first planting peas, and then following np the crop witli a dressing ot 

 manure. And this is not an isolated case. Other similar experiments 

 in Mississippi are said to have removed the doubts of skeptics, and to 

 have confirmed the most ardent believers in the success of cultivated 

 grasses at the South. A writer in the Rural Alabamian relates an in- 

 stance of remarkable success in the growing of clover, ^t Tibby, in 

 Lowndes County, Mississippi, to which it might be difficult to find a 

 parallel at the North. Upon a field seeded fifteen years ago to clover, 

 and which has repeatedly produced both grain and hoed crops since, the 

 clover crop last year was a most luxuriant one, although the field has 

 never been seeded to clover but the one time. 



In a very comprehensive and practicil article on the cultivation of 

 the grasses and forage plants of the South, Mr. 0. W. Howard, in the 

 Southern Farm and Home, Memphis, Tennessee, says, concerning 

 lucerne : 



As a forage-plaut at tlie South, luceruo is very far superior to all others. It is 

 used for three purposes. First, for feeding green, or soiling ; used iu this way, it is 

 best to cut the lucerne a day in advance, so as to feed it in a wilted state. It must 

 never he pastured. ***** Lucerne hay is extremely nutritious, and is relished 

 by horses, cattle, and sheep. It is preferred by the domestic animals to any other 

 kind of hay. The product of lucei'ne is enormous. Five tons of excellent hay may be 

 cut from an acre. It is estimated that fodder, green aud dry, may be obtained from 

 an acre of lucerne for the support of five horses during the entire year. This included 

 the great bulk of green food during the spring, summer, and autumn." 



The seed of lucerne has been very widely distributed by the Depart- 

 ment ; and the most favoroble accounts of success iu its culture have 

 been returned. 



The stock trade of Buffalo. — Mr. Ch. Bevichy, a stock-dealer 

 of Buffalo, New York, writing under date of July, says: 



The stock-trade of this city has been of rapid growth aud is increasing. In 1857 the 

 total number of animals was 533,220. Since that date the trade has steadily grown 

 and promises to continue to increase. From this point these animals go by railroad 

 to Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, and the intermediate lage towns, there await- 

 ing the turn of those markets. When the Northwest and Manitoba come to send out 

 cattle aud horses it is thought they must come here for distribution. Those regions, 

 it is said, will rival Texas iu cattle-raising, notwithstanding the severity of theclimate. 

 The cattle, &c., from Northern Minnesota, Dakota, aud Manitoba must pass east 

 by rail along the southern shore of Lake Superior to the Sault Ste. Marie, and then 

 through Canada to this city. The whole distance from the Red River (an average 

 point about one thousand miles) to Buil'alo will be less than from Kansas, frr^m which 

 State many of our cattle come; and it is plain that sheep, horse, and cat;le raising 

 will have to be the main reliance of the people of the Noi-thwest, whose broad, grassy 

 plains never fail to produce food for winter and summer supplies. 



Cattle-plague. — The cattle- plague, or rinderpest, or steppe-disease, 

 as it is variously called, has reappeared in England, where, when it 

 first appeared, several years ago, the place of its origm was investigated 

 without any positive result. It was commonly believed, however, to 

 have been imported from Russia. In reference to its source at the 

 present time, the evidence is less doubtful. Three cargoes of infected 

 animals recently arrived in England directly from Russia. Prompt and 

 effective measures were taken to j)revent the spread of the decease, and 

 an order of government was at once issued forbidding the lauding there- 

 after at any port iu Great Britain of cattle from any place within the 

 Russian dominions. The deceased animals were killed, and a careful 

 post mortem examination left no doubt of their having been infected with 

 the cattle-plague. It was shown that symptoms of the disease had 

 manifested themselves at the time the animals were embarked; that 

 several animals had died at sea 5 that fresh outbreaks of the disease 



