THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



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to a more thorough experimental investi- 

 gation, which Dr. LeConte proposes to im- 

 dertake during the next twelve months. 

 It is obvious that these researches have a 

 practical bearing. 



Canadian Agriculturist. 



Wheat Crop. 



The New York Courier and Enquirer re- 

 marks, in relation to the wheat crop, that in 

 the several States it may be considered as har- 

 vested, and partially ready for market. We 

 can, therefore, give the following returns with 

 some degree of certainty: — 



PER CENT. 



New York. — The crop is under 

 thelast year's about fifteen per cent., 

 but the quality is much better, 85 



Pennsylvania. — The crop is fully 

 an averau^e one, but ten per cent, 

 less than last year per acre, 90 



Maryland. — The crop is an aver- 

 age one, but less per acre, and bet- 

 ter in quality than last year, 100 



Virginia. — The wheat crop in 

 this State is twenty per cent, less 

 than last year, for the amount of 

 ground' in cultivation, and the 

 quality not much superior, 80 



North Carolina. — The crop in 

 this State is pri)bably nearer to a 

 total failure than in any other — the 

 yield being fully fifty per cent, less 

 than last year, and poor in quality, 50 



Kentucky. — The crop is .above 

 the average, but less than last year ; 

 the quality is, however, unsur- 

 passed, 95 



Tennessee. — The crop is a good 

 one, but under the average yield 

 per acre. The quality is good, 95 



Missouri, — The amount of the 

 wheat crop in this State is not fully 

 known, but it will generally com- 

 pare well per acre with the other 

 Western States, 95 



Ohio, — The yield of wheat per 

 acre is fully twenty per cent, less 

 than last year, but from the increase 

 of land in cultivation, the decrease 

 from an average crop will not much 

 exceed ten per cent,, 80 



Iowa. — The accounts from the 

 center of the State, in regard to the 

 wheat croy. , ai-e very gloomy. The 

 crop will hardly average ten bushels 

 to the acre, Oats are generally a 

 failure, 50 



Illinois. — In Southern Illinois 

 the yield of wheat is about a fair 

 average, rather under than over. 

 The winter wheat has been gene- 

 rally successful, and spring wheat 



the reverse. In other parts of the 

 State the yield will not be over half 

 the usual crop, 75 



Indiana. — In Indiana the yield 

 of wheat has been from one-half to 

 two-thirds of the average crop, G7 



Minnesota. — The yield of wheat 

 in this State is of better quality 

 than usual, and in quantity nearly 

 two-thirds the usual crop, 68 



Michigan. — The yield of wheat 

 in Michigan is over two-thirds an 

 average crop, and generally of good 

 quality, 70 



Wisconsin. — The crop of wheat 

 is up to the average, the greater ex- 

 tent in cutivation compensating for 

 any deficiency in the yield per acre, 100 



15)1200(80 



The upward tendency in wheat, promising 

 good prices, and the present fair prices, will, 

 we think, make the receipts at tide-water this 

 year nearly equal to those of last year. The 

 quality of last year's wheat is such that an at- 

 tempt to store it longer will be ruinous. We 

 have reason, therefore, for believing that the 

 movement of the crop to the seaboard will be 

 active for the rest of the year. 



[The above is extracted from Hunt's Mer. 

 chants' Magazine for October, with the excep- 

 tion of the column of figures on the right hand, 

 which we add to represent the percentage of 

 last year's crop produced this year. This is 

 done with the view of determining the average 

 deficiency, which w^e find to be 20 per cent., in 

 the fifteen wheat-growing States above cited. — ^ 

 Editor.] 



From the Valley Farmer. 



Hog Killmg". 



BY HETTIE HAYFIELD. 



The revolving seasons have brought to 

 our homes the two last months of the year, 

 including in their range of business be- 

 yond all comparison the most disagreea- 

 ble duties that devolve on the house wife. 

 But use conquers disgust, and that fact 

 with proper preparation for, and systemat- 

 ic arrangement of the work while in pro- 

 gress, makes even hog killing an endura- 

 ble business. Indeed in large families, 

 we think several hog killings desirable and 

 certainly economical, as many portions of 

 the animal which are considered the per- 

 quisites of the pork house, come in an ex- 

 cellent place at home. It is a pleasure, 

 beside your own well cured bacon, to have 



