10 



AGRICTLTTRE. 



y 



lie bad for 



C' bed a vaet amount of in- 

 eonrsM of popnlar lect- 



. taken away 



, \ 



tellectnal labor. . . 



nrea. on seientifle topics, were not designed 

 for the sannesiaent of an idle hur ; though in- 

 tensely interesting and fully informed with 



r, and the eonrteey and refinement of 



throw of what h regarded a* 

 Darwtaian hynothnfa, be wa* 



the gentianun, they had for their main object 

 t of great truths, and the over- 

 " id as error. To the 

 i was as determined a 



foe aa it waa possible for a man of his gentle na- 

 tare to be, and the demonstration! in bis course 

 of leetnresof 167* hare bad a powerful effect in 

 dislodging to ptanaible theories from their hold 

 npon the pnblio mind. He bad hoped, if spared 

 to an old of quiet and learned leisure, to 

 occupy hlmsstf more rally than he 1. . 

 been able to do, with the demolition of tin 

 ory. bat this and the other plan* he had made 

 for further achievement* in science, and great- 

 er eenricee to it, are all laid in the grave with 

 him. With n sweet and noble simplicity, a 

 singleness of aim, a purity of soul, and earnest- 

 Mai of purpose, which never faltered, he pur- 

 aned the even tenor of bis way ; and, now that 

 he is gone, there is no one who may take np 

 his mantle, and lend the eager hosts of truth- 

 loving students, whom be had trained in part, 

 la future victories over error, future disn.vcr- 

 lee in the arcana of science, future triumphs 

 over doubt, difficulty, and despair. 



Besides the works we have already named, 

 Prof. Agassi i has published: ,t..r 



vol.. 4to; "BsnHofmnhhnZoo- 

 s,"8vol 1C : "Twelve 



operative Kmhrvology.' 

 Methods of Study in 



ruct- 



- I ' i-J "I ,!..!> ,m the Kfg. 



Twelve Lerturca," 1878; and a great nir 

 of article* in American, Briti-h. French, and 

 German srientMc periodicals, and transactions 

 ofseiMrttteeoeietiee. 



he year 1873 was in 



snanj reensets a favorable one for the husband- 

 man. The soring wa late, in consequen. 

 the heavy wows of the preceding winter, but 

 there was the lent danger of frosts, and, 

 thongh the Atlantic const from Maine to the 

 Chesapeake liey suffered from drought in the 

 early Manner, to soch an extent as to dimin- 

 ish ntturially the hay and grain crops. 

 there was n lark of rain in other sections, the 



Bente. havhM 



The wheat belt yielded exceptionally Urge 

 erons; Mian corn WM behind the pr< 

 year, bnt the snpply was nt matcrlallv 1 

 the dewand; moat of the edible root > 



n b*r waa a very small crop, and most of the 

 Mnt (emept grapes) were diminUhed in quan- 

 tity, bnt of MeeAent qaA , n ,,t miin 

 arms, bnt these occurred 

 ad been houeed. and were of 

 There were early frosts in 



some sections, especially in the higher lands, 

 I. lit the autumn was as a wliolt- very mi!.!. :>inl 

 the ground not seriously frozen till t 

 December. 



What. Onr estimate of tin v. 

 of 1872 in the ANXTAI. CMIOIMMA lor th:.t 

 year was singularly verified by tlio n-uiro. 

 varying but 8,000 bushels from the fact. I < r 

 the year 1878, the crop si-cms to h:i\i- IM-IH 

 about four p-r crnt. larger, and will, we think, 

 amount to at 1. "0,000 bushels. The 



quality is about the Mime as last year. On in. 

 o iM'iii-t. the whuit ili.-trirts of California 

 ilid not yield quite ns largely ii* in INT 1 .', l.iit 

 Oregon and TS'ashington produced larger and 



'/an- Com. The corn-crop of 1872 

 the largest for many yean, and did not Mir\ 

 materially from 1,100,000,000 bushels. The 

 crop of 1878 was about 2- ]H r < A nt. below 

 this in quantity, amounting to about 870,- 

 000,000 bushels. The quality is estinmted at 

 about 1C per cent, below that of last y< nr. 



Bye. The crop of 1873 is about 2 per cent. 

 v (hat of 1872, and will not vary much 

 from 14,700,000 bushels. 



Oati. The final report on this important 

 crop in 1872 was 271,747,000 bushels, or about 

 .1*00 bushels higher than <>ur intimate. 

 This was an extraordinary yield. The crop 

 of 1873 promises to be about 8 percent, below 

 it, or in round numbers 250,000.000 bnsluK 

 The quality averages a trirte better than in 



/fy. Our estimates of this crop in 

 TJ were slightly below the truth, the rc- 

 ! crop being 2fi,846,400 bushels. In 

 1873 there was a falling off estimated at 12 

 The crop will hardly exceed '24.- 

 000,000 bushels, but the quality is better than 

 last year. 



!.trj,f<it. This is never a large en ; , 

 being grown scarcely at nil in Rhode Maud. <>r 

 : tin- i. ill. .11 States except North Caro- 

 lina and Tennessee, and but very sparingly in 

 ' idnY States or the Territories. Tin- ,'ro). 

 last year amounted, as predicted, to a little 

 than 8,000,000 bushels. There is a re- 

 ported reduction this year of about 5 per cmt.. 

 making the probable crop about 7,700,000 

 bushela. 



Potalftf* (Solarium tnt>rrr>mm). This crop, 

 d in 1^7'.' as 113,510,000 lui-h.K is ..-,id 

 to have suflVrcd in 1X71! from both drought 

 and rot, and to Rome . rrom the Colo- 



rado beetle, or ton-lined spearman, and from 

 grasshoppers. The Agricultural Department 

 >twH to 1871 at 96,000.000 bushels, which 

 we believe will prove an uuder-i -tin. at. as. the 

 arieties have been n drug in the New - 

 York market at from 7"> to Hi) cents a bushel 

 which in materially below the price ot' 1*72. 

 '.ink it will be found that the crop did 

 not fall below 100,000,000 bu>hel 



Sieeet Potaloa (Batata* rJulit) was about 

 the same as last year, the falling on" in 



