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This county raised over thirty thousand bushels of wheat this year, with a 
population of a little over five hundred souls; and over half of it was raised, by 
farmers who came here from Wisconsin less than two years ago, and settled on 
the prairie under the homestead law. The answer above stated is not guess 
work, but taken from the thresher’s book. Such splendid wheat as was raised 
here the present year would dazzle the eyes of those who said Nebraska was a 
desert. ‘lhe yield run as high as forty-six bushels to the acre. 
Crops in West Virginia.—Our correspondent in Berkeley county, West Vir- 
ginia, says that several cases of hog cholera have occurred there recently. He 
gives a statement of acreage and quantity of crops, and states that the quality 
of wheat was much better in 1866 than in 1865, weighing sixty-one pounds 
against fifty-six pounds per bushel. The following exhibit is made for the 
county: 
1860. 1866. 1865 
is) o oF. ua 
Product. ; : i = 2s 5 a 
hey & 5) ro) 2 0) "S iy 
s 3 = oP 3 &p > Dis 
g g So ee ae 3 ees 
e e = Nea ae = = 
Wheat -.-- bush.| 237,576 121.345 | 18,665 | 6.5, | 2.85 $345, 833 25 | $280, 614; 25. 
Indian corn.do..|_ 275,523 | 465,175 | 15,605 | 29.89 50 | 255, 846 25 291,891 60: 
Oats 2. -. 3.do-- 76, 176 44,475 1,869 | 23.9 36| 16,011 00 17, 668 24 
Byes... do..| 18,672 3, 270 545 | 6 1.10| 3,597 00 3,118 50 
Buckwheat . do.. 1, 074 845 65 | 13 90 760 50 
IEleiy ae: tons - 8, 031 2,670 | 2,750 | 97 17.50} 46,725 00 57, 895 00 
Sorghum .. galls.|....-..--.- 580 10 {58 1. 00 580 00 
in 5 epeiieg Ra: a Raia 39,500 |......|......| 670,693 50 | 651, 147 59 
The cattle plague—Vhe cattle disease has disappeared completely from 
Switzerland, and the prohibition decreed by the Italian government against the 
importation of cattle has been removed. 
The rinderpest having broken put afresh in Austria, the Bavarian govern- 
ment has refused to allow a large number of oxen intended for the English mar-. 
ket to cross the frontier. 
The Farmer (Scottish) of November 14, 1866, says: What we trust will 
prove the last cattle plague return was issued on Thursday. It reports that 
last week there were but two attacks in England, one in Warwickshire and one 
in Yorkshire. 
At a recent rent audit, the tenants on the estate of Mr. J. E. Heathcote, of 
Opedale Hall, were allowed ten shillings in the pound upon the losses they have 
suffered from the cattle plague. This allowance is independent of what may 
have been received rrom the insurance association. 
The total amount of the claims of the members on the funds of the Fifeshire- 
Cattle Plague Association, on account of cattle lost by the cattle plague, before 
the passing of the cattle disease prevention act, exceeds £30,000, and the gen- 
eral committee have declared an interim dividend of 3s. per £1. 
Casabianca Wool—tIn the province of Casabiancea, as in the rest of Morocco,. 
the wool trade ten or twelve years since was confined to the limits of the district 
itself. It was only in 1858 that the export of wool took, in the province of 
Casabianca, as well as in the provinces of Chaouya and Urdegrah, such a de- 
velopment that in 1864 the shearing was double what it was in any preceding 
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