154 The Exports of Ohio for 1845. — Philadelphia Hay Marhet. Vol. X. 



System of Gardening and Botany, Don says the parsnip 

 is much esteemed for fattening cattle and pigs. It is 

 considered more hardy than the carrot, and its produce 

 is said to be greater. In fattening cattle, it is found 

 equal, if not superior, performing the business with as 

 much expedition, and affording meat of exquisite fla- 

 vor, and of a fine juicy quality. It is reckoned that 

 thirty pqrchcs, when the crop is good, will be sufficient 

 to prepare a steer three or four years old completely 

 for the knife, when taken entirely lean, in the cour.se 

 of three months. When given to milch cows, the 

 parsnip is found to give the butter a peculiarly fine 

 flavor. — Ed. 



The Exports of Ohio for 1845. 



The Cincinnati Chronicle says: — "We 

 have before us the shipments from Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, and Cincinnati, for the year 

 1845, to the last week. As the season is 

 nearly closed, we can give a tolerably accu- 

 rate view of the exports of 1845, from this 

 great agricultural State. 



It must be remembered, that in estimating 

 the exports of a year, commencing the first 

 of January, we do not get precisely one sea- 

 son's production, but only one season's trans- 

 portation. The production belongs to both 

 the last and the present season. 



The shipments of the surplus of flour this 

 year will be very nearly as follows, reducing 

 the wheat to its equivalent in flour: 



Cleveland, 450,000 barrels. 



Cincinnati, 160,000 ''■ 



Toledo, 100,000 " 



Milan, Sandusky, &c. 1.50,000 » 

 Marietta, &c. 40,000 " 



Portsmouth, &c. 30,000 » 



Total, 



930,000 barrels. 



The other articles we estimate in money, 

 thus: 



Flour, in all 930,000 barrels, $4,000,000 



Pork, in all, 3,.500,()(I0 



Cattle and Beef, ' 500,000 



Wool, (2,000,000 lbs.) 500,000 



Cheese, (5,000,000 lbs.) 300,000 



Manufactures, 3,000,000 



Total, $11,800,000 



We think these results are under-esti- 

 mated, and that there are miscellaneous ar- 

 ticles enough to make the net surplus in 

 value twelve millions of dollars. The flour 

 product is two millions of dollars less than 

 it would have been had the two last harvests 

 of wheat been good ones." 



Give us large crops which leave the land 

 better than they found it, making both the 

 farmer and the farm rich at oncfi. 



Philadelphia Hay Market. 



We take the following from the Enquirer of this 

 city. Twenty Ihousand tons of hny lirouglit annually 

 to our market, is a far higher amount than one would, 

 at first glance, have supposed probable. The growing 

 wants, however, of Philadelphia, hold out induce- 

 ments on every hand for the farmer to persuade his 

 lands into productiveness, with a pretty certain hope 

 of realizing full compensation for his good manage- 

 ment. The crop of hay in this vicinity, and on our 

 good farms, is a profitable one, and with articles of a 

 perishable nature, such as the fruits of the garden in 

 every variety; of the orchard, and products of the 

 dairy, must more and more engage the attention of the 

 market-man. — Ed. 



We are indebted to Mr. Hugh Whitton, 

 of the Farmers' Hay and Straw Market, for 

 the annexed statement of the receipts of 

 hay in Philadelphia, during the year ending 

 30th September, 1845, inclusive. 



Total loads, 12,740 



Equal in tons to 11,461 



Received (pressed, &.c.) from 



all other places, 9,100 



Total tons, 



20,561 



The crop of 3844-45, was a fair one, and 

 the prices ranged throughout the season at 

 80 t'i 90 cents per 112 lbs. for Timothy. 

 But the present crop, owing to the drought 

 of the preceding summer, proved very short 

 throughout the State ; farmers in many places 

 not getting under cover a quantity sufficient 

 to supply their own stock.s. Prices in con- 

 sequence range high, Timothy selling readi- 

 ly at $1 to $1 10, and Clover and Timothy 

 mixed at 65 cents to $1 per cwt., as in qual- 

 ilv. 



Grapes designed for preservation till 

 winter, should be gathered by cutting off 

 tlie stems with scissors, and the cut end 

 covered with sealing wax. If any of the 

 berries have recently fallen off', the stem 

 part should be served in the same manner. 

 The wax prevents the grape from shrinking. 



