Orange.172 Broome......189 
Westchester.144 Cortlanfl.136 
Wayne. 142 Putnam . .136 
Delaware.142 Oueudaga.135 
Chautauqua.141 Tioga. .J34 
Tompkins .141 Jett croon.132 
Queens.140 Kt. Lawrence.l.!l 
Dutchess.189 'J'hc State. 124 
The following table gives so me miscellaneous 
agricultural statistics for Hronrne county : 
Number of farms... 
A rea, acres. 4 - —..M>9 
Value of farms. .. *’'?VV 
Value of buildings, Other than dwellings. 2,1*6,141 
Val ue of stock. 2,48g,<7fl 
Amount gross siiles. 1874. 
Areft)>lowrd,acres.. . 4(,lbii 
Area In pasture,.. 
Hay. tons.. 
Number cows. „ 
Butter made in families, lbs.*'in'nira 
Number horses. iu.siw 
Of course the work of the average census 
enumerator must be taken with some grains of 
allowance, but even then the figures afford food 
for reflection to our farmers. m. u. d. 
North Carolina, Brookston, Warreu Co., 
April 14 .—80 far, April has been cold. Tbera 
have been several severe frosts, and oue morn¬ 
ing the ground was frozen in places too bard 
for plowing. Peaches are much injured aDd our 
highest hopes can only look for a short crop. 
Other lrnits are safe. Farmers are well along 
with their work. Corn is mostly planted, and 
now we are preparing for cotton. Notwith¬ 
standing the low price, the full average acre¬ 
age will be planted. Several farms are changing 
hands, nearly all the purchasers being planters 
who have been growing fine yellow tobacco ou 
rented land, and have made money enough 
in two or three years to buy good farms. 
These bright wrappers can only be made 
on light sandy soil, with a light-colored 
and somewhat porous sub-soil, which is 
included in but two or three counties; and 
should the demand for that quality of tobacco 
continue at anywhere near the present prices, 
the lands on which it can be successfully grown 
must advance in price. Much more will la- 
planted this year than heretofore. More knowl¬ 
edge and skill are required than in growing 
red tobacco, all through, from sowing the seed 
to marketing. Thus the crop cannot be left 
to the care of the ordinary darkey, consequent¬ 
ly there is not much danger of over-produc¬ 
tion. M * B * p - 
Texas, San Antonio, April 7th.—Our spring 
thus far Is very dry—little or no rain since 
November. Grass in the heavy land is very 
poor, but in our immediate locality, amongst 
the “Black Jacks," on loose, sandy soil, it is 
fine, and stock fat. But our grass is always 
better here than on heavier land. Last year 
the growth was very heavy and this wiuter we 
have had lively work, fighting fire. All early- 
planted crops look well, but owing to its being 
so dry. many have not planted yet, but our 
season is long. Fruit looks well. We have 
some peach trees one year old from the seed, 
which are fall Of fruit. (?) Our climate is gener¬ 
ally very healthy, and the heat is not so oppres¬ 
sive as a New-Yorker would suppose. We had a 
setting of Brown Leghorn eggs brought from 
Central New York last summer in a trunk, and 
all the “ bagguge-smashevs " on the route could 
not keep mine from hatching. Chicks from 
them commenced laying at the age of four 
months. They are a success, but oh ! how- mis¬ 
chievous ! Mona. 
lin St. Here are 15 pages full of information 
very useful to those interested in sorghum 
culture. 
D. M. Ferrt & Co., Detroit, Michigan.—A 
costly catalogue of 6eeds and plants of 144 
pages within highly illuminated covers. A 
bewitching colored plate of Pansies and an¬ 
other of their new Tomato. “Triumph,’’ which 
is as round and smooth as an apple and as red 
as—as a new brick, are among the showy parts 
of this work which arc first to strike the eye. 
Catalogue of imported and thoroughbred 
Ayrshire cattle, the property of J. D. W. 
French. North Andover, Mass. 
ship the cooked cocoons to Europe; 2, to reel 
them here; 3, to raise eggs and sell these. 
More money has been made by the last method 
than by either of the others. Eggs raised here 
are free from disease and fetch as high as $6 or 
$8 an ounce in France, which paid us 114,000 
francs for silk-worm eggs in 1870 and as high 
as 1,091.400 francs in 1877- These works are 
got up especially for the benefit of those in 
terested in the subjects they treat of, and can 
be had gratis by our friends through their re¬ 
spective Congressmen. 
Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester. N. Y.— It 
is rather late to make extended reference to 
the catalogues of this old and worthy establish- 
water content of fourteen and three-tenths per 
cent. For comparisons, are given Wolffe's 
averages of German hay from Menzel and 
Lengerke's Kalcndar for 1879. See also report 
of this station for 1878, page 57. 
Mr. Gold states that his samples stand in our 
list above, in about the order of their value, as 
judged practically, beginning with XLVII. 
The crops were light, owing to the weather of 
1877. XLVII and LIII yielded not over one 
ton per acre. The others yielded one and a 
half to two tons. All were harvested at what 
was regarded as the right time or stage of 
growth except LIII which was let stand too 
long. The hay was of very good quality, as 
compared with that of former years, but con¬ 
tained a less proportion of timothy. 
The two samples sent by Mr. Sanborn have 
been employed in some feeding trials, the 
results of which he will publish in due time. 
It is thought by some authorities, that hay 
deteriorates ou long keeping to a degree that 
affects Us chemical composition. Although 
such a fact does not appear to be fully authen¬ 
ticated, it is possible that Mr. Gold’s samples, 
which were received at the station in Novem¬ 
ber 1877, and have been but recently analyzed, 
are not as rich nutritively, as when new. Mr. 
SaDborn's samples cauuot have suffered seri¬ 
ously from keeping. 
The most obvious result of the above figures 
is, that the New England samples are of inferior 
quality as compared to those of Germany and 
Austria which have been analyzed in the Euro¬ 
pean Experiment Stations. Of forty-six of 
the more recent analyses which are given in 
Dietrich and Koenig’s tables, 1874, the lowest 
figure for albuminoids is 7.6 per cent, the 
average is 10.1 and the maximum is 14.4. But 
one of the New England samples is above the 
German medium quality, and but three of them 
surpass or equal the inferior German hay in 
respect to albuminoids. The three samples 
produced on “ wot lowland,” LIII, or on land 
that “ needs draining," LVII and LVIII, are 
most deficient in albuminoids. The early cut 
is scarcely better than the lafer mowed, as 
shown by analysis and the feeding records 
give no greater actual value to the former, 
while the early cutting is reckoned to diminish 
the crop on seventy-five acres by some twenty 
tons. These poorer hays are scarcely more 
than sufficient for the mere support of mature 
animals at rest, and require an addition of a 
proportion of highly albuminoid food, such as 
beans, linseed or cotton cake in order to make 
them economical fodder for growing, working 
or milk animals. 
S. W. Johnson, Director. 
DOUBLE 
ment. The fruit catalogue presents the usual 
almost exhaustive list of Pears, Apples, etc, 
Among small fruits Sharpless’s Seedling .Straw¬ 
berry is promiuent. A colored plate is pre¬ 
sented of tbe Crimson Tea Rose, “ Duchess of 
Ediuburg." 
Among many new or rare plants we find the 
Double Purple Wistaria, the flower of which is 
shown in the accompanying engraving. Until 
the present season we have never had the plant 
in our collection. Messrs. E. & B. speak of it 
as follows: “A rare and charming variety, 
with perfectly double flowers, deeper in color 
thau the single, and racemes of remark¬ 
able length. The plant is perfectly hardy, re¬ 
sembling the Wisteria Sinensis, so well ^nown 
as oue of our best climbing plants.” 
Fibft Culture in North Carolina, is an¬ 
other of the useful pamphlets used by L. L. 
Polk, the energetic Commissioner of Agricul¬ 
ture of the Old North State. The present 
brochure of 26 pages is a report on fish cul¬ 
ture by 8. G. Worth, and would be of interest 
and utility to other sections of the country 
also. Is the day far distant when the fish-pond 
shall be as common as the orchard near the 
farm-house ? 
Sheep Husbandry in the Soutu, an in¬ 
structive pamphlet of 130 pages, issued by the 
Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
Most, of the information has been compiled in 
the Department, hut to it in added an article 
by J 110 . L. Hayes, Secretary of the National 
Association of Wool Manufacturers. Every 
one interested in the subject should write for 
the work at once to the Congressman of his 
district. 
Early Amber Cane, a paper from the 
fifteenth annual report of the Massachusetts 
Agricultural College, by Prof. C. A. Goess- 
inann. Boston, Rand, Ayerv & Co., 117 Frank- 
Report of tbe Central Board of Agriculture 
of Nova Scotia for 1878. A bulky pamphlet of 
179 pages full of interesting local statistics and 
other information. 
T. C. T. Tiiuulow’s Address before the 
Essex Agricultural Society, at Lawrence, 
Mass., Sept. 25. 1879. 
Catalogue of Trotting Stock, the property 
of B. J. Tracy, Ashland Park, Lexington, Ky. 
RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS 
(Continued from cage 267.) 
New York, Whitney’s Point, April 11.—We 
have had five days excellent "sap weather.” 
Clear and warm; wind in the W. N. W, Snow 
has nearly disappeared from the hills faeing 
the southwest, but is still quite deep in tbe 
woods facing the east and northeast. Wheat 
looks very well. Butter is selling at 14c. per 
poundf eggs, 11c. per dozen; veal calves, 
alive, $2,50 to $4. 
A local paper has compiled, from the eensus 
of 1875, some figures, a condensation of which 
will be of interest to readers of the Rural. 
The first table gives the average product per 
acre for some of the leading staples, for the 
county having the largest average, for Broome 
countyq and for the State at large. 
Largest. Broome. Tbe State 
Hay, toua—nerklmer.1.85 1.12 l.iH 
Barley. bush. Saratoga ... 32.87 24.82 22.88 
Buckwheat Steuben. 19.99 17.40 16.14 
Corn—Yates. 47.82 34.04 82.33 
Oats—Monrou. 86.97 30.93 38.59 
Rye—Herkimer. 21.63 11,46 11.82 
Wheat—Kings. .. 24.11 14.78 M.16 
Potabiea—Kings............. 153.64 110.81 102.22 
In the following table is given the average 
number of pounds of butter per cow per an¬ 
num, in^fifteeu counties, which take the lead 
iu amount of product—two and a half pounds 
of cheese, or three gallons of milk, are es¬ 
timated as equivalent to one pound of butter : 
CATALOGUES, &c., RECEIVED 
The Silk-worm, a manual of instructions 
for the management of silk-worms and the pro¬ 
duction of silk. This neat pamphlet of 38pages 
Is a report of Prof. C. V. Riley to the Com¬ 
missioner of Agriculture on the above topics. 
It gives full estimates of the possible profits 
of sericulture, drawn from the labors of prac¬ 
tical men; a full account of the different sorts 
of silk-worms, their food and general manage¬ 
ment, reeling of the silk, etc. To those who 
desire to raise silk-worms in this country for 
profit, there are three ways open; Either, 1, to 
Water . 
Ash. 
Albuminoids. 
Fiber...... 
Non-nitrogeuou* Extract.... 
Fat. 
TIME OF CUTTING. 
fe S O JR «u 
la iu e© hi cc 
July, 
1 st week. 
XLVII. 
14.3 
4.7 
7.0 
26.9 
45.4 
1.7 
July, 
2 d week. 
XLIX. 
3 
M 
v. 
14.3 
4.6 
6.9 
i 26.8 
45.4 
2.0 
July, 
4th week. 
L. 
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14.3 
4.9 
7.5 
26.3 
45.3 
1.7 
July, 
4th week. 
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14.3 
5.1 
j 9.0 
24.9 
44.9 
1.8 
August, 
1 st week. 
LII. 
., 1877. 
14.3 
5.4 
6.7 
26.2 
46.1 
1.3 
August, 
middle. 
LTII. 
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b i- M 12 -4 w 
July 1st. 
1878. 
LVII. 
a 
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bio b w 00 w 
July 11th. 
1878. 
LVIII. 
a 
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14.3 
5.0 
7.5 
33.5 
88.2 
1.5 
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14.3 
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9.7 
26.3 
41.4 
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19.3 
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