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we make but a poor article of pugar ; although the growth of the cane may be 

 ever so large, the yield is small. We are glad to see that you have called tlie 

 attention of Congress to this matter, and hope we may receive some India cane 

 to regenerate our crops. 



Morton county, Georgia. — All our crops are so poor that before another year there 

 will be much suffering. Corn must be shipped from the north to make a crop, 

 as it is the opinion of many that the amount on hand will hardly supply the in- 

 habitants through the year. Corn sells readily at SI 70 per bushel. 



Coffee county, Tennessee. — To say the least of our crops, they are, in all cases, ex- 

 cept wheat, equal to any former year within my recollection. The corn crop is a full 

 average yield, with more acreage. 



Baltimore cotmty, Maryland. — The corn crop is a very heavy one, equal in 

 quality and quantity to that of 186.5, while the buckwheat crop will be double that of 

 last year. The crop of potatoes is very large, but the rot has made its appear- 

 ance, particularly in the low lands ; the damage cannot be estimated at present, 

 but will not be great. More sorghum cane is coming into the mills than last 

 season, and of a better quality. The tobacco culture is gradually falling off in 

 this county, and in some localities has been entirely abandoned, farmers paying 

 more attention to the dairy. 



King George county, Virginia. — Late corn has improved in a slight degree, but 

 the crop is estimated by the most judicious farmers to be diminished one-third by 

 the dry summer. The aggregate crop in the northern neck of Virginia will 

 hardly reach one-fourth the crop of former years. 



Lewis county, Kentucl<y. — The crops have not been so abundant throughout the 

 country for the past twelve years, wheat alone excepted, of which latter there 

 was not enough raised for seed. Potato crop never so large. 



Amelia county, Virgini^a. — The lateness of the fall has enabled the farmer in every 

 instance to save his entire crop of tobacco, though last June, the plants being 

 abundant and season propitious, every one put into the ground more than he 

 thought he had labor to protect from the worms and suckers, and save finally 

 from the frosts; but the crop is housed, mostly "cured," and tipon the whole is 

 as good as it generally is, one year with another." 



Indian a county., Pennsylvania. — The culture of sorghum cane has been quite suc- 

 cessful in the southern part of this county, the yield having been upwards of 125 gal- 

 lons of molasses per acre, while some lots have produced a gallon per square rod 

 of ground, or. 160 gallons to the acre. With the necessary manufacturing ap- 

 paratus I have no doubt that the crop will be largely cultivated hereafter, and 

 prove one of the most remunerative of farm productions. 



Warren county, Tfdiana. — The potato rot is almost universal in this locality, 

 none but the variety called the Peach Blows escaping almost entire destruction. 



Johnson county, lotva. — Potatoes are very much below an average, the result 

 of the " potato bug," though the quality of the crop in this county is, I think, 

 fully an average compared with last year. 



XVarren county, Illinois. — There is scarcehalf a crop of potatoes in this county. 

 Both early and late varieties were carried off by the "ten-striped spearman," a 

 bug never seen here before. 



Ogle county, Illinois. — A disease (I think, worms) has been spreading 

 among the hogs, and farmers have been losing them by the hundred. In' almost; 

 all cases the hogs have passed quantities of large worms. The only remedy yet 

 tried, that appe »rs to do any good, is black antimony given in sweet milk. 



Butler county, Kentucky. — Hogs are yet dying of cholera. We h .ve no 

 remedy for cure, but the crude petroleum is used by many as a preventive. I 

 tried it and some of mine recovered, but I did not think the petroleum cared 

 them, though I thought it prevented others from taking the disease. 



