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Corn. — With the exception of Maine and New Hampshire, every State re- 

 ports a greater breadth of corn than usual. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, 

 Kansas, and West Virginia have each increased their average about ten per cent. 

 Iowa has nearly as great an increase. In several of the States the condition of 

 the crop is an average. In most of them, however, as the tables indicate, the 

 cool weather of the spring gave the crop a bad start, from which it had not fully 

 recovered up to the first week in July. It is generally reported low in altitude 

 owing to the cold spring, but in vigorous condition, and of a deep green color. 

 There is yet ample time, with favorable conditions, to make a productive yield 

 of fine quality, in which case the extra breadth planted would give a very large 

 crop. It is too early in the season to arrive at definite estimates. 



Sorghum. — A somewhat diminished acreage of sorghum is indicated. Little 

 is grown in the eastern States, but that little, is increased this season. A mate- 

 rial increase in New York is shown, but New Jersey and Maryland report a 

 slight deci*ease. The sorghum-growing States, Indiana and Illinois, show a 

 considerable diminution ; so also do Wisconsin and Minnesuta. The season 

 thus far has not been very propitious for sorghum, and the reports represent the 

 average condition about one-tenth below the standard of ordinary excellence. 

 Some portions of the State of Kentucky are not yet supplied with manufac- 

 turing machinery. In Graves county " not half so much is sown this spring as 

 last year, when quantities of it were destroyed by the frost for lack of manufac- 

 turing apparatus. The people have nothing but the ordinary wooden mills." 



Flax. — There is nearly an average breadth of flax this season. In condition 

 it is 10 tenths in most of the States. In some of the flax-growing States of the 

 west it is slightly under an average. 



Potatoes, — In every State there were more potatoes planted than usual. In 

 Ohio, 15 per cent, more; in Kentucky, 20 per cent. ; in Missouri, 25 per cent. ; 

 in Kansas, 30 per cent. In condition no States, except Illinois and Minnesota, 

 are reported at less than 10 tenths; and in these States the increased average 

 indicates a prospect for a full average crop. A correspondent in Superior, Wis- 

 consin, says : " I think our potatoes will be as much injured this year by the 

 drought as they have in some years past by the rains." 



Beans. — Very nearly an average acreage is reported in slightly better than 

 average condition. 



Fruits. — The prospect for apples is not as good as usual, in the northern 

 parts of New Englaiid, 10 tenths ; in Connecticut, 8 tenths ; in New York, 8J 

 tenths ; in Michigan, 9f tenths ; in Missouri, Iowa, and Kansas, 10 tenths each. 



No fruit upon our list makes so poor a showing as peaches. (See tables.) 

 New Jersey reports but 16 per cent, of a crop; Ohio, 1| tenths ; Delaware, 2.^ 

 tenths; Maryland, 48 per cent.; New York, 8 tenths; Michigan, 7§ tenths. 

 The extreme west makes a better showing. 



Pears are in better condition, but give promise of a full crop in only Minne- 

 sota and Nebraska. 



Grapes have suft'ered also. Our reports indicate 6i tenths in Ohio, 9i tenths 

 in Missouri, Si in Illinois, 9 in New York. 



There was also a short supply of strawberries and raspberries. As in all 

 other crops this year, the States across the Mississippi take the lead and show 

 more than an average. But the middle and mid-western States produce the 

 pi-incipal portion of the crop. 



