519 



220,:io0 ; lioucy, 750. In 1872 it had under cultivation, of wheat, 

 115,408 acres ; barley, 67,837 ; oats, 858 ; potatoes, 068 ; total under these 

 four products, 185,071 acres, being 60,525 more than were occupied by 

 all the grain and vegetable products cultivated tlie'i)revious year. In 

 cultivated trees it has of apple, 50,514; peach, l.'>,520; pear, 16,164 ; 

 plum, 11,858; cherry, 28,519 ; nectarine, o,300; (juince, 1,468; apricot, 

 3,427; tig, 817 ; lemon, 62 ; orange, 82 ;" olive, 587 ; prune, 3,066 ; mul- 

 berry, 1,204; almond, 152,056; walnut, 3,576; grape-vines, 223,102. 

 In live stock it has, of cattle, 22,528; horses, 6,711 ; mules, 631 ; asses,* 

 14; sheep, 38,360 ; Cashmere and Angora goats, 46 ; hogs, 2,550 ; hives 

 of bees, 300. 



Cork-oak. — A correspondent, dating at Alhambra, California, reports 

 that the acorns of the cork-oak, distributed by this Department a few 

 years since, have done well, and expresses the opinion that a new sup- 

 ply would bo carefully improved in view of prospective profitable 

 results. ' 



The rice CRor. — Lafourche, one of the principal rice-growing par- 

 ishes of Louisiana, has produced this season, as reported, about 15,000 

 bushels of clean rice. This is about equal to the crop of the same parish 

 in 1869. 



Honey in Colorado. — It is.reported that two years ago Mr. I:^. O 

 Stewart, of Jelferson County, started witli two hives of bees, which have 

 now increased to 21 hives, and have yielded the past season about 2,50o 

 pounds of honey, worth from 40 to 50 cents per pound. Mr. Stewart 

 has never fed his bees, and they have cost him little or no attention. 



Product op one kernel of wheat. — Our correspondent in Mer- 

 riwether County, Georgia, states that a "volunteer" kernel of wheat, 

 which came up in the garden of Hon. O. Warner, this season, produced 

 99 heads and 3,058 kernels, the largest heads having 75 each. It was 

 an early red, bald variety, and matured about the 1st of June. 



Winter and spring- wheat in Wisconsin. — A correspondent in 

 Sauk County represents that the Diehl wheat (winter) received from this 

 Department has proved hardy and productive, yielding on new ground 

 40| bushels, and on old 25. It is so well appreciated that he readily 

 sold his whole crop at $2 per bushel for seed. He believes that hence- 

 forth Wisconsin, in part at least, must raise hardy varieties of winter, 

 instead of spring wheat, and must keep the soil in good condition by 

 the use of fertilizers. Many hope to obviate the failure iu raising spring - 

 wheat by a change of seed from one locality to another, but he is cou- 

 vinced that the difficulty is too radical to be remedied in that way : 

 that it results from exhaustion of soil by continuous cropping, regard- 

 less of the laws of compensation. 



Farm- animals in Ohio. — The official report for 1872 gives the total 

 of farm-animals in Ohio, compared with year 1871, as follows : In 1871, 

 number of horses, 711, 349'; cattle, 1,646,440; mules, &c., 21,986; sheep, 

 4,302,904 ; hogs, 2,164,403. In 1872, number of horses, 718.157 ; cattle, 

 1,761,623 ; muies, &c., 22,958 ; sheep, 4,464,898 ; hogs, 2,315,554. Increase 

 of horses, 6,808 ; cattle, 115,183 ; mules, &c., 972 ; sheep, 161,994 ; hogs, 

 151,151. 



Cultivation of corn. — Shoemaker & Eobinson, of West White- 

 land, Chester County, Pennsylvania, claim to have produced, the present 

 year, on 10 acres and 92 perches of land, 1,005 bushels of corn, allowing 

 70 pounds of ears to the bushel.; 70 pounds were shelled, and it made, 

 one bushel and tv.'o quarts. During the summer of 1871, the field was 



