Agricultural Notes

The use of Florida phosphate is reported as very rapidly increasing in the gnif states. Accordiog tothe department of agrieulturo the average valué of farm hocses has riaen from $58.44 to $67 daring the Last decade. Bradstreef s states that there are in New England half a handred stock farms, where twenty years ago there were practically none, and in California the breeding of fast horses has beccano abnost a craze, The importance of economy in feeding is illostrated by the statement accredited to Dr. Collier, of the New York experiment station, that a saving of one cent a day upon the dairy cows of New York is over $6,000,000 a year. Statistics of the agrkvuitnral dfipartment place the total nnmber of sheep in the United States Jan. 1, 1861, at 48,481,188, valned at$108,397,447. Jan. 1, 1890, the nnmber af eheep in tito United.Stotes was 44,886,073, valned Kt $100,059,781,