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Connecticut.—Hartford: Unusually bright and fine. 
PENNSYLVANIA.—Northampton : Looks well. Indiana: Good quality and condition. 
New Yor«.—Chemung : Injured by rain in harvest. Albany ; Good and well secured. 
MARYLAND.— Baltimore : Secured in good order. : 
VIRGINIA.— Floyd : Winter rye from Department yields twenty-fold. 
ALABAMA.— Coffee : Crop good. 
Texas.— Burnet : Nearly afailure. Rusk: Large yield. 
West VirGinia.— Mercer : Badly injnred by the midge. Monongolia: Very poor. 
Kentoucky.—Lincoln : Not good. Anderson : About average. 
Intinois.—De Kalb: Fair. * Ogle : Short but good; seed from the Department very 
satisfactory. Boone: Very poor. 
Iowa.—Tama : Below average. 
Missouri.— Platte: Saved in 1 good condition ; 75 cents per bushel. 
NepBraska.—Richardson ; Good quality and condition. 
BARLEY. 
Barley was harvested in an average condition in-West Virginia, 100; 
and above average in Oregon, 106. “In New England it ranged from st 
in Rhode Island ‘to 96 in Massachusetts. In New York and Pennsyl- 
vania it averaged 90, and in Maryland 93. All the South Atlantic and 
Gulf coast.States were below average, the deficit varying from 18 per 
cent. in Alabama to 2 per cent. in Texas. The inland Southern States 
varied from 90 per cent. of an average in Kentucky to full average in 
West Virginia. The Northwestern States ranged from 81 in lowa to 99 
in Wisconsin. California averages 
NEw YorkK.—Steuben : Injured by rain. Chemung: Injured by rainin harvest. Yates: 
Rain in harvest. 
PENNSYLVANIA.—WNorthampton : Crop worthless through drought. 
CaLirornia.—WMonterey : Late-sown barley a failure ; generally of good quality ; crop 
two-thirds of last year’s. Sonoma: Excellent condition. 
POTATOES. 
The average condition of this crop for all the States is 95. It is 
below average injall the New! England States, the deficit ranging 
from 25 per cent. in Rhode Island to 2 per cent. in New Hamp. 
shire. In those localities {affected by the drought of the latter part of 
summer the late plantings were very short, but at several points in 
Massachusetts and Rhode Island the later crops are better than the 
earlier ones. In the Middle States, New York is above average, while 
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware are below. In several coun- 
ties excessive rains rotted the crop; in others the Colorado beetle was 
destructive,’ especially in. Westmoreland, Beaver, Indiana, and Law- 
rence County, Pennsylvania. Maryland averaged 95; Virginia 98; 
North Carolina 96. In South Carolina and the Gulf States the crop 
was average, or above, except in Louisiana and Texas. In Franklin 
Parish, Louisiana, it is observed that potatoes yield bountifully when 
proper "culture has been bestowed upon them. In some counties in 
Texas they were injured by frost. The crop is below average in all the 
inland Southern States, the Colorado beetle being reported in several 
counties of Tennessee, West Virginia, and Kentucky. Insect injuries 
and unfavorable conditions of growth greatly affected the crop in many 
portions of the Northwest and on the Pacific coast, reducing the yield be- 
low an average. The Colorado beetle was successfully resisted in many 
counties by the prompt administration of Paris green and other reme- 
dies, in the use of which farmers, by experience, have acquired greater 
skill. In the Northern Trans- Mississippi: ‘Territories the grasshopper is 
_ reported as devouring this with other,crops. In several of our reports 
