. Hale's history of agriculture by dates. A simple record of historical events and victories of peaceful industries . hammer when Watercress sold for$71,000. 1905.—(irain production of the year:2,707,993,000 bushels curn. 692,979,000 bush-els wheat. 953, bushels oats, 131, bushels barley and 28,486,000 bushelsrye. 1905.—Highest wheat, February, $;highest corn. May, 641/2 cents; highest oats,July, 3414 cents. Lowest wheat, August,77% cents; lowest corn, January and De-cember, 40 cents; lowest oats, September,25 cents. 1905.—Promising new fruits mentioned andillustrated in the
. Hale's history of agriculture by dates. A simple record of historical events and victories of peaceful industries . hammer when Watercress sold for$71,000. 1905.—(irain production of the year:2,707,993,000 bushels curn. 692,979,000 bush-els wheat. 953, bushels oats, 131, bushels barley and 28,486,000 bushelsrye. 1905.—Highest wheat, February, $;highest corn. May, 641/2 cents; highest oats,July, 3414 cents. Lowest wheat, August,77% cents; lowest corn, January and De-cember, 40 cents; lowest oats, September,25 cents. 1905.—Promising new fruits mentioned andillustrated in the Year Book of the UnitedStates Department of Agriculture: Magnateapple, Oliver red apple, Rabun apple, BarlyWheeler peach, Banner grape, Josephinepersimmon and the Chappelow Avocado orTropical pear. 1905.—Largest receipts of horses in onayear at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago,127,250 head. 1906, January 1st.—United States Depart-ment of Agriculture estimate of number offarm animals: 19,794,000 milch cows, 47, other cattle, 52,103,000 hogs, 50,632,000sheep, 18,719,000 horses and 3,404,000 THE PERCHBRON HORSE from LaPerche,France, is the most numerous breed of drafthorses in the United States. 1906.—The draft-horse sale held atBloomington, III., January 4th and 5th,under the management of C. W. in a general average of $ forfifty-three head. The eighty-nine $ and sixty-five mares aver-aged $ The Percheron stallion Pru-dent, sired by Hercules, sold at $1,650 to Good, of Flannagan, 111.; Germain, siredby Odeon, sold for $1,040 to Emanuel Cross, so HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE BY DATES. of Adrian, Mich.; and Pedroe, sired by San-sonnett. 2d, sold to Wm. Rumney & Sons, ofSomonauk, 111., for .$1,005. The top-pricemare. Colly P., sired by Powerful, sold toWin. Zumdahl. of Forrest, 111., for $635. 1906, January.—Ohio Chief, 8,727, aDiiioo-JerKPy boar, was sold by S. E. Morton,of Camden, Ohio, for $2,000 to M
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