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on hogs fed on milk, $57 90; raised six calves worth $100; total product, 
$933 22, averaging $155 54 per cow. My cows are only common stock, but I 
am turning attention to improving, particularly for milking qualities. * * * 
We have native currants here in great variety, black, yellow, and red; also a 
native cherry, very prolific, which grows from two to six feet high, and might 
be improved by cultivation and a change of climate. 
CROP PROSPECTS IN MISSISSIPPI. 
Issaquena county, Mississippi.—We are still on the old fogy princi»le—that 
is, we pay attention only to our cotton crop, and I must say that things begin 
to move on here as formerly. So far, this season, I have heard no one complain 
that their hands will not work, and we are all changing in that respect. In 
most cases the freedmen have an interest in the crop, and they appear satisfied 
and are working well. I give one-third of the crop and feed them. If we have 
a fair season and no worms, we will make a good crop in this county. The 
chief trouble is that we have not enough laborers, although the census shows a 
falling off in the county of only about 1,600, and I think there will be nearly 
1,000 brought in this year. q 
Hinds county, Mississippi—We have had an unusual season. The winter 
was very cold until about the 20th of January, when the weather moderated, 
and by the 15th of February it was quite warm and genial; the forest and fruit 
trees bloomed and leafed, and the latter formed young fruit; the farmers planted 
corn, the gardens were very forward, and in many instances English peas were 
stuck. But a change came over the scene, and on the 13th instant it began to 
rain, followed by sleeting and freezing. The result is that all the fruit and vege- 
tables are killed. I have known but three entire failures of the fruit crop in 
this section—iu 1849, 1857,1867. 'There are about 500 acres in peaches in this 
neighborhood, and I am confident there will not be a peach grown upon them. 
GRASSHOPPERS IN KANSAS. 
Monrovia, Kansas —We have had a most extraordinary season here thus 
far; the thermometer has marked 16° below, and we have had about forty 
snows. ‘The coldest weather ever known in March occurred about two weeks 
since. We hope, however, that this uncommon weather will effectua'ly kill the 
eggs of the grasshoppers deposited here last fall by the storm of that insect 
which passed over Kansas last season. ‘Their deposit is innumerable, estimated 
at two bushels to the acre in fields and broken lands, but we believe here that 
they are already killed. * * ™* The peaches and apples are yet good in 
the bud, but I fear we will lose all at last. 
PREVENTION OF HOG CHOLERA. 
Winchester, Tennessee.—I have made. some experiments with hog cholera 
(so called) with profitable results. I am of opinion that if the farmer will keep 
his hogs clear of dice he will have but little cholera. I think it is a disease that 
has its origin in the cause above named. ‘There is, indeed, an epidemic of hog 
lice in the country. I have found that when my hogs were most healthy they 
were clearest of that pest, and all that have died have been terribly afflicted 
with them. External appliances have been used with some success, but the 
only effective remedy, or rather preventive, is the free use of sulphur, adminis- 
tered stirred up in tar, four ounces to the gallon, and’ spread on corn; or a still 
better plan is to take two table-spoonfuls of sulphur with a like quantity of cop- 
peras, to one pint of ashes and the same of common salt—giving small portions 
twice a week. All the ingredients are beneficial to the hog. If they are lousy, 
burn up their old beds, and do not allow them to sleep in dust, and hogs will be 
as healthy as they used to be. 
