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939 pounds. It measured eight feet six inches in 

 length, and live feet five and one-half inches round. 

 This is said to be the largest hog ever seen in Bos- 

 ton market. 



— It is predicted that Florida will become one of 

 the largest sugar producing localities on this con- 

 tment. The climate and soil are admirably adapted 

 to its culture, and the crop is sure. 



— Fences should be built in season, and sufficient 

 to stop the cattle, and make the farm to be secure ; 

 especially between your fiefd and your neighboi-'s. 

 Good fences save a vast amount of annoj'ance ; bad 

 ones are a fertile source of trouble. 



— The whole number of market wagons bringing 

 the diti'crent varieties of meat, vegetables, &c., to 

 Faneuil Hall market, during the month of Febioi- 

 ary, was as follows : — Variety, 68 ; hogs, 13 ; beef, 

 748; vegetables, 399; tripe, 69; mutton, 485. 



— The statement is made, but we do not know on 

 what authority, that the farmers of the United 

 States annually expend $.'20,000,000 in reaping and 

 mowing nuichines. The annual production is now 

 estmiated at about 125,000 machines. 



— A correspondent of the Prairie Farmer trav- 

 elling in Texas expresses the opinion that the sup- 

 ply of Texas cattle in the quantity brought for- 

 ward during the last few years cannot continue, and 

 that prices must necessarily advance. 



— Michael Curtin of New Marlborough, Mass., 

 ongoing to his stable one morning recently, found 

 four of his cows choked to death in consequence of 

 pulling the stanchion frame, to which they were 

 fastened, over upon them. 



—The country produced 1,100,000,000 bushels of 

 corn in 1870, at the rate of twenty-eight bushels 

 per acre, against twenty-three bushels in 1869. At 

 fifty cents a bushel our corn product is worth twice 

 as much as our cotton product at fourteen cents 

 per pound. 



— Sixty years ago a raft of hard-wood logs sank 

 in Goose Pond, Swanville, Me. Last fall, during the 

 low stage of water, some of them were recovered, 

 and the Belfast Journal says they are as sound and 

 finn as ever, with the exception that the layers of 

 wood are separated, like ready-made basket stuff. 



— General Grant has a dairy fann near St. Louis, 

 with a fine stock of cows. A choice lot of Alder- 

 ney and Holstein cattle, of vast milking capacities, 

 together with a select number of Ayrshire heifers 

 are also on the waj' to the Presidential farm, and it 

 is said he will soon have the finest dairy iu the 

 country. 



— A correspondent of the Country Gentleman 

 gives the particulars of a case where a man's barn 

 and all his whiter stores of hay and grain were 

 consumed in a night ; his neighbors all turned out, 

 built him a new V)arn at once, and offered to assist 

 in wintering his stock, taking a head or two apiece, 

 and returning tliem in the spring. Thus his loss 

 was greatly reduced, and he was assured of the 



more durable riches of brotherly love and neigh- 

 borly good will. Nc one can compute in money 

 the value of one such example of a noble liberality 

 in a community, especially in its influence upon 

 the young. 



— Mr. H. M. Arms, of Springfield, has sold to 

 Mr. A. W. Griswold, Morrisville, Vt., the cele- 

 brated Short-horn bull, 4th Lord Oxford, by 6th 

 Duke of Thonidale out of 2d Lady of Oxford ; 

 and Mr. A. W. Griswold has sold to H. M. Arms 

 a very promising bull calf by 14th Duke of Thorn- 

 dale out of 2d Lady Mary by Climax. 



— The Durham bull owned by Alplieus Davis, of 

 Charlton, Mass., and which won four first premi- 

 ums, one at Worcester and three at Sturbridge, 

 was slauglitered several days ago. He measured 

 seven feet ten inches from head to rump, and his 

 girt was seven feet nine incTies; live weight 2160 

 pounds ; dressed weight 1399 pounds ; age five years. 



— A correspondent of the Maine Farmer says : — 

 "In the year 1856 I purchased an out farm for a 

 pasture. There were some twenty acres of wood 

 upon it. Finding a few small pines among the 

 hemlocks, from two to four inches in diameter, I 

 pruned them as high as I could reach. Lately I 

 found them grown hito tall trees over a foot in di- 

 ameter, with no signs of where the limbs were 

 taken off, with green, smooth thrifty bark." 



— A correspondent of the Western Rural gives 

 the following as his cure for scratches in horses, 

 which he has used for several years, and says it is 

 excellent for galls and most sores : One ounce red 

 precipitate, one ounce Burgundy pitch, one ounce 

 Venice turpentine, simmered in one pound of fresh 

 lard or butter, well stirretl while simmering. 

 When the ointment is cool apply to the aifected 

 parts daily until there is no further occasion for 

 the remedy. 



— A market gardener of Lake county. 111., says 

 that he has the most remarkable success in the use 

 of salt upon his tomato plant;. He applies it at 

 various times during the season, and in every case 

 its effect is marked in the increased growth of both 

 plant and fruit. In some cases, he lays the roots 

 of backward plants bare, sprinkles them with a 

 tablespoonful of ordinary barrel salt, and covers 

 with soil. Plants ti-eated in this way take an im- 

 mediate start, and develop fine fruit. 



— The Superintendent of the Chatsworth, 111,, 

 beet sugar works, states that the entire crop of beets 

 has been successfully manutactured into sugar 

 yielding a fair per centage of the article, which 

 readily sold in Chicago at fourteen cents per pound. 

 The difficulty at Chatsworth is simply a lack of 

 water in very dry seasons, which may jeopardize 

 the enterprise, from inability to manufacture the 

 product at a time when delay would cause a great 

 loss of beets. 



— The following from a correspondent of the 

 Country Gentleman contains matter for thought 

 and discussion : "Au English tenant farmer, paying 



