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while growing. Mr. L. M. Wilson, of same county, obtained 2 bushels 
of fine white, flinty wheat from 14 pints of Clawson. 
Crops IN ASHTABULA CouNtTy, OHI0.—According to the assessors’ 
reports the farmers of Ashtabula, Ohio, raised 94,784 bushels of wheat 
from 8,120 acres; 2,240 bushels of rye from 275 acres; 4,475 of buck- 
wheat from 349 acres; 556,988. of oats from 17,159 acres; 809 of barley 
from 51 acres; 443,202 of corn from 12,083 acres; 558,891 of potatoes 
from 5,286 acres; 58,187 tons of timothy-hay from 55,362 acres; 1,033 
tons of clover-hay and 93 bushels of clover-seed from 693 acres; 15,000 
pounds of flax and 536 bushels of flax-seed from 43 acres; and 4,450 
pounds of tobacco from 2 acres. The number of acres plowed for ma- 
nure was 41; acres in vineyard 72, producing 145,100 pounds of grapes 
and 1,376 gallons of wine; sweet-potatoes raised, 37 bushels; butter 
made, 1,058,072 pounds; cheese, 5,557,172 pounds; sorghum-molasses, 
83 gallons; maple-molasses, 8,834 gallons; maple-sugar, 236,740 
pounds; acres in orchard 5,359, producing 94,402 bushels of apples, 
258 of peaches, and 583 of pears; total number of acres in farms, 
319,197, of which 102,814 were under cultivation, 142,408 in pasture, 
70,450 in forest and 3,525 waste lands. Wool shorn, 98,869; sheep 
killed by dogs, 255, worth $1,046 ; sheep injured, 160; the aggregate in- 
jury being estimated at $380, making a total damage of $1,426; a tax 
upon the farming interest enforced by the toleration of 1,934 dogs in 
the county. 
TREE-PLANTING.—A correspondent in Livingston, Illinois, reports 
that’ the planting of trees in groves and shelter-belts, and for 
ornamental purposes, has become very general in that county. Ten 
years ago 95 per cent. of the area of the county was treeless; but now 
a farm without a grove is an exception to the general rule. Black-wal- 
nut has the preference for profit and ease of cultivation ; but elm, soft 
maple, willow, cottonwood, European larch and ash are common, while 
evergreens are popular for ornamental purposes, and occasionally are 
planted in groves and shelter-belts. 
AGRICULTURAL STATUS OF MONROE COUNTY, VIRGINIA.—Mr. B. 
B. Gwinn, president of the Indian Creek Farmers’ Club, makes a re- 
port to the Department, for this county, from which the following is 
condensed: A wheat-crop above average in yield-and of extra quality 
has been harvested in good condition. A fair oat-crop has been secured. 
Corn has been shortened by drought. An abundant hay-crop of superior 
quality has been harvested without injury. The prospect for fall pas- 
tures is good, and all kinds of stock are thriving, except sheep, which 
have suffered greatly from the excessively hot weather. 
A NEW AND LIMITLESS OUTLET FOR AMERICAN BEEF.—In our 
Monthly Report for June, page 203, under the head of ‘“ Fresh beef in 
London from the United States,” is a paragraph describing the condi- 
tions under which fresh beef, in quarters, had been safely transported 
across the Atlantic in the winter-months. Subsequent advices report 
that the newly-discovered and patented process of preserving without 
any chemical appliances, and transporting unimpaired, fresh beef by 
simply suspending it in an atmosphere from which moisture is expelled 
and kept at a uniformly cool temperature, proves equally successful in 
the hottest weather. The Agricultural Gazette, speaking with refer- 
ence to the London market, states: 
As we are now in receipt of an average weekly supply of some 400 tons of American 
beef, which, after being killed and packed about fourteen days in extreme hot weather, 
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