Notes on the "Weather from April 15th to Mat 

 TH, 1S63.— The mean heat of the tirst half of April was 

 .y", or 3° below the average for tweuty-six years. The 

 ean of the last half was 48.5'', or nearly 2° above the 

 erage. The mean of the month was 43.2°, or half a 

 igree below the average for twenty-six years. 

 The principal rain was on the 17th, 1.58 inches, and in 

 e month only 2.79 inches. The last week of April was 

 ther dry. 



The elms and soft maples were in full flower in the 

 ird week of the month, and the poplars were sending 

 rth their catkins. Lilac was leafed on the 23d; the 

 ■Iden currant and the weeping willow on the 25th. 

 -ass starts slowly. Much cold wind on the surface from 

 6 northeast, as from the cold Lake Ontario. 

 May continued cool and dry till the 7th, when near an 

 ch of rain fell on that and the next day. The weather 

 ^ been warmer since. At noon of the 9th', 74° ; of the 

 th, 7S' ; and its mean beat 67°. The heat of the first 

 Jf of May was 50.8'-', or near 3" below the average for 

 ^entv-six years. Soft maples leafed on the 6th; cher- 

 ;s blossomed from 10th to 15th, as the^ were early or 

 te kinds. Peaches blossomed at the same time very full, 

 that the cold of February, which was five degrees be- 

 w zero, did not destroy the buds, as has been often as- 

 rted. Hard maple leafed, without flowers, on the 10th, 

 id some of them flowered a little earlier without leaves, 

 aly slight rain on the 7th, and the earth is a little dry. 

 1 the whole. May has been pretty pleasant; vegetation 

 LS moved steadily ouward; green foliage is common. A 

 bite and considerable frost on roofs, plank-walks, &c., 

 1 the 8th. The season is held to be late, but the trees 

 3re in blossom about the same time last year, a rather 

 ickward spring. 



A Great Crop op Clovbr. — Two years ago we gave a 

 iend of ours half a tun of superphosphate of lime to 

 periment on corn, &c. He could not see much effect 

 am it on the corn. The land on which it was sown was 

 eded down last year with oats. There was a heavy 

 op of oats, and this spring the clover is the earliest and 

 e heaviest we have seen anywhere. It is now fit to cut 

 a green food for horses. He attributes the great 

 •owth of the clover to the superphosphate. 



The Potato Disease. — J. M. Read, of Allen county, 

 id., writes us that some years ago he rented two acres 

 ■ land to two men to plant with potatoes. One man, in 

 jeiflg his potatoes, made a large flat hill, and his pota- 

 (63 all rotted. The other made the hills of a sharp con- 

 isl form, that would shed water. His potatoes were all 

 )und. Mr, R. took the hint, and since then has made 

 !i»rp, round hills, and has had excellent potatoes. 



The Wool Market. — It is impossible as yet to form 

 any definite idea as to the price of wool the coming sea- 

 son. As yet the market has not opened. The excessire 

 abundance of mooey will stimulate speculation, and have 

 a tendency to keep up the price. Wool is now 15 cents 

 per pound lower than the extreme high rates during the 

 winter, but still much higher than last season's prices. 

 An experienced wool buyer informs us that he thinks the 

 market will open at an advance of about 10 cents per 

 pound over last season's rates. 



The stock of wool in the hands of dealers and manu- 

 facturers is very large. Stimulated by high prices, and 

 in spite of the high rate of exchange, wool has been im- 

 ported from abroad in immense quaiatities. Still, the 

 high price of cotton and the increased demand for woolen 

 goods for army purposes, together with the high pre- 

 mium on gold, should, one would think, keep up the 

 price of wool. 



The price of gold, in the end, other things being equal, 

 regulates the price of all other articles, and wool, on a 

 specie paying basis, is now by no means extravagantly 

 high. 



The Price of Farms. — In the Genesee Farmer for Sep- 

 tember, 1861, page 267, in an article on the " Eg"ect of 

 the War on Agriculture," we argued that one effect 

 would be to increase the price of all agricultural pro- 

 duce, and the price of all productive real estate. Some 

 of our friends were disposed to rjidicule the idea, but the 

 result has been precisely as there indicated. 



It is true that real estate has not advanced as much or 

 as rapidly as we expected, but farms are unquestionably 

 higher now than before the commencement of the war. 

 A farmer in this vicinity remarked to us, a day or two 

 ago : " I have for six years been wanting to sell my farm, 

 and now I have had several ofiers at a higher price than 

 I ever expected to get, bvt I dare not sell. I do not know 

 what to do with the money." 



The number of farms that have changed hands in the 

 past few months, is larger than at any former period. 

 We are undoubtedly on the eve of a grand real estate 

 speculation. Stocks, during the past month, have ad- 

 vanced 10, 20, 30 and even 40 per cent. ! Real estate is 

 always the last to move, but its turn will come ere long. 



A Good Crop of Swedes. — We are indebted to a Cana- 

 dian friend for a report of the Judges appointed by the 

 Hamilton andWentworth Agricultural Association to ex- 

 amine the crops of roots entered for the prizes last fall. 

 The crop of ruta-bagas that received the first prize was 

 grown on sod land, manured in the fall with twenty loads 

 of stable manure per acre and plowed in. Seed sown on 

 the flat in rows two feet apart about the 12th of June, at 

 the rate of two 'pounds per acre. The yield was nine 

 hundred and forty-five bushels per acre, seventy-three 

 pounds per bushel. This would make over thirty-four 

 tuns of bulbs per acre. f- 



A LARGE cedar tree :n Dixmont, Me., was recently 

 measured, and was found to girth above the roots twelve 

 feet two inches. The circumference is nearly as large ft* 

 some distance above t6e roots. 



