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GrEORGIA.— McDuffie: Never better. 
Trexas.— Wood: Crop made before the drought set in, and hence good. 
TENNESSEE.—WVadison: Very poor crop. Lawrence: Much damaged by drought. 
Dickson: Late plantings shortened by drought and bugs. Jonroe: Better than for 
several years. Blount: Probably a failure, Fentress: Good. 
West Vircinra.—Zyler: Not much injured by bugs. Brooke: Poor crop; injured 
by Colorado-beetle. Fayette: About average. Jefferson: Late plantings did not fill 
well. Marion: Dug early to escape grub-worms. Braxton: Good. Pleasants: Much 
injured by bugs. 
Kentucky.—Jefferson: A fair crop—say two-thirds average—will be gathered in 
spite of the bug. Shelby: Not over 40 per cent. of an average. Russell: Good. 
Oun10.—Warren: Half crop, but good quality. Crawford: Saved from Colorado- 
beetles by Paris-green and systematic picking. rie: Injured some by bugs but more 
by blight. Geauga: Bugs destructive; crop fine where these did not appear. MJahon- 
ing: Materially damaged by bugs. Medina: Late potatoes poor; decreased acreage. 
Adams: Acreage larger than ever before; yield per acre greater than usual. Delaware: 
Below average ; season unfavorable. 
MIcHIGAN.—Ottawa: Injured by bugs. Martin: Late potatoes shortened by drought. 
Cass: Injured by drought and frost. Mecosta: Late potatoes frosted. 
InpIANAa.—Steuben: Small, but of excellent quality. Hamilion: Light crop. Decatur: 
Damaged by Colorado beetle and common bugs. : 
InirNo1s.—Jersey : Potatoes scarce; late plantings almost a failure. Macon: Nearly 
eaten up by bugs; shortened also by drought. Bureaw: Small and few. Carroll: 
Killing frost, September 14. Massac: Injured by drought. Moultrie: Reduced to a 
fourth of a crop by drought. Pope: Injured by drought. Lee: Nearly a total failure. 
Boone: Shortened by drought and bugs. McLean: Almost a failure. Knox: Late 
potatoes nearly a failure. Montgomery: Wilted by hot sunshine when setting the 
vines. 
Wisconsin.—Crawford: Late plantings injured by frost. Walworth: Unexpectedly 
large yield and good quality. _ Ozaukee: Late potatoes a failure through drought; 
early plantings a success, especially Early Rose. Clarke: Late plantings destroyed by 
cold, wet weather. Dunn: Partial failure through drought and chinch-bugs. Douglass: 
Injured by frost both in quantity and in quality. Richland: Half a crop. Vernon: 
Injured by drought. 
MINNESOTA.—Ramsey: Neglected crops used up by bugs. Blue Earth: Badly in- 
jured by diought. Nicollet: Crop light ; bugs more numerous than ever before. Led- 
wood: Late potatoes a failure through drought and early frost. Blue Earth: Ruined 
by drought. 
Iowa.—Cass: Shortened by drought nearly 40 per cent. Calhoun: Small and few. 
Harrison: Reduced plantings; shortened by grasshoppers and drought ; crop nothing 
to compare with last year’s fine yield. Marion: Failed through drought. Union: 
Shortened by extreme drought. Jowa: Injured by frost. Muscatine: Drought and bugs 
have greatly reduced the crop; most of those gathered are very small, except Early 
Rose. Jefferson: Ruined by drought. Scott: Shortened by drought. Marshall: Short 
but good. Taylor: Almosta failure through drought. Mitchell: Excellent. Monona: 
Many fields entirely failed ; having planted 700 acres Iam buying my potatoes. 
Missovuri.—Adair: Late plantings not half a crop ; shortened by drought. Worth: 
Reduced by drought to a half crop; quality good. Daviess: Alllate plantings injured 
by drought. Pulaski: Injured by drought. Grundy: Scarce. Shelby: Early plantings 
fair ; late ones scarcely any yield. 
Kansas.—Labette: Shortened by drought. Bourbon: May behalf acrop. Clay: Dam- 
aged by drought. Kansas: Very scarce through drought. Montgomery: Light, unless 
the autumn be favorable. Coffey: Shortened by drought. Cherokee: Improved by late 
rains. Cowley: Moderate. Douglas: Early Rose did well; later varieties short. Reno: — 
Early potatoes good; late ones scarcely worth digging. Washington: Reduced by 
drought and bugs‘to a fifth of a crop. Shawnee: Drought left but few potatoes. 
Nesraska.—Madison : Colorado-beetles have been very destructive; cut down the 
crop one-half. Nemaha: Nearer a failure than ever before. Gage: Late potatoes will 
not return much more than their seed. 
Nrvaps.—Esmeralda: No frost yet to kill potato-vines ; season favorable. 
SWEET POTATOES. 
The average condition of this crop isin, Virginia, 101 ; South Carolina, 
102; Georgia and Alabama,104; Florida, 110; Texas, 117; West Vir- 
ginia, 100; in the remaining States which grow the crop (éxcept Penn- 
sylvania, 105, in which it is grown on a limited scale) the condition is 
below average, the range being between 99 in Mississippi and Arkan- 
sas and 79 in Illinois. 
