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crop. These different terms do not by auy means give a definite indica- 

 tion of quality ; the producer merely exhibits his samples, and sells to the 

 " stemmers" at the highest bid. The stemmers, convert the good, lugs, 

 and such of the trash as can be made available for the purpose, into 

 strips, and export to Liverpool and London. The remainder of the 

 trash is shipped to New York, New Orleans, &c., and sold under the 

 name of lugs. 



Fruit shipments at Cobden and Makanda, Illinois. — The fol- 

 lowing is a statement of the amount of fruit shipped at Cobden, on the 

 Illinois Central Eailroad, during the season of 1871 : 



There were also shipped 327 bushels of peach seeds ; 2,633 bushels of 

 tomatoes; 1,G03 bushels of sweet potatoes, and 342 bushels of Irish po- 

 tatoes. 



At Makanda, on the same road, were shipped 130,000 pounds of straw- 

 berries, in May, and 22,110 pounds in June ; 24,850 pounds of raspberries 

 in June 5 1,208,500 pounds of peaches in July, and 788,300 pounds in 

 August. 



The Utah and Northern Eailroad. — A bill has been introduced 

 into Congress to enable the Utah and Northern Railroad Company, in- 

 corporated under the laws of Utah, to extend its line by way of Bear 

 Eiver Valley, Soda Springs, Snake Eiver Valley, and througb Montana 

 to the Northern Pacific Eoad. The bill grants right of way to the com- 

 pany to the extent of 100 feet in width on each side of the road, through 

 the public lands traversed by it ; also, at each station, an amount of 

 land, not exceeding forty acres, for station buildings, workshops, &g. 

 The com])any is authorized to raise by mortgage a sum not exceeding 

 $15,000 j)er mile of the length of the road. 



Georgia corn in Egypt. — General Charles P. Stone, formerly of 

 the United States Army, but now attached to the Egyptian war office, 

 at Cairo, reports a very satisfactory cultivation of Georgia corn, the 

 seed of which was received from this Department. It was not planted 

 till the 20th of August last, thus losing eight days of the hot summer 

 weather. It came up in four days, and, being well irrigated with Nile 

 water, grew rapidly, reaching the height of 8 feet, and throwing out three 

 or four shoots from each stalk. The ears were gathered at Christmas, full 

 and ripe, but not so long as he expected to see them. The hills were 

 shaded by orange trees, and hence the experiment did not succeed as 

 well as it might have done. 



Agriculture in Alabama. — Mr. James M. Moss, of Huntsville, in 

 asking for fresh sorghum-seed, states that this kind of seed has run out 

 in that neighborhood, and that it is no longer fit to plant. He says : 



Times are very quiet here now, -witli more of a disposition to attend to bnsiness than 

 at any time before; and qnite a feeling is arising to improve farms and go into stock 

 and mixed farminir. 



