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vHl)c iTarmcr's iltottt i)ln fatsitor. 



Squash Bags and the carrion Crows. 

 In a cleared field of some forty acres of the 

 Dark Plain we have a pasture of about twenty- 

 five acres which thus far in the season lias af- 

 forded abundant sweet feed for ten cows and five 

 cosset sheep. Coming down the valley of this 

 lot is a beautiful running stream fed entirely 

 within the lot by springs of water originating in 

 the sides and bottom of the hollow, in which is 

 an inexhaustible bed of rich muck of which we 

 have gathered and used many hundred loads of 

 decidedly the richest material for the compost 

 heap. The valley, its stream, the banks under- 

 laid with clay or rich marl, with the capacity of 

 these materials to impart abundant fruitfulness 

 to the light pine plain surrounding it, make this 

 quite an interesting spot under the convictions 

 of utility to which facts have thus far brought 

 us: if we should live to improve this land five 

 years, we think we could make of it, at no ex- 

 pense beyond what is laid on for a present crop, 

 a better and more profitable farm of the size 

 than is now cultivated in the county. Our expe- 

 riment this year is four acres of early potatoes 

 upon the lightest pine plain broken up and sub- 

 soiled last fall, in which we shall obtain in the 

 next two weeks more than one hundred bushels 

 of early potatoes to the acre, now just ripe for 

 the market. On the steep side hill of the hollow 

 near the potatoes, our men planted in the first 

 week of June one acre and a half of pure mar- 

 row squashes : these came up handsome, hut 

 with their coming up myriads of yellow bugs 

 appeared also, as if the tender plant had been 

 especially intended for them. The yellow bugs 

 were fought off with ground plaster eXiough to 

 cover up the plants, so that they in part strug- 

 gled into the growth of the petal first indicating 

 the vine. Since that time, as an attendant hav- 

 ing rights tu the vines, the black bugs have suc- 

 ceeded to the yellow in great numbers: strong 

 ashes has partially checked them ; but what with 

 the bugs and the unprupitious season, the 

 squashes have made little progress. Sometimes 

 the black hug will eat off to-day the vine that 

 was flourishing in green array yesterday : again 

 he taps the stem so as to turn a part of the plant 

 yellow. Although we have poor encouragement 

 for this field on the first of August, yet a little 

 incident mi Saturday, July 29, is perhaps worthy 

 of mention. Our old crows of the Dark Plain 

 have this year brought out a brood of young, 

 making a floc-k of about a dozen. These we 

 had observed a I'm days ago in the dry weather 

 enjoying luxuriously the stream of our hollow, 

 where the cows came down to drink. On Sat- 

 urday we saw them quile busy about something 

 in the side hill at a distance of the planted 

 .-■quashes. Going over the hill out of sight, we 

 came suddenly upon the brood who started on 

 the wing: on looking at their work we found 

 they were industriously clearing the squash hills 

 of the black bugs. Having got a taste of 1 1 m 

 as richer than the grasshoppers, we do not doubt 

 that the ill omened birds of both sexes will do 

 ns the favor fust of clearing the lot of the cor- 

 morant hugs whose smell is as offensive to man 

 as his taste is probably agreeable to mynheer crow. 



Agricultural Products of the United States and 

 Frtsuce. 



A writer in the English Agricultural Gazette 

 makes an interesting comparison of the pro- 

 ducts of the United Slates compared with those 

 of France. The population of the United States 

 is set down at twenty millions and that of France 

 at thirty-five millions. The proportion of the 

 agricultural population in America is given as 

 80.4 per cent.; commercial 2.5; and manufac- 

 turing 17.1. The writer observes that the agri- 

 cultural production of the United States, com- 

 pared with its inhabitants, is enormous, viz: 



UNITED STATES. FRANCE. 



Horned Cattle, 14,971,583 9,936,538 



Sheep, 19,311,374 32,151,430 



Horses and Mules, 4,335,661) 3,192,337 

 Pi 



26,301,293 4,940,721 



He also contrasts the grain crops of the two 



countries, showing the comparative amounts 



produced of each kind, in hectolitres, as follows: 



UNITED STATES. FRANCE. 



30,000,000 09,000,000 



1,500,000 16,000,000 



6,000,000 27,000,000 



Wheat, 

 Barley, 

 Rye, 



Oats, 



Indian Corn, 

 Buckwheat, 



44,000,000 48,000,009 



135,000,000 7,000,000 



2,500,000 8,000,000 



" The United States," (says the writer) "produce 

 annually 70,000 tons of wool, 000 tons of hops, 

 300 tons of beeswax, 10,000,000 tons of hay, 

 95,000 tons of hemp and flax, 100,000 tons of to- 

 bacco, 40,0(0 tons of rice, 395,000 tons of cotton, 

 00,000 pounds of cocoons of silk worms, 77,000 

 tons of sugar, and 5,000 hectolitres of wine. 

 The produce of the (arm-yard, or cow-house, is 

 estimated at £7,000.000(835,000,000 ;) that of the 

 orchards, £1,560,000 ; forests, £2,720,000." The 

 total amount of agricultural produce amounts 

 yearly to the enormous sum of £138,730,100 

 sterling, or §093,650,800. The manufactures of 

 the United States, though yet in their infancy, 

 are rapidly increasing, and the writer puts down 

 the amount of capital embarked in manufacto- 

 ries of various kino's, at £50,757,912. Considered 

 in all respects, therefore, he concludes: "Ameri- 

 ca may be classed next to Great Britain, as the 

 second agricultural and commercial country 

 in the world." 



and will measure 800 feet in length. It will 

 he 28 feet wide, will have one track for the cars, 

 two sidewalks and two roads for carriages. 

 There are two towers of solid stone, one on 

 each side, 68 feet high and 14 feet square at the 

 bottom. From these towers 10 cables will be 

 suspended — each cable made of 600 No. 10 

 wires, firmly secured at each end in rock. The 

 bridge, when done, will be capable of sustaining 

 a weight of 200 tons in the centre. The estima- 

 ted cost is about $180,000." 



Breaiistuffs in Europe. — It would seem by 

 recent advices from Europe, that there is a pro- 

 spect of bountiful crops in Great Britain ami on 

 the Continent. The Paris National says that 

 from all quarters the most satisfactory accounts 

 are received of the state and prospects of the 

 harvest in France. All the journals of the de- 

 partments repeat that the "oldest inhabitants" 

 cannot remember a season so favorable to the 

 fruits of the earth. The corn is strong and well 

 advanced, the heads begin to be heavy. The 

 vines are covered with grapes and flowers The 

 grains are abundant, and already in many parts 

 of the country it has been necessary to mow the 

 artificial prairies where the lucern, the sain foin 

 and the clover begin to suffer from excess of 

 vegetation. 



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Prices in Concord, July 29: Potatoes new 

 from the field, one dollar per bushel ; beefsteaks 

 10 cents; veal Oa 7; quarters of lamb 10 cents; 

 butter 20 cents; cheese 9 cents; hay in the 

 field, plentiful, eight dollars per ton. 



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