522 
viz, Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Oregon, and Rhode 
Island. The reduction in the principal corn-growing States is made as 
follows: Kentucky, 4 per cent.; Ohio, 11; Michigan, 17; Indiana, 22; 
Illinois, 29; Wisconsin, 13; Minnesota, 10; Iowa, 28; Missouri, 32; Kan- 
sas, 31; Nebraska, 40. Last year’s estimate for Illinois was two hun- 
dred and seventeen millions; the present, one hundred and thirty-two 
millions—a difference of eighty-five millions. The percentages in the 
following principal counties, each of which produces from one to five 
millions in an average season, are: Montgomery, 33; Mason, 40; Adams, 
Bureau, De Witt, Moultrie, Piatt, Stevenson, Vermillion, 50; Mercer, 
55 ; Cass, Lee, Marshall, Whitesides, Winnebago, 60; Hancock, Knox, 
Tazewell, 65; Ogle, 66; Edgar, Pike, Warren, 70; Sangamon, 72; Car- 
Douglas, roll, McHenry, Marion, Wayne, 75; Henry, Macon, 80; Starke, 
Saint Clair, 90; Madison, 100. . 
Fhe reduction is heavy also inslowa; the following counties, which 
count by millions of bushels, returning percentages as follows: Fre- 
mont, Marion, 50; Benton, Jefferson, Mills, 60; Tama, 65; Madison, 70; 
Clinton, Jones, Mehaska, 75; Iowa, Lee, 80; Jackson, 85; Linn, 90. 
The percentage for New York is 92; for Pennsylvania, 84; Tennessee, 
91; Mississippi, 85; Arkansas, 90; Texas,75. Nebraska gives the low- 
est percentage; Florida the highest. A classification of the counties 
show that, of 983 represented, 652 return smaller products than those 
of 1872 ; 185 larger, and 146 the same as last year, as follows: 
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The quality of corn is reported poorer than last year in nearly all the 
States, the only exceptions being Massachusetts, Virginia, Florida, 
