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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
favorite ; yields well when properly tilled ; is mostly fed ; only 
a small portion marketed in the grain. Buckwheat is mostly 
grown in the accidental blanks of other crops. Broom corn is 
grown to some extent; is, under favorable circumstances, a 
profitable crop. 
Sorghum is grown to a small extent, does well. The know¬ 
ledge of manufacturing syrup from it is improving, and becom¬ 
ing more general. This crop is, I think, destined to become a 
general favorite. Roots and tubers are, except potatoes, but 
little grown. Grapes are more generally grown than formerly, 
and usually produce well—less so the last two seasons than 
formerly, owing to the drouth. The kinds mostly grown are 
timothy, red top, and clover, mostly the variety known as June 
clover; the large red or Dutch clover is grown to some extent, 
and considered much the best for improving land, both for 
plowing in as a fertilizer and for opening the subsoil by means 
of the large roots. White clover does well, is rapidly taking 
the place of the native grasses on uncultivated upland; fur¬ 
nishes good pasturage, and is the always-to-be-relied on store 
house from which the honey-bee obtains supplies of that luxury 
of all luxuries, pure honey. 
Stock.— Sheep are now considered the more profitable stock, 
and are rapidly increasing. Wool is, I think, more extensively 
produced in this than in any other county in the State. A fair 
and increasing attention is being paid to the improvement of 
all stock in the county. Cattle and horses are receiving a good 
share of attention. There are several fine herds of blooded 
cattle in the county—the Durham are the more numerous. 
Horses are numerous, mostly of the ordinary breeds; none of 
much pretensions to blood, unless the Morgans and Blackhawks 
be so considered. 
Fruit. —Not so much attention is given to fruit raising as 
formerly. Most of the cultivated fruits have so generally failed 
wholly or in part, that many feel little courage in giving that they 
have proper attention, much less in making new investments. 
The bark louse is charged with many failures that are probably 
owing to causes more immediately within the reach of proper 
