The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-03-03

OF Lime.
The monthly report of the Depart
ment OF Agriculture for January 1865
exhibits the following facts in regal
to West Virginia crops for 1867:
WheGt-Average yield per acre 1O.l
bushels; average price per bushel Jan
uary 1, 1853, 81 SO; winter wheat 9
spring wheat l. Rye-Average pei
acre in 1867, 124 bushels; average price
january l, 1868. 81 20. BarIey-Aver.
age per acre in 1867, 2O.s bushels; aver.
age price January /, 1863, 81 40. OatS-
Average yield per acre BIS bushels
average price sic. Co,7l-Yield 29.i
bushels; price SOC. Buckwheat-l4.s
bushels; price $lO7. PotGtoes-Yield
69.6 bushels; price 500. Leaf Tobacco
Yield $50 ms; price l7c. Hay-Yield IL
tons; price Sll44. Sorghum AEOlasSes-
Yield SO gallons; price 72c.
In returns from "a States mot includ.
ing California, Nevada or Oregon y we
find:
The greatest average OF Wheat is pro.
duced by Connecticut, 175 bus; Massa-
chusetts. 16 bus; Vermont and Nebras.
ka, Is bus; New York and New Jersey,
IA bus; New Hampshire, Pennsylva.
mia, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, and Iowa, 70 bus; Mary
land, Ohio, and Illinois, IL bus; Maine,
West Virginia, and Indiana, 10 bus.
The greatest average of Corn is pro.
duced by Kansas, Ss bus; Nebraska
and Vermont, follow with So; New
Hampshire and Massachusetts, with
IS; Maine, Connecticut, New Jersey,
Wisconsin, and Iowa, 80; Pennsylvania,
50; Michigan, 81; New York and Maine,
80; Indiana, 70; Maryland and Ohio, 2s;
Missouri, q; Arkansas, 26; Rhode
Island, 25; Kentucky, "a; Tennessee and
Illinois, 2S; Virginia, 20. and all others
below 20.
The greatest average of Ou,s Is In
Iowa, ~ bus; Nebraska next, 80; Min
nesotn, 3s; Kansas, SO; Wisconsin, IS;
Ohio, 81; Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylya.
mia and Vermont, 80; Michigan, 20; New
Hampshire, Connecticut and New Jer.
sey, q, Massachusetts, 26; Texas and
Maryland, %; Maine, %; w. Va, 81;
all others below 20.
The greatest average of Rye is in Ne.
braska, 25 bus; Kansas, 20; Iowa, 10;
Minnesota, 1s; Wisconsin, Texas and
Missouri. 16; Michigan, IL; Vermont,
Massachusetts. Rhode Island, New
York, and Illinois, l5; all others below.
Vermont leads in BMcktOheat, with an
average of 25 bus; New Hampshire fol-
lows with %; Maine and Missouri, 81;
New York and Iowa, 20; Kansas and
New Jersey, 10; Maryland and Massa-
chusetts, IS; North Carolina, II; Penn
sylvania, Delaware and Indiana, l6;
Tennessee, Illinois aud Nebraska, Is;
West Virginia and Maine II; all others
below.
In Potatoes Florida leads, yielding
143 bus; Texas follows with 1SO; Yer
mont 1l6; MINI. ITO; Kan. 1O9; lows
los; Georgia and La, each lOl; N. H.,
Mass, N. c., Ark, Mich, Wis. and
Nebraska, over so; Maine, New York,
s. G. and Miss. over 80; R. l.. Pa, Nd,
Ala, Tenn, Mo-, Ind. and Ohio, over
20; Conn.,, Va, West Va, (G9) and ILL.,.
over 90; N. ]. and KY, over so; all 9TH
ers below.
In Hay, Neb., Kan. and Iowa lead
with 1.e; tons; MINI. and Ark, 1.s;
Mo. and Texas, IL; Wis.,, 10; Ills,
La. and N. c., 1.6; Ohio, Ind. and West
Va, Ii; Mich, KY, Tenn, Miss, Ca,
Nd, Penna., N. j., Conn. and Mass,
1.S; all others below.
Nebraska is the sweetest, and yields
an average of 1873 gals. Sorghum
MoLasses; Iowa 112; Kan. Ill; Miss.
los; Conn.,, N Y, N. J., Pa, and Mich
igan, over 90; Tenn, W. Va, No.,
ILL.,, Nd, Ohio and Minn., over 80; all
others below.
In Leaf Tobacco, Conn. leads with an
average of 1, ,268 lbs; H. I. comes next
with 100; Mo. and Ind, over 500; Pa.
and Ark, over 700; Va, N. c., Ala,
Tenn. w. Va, Ohio and Iowa, over
900; all others below.
THE USE AND ACTION OF LIME.
Lime exists abundantly as a basis in
the chalk and mari deposits, and in
limestone rock, in the condition of a
true carbonate, a substance entirely
free from caustioity, and so little sOlu-
BILE that 1t can only, in very minute
quantities., be taken up by they roots of
xyaf 1a fOn11 tho