DAKKE COUNTY. 



The productions in 1872 were as follows : 



511 



Articles. 



Coru 



Oats 



Wheat 



Barley 



Buckwheat 



Eye 



Potatoe9 



Sweet potatoes 



Acres. 



No. of Bushels. 



Average. 



The country is well timbered, its flora indicating a very productive soil 

 for grains and fruits. The most common forest trees noticed were : 



Oak — Quercus alba ( white oak) L. 



" rubra (red oak) L. 



" tinctoria (black oak) , Bart. 



" bicolor (swamp white oak) Willd. 



" macrocarpa (burr oak) Willd. 



" castanea (chestnut oak) Willd. 



" palustris (pin oak) Du Eoi. 



Sugar Maple — Acersaccharinum Wang. 



Swamp Maple — Acer rubriim. L. 



Slippery Elm — Ulmaa fulva Michx. 



White Elm — XJimus Americaua Willd, 



Beech — ^Fagus ferrugiuia Aib. 



Black Walnut — Juglans nigra L. 



White Walwit — Juglans cinerea L. 



Cotton-wood — Populus monilifera ^ Aib. 



Black Cherry — Prunus serotina Ehr. 



Shagbark Hickory — Carya alba : Nutl. 



Buckeye — iEsculus glabra Willd. 



White Ash — Fraxiaus Americana L. 



Sassafras — Sassafras officinale... Neas. 



Sycamore — Platanus occidental is L. 



Iron-wood — Ostrya Virgiuica Willd. 



Black Willow — Salix nigra Marsh. 



Thorn — Crataegus coccinea L. 



Wild Plum — Prunus Americana (rare) Marsh. 



Trembling Aspen — Populus tremuloides (not common) Marsh. 



Mulberry — Morus^ulva (rare) L. 



riowering Dogwood — Cornus florida L. 



