90 



SHIPMENTS. 



Source of supply. 



Chicago, Eock Island and Pacific Eailroad 



Illinois Central Railroad 



Cliicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad 



Chicago and Northwestern Railroad 



Chicago and Alton Railro.ad 



Pittsbnrgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad 



Michigan Cential Railroad 



Michigan Southern Railroad 



Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad. 



Total in 1S71 



Total in 1870 



Cattle. 



7,496 



8,226 



3,488 



3,863 



8, 428 



124, 599 



116,684 



124, 699 



4,444 



Hogs. 



135 



461 



276 



1,514 



792 



290, 062 



377, 671 



484, 251 



7,094 



401, 927 1 1, 162, 286 



391, 709 



924, 453 



Sheep. I Horses. 



589 



345 



1, 756 



2,169 



725 



67, 417 



55, 648 



5,769 



666 



135, 084 



23 

 13 



50 

 , 659 



65 



1,414 



705 



2,512 



41 



5,482 



3,488 



Tappahannock wheat in Ohio. — Mr. G. S. Innis, of Columbus, Ohio, 

 rei)orts tbat, about the year 1858, he received from the Department one- 

 half bushel of Tappahaunock wheat, which he sowed carefully with a 

 drill, obtaining 22 bushels, although the wheat crop of the connty aver- 

 aged less than 5 bushels per acre, on account of a severe frost on the 

 Cth of June. The Tappahannock being earlier, escaped the frost and 

 the red weevil, then very destructive. The following year he sowed 8J 

 acres with a i)ortion of the above product, distributing the rest. On his 

 own land he obtained 42 bushels per acre, and all those to whom he 

 distributed harvested good crops, ranging from 30 to 35 bushels per acre. 

 Since that time thousands of bushels have been raised in that county, 

 and always with success. 



Tappahannock wheat in Utah. — The secretary of the Utah County 

 Agricultural Society, Utah, states that one quart of Tappahaunock wheat, 

 received from the Department two years ago, produced two bushels the 

 first year, and one bushel of this sown in September, 3870, on 147 rods 

 Of medium land, following a crop of sugar-cane, produced 31 bushels of 

 wheat, weighing C2 pounds to the bushel. Some of this crop, on being 

 milled, turned out 42 pounds of good flour to the bushel. 



Spring- WHEAT in Central Illinois. — Mr. Seth Talbot, jr., ^f Tre- 

 mont, Tazewell County, Illinois, says that farmers in that county have 

 almost abandoned the raising of spring-wheat, and that, during the last 

 five years, it has not paid for cultivation. Last year it was an entire 

 failure. 



Wheat in NESRASKA.-^Mr. L. A. Walker, of Omaha, Nebraska, calls 

 attention to the great depreciation in the yield of wheat, per acre, in 

 that region. 



Cereals in Utah. — Mr. George Eoberts, of Minersville, Beaver 

 County, says that the oats sent out by the Department have surpassed 

 expectations, thrashing out 48 pounds per bushel. There had been a 

 great deterioration of seed, but since supplies have been received from 

 the Department a marked improvement has been observable. 



Wheat in Virginia. — Mr. William James, of Ashland, Hanover 

 County, Virginia, claims that his State possesses the best conditions 

 for wheat-growing, prime flour from Virginia wheat ranging $1 per 

 barrel above prices of other market brands. He criticises the current 

 methods of cultivation, and objects to the practice of shallow plowing 

 in vogue in his section. 



