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is observed. Nemaha: Everything is as auspicious and encouraging as 
could be desired except the fruit, which was badly beaten off by Hail, 
California, Sonoma: The high percentage reported on all cereal crops 
is owing to the fact that the present season has never been equaled since 
the settlement of Oalifornia by the Americans. The yield of wheat and 
barley will be unprecedentedly large ; the acreage of corn is very largely 
increased, and the yield will be proportionably large. The pastures are 
better than for twenty years, and dairymen are reaping a rich harvest 
of golden butter. Fruit promises to be very abundant; the vintage 
gives promise of being exceedingly large and of excellent quality.. Napa: 
The grain-crops are all above average, both in acreage and, yield per 
acre. 
Utah, Weber: The season was very late and nearly all spring.crops 
are backward, but all cereals are very promising and stock is improving 
rapidly after the unusually long and tedious wiater.. Zoole:, We never 
had.a better. season, and everything looks, splendid; prospect of the 
heaviest erops since the county, was settled. 
PROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE.— North Carolina, Beawfort: This county 
has made one good step in the right direction. Formerly large quanti- 
ties of northern hay were imported; but for the last two years the sup- 
ply of forage from home production has been abundant. 
Trdiana, Switzerland : The poliey of hay-cropping without giving the 
land anything in return is being gradually but surely abandoned, and 
farmers are taking steps to convert their farms into stock-farms. | Rais- 
ing and fattening stock will be extensively engaged in hereafter. There 
is now an unprecedented and still increasing demand for stock-cattle, 
hogs, &e. 
Wisconsin, Columbia: Our farmers are turning their attention more 
and more every year to cultivated crops, and by feeding their corn to 
eattle, sheep, and hogs, make more manure to return to the soil as a 
compensation for its favors. 
Minnesota, Pope: Although the winters are so long and generally so 
severe, the raising of herds of cattle and flocks of sheep is found on 
the whole to pay better than the production of wheat, corn, and oats 
for the market Dairying prospects begin to look encouraging. The 
manufacture of butter and cheese will soon greatly increase, judging 
from present indications. 
Kansas, Washington: The alfalfa sown last year has proved a grand 
suecess. It was three feet high by the middle of May, and farmers 
then commenced cutting the first crop. The attention now given 
to alfalfa and other grasses will revolutionize farming in Kansas. 
Before its introduction we made a specialty of our wheat to our 
own detriment. We are now raisiug more rye, corn, and grass, and 
selling our products in cattle, hogs, &c., which places us on the high- 
road to prosperity. 
IMPOVERISHING RESULTS OF SPECIAL FARMING.—Kentucky, Pend e- 
ton: Tobaceo is the curse of this county. It is causing the lands to 
become quickly worn out and the risiug generation to be a set of igno- 
ramuses. 
Tennessee, Perry: With a soil and climate exceedingly well adapted to 
the growth of cotton, tobacco, all kinds of fruits, the cereals, and all kinds 
of stock, thereby guaranteeing the greatest meed of success in diversified 
husbandry, and a large, navigable river traversing our western border, 
affording the very cheapest transportation to first-class markets, we 
have too long made the growing of peanuts a specialty. The growing 
