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Recent Agricultural Inventions. 
Milch Cows. — The general average value is 5?. 10s. per head. Ii 
five States the average is more than 30 per cent, above this— 
Colorado, 81. 3s. per head ; Nevada, 71. 15s. ; New Jersey, 7/. lis.; 
Montana, 71. 8s. ; and Massachusetts, 71. 5s. The lowest State 
average is in Florida (21. 16s. per head). The variations in value 
arise from differences in breed and development, better care .and 
higher feeding in dairying districts than in non-dairying agricultural 
regions, and varying facilities for transport of dairy produce to 
market. 
Sheep. — The general average value is 9s. per head. In nine States 
— Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, 
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania — the average 
is more than 30 per cent, in excess of this, these State averages 
ranging between 15s. 6d. and 13s. per head. The lowest average is 
that of North Carolina (5s. 6c?. per head). The differences in value 
depend upon breed and grade, quantity and quality of wool, value 
for meat-production, and distance from market. Each district 
follows its special line of sheep-husbandry — pedigree-stock growing, 
mutton-producing, raising early lambs, or exclusive wool-growing. 
Three-fourths of the sheep are Merino breeds and their grades. 
English breeds are numerous in some sections, and grade Mexicans 
are common in the South-west. 
Swine. — The general average value of pigs is 1/. per head. In 
as many as seventeen States the average is 30 per cent, or more above 
this. These States form two compact series — Maine, New Hamp- 
shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New 
York, Pennsylvania, New J ersey, and Delaware in the East ; and New 
Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana 
in the West. The highest average value per head is in Massachusetts 
(21. lis.). The lowest average value is 12s. per head (in Florida). The 
differences in value are determined by breed, age, weight, distance 
from market, and other local causes. In the South, the necessity for 
slaughtering in December or January reduces the average age and 
weight. » 
RECENT AGRICULTURAL INVENTIONS, 
The subjects of Applications for Patents from May 29 to 
August 30, 1890. 
N.P>. Where tlie Invention is a communication from abroad, the name of 
the Inventor is shown in italics, between parentheses, after the name of the 
applicant. 
Agricultural Machinery and Implements, &c. 
No. of Name of Applicant Title of Invention 
Application 
82U3 WooDARD, A. N., and 
Bbiugs, W. . . Potato digger. 
8271 Bukns, D. . 1 Finger bars of mowers and reapers. 
8342 JiKNTALL, E. H. . . Driving-wheels for harvesting machines. 
8483 Guikkin, H. K. . . Mowing machines. 
8625 Allen, S. L. . . .Cultivators. 
