The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-06
Report Of the Department of Agrfculture

Report of the Department of Agriculture
Tho Department Of Agriculture on
the 2sth ult., issued preliminary re.
port on the condition of crops. The
report insists that the great agricultural
lesson of the season inculcates the neces-
sity of farnsing and thorough culture 1t
goes on to remark, that it is not exagger-
ated to estimate the reduction from
alternate drowning and scorching of
fine crops to the extent Of two hundred
millions. The general apprehension of
serious failures of the corn crop in the
more northern States, has been materially
modified BY the sunny weather in Sep
tember, and exemption from frosts to
October first. Early frosts in some por-
tions Of the Eastern and Middle States,
have checked the ripening and left the
crop in an immature and damaged con-
dition; but the injury is comparatively
slight and limited In area. As whole,
the crop has bad an unusually favorable
maturing season, resulting in very graf
flying amelioration of the prospects for
the supply of this important staple. The
aggregate will show that the yield is
amply sufficient for all the wants of the
country. Had the spring wheat been
equal to the winter, the whole
crop would be enormous Throuehou
the South the yield is unusually large
and the quality excellent. In Texas and
Mississippi the improvement is some
what less conspicuous than in othe
States. In Illinois some counties repor
an increase equivalent to ten per cent
and more. Indiana grows a larger por
ton of winter wheat this year. The,
have produced much below the averag
yield of Illinois. The area of cotton cul
tivaing increased last spring fully six
teen per cent New England generall
. has good crop. They are usually goo,
: in the West, with the exception of Min
nesota. The product Of sweet potatoe
is manifestly increased.
SrATIsTIcs.-We condense the follow
J ing exhibit of Douglas county from th
/ Roseburg Easiyn of the 10Th ult.: Pop
ulation of the county, 5000; number G
: voters, ] ,403 number of acres unde
cultivation, 80 600; amount Of assessabl
h property, 81 ,474,..04 number Of sheer
t 100000; pounds of wool produced al
j. nually, 49,, 900; number Of cattle, 10
$50
The same paper says that a fine vel
. of anthracite coal has lately heen disco'
:, cred within % miles of Roseburg
). Roseburs hadstwo divorce cases in til
S last term of court The people must b
slow up there.
u FROM NIRGINIA.-A young lady,
g years of age, Mis- Baylor, near Sharon
,, Va, was found on the 2Sth ult., with hi
throat cut No clue to the perpetrato
A negro nurse, living at Henry Che
" cy's, Bedford county, threw Cheecy
= child into the fire, on the 29th, an
o burned it to death
SAFE RoBDED.-On last Friday nigl
+ some Burglars entered the store Of Hem
ID Kohler, at Washington, Nevada count
'e California. and carried the safe, weig
ing 1900 pounds, to the bridge aero
Yuba river, 100 feet from the store, al
threw it off the bridge on some rock
somo twenty feet below, breaking it ope
- 70 and robbed it of some four thousand dc
G. lars in gold dust and jeweIry.
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ITEM FOR TEA DRINKERS. - S;
Francisco papers say that parties are
the habit of collecting ehapparel leaves
= California and sending them to Chi
= = where they are dried, packed and label'
q as tea, and sent back to this coast
choice brands of that article Mar
people have been made sick by using Il
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