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tiug iu auother crop. Mauy who faisecl thouaamls of bushels of grain have not been 

 able to pay their debts aud go on auother season. 



November 1. — Many thousand sacks of wheat still remain in the fields, and along the 

 lines of transportation, awaiting shipment. One hundred vessels have already loaded 

 and cleared for domestic and foreign ports, and when as many more shall have loaded 

 there will still be a large amount of wheat to spare. 



Washin-gton County, Nebraska. — For the first time since the settlement of this county 

 flax has been raised very extensively. It is estimated that the product of seed will bo 

 nearly, if not quite, 5,000 bushels. 



BEKT-SUGAR. 



Sacramento, California. — The Sacramento Beet-Sugar Factory is now in full operation 

 ou this season's crop of beets — a fine yield — turning oft' the finest of sugars of different 

 grades. 



TEXAS CATTLE, 



Labette County, Kan-ms. — I live within two miles of the line of the Indian Nation ; I 

 can see daily thousands of Texas cattle, of all ages, looking northward wistfully for 

 the day when the statute says they may " cross the line." 



Marion County, Iowa. — Feeders are to a considerable extent compelled to purchase 

 Texas cattle in order to get the number desired. Over two thousand have been pur- 

 chased and brought into this county. With nearly all the purchasers the stall-feeding 

 of these cattle is as yet an experiment. But as corn is very cheap, there being an im- 

 mense amount, several of our most enterprising feeders have bought them in lots of 

 from 100 to 3<X) and are feeding them on corn, costing from 15 to 20 cents per bushel. 



TEXAS CATTLE DISEASE. 



Saint Louis, Missouri. — We have had the genuine Texas fever in that part of 

 the county lying immediately west of the citj-. In the vicinity of the cattle-yards 

 on the Pacific Railroad, in the western limits of the city, the city cows took the infec- 

 tion, and about 45 have died. At Rock Spring, a mile and a half further west, I saw in 

 a yard where some 40 daily cows are driven to be kept over night, two cows dead and 

 several sick. Some 35 cows died in that vicinity. At Cheltenham, two miles further 

 west, I lost one cow, and about 40 others died in the neighborhood of the same disease. 

 Some Texas cattle, supposed to be strays, were in the neighborhood about the middle of 

 August. Three miles further west there have been heavy losses, aud the disease is still 

 prevailing. The stray Texas cattle had been there also. I know of a loss of over 200 

 head iu this county. With many of the sick cattle there have been veterinary sur- 

 geons, but, as far as I know, without effecting any good. Mr. B. F. Thomas, who has lost 

 seven, has two now sick and says he has cured two with aconite. He has administered 

 this to those now sick, but thinks that, at the time, the disease was too far advanced 

 to admit of a cure by it. 



AN ADVERSE SEASOX — PKEVEXTIVE OF MLRKAIX. 



Powhata)i County, Virginia. — The current year has been the most difiicult and disas- 

 trous to farming aud planting operations known to the writer in an experience of forty 

 years. Drought prevailed throughout the whole growing season, shortening the 

 crops of every description, except wheat, from one-fourth to three-fourths of the 

 amount usually raised. 



Chills and fevers have prevailed to an unusual extent; also, murrain among cattle, 

 and some valuable animals have been lost. Many iu this vicinity recommend a mix- 

 ture of salt aud hi>ckory-ashes, in equal quantities by measure, kept in troughs where 

 the cattle can have free access to it during the hot months, as an unfailing preventive, 

 they having tried it for thirty years with entire success. A quantity of sulphur, equal 

 to one-fourth of the mixture of salt and ashes, added to it, has also been found l>ene- 

 ficial. 



PEA-XUTS I^" TENXESSEE. 



Wayne County. — Our farmers have never raised any pea-nuts uutil this year. They 

 have gone into that crop pretty extensively, aud will raise about 60 bushels per acre — 

 little over half a crop, owing to the drought we had the latter part of summer. 



GRAPES IX CALIFORNIA. 



Amador County. — Grapes are good aud plentiful, selling for $12 to $15 per ton, or 

 abont 40 cents per bushel ; can be raised here cheaper than corn or potatoes in Elinois 

 or any other State. 



