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ties, they liave brong'lit the county generally into a fine condition for 

 the winter range of stock, and that, according to his own observation 

 and reports from all parts of the county, stock was never in a better 

 condition for winter than now. 



Ceops in Gkeelet, Colorado. — N. 0. Meeker, of Union Colony, has 

 had ten acres of land in cultivation this season, from which he has gathered 

 crops as follows : 3i acres of wheat, 75 bushels ; 2 of corn, 50 bushels ; 

 1 of oats, 30 bushels ; 1 of sugar-beets, 7 tons ; 2 of Hubbard squash, ,6 

 tons ; and a half acre of cabbage, 7 tons. He represents that, for want 

 of tharough cultivation the yield of beets was only about three-fourths 

 of a crop, and that the corn suffered from being too thick. 



Feuit in Kansas. — A correspondent in Cowley County reports that 

 its prospects for fruit-raising are very promising. Young fruit-trees gen- 

 erally are doing well ', peach-trees only three years old have borne fine 

 fruit, and in another year the county may expect a full supply of peaches 

 and small fruits, and a year later, of apples and cherries. 



Cocoa-nut cabbage. — This new variety, recently introduced by the 

 Department, has been tested by a corresjioudent in Mercer County, 

 Ohio, who commends it as early, hardy, yielding good heads, and of 

 better flavor than any other variety he is acquainted with. 



Cultivation of cinchona in Bengal. — The cultivation of cinchona 

 trees in the district of Sikkin, Bengal, which was started in 18G2 by 

 Dr. T. Anderson, is said to be very profitable, and in this district there 

 were under cultivation in March, 1871, the following species : 1,233,715 

 trees of cinchona sued rubra; 410,000 trees of cinchona officinalis; 

 33,400 trees of cinchona calisaya ; beside 480,000 young plants of cin- 

 chona sued rubra in the nursery, which had been raised from the seed. 

 The annual yield is about three hundred pounds of bark per acre. 



The amount of arable land of the Netherlands. — Nearly one- 

 fifth of the entire surface of the Netherlands is wholly unfit for cultiva- 

 tion, while more than another one-fifth is meadow-land ; about 71,500 

 acres are market gardens ; 00,000 acres are orchards ) 47,500 acres are 

 cultivated with tobacco; 35,000 with hemp; 375 with hops, (in one dis- 

 trict only ;) and 500 acres are wholly devoted to the cultivation of the 

 bulbs of tulips, hyacinths, &c. 



MARKET PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS. 



FOE OCTOBEE, 1872. 



Articles. 



Price. 



NEW YORK. 



Flour, superfine State., perbbl. 



extra State do. .. 



superfine western . .do. .. 

 extra to cboice western, 



per barrel 



extra southern. . .per bbl. 



cboice southern do . . . 



Wheat, No. 1 spring. . .per bush. 



No. 2 spring do . . . 



winter, red west'n. .do. . . 

 white, western do. . . 



Articles. 



New Tokk— Continued. 



Kye do... 



Barley do. .. 



Oats, do... 



Com, western, mixed do... 



Hay, shipping qualities, .perton. 



prime do. .. 



Pork, moss per bbl. 



prime do... 



Beef, plain mess do . . . 



extra mess do. .. 



Lard, per lb. 



Price. 



$0 80 to 



1 07 to 



38 to SO 46 



64 to 65J 



20 00 to 21 00 



24 00 to 30 00 



14 00 to 14 25 



11 25 to 11 75 



5 00 to 7 00 



8 00 to 10 00 



8i to 9} 



