MONROE.-Pearmain, Ladies' Sweet, Rawle's Janet, Golden Russet, Roxberry Russet, Baldwin, Newtown Pippin, Pryor's Red. RICHLAND.- Red Canada, Rambo, Peck's Pleasant, Rawle's Janet, Swaar, King of Tompkins Co., Ladies' Sweet, English Sweet. STARK --Newtown Pippin, Russet, Rambo, R. I. Greening, Romanite. VAN WEST --R. I. Greening, Rambo, Roxberry Russet, Baldwin, Seeknofurther, Northern Spy. WARREN --White Pippin, Rawle's Janet, Milam, Wine Sap, Spitzenberg, Rorberry Russet, Golden Russet. BEST TEN VARIETIES OF AUTUMN APPLES. ATHENS.-Strawberry Russet, Rome Beauty. BROWN.-White Bellflower, Rome Beauty, Smith Cider. COLUMBIANA. Sweet Rambo, Fall Pippin, Gates, Hawthorn, Rome Beauty. CARROLL-Gates. DEFIANCE-Yellow Bellflower. HANCOCK.-Bellflower, Porter, Mt. Pleasant, Rome Beauty, Golden Sweet, Risley Pippin, Gravenstein, Orange, Mountaineer. HURON-Hawley Russet, Yellow Bellflower. KNOX.-Bellflower. LAKE - Belmont, Nonsuch, Gravenstein, Black Apple, Red Streak, Summer Pearmain, King of Tompkins Co. LAWRENCE.-Summer Sweet, Summer Queen, Cooper, Fall Pippin, Rome Beauty, Gravenstein, Smith Cider. LUCAS.- Belmont. MORROW.-Cooper, Gates. MONROE.-Rome Beauty. RICHLAND.--Fall Pippin, Gravenstein, Maiden's Blush, Smith Cider, Porter. STARK-Black Apple. VAN WERT-Maiden's Blush, Bellflower, Fall Pippin, Gravenstein, Porter, Gates, Nonesuch, Hawley. WARREN.--Fall Pippin, Native Pippin, Summer Queen, Benona, Smith Cider, Bellflower, Maiden's Blush. BEST SIX VARIETIES OF AUTUMN APPLES. ATHENS.-Bellflower, Rambo, Astmore, Cooper, Lady Washington. ASHLAND.-Rambo, Seek-no-further, Tulpehocken, Sweet Russet, Hubbardtown Nonesuch. set. BROWN-Cooper, Fall Pippins, Golden Russet, Porter, Rambo and Wine. GEAUGA-Rambo, R. I. Greening, Peck Pleasant, Spitzenberg, Roxberry, Rus. HANCOCK.-Rambo, Gravenstein, Golden Sweet, Fall Pippin. HURON.-Porter, Fall Pippin, Gravenstein, Golden Russet, Jersey Sweet. JEFFERSON.-Gates, Rambo, Spitzenberg, Maiden Blush, Winter Greening and Pearmain Sweet. JACK ON.-Fall Pippin, Porter, Rambo, Maiden Blush, Pearmain. KNOX.-Rambo, Wine, and several others. LUCAS.-Fall Pippin, Hawley, Rambo, Golden Sweet. LAKE-Red Astrakon, Golden Sweet, Maiden Blush, Golden Pippin. LAWRENCE-Cooper, Fall Pippin, Pound Pippin. MONTGOMERY.-Rambo, Pippin, Maiden Blush, Sheepnose. MORROW.-Pumpkin Sweet, Fall Pippin, Autumn Strawberry, Tompkins Co. King. MEDINA. Rambo, Wine, Queen Ann, Pie, Tart and Sweet York. NOBLE-Rambo, Bellflower, Cooper, Fall Pippin. RICHLAND-Rambo, R. I. Greening, Gates, Pennock. SUMMIT.-Queen Ann, Fall Pippin. STARK-Rambo, Gates, Pippins, Bellflower. TRUMBULL-Maiden Blush, Rambo, Fall Pippin. UNION-Northern Spy, Pearmain. WILLIAMS.-Rambo, Pippin. WYANDOT -Rambo, Fall Pippin. WOOD.-Rambo, Gravenstein, Jersey Sweet, Hawley WARREN.-Maiden Blush, Fall Pippin, Early Harvest, Summer Queen. BEST SIX VARIETIES OF WINTER APPLES. ATHENS.-Roxberry Russet, Strawberry Russet, Romanite, Pearmain Pippins. ASHLAND.-Northern Spy, Roxberry Russet, R. I. Greening, Tulpehocken, Milam, Spitzenberg, Newtown Pippin. BROWN.-Pryor's Red, Michael Henry Pippin, Roman Stem, Wine, Rome Beauty. CARROLL-Winter Rambo, Waldower, R. I. Greening, Milam, Northern Spy. no-further. ant. HURON. Baldwin, R. I. Greening, Red Canada, Seek-no-further, Peck's Pleas JEFFERSON.-Russet, Northern Spy, Newtown Pippin, Baldwin, Waldower, KNOX-Rambo, Spitzenberg, Bellflower, R. I. Greening, Rock Remain. LAKE —R. I. Greening, Roxberry Russet, Baldwin, Northern Spy, Peck's Pleas ant. LAWRENCE.-Rome Beauty, Pryor's Red, Pearmain. MONTGOMERY.-Newtown Pippin, Jonathan, Bellflower, Smith Cider: sorts raised from pits. The only effectual safeguard against winter-killing is to plant the most hardy varieties, in dry, elevated situations, and in soil that will give a slow but healthy growth. The peach-tree borer (Egeria exitiosa, Say) is found throughout the State, and is a source of great injury to the young tree. Constant watchfulness is necessary to destroy it. The eggs are deposited near the root of the tree in early summer, where they hatch, and the young borer makes his way under the bark, devouring the inner bark and the sap-wood. Those who would save their trees. from destruction by them, must wage an unrelenting warfare against the borer in all its stages of development. If they have entered the tree, they should be killed. Mr. Harris, in his work on "Insects Injurious to Vegetation," gives the following plan for preventing the female from depositing her eggs on the bark: "Remove the earth around the base of the tree, crush and destroy the cocoons and borers which may be found in it and under the bark, cover the wounded parts with the common clay composition, and surround the trunk with a strip of sheathing-paper eight or nine inches wide, which should extend two inches below the level of the soil, and be secured with strings of matting above. Fresh mortar should then be placed around the root, so as to confine the paper and prevent access beneath it, and the remaining cavity may be filled with new or unexhausted loam. This operation should be performed in the spring, or during the month of June. In winter the strings should be removed, and in the following spring the trees should be again examined for any borer that may have escaped search before, and the protecting application should be renewed." All this should be done when the trees are first planted out, otherwise the borer will get the start, and perhaps materially injure the tree before the grower is aware of his presence. In planting a peach orchard, great care should be taken in selecting soil free from stagnant water. This is very injurious to all cultivated plants, and especially so to the peach-tree, which is fastidious with respect to a "wet foot." One principal reason why sandy soil is better for them than any other is because it is naturally underdrained. Underdraining land intended for peach orchards will produce a more healthy growth of the tree, and render it more likely to withstand the attacks of both insects and disease. STRAWBERRIES. "What varieties of strawberries are cultivated? "Which succeed the best ?" This fruit succeeds well throughout the State. It is cultivated largely in the vicinity of Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, and Cincinnati, and in sufficient quantities near all our smaller towns to supply the demand. There are few small villages where the owners of a lot do not grow sufficient for their own use. The increase in the amount of this fruit grown has been very great within the last five years. From both Cincinnati and Cleveland they are shipped in large quantities east, west, north, and south. Cleveland sends them to Cincinnati after those of the latter place are out of season. While this fruit is cultivated largely near cities and towns, as yet only a small portion of the farmers in Ohio succeed in raising them. There are several reasons for this. Although it requires little care to grow them, yet if they do not receive that little at the right time they fail. Too often they are planted but not looked after afterward. Weeds overrun the bed, the ground becomes hard, and though the plants sometimes live, they do not produce much fruit; sometimes the soil is made so excessively rich, that, though there is a great growth of vine, no fruit is produced; and sometimes the reverse is the case, the soil being left hard, dry, and poor. For complete success, fine tilth is necessary; so is moisture. Rich vegetable mold, or woods earth, produces the best berries. Very often farmers choose plants that produce only male or female blossoms, and wonder why they do not bear. This mistake has been as frequently committed as any other; but now that hermaphrodite plants are being generally recommended, there will be less difficulty from this source. THE YIELD PER ACRE.-The usual yield per acre, when cultivated for market, does not vary much from one hundred bushels. When grown in small beds, with the best cultivation, of course it greatly exceeds this. COST OF CULTIVATION. This is very much less than has been usually supposed. A grower of this fruit near Cleveland, who sometimes sells 2,000 bushels in a season, says the expense of cultivating them is not more than that of potatoes. VARIETIES GROWN.-The kinds most commonly cultivated throughout the State are Wilson's Albany Seedling, Hovey's Seedling, Triomph de Gand, Washington, McAvoy's, Longworth's Prolific, and others. it? "Are artichokes grown? If so, to what extent? "Has Hungarian grass been grown in your county? What do farmers think of "Is it still cultivated or abandoned ? "Is sorgho generally cultivated; and with what success? "State any facts you may know in relation to the culture and production of the sorgho, and of the manufacture of syrup or sugar from it. "Are oats regarded as a reliable crop? or do they deteriorate? "To what diesases, if any, are oats most subject? "What crop might profitably be substituted for the oat crop? "What varieties of corn generally succeed best in your county? "What is the usual time that corn requires to ripen, from the time of planting? "Which varieties of corn succeed the best, those that are introduced from the North or South? "Is tobacc successfully grown in your county? Is much of it grown? "Is there more or less land cultivated, in consequence of the war, than for merly? ARTICHOKES-Artichokes are not much grown in the State In some European countries they are planted in the woods for hogs to feed upon; but such experiments with them have not been made in this country. A few farmers have planted small patches for hogs, these animals digging them when the ground was not frozen; and so far the results have proved favorable to their culture for this purpose. The disturbance of the soil by the hogs mellows it for another crop, and a sufficient number of tubers are always left for future crops without replanting. This method of keeping swine is favorable to their healthy growth, and gives them an opportunity to exercise to a limited extent their natural instincts, which is of much importance. HUNGARIAN GRASS.-This candidate for popular favor has been grown in all parts of the State with varying results. It is generally conceded that it requires. a deep rich soil, and that it is an exhausting crop. As regards its value there was, for a few years, a difference of opinion, and this is yet the case to a limited extent, though a few continue to esteem it; its culture is being abandoned by a majority of farmers. 4. SORGHO.--The Chinese sugar-cane, which was introduced into this country a few years ago, has been very generally grown in every county in Ohio. The disposition of our people is such that they are led to try almost everything new that promises to be of value, when it can be done with little expense to themselves. It is vastly better that this should be so than that they should resist the introduction of new plants, animals and machinery, even though they do now and then take hold of what turns out to be a "humbug." Improvement in agriculture can only make rapid strides when the people are willing to try experiments, or adopt new practices which promise them greater success than they have previously had. Much was promised of the sorghum plant. Sugar and syrup which was made in Ohio from the maple only, and that in quantities sufficient to supply a small part only of the demand, was what every farmer would like to make for himself. He was promised this. As he could test the matter without incurring great loss, seed was planted throughout the State, and at first, in the rudest manner, the juice was expressed and evaporated, and though in this way no good syrup was made, yet the fact was demonstrated that the plant was rich in saccharine matter, requiring appropriate manipulation only to convert it into an article of superior value. To secure this, crushers, to separate the juice, and evaporators to reduce it to syrup, have been invented, and many experiments have been made, and though the results yet reached are not everything that can be desired, they are so satisfactory that there is not the least doubt that the plant is a valuable acquisition. In 1861, millions of gallons of syrup were made, some of which was of a very superior ch racter, nearly equal in flavor and value to golden syrup, and the present year (1862) the quantity of ground planted is larger than ever before. As yet but little sugar has been made; but, at the Sugar-cane Growers' Convention, held in Columbus, in January, 1862, many samples of so-called sor ho sugar, in quantities of from ten to fifty pounds, were exhibited, a number of which were as good as New Orleans sugar, and growers |