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WISCONSIN.—Chippewa: Bugsvery plenty. Waukesha: Suffered from drought. Dane: 
Reduced acreage; best yield for several years. Pierce: Much destruction by bugs. 
Portage: Peachblows, no crop; early kinds pretty good. Milwaukee: Good, but short- 
ened by bugs. Douglas : Numerous, but late in appearing. 
Minnesota.—Blue Earth : Poor through drought. Winona: Potatoes have not grown 
for six weeks on account of drought. ‘Sherburne: Will be average in spite of bugs. 
Nicollet : Shortened by drought. ~ Stearns : Injured by bugs. Y 
Iowa.—Crawford: Injured by grasshoppers. Louisa: Shortened by drought. Wood- 
bury: A fourth of a erop ; cut short by grasshoppers. Benton: Injured by drought. 
Calhoun : Late potatoes, few and small.’ Chickasaw : Suffered from drought. Marion: 
Late potatoes shortened by drought. Clinton: Reduced three-fourths. by bugs and? 
drought. Black Hawk: Suffered from drought. Montgomery: Injured by drought. 
Story: Injured by drought 20 per cent. Fremont: Late potatoes only one-tenth of a 
crop on account of drought. Polk: Shortened by drought. Poltawatiomie: Very light 
crop ; injured by potato- bugs and grasshoppers. Audubon : Shortened by drought. Ring- 
gold: Injured by drought. " Mitchell: Excellent. Jefferson : Badly damaged by drought. 
Johnson : Shortened one-half by drought. Madison: Damaged by drought. 
Missourt.— Harrison: Late potatoes a failure. Saint Clair: Late potatoes almost a 
failure through drought. Boone: Only early varieties escaped drought and bugs. 
Jasper: Late ‘potatoes ‘suffering forrain. Barton: Burnt up. Nodaway: Nearly ruined. 
Phelps: Late potatoes nothing. Jefferson: Badly damaged by drought. Johnson: 
Shortened one-half by drou cht. Grundy: No late potatoes. 
Kansis.—Wabaunsee: A total failure in the eastern part of the county. Douglas: 
Need rain speedily. Miami: Late crops perishing for rain. Jefferson: Early potatoes 
good; late ones will be a failure without rain. Washington: Early potatoes almost a 
failure ; late rains make late ones more promising. Dickinson: Short crop. Ottawa: 
Colorado beetles very injurious. Shawanee: Late potatoes very poor. Greenwood: Late 
plantings will be benefited by laterains. Morris: Smalland scarce; worth 75 cents per 
bushel. Osage: Nearly ruined by drought. Coffee: Late potatoes suffering for rain. 
Jackson : Poor crop, though Early Rose did well. 
Nesraska.—Nemaha: Peachblows would do finely with rain; all others failures. 
Cass: Will be a failure without speedy rain. Boone: Damaged by grasshoppers. 
Thayer : Destroyed by bugs. 
CALIFORNIA.—Sonomea : “Large and geod crop ; prices low. 
OrrGon.— Tillamook : Potatoes still failing. ‘Columbia : Almost ruined by rot. 
DakotTa.—Clair : Late potatoes destroy ed by grasshopper. 
SWEET POTATOES. 
This crop is not cultivated in New England, and to only a limited ex- 
tent in the Middle States. A few counties reported in Maryland give 
average of 90; allthe other South Atlantic and Gulf States are above 
average except South Carolina 99 and Louisiana 95. Georgia is 
8 per cent. above average, fifty counties being embraced. Tennessee, 
West Virginia, and Oregon, are average, or slightly above. All the 
other States are below, Missouri, the lowest, being 75. 
ALABAMA.—Blount: Promise an extra crop. Coffee: Never better. Geneva: Good. 
Montgomery: Good. 
VIRGINIA.— Chesterfield : Very fine. Northampton: Very fine. 
NortH Caronina.—Gaston : Rain causes a large growth of vines with a small growth 
of roots. Cumberland : Prospect very good. Bertie: Very fine. 
Fioripa.— Wakulla: Promising. ‘Jackson : Yield large. 
Missourt.—Phelps : Will make nothing at all. 
Texas.—Coryell: Extrafine. Dailas : Very promising. Austin : Fine, fifty per cent bet- 
ter than last year, 
TENNESSEE.—Loudon : Running to vine. 
HAY AND PASTURES. 
The product of hay, including all kinds, in most of the States 
shows an increase over the previous year ranging from 2 per cent. 
in Kentucky and Wisconsin to = per cent. in Oregon. The States be- 
low average are Vermont, 92; Massachusetts, 91; Rhode Island, 74; 
Connec ticut, 96; New York, 74s New Jersey, 98; . Mississippi, 95; ; Ohio, 
97; Michigan, OA Missouri, 95’; Kansas, 92 ; California, 95. The pro- 
