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ber, 32,317,916 gallons; total, 65,507,953 gallons; against 65,973,641 gallons for 
same time in 1866, 28,115,915 gallons in 1865, and 31,811,842 gallons in 1864. 
The fruit sent to the Chicago market this year was sold for $1,250,000. 
In central Illinois twenty acres have been planted with apple seed this year. 
The trees are large enough to graft, and are estimated to number 2,500,000. 
T. V. Hayden, United States geologist for Nebraska, states that there are, in 
the basin between the South Boulder and Clear creek, at the base of the Rocky 
mountains, in Colorado, from eight to eleven beds of coal, from five to thirteen 
feet in thickness, making an aggregate thickness of at least thirty to fifty feet 
of solid coal. 
Imported eggs cost Great Britain from eight to ten millions of dollars last year. 
There are several potato starch factories in successful operation in Coos county, 
New Hampshire. One establishment at Milan last season manufactured starch 
enough to pay for the mill and all expenses. Another, in Jefferson, cleared 
$6,000. ‘They pay thirty cents per bushel for potatoes. 
It it said that there are not enough hogs in North Carolina to eat the mast 
in the woods. 
The cheese factory at Elkhorn, Wisconsin, has manufactured 36,665 pounds 
of cheese the past season. 
Attempts have been made to acclimatize the English sparrow in Canada. 
The annual yield of the Nova Scotia coal mines is estimated at $1,200,000; 
gold mines, $600,000. 
The Cambridge (Massachusetts) Horticultural Society recommends the fol- 
lowing as the best varieties of pears for family use in that locality: Bartlett, 
Louise Bon, Seckel, Sheldon, Duchess D’Angouleme, Beurre D’ Anjou, Law- 
rence, Hovey; Le Cure, Rostiezer, and Doyenne l’Ete. Of these, according to 
Mr. Quinn, of New Jersey, who speaks from an experience of seventeen years, 
only five have been profitable in the latter State, and his highest success has 
been with the Duchess and the Bartlett. 
The Tennessee legislature has before it a bill for the protection of wool- 
growers, by which dogs will be taxed $2 a head; one dog to each family to be 
exempt. 
Two hundred and seven river barges, with an average capacity of 150 tons, 
are engaged in the St. Paul trade. Nearly all the grain and flour shipped by 
the river is freighted in barges. 
Orders in council have been issued permitting the importation of horses, hoofs, 
and hides into England, 
France sows annually about 14,000,000 acres with wheat, which yields a 
variable crop of 225,000,000 to 300,000,000, and even 330,000,000 bushels. 
The best wheat lands pay a rent of from $10 to $20 per acre, and yield from 
37 to 52 bushels per acre. On many other lands, however, the yield is only 14 
to 18 bushels. 
The “mud crop” of the streets of Paris is sold annually. In 1823 it brought 
$15,000. It now brings $120,000; and when left in rotting tanks is sold for 
manure at the increased valuation of $600,000. 
