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been likened to tlie cholera in its ravages. It is of the utmost impor- 

 tance that all the information tending to cure this hitherto incurable 

 disease, should be concentrated, and for that purpose we recommend 

 that the members of the corresponding committee in the several JStates 

 which have been appointed at this meeting, communicate with the 

 committee in this city all valuable facts that they can obtain upon 

 this subject. 



From the southern part of the wheat-growing region we hear great 

 complaints of the ravages of the weevil. The convention are anxious 

 10 gather information upon this subject. We learn that the destruc- 

 tion of the crop from this cause has been prevented in some regions 

 by mixing about one bushel of lime with one hundred bushels of 

 wheat in the barn, which has to be winnowed out before grinding. 

 Unless some discovery is soon made to obviate the difficulty of the 

 weevil, the cultivation of wheat in the southern parts of Indiana and 

 Illinois, and in all States south of that must be abandoned. 



The most abundant crop of all, that we are informed of, during the 

 present year, is that of peaches in the J?tate of Delaware. !So great 

 has the crop been, ihat we hear of one individual chartering a large 

 steamboat to take the fruit of his own and son's farms to market. 



The production of wheat the past year, generally speaking, has 

 been over an average crop, and oi excellent quality. 



The crop of corn in the great corn region of the west, seems to be 

 very abundant. 



We also have evidence before us'that tends to show that the culture 

 of silk is now beginning to be adopted in families, where we think it 

 may bs profitably confined, whde it is abandoned as unprofitable by 

 joint stock companies. 



We are pleased to learn that wool growing is found to be profitable 

 in all pans of the United States ; and that there is an immense field 

 open for the extension of wool growing upon the great prairies of the 

 west, and that the business would be more profitable even than that 

 of cotton in the southern States. 



But, notwithstanding all the bountiful productions of some crops, 

 there is evidently a general depression of the agricultural class per- 

 vading the whole country. 



