14, 476 



5,905 



1,987 



207 



315,053 



349, 855 



Horses. 



838 



1,079 



1,737 



1,503 



646 



24 



65 



18 



26 



5,936 



3 537 



