483, 
ALABAMA.—Geneva: Fine. Crenshaw: Above average. 
Louistana.— Terrebonne : Plant cane good ; stubble cane very poor. Japides: Plant 
cane a fair ayerage; stubble a failure. 
Trxas.— Titus: Promises a heavy yield, but facilities for manufacture are limited> 
FATTENING CATTLE. 
The number of fattening cattle is equal to or greater than last year’s 
report in Vermont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, 
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, 
Tennessee, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, 
and Oregon. All the other States show a decrease. Average number, 
91 per cent.; average condition, 97 per cent. 
4 The following notes show the condition of fall pastures in different 
tates: 
Maine.— York: Pastures unusually good ; extra growth of live stock will balance the 
loss in grain. 
New Hampsuire.—Cheshire: Continuous rains have brought out a heavy second 
growth of grass; grazing facilities extra. 
Connecticut.—New London; Fall feed better than for many years. 
New Yor«.— Yates: Pasture better than usual. Warren: Pastures and meadows 
seldom better; hay cropshort. Genesee: Fall feed abundant. Schoharie: Second crop 
of clover hay better than the first; pastures fresh and good. Rockland: Aftermath 
heavy, helping out the short hay crop. Columbia: Fall pastures good. Ontario: Fall 
feed good. 
NEw JERSEY.—Sussex : Excellent fall pastures. 
PENNSYLVANIA.— Cambria: Hay good; second crop very good, York: Weather fine 
for a large second hay-crop and for abundant pasture. Crawford: Drought injured 
hay and pastures, but the latter is reviving under the late rains. 
MARYLAND.—Baltimore: Fall pastures never better. Cecil: Fall pastures greatly 
mproved. 
VIRGINIA.—Spottsylvania: Large hay-crop; pastures very fine. Nelson: Pastures 
greatly enriched by August rains. Halifax: Fall pastures fine. 
SoutH Carorina.—Greenville: We have cut three crops of hay from fields manured 
with barn-yard. Richland: Pasturage good. Orangeburg: Kentucky blue-grass a 
failure. Lexington: Italian rye-grass and Kentucky blue-grass experiments failed. 
GEORGIA.—Jefferson: Rains have impeded hay harvest; crab-grass exceedingly 
abundant; it is the cheapest crop that can be raised, yet it is much neglected. 
FiLoriwsa.—Santa Rosa: Last cutting of hay large and valuable, owing to the moist- 
ure of the growing season. 
Texas.—dusiin: Prairie pasture better than for many years, and hence cattle are in 
unusually fine condition. Harris: Rains have brought out grass-crops finely; hay in 
great abundance, and cattle are in better order than for years. 
ARKANSAS.—Arkansas: Pasture drying up. Fulton: Prairie-grass remarkably good, 
remaining green longer than usual. 
TENNESSEE.—Jackson: Italian rye-grass probably a failure on account of late sow- 
ing. Bradley: Young clover injured by grasshoppers. Grainger: Pastures very good. 
Montgomery : Pastures given out. Medina: Pastures splendid, and cattle consequently 
in excellent condition. 
Wesr VirGINIA.—Grant: Fallfeed plenty. Marion: Fall pastures good. Pendleton: 
Pastures injured by drought. Monongahela: Fine growth of grass during the latter 
part of summer, which will make up, in part, for the short hay-crop. 
KentTucky.—Jefferson: Fall pastures greatly improved by late rains. Shelby: Grass- _ 
crops shortened by drought. Metcalf: Pastures shorter than ever known. Spencer: 
Pastures dried up. Miner: Pastures injured by drought. 
Out0.—Craeford : Grasshoppers nearly ruined clover. 
MicnicaNn.—Hillsdale: Fall feed good; fine fall rains. Newaygo; Fall pasture grow- 
ing finely. Mecosta: Fall feed good. 
Ixprana.—Brown: Fall pastures dried up. Orange: Pastures reviving. Marion: 
Fall pastures very poor. Martin: Pastures dried up; cattle falling in flesh. Warren: 
Fall pasture good. Shelby: Pastures failing from drought. Jennings: Pastures nearly 
dried up. 
Inuinors.— Winnebago: Pastures bare; little or no grass in the meadows; many are 
feeding stock already. Bureau: Pastures short; cattle are already being fed on soft 
corn. Carroll: Late rains have partially restored the dry pastures. Kankakee: After- 
feed scarce; cattle thin. Piatt: Fall pasture getting good. Knox: Pastures short. 
Wisconsin.—Jackson : Grass very short and poor, but improving. Green Lake: Pas- 
