498 AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
Mr. Joseph Sullivant, in an article on hog-feeding and pork-packing, 
states, as the result of many experiments, that cotton-cake, beans, peas, 
and linseed-cake contain more of flesh-givers than corn, and might be fed 
very advantageously to young and growing animals; yet, upon the 
whole, Indian corn stands preéminent as the cheapest food material ac- 
cessible to farmers. Estimating the return of perk from a bushel of 
raw corn at nine pounds, his experiments prove that corn ground into 
meal increases in value about 33 per cent. over that of corn fed in the ear; 
and that thoroughly steaming and cooking the whole corn raises its 
value to but little less than that of cooked meal, which he estimates at 
66 per cent. over that of raw corn fed in the ear. He adds: 
It is true that grinding, steaming, or cooking the corn can in nowise add a single 
atom to the elements already existing; it raises its value only by rendering the whols 
nutritive matter available by making it more soluble and of easier digestion, so that 
the maximum of nutrition is more readily and certainly obtained. 
I conclude that nine pounds of pork from a bushel of raw corn fed in the ear, twelve 
pounds from raw meal, thirteen and a half from boiled corn, and sixteen and a half from 
cooked meal, are no more than a moderato average to be realized from a bushel of corn 
under ordinary circumstances of weather, with dry and clean feeding-pens. All this is 
within the amounts we have shown to be probable and attainable upon our chemical 
basis. 
In conclusion, Mr. Sullivant says: 
If I have proved anything, it is that itis possible and comparatively easy to get 50 
per cent. more for corn than we now do for all the millions of bushels fed to hogs in the 
process of pork-making. Sustaining in this industry alone a loss of millions of dollars 
annually, the question of how much pork in a bushel of corn is not an insignificant one. 
It strikes me that the different State agricultural societies could engage in no more 
beneficial work than to arrest the enormous losses of our wasteful feeding processes, by 
the dissemination of correct information ; and, by aseries of well-conducted experiments, 
lend their powerful aid to elucidate so important a subject. 
An account is given of the great sale of Short-horn cattle of Mr. Daniel 
McMillan, near Xenia, which occurred on the 8th of June, a record 
of which is found in “Current Facts in Agriculture,” page 144, The 
‘product of this sale exceeded $64,000, the average being somewhat 
over $900 each. In comparing with English prices, it is stated that 
the great English breeder, Charles Colling, sold out his herd of forty- 
seven animals, in 1810, during the continental wars and general inflation 
of prices. One bull, Comet, sold for 1,000 guineas; the cow Lily for 
410 guineas. The entire herd averaged about $733 each. His brother, 
Robert, sold his herd of sixty-one animals, in 1318, for £7,353, averag- 
ing about $643 each. The executors of the late English breeder, 
Thomas Bates, sold his stock of sixty-eight animals, of all classes in the 
herd, which brought only $22,000, an average of $323 53 each, though 
several of the choicest brought upwards of $1,000 each, and it was a 
time of great depression in agricultural values. After the death of 
Lord Ducie, a careful and judicious breeder, who had purchased the 
best of Mr. Bates’s stock, his entire herd of forty-nine cows and heifers 
was sold at an average of $678 each; his thirteen bulls averaging $930 
each. Several of the Duchess and Oxford tribes were brought to the 
United States, where they have been successfully bred, and many dis- 
posed of at private sale at prices hitherto unprecedented in the annals 
of Short-horn breeding —$3,000, $5,000, and even $7,000 each! No pub- 
lic sale of these tribes of cattle has yet taken place. 
Notwithstanding the general complaint of rot and mildew in grapes 
particularly in the Catawba, the acreage of vineyards has increase 
from 7,574 to 10,446 the past year, and the product of wine from 
143,767 to 155,045 gallons. Mr. Flagg, in a Jetter on the sulphur cure for 
mildew, is confident that as in Europe sulphur cures the oidiwm, with all 
