438 AGEICULTURAL EEPORT. 



Gardening in California. — Am Amador County (California) paper states 

 that on Jackson Creek, in tliat county, there are four acres which have 

 been under tillage for the last twenty years, and which are now owned 

 and worked by six men and cultivated in vegetables, grapes, and fruit. 

 The following'is a statement of annual products: 375 loads of vegetables 

 for the county markets, averaging $15 in value per load, $5,625 ; 800 

 gallons of wine, sold on the premises at an average of 75 cents per 

 gallon, $G00; total sales, $0,225, or $1,550.25 per acre, besides vegetables, 

 fruit, and wine for ten persons, and the feed of throe cows and four 

 horses. 



LIVE STOCK AND MEAT. 



Cattle transiyortation. — The New York Times, in an article on the 

 meat-markets of that city, says that the evils attendant on cattle trans- 

 portation are still severely felt. Cattle continue to be transported 

 in crowded and badlj^-constructed cars, and. as a consequence, cannot 

 be fed or watered without much loss of time^ Suifering from thirst and 

 hunger as they are carried over the route, they become restive, and be- 

 fore reaching the journey's end many of them are so badly bruised that 

 when they are slaughtered large portions of the meat are unfit for use. 

 The improved trucks which were temporarily used on one or two lines 

 of road have been set aside, because they could not be as quickly 

 loaded or unloaded, nor be packed with as large a number of animals 

 as could the common cattle-cars. 



Cattle transportation in Austria. — The Austrian government has en- 

 forced the use, on all the railways of that empire, of an improved cattle- 

 truck, arranged substantially on the Keid plan, and suitable for feeding 

 and watering during transportation. 



Heavy imrcliases ofstocl: — The purchases of one shipper at the Union 

 Stock Yards of Chicago, in 1871, amounted to $10,000,000. 



Shorthorns and Ayrshires in Minnesota. — The first annual sale of the 

 Lyndale herd of Colonel William S. King, near Minneapolis, Minnesota, 

 took place June 19, 1872. Twenty-eight short-horn cows and heifers 

 were sold at an average of $614 ; 12 short-horn bulls at an average of 

 $450 ; 16 Ayrshire cows and heifers at an average of $124, and 7 Ayr- 

 shire bull-calves at an average of $QG ; total sales, $25,045. Parties 

 from Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois were the purchasers — the Glen Flora 

 Stock-Breeding Association of Waukegan, Illinois, being the largest 

 buyer, and taking nearly half of the short-horns, including 3 cows, at 

 $1,700, $1,500, and $1,000. One of the bulls purchased by the associ- 

 ation was resold to the agent of the Iowa Agricultural College for 

 $1,000. 



Sale of short-horns in England. — At the auction sale of Messrs. Har- 

 ward & Downing's herd of shorthorns at Winterford, Kidderminster, 

 England, September 18, 1872, 52 cows and heifers and 9 bulla were sold 

 for £15,458 ; the cows and heifers averaging a little over £237, and the 

 bulls about £340. One of the bulls brought 1,050 guineas. 



Rearing mules in Kentuchy.—Mv. S. H. Elliott, of Edgar County, 

 Kentucky, made a change in his. stock in 1865 and turned his attention 

 to rearing mules. At the close of 1871 he was feeding 150. He gives 

 the following statement of average expense and profit per mule : cost of 

 mule at weaning, $50; cost of keeping for 18 mouths, $20; total ex- 

 pense, $70 ; market-value at end of this period, 8150; profit, $80. 



Angora goats in California. — A San Jose (California) journal states 

 that Butterfield & Son, on the San Benito, eighteen miles beyond Hoi- 



