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SEED EXPERIMENTS. 
Jefferson county, N. Y—The following are the results of experiments in the cul- 
tivation of seeds received from the department last season. From twenty-four 
ounces of “ Page’s Prolific” barley the yield was twenty-six pounds ; twelve ounces 
of “ Brewer’s Delight”’ barley, thirteen pounds ; twelve ounces Chevalier barley, 
twelve pounds—fifty-one pounds of barley from about three pounds of seed. 
There is not much difference in the looks or quality of the three varieties named, 
but all are good acquisitions, and I shall sow every kernel raised. 
Superior, Wisconsin.—In August, 1865, I received about one and a half pound” 
of white Mediterranean winter wheat, which was sown on land among standing 
corn, at the rate of one and a half bushel to the acre. On. the 15th of August 
I harvested the same, the product being at the rate of forty bushels per acre of 
good quality wheat. I think this variety well adapted to our climate, and would 
be a profitable crop here. 
A NEW YORK DAIRY. 
Delaware county, N. Y—This county is emphatically a butter county, and 
I wish a choice dairy could have been provided entire’for the Paris Exposition, 
but it is now too late, as our dairymen have generally sold their butter. Ina 
sworn statement presented at the annual meeting of the Delaware County Agri- 
cultural Society, Mr. Irvine has shown that frona eleven cows he made and sold 
over 2,300 pounds of butter, besides supplying his family with butter and milk. 
As far as an average has been made the product of butter varies little from 150 
pounds per cow for the past year. In 1864 the average was only a little over 
100 pounds. The increase is due to keeping less stock and feeding better, and 
in increased economy in preventing loss. 
EASTERN KENTUCKY. 
Booneville, Ky.—The natural resources of this section of country have never 
been developed. A small portion of the lands are under cultivation, being very 
mountainous, and most of that which is brought under the plough is depleted by a 
wasteful system of culture, and either left to broom-sage or undergrowth, or 
cropped still at great expenditure of labor for small-returns. A small portion 
of river bottom lands are too rich to be exhausted by surface culture, and 
is still very productive. Eventhat which has been abandoned is not exhausted, the 
culture received never penetrating the soil deep enough for that. The almost 
inexhaustible mineral resources of this county are comparatively unknown. This 
whole region, back to the.Cumberland range, and even further, abounds in the 
richest minerals, consisting of iron, coal, (both stone and cannel,) gold, silver, 
lead, and an immense quantity of lithographic stone, reported to be the purest 
in the world, and said to exist nowhere else in America. All these valuables 
remain unused for want of means of transportation to market. * * * * 
There is more improvement in hogs than in any other stock in the county, and 
yet of less value, from the fact that disease is prevalent among swine here. The 
“hog cholera” has killed nearly one-half of last year’s raising, and no remedy 
has yet been found. It is most prevalent during the fall and winter season. 
PORCELAIN CLAYS. 
Aiken, S. C.—A correspondent writes: “The kaolins of this county resemble 
those from China, and from Cornwall, in the high proportion of alumina and the 
low proportion of water, and is considered the best known in America for the 
manufacture of porcelain. The quality of these clays, abundant water facilities 
