400 



hop crop will be liglit, but promises to be of superior quality, with no 

 sign of vermin or blight. Of cranberries, which arc exteiisively culti- 

 vated, there is every indication of an abundant crop. In Monroe 

 County, also, several thousand acres of wild cranberries arc reported 

 as promising above the average of former years. 



Spake the birds. — Our correspondent in Perry County, Illinois, 

 after mentioning the extensive ravages of the chinch-bugs, sweeping 

 the most promising crops, states that, in Southern Illinois, during the 

 last winter, quails were slaughtered by the thousand dozen for market. 

 As they have been almost annihilated in that region, insects abound. 

 He thinks this criminal folly should be repressed by vigorously executed 

 legal enactments. 



Market gardening in Kentucky. — The Avestern portion of Jeffer- 

 son County, Kentucky, is largel}^ devoted to gardening under the ener- 

 getic and intelligent management of the Germans, who have very suc- 

 cessfully developed this branch of industry. The proximit^^ of tl\e city 

 of Louisville afi:brds a large supply of organic fertilizers, enabling the 

 cultivators to secure two crops per annum from the same ground. 



Milk pever. — Our correspondent in Pulaski County, Illinois, de- 

 scribes a case of milk fever in one of his cows, the symptoms of which 

 were swelling and heat in one side of the udder, the second day after 

 calving. The calf was admitted to her, but the swelling increased, as 

 also did the febrile symptoms, resulting in great prostration and trem- 

 bling, with partial loss of motion in the limbs. Though there was no 

 stricture of the bowels or lack of appetite, mild antimouial doses were 

 administered, with epsom salts and aromatic herbs, producing an active 

 cathartic effect. Cold water was applied to the inHamed parts, and 

 afterward a mild mercurial ointment, mingled with pulverized camphor 

 and tincture of iodine. The cow has recovered, with a partial loss of 

 milking capacity In one teat. Our correspondent recommends the re- 

 duction of food, and exen occasional neck bleeding, as the calving-time 

 approaches. 



Fruit culture in Kentucky. — Trimble County, Kentucky, is be- 

 coming the theater of extensive fruit culture. Two parties from Cin- 

 cinnati have lately set out an orchard of 400 acres, and other enterijrises 

 on a similar scale have been projected. One apple-orchard of 125 acres 

 has just commenced bearing. The prospect is that within a few years 

 half the high lands of the county will be under fruit cultivation. 



Clover in the South. — Our regular correspondence shows the rapid 

 increase of this crop in several portions of the South. While one 

 variety suits one section, another is found profitable elsewhere. Clover, 

 as a field crop, has been found a great success in lan^e areas. It is 

 found, also, in some locations, to be one of the best paying crops. 



Bad financiering. — A Georgia correspondent gtates that the farm- 

 ers in his region have in many cases mortgaged their crops for pro- 

 visions for the coming year and for fertilizers. A short crop of cotton 

 will ruin large numbers of theip. A correspondent in another county 

 of this State says that the cotton mania has broken out with fresh viru- 

 lence among the planters. Not less than 200 tons of guano have 

 already been purchased, mostly on credit, for the quiclvening of the 

 cotton-crop. Here, also, planters are mortgaging their crops for pro- 

 visions. 



