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LuMBEK nioDUCT OF Tiip: Upper Mississippi. — Local estimates as- * 

 sign tlie following aggregates to the last "log crop" of the Saint Croix 

 Eiver and it-s afdnents, viz : Willow Eiver, 9,000,000 feet ; Apple liiver, 

 25,000,000; Wood Eiver, 3,000,000; Clam Eiver, 5,000,000; Yellow 

 Eiver, 9,000,000; Mmekagon Eiver, L'5,000,000 ; Chipenazey Eiver, 

 7,000,000 ; Totogatic Eiver, 0,000,000 ; Frog Creek, 5,000,000 ; Beau 

 Creek, 2,100,000; Moose Eiver, 4,000,000; Main Saint Croix Eiver, 

 0,000,000; Snake Eiver, 70,000,000; Kettle Eiver, 30,000,000— total, 

 200,000,000. The Mississippi and its afdueuts, above tlio Falls of Saint 

 Anthony, yielded about 200,000,000 feet, making 412,1.00,000 feet pro- 

 duced by the Upper Mississippi and its affluents during the winter of 

 1871-'72. 



Swiss school of milk production and management. — TIk 

 Swiss Mountain Union, which has for many years been interested in 

 the milk business, has issued a circular in wliicli it claims that milk pro- 

 duction and the care of the mountain pastures are the inseparable fac- 

 tors of the nation's wealth. The only article of exjiort is cheese, which 

 was exported in 1808 to the value of 18,074,832 francs, and in ISGi), 

 21,453,790 francs. The increase of milk products in other parts of the 

 world is alluded to. American factory cheese, an imitation of the Eng- 

 lish Cheshire, is rivaling its prototype in its home market. Svreden and 

 Denmark have established extensive dairies, while Holland, which con- 

 trols the cheese trade of the world, has estalalished at Utrecht a perpet- 

 ual exhibition of dairy utensils, &c., for the instruction of dairymen. 

 The Austrian minister of agriculture has given two annual prizes for 

 the benefit of cheese-factory associations, W'hile in Yorarlburg, Tyrol, 

 Ba,varia, Italy, and Prussia, the latest facts, principles, and improve- 

 ments are disseminated by means of itinerant lecturers, fairs, exhibi- 

 tions, and x^ublications. It is proposed in Switzerland to adopt this pol- 

 icy i]i the organization of a school of theoretical and practical instruc- 

 tion in milk production and management. For this purpose funds are 

 to be raised from the cantons, agiicultural societies, and individuals. 

 Great results are anticipated from this enterprise. 



Cotton-seed as a feutilizer. — Mr. G. G. Zenor, a planter near 

 Pattersonville, Louisiana, last year made 05 hogsheads of sugar from 35 

 acres of old prairie laud. From 12 acres, fertilized vv'ith cottou-seed at 

 the rate of 815 ])eY acre, he obtained 35 hogsheads, or nearly 3 hogs- 

 heads per acre. The remaining 23 acres produced 30 hogsheads, or less 

 than l.V hogsheads per acre. This surplus product of 1§ liogsheads, 

 about 2,000 pounds per acre, involved an additional cost for fertilizers 

 of about three-quarters of a cent ])er pound. 



California wool product. — From Miller & Co.'s annual wool 

 report, dated San Francisco, California, March 11, 1872, we have the 

 following facts relative to the wool product of that State for the year 

 just closed: Spring clip, estimated receipts at San Francisco and other 

 points, 13,389,187 pounds; fall clip, 9,890,941 pounds; pulled avooI re- 

 ceived, 990,125 pounds, making a total of the product of California for 

 the year 1871 of 24,270,253 pounds. The total product for 1870 was 

 19,400,505 pounds ; increa;^^, 4,815,088. There were also received at San 

 Francisco from Humboldt, Oregon, Washington Territory, and British 

 Columbia, 1,187,100 pounds; from Sandwich Islands and Australia, 

 1,010,403 pounds, and from Mexico 1,090 pounds. Total amount re- 

 ceived from other sources, 2,204,713 pounds. 



" Lost Ilf ation Wheat." — Mv. J. W. Lano-, of Brooks, Maine, writes 



