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average, but better than last year. Cross: Not over 75 per cent. of an average: 
injured by spring rains and summer drought: Craighead: A gain in lint over last year. 
Garland: Shortened 15 per cent. in quantity and 30 per cent. in quality by drought 
and army-worms. Hempstead: Damaged greatly by worms; fiber generaliy short but 
sound and clean. Crittenden: Late and caught by frost. Little River: Damaged by 
wet spring; worms took the top-crop, cutting down the yield at least 10 per cent. 
TENNESSEE.—Lauderdale: Not so good as was expected. Haywood: No top-crop ; 
crop cut short a third by drought following excessive rains; 15,000 bales last year ; 
middling now selling at 10 cents. Shelby: Damaged 50 per cent. by caterpillars and 
boll-worms. Hancock: Does well on sunny slopes and river-bottoms. Obion: Best 
erop for ten years. Giles; Fine gathering season. Lincoln: The yield will be larger 
than last reported ; fine. picking season. Putnam: Unusually good. Fayette: Cotton 
but two-thirds of a crop. 
KENTUCKY.—Graves : Cotton culture increasing. 
Missourt.—Ripley : Will market 500 bales against 200 last year. Stoddard: A little 
below average, but the large increase of acreage raises the aggregate yield to 120, as 
eompared with last year. Dallas: Cotton culture increasing. Pemiscot: Three times 
the acreage of last year, but the yield per acre was below average ; frost cut short the 
crop at least 10 per cent. 
Kansas.—Labette: Cotton quite a success in: a small way. Montgomery: Cotton 
would pay if there were gins accessible. 
POTATOES. 
Our returns make the average product of potatoes throughout the 
country 15 per cent. less than last year. As the crop was then esti- 
mated 113,516,000 bushels, a falling off of about 17,000,000 bushels is 
indicated. The product equals that of 1872 in Delaware; exceeds it in 
New Hampshire, Virginia, Arkansas, and Oregon, 103; Vermont, 122 ; 
Massachusetts and Connecticut, 101; New Jersey and Georgia, 102; 
South Carolina, 104; Florida, 125; and Alabama, 116; is lessin Maine, 
82; Rhode Island, 90; New York, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, 95 ; 
Maryland and California, 96; North Carolina and Texas, 92; Missis- 
sippi, 99; Louisiana and Tennessee, 97; West Virginia, 93; Kentucky, 
81; Ohio, 78; Indiana, 80; Illinois, 57; Minnesota, 75; Iowa and Ne- 
braska, 40; Missouri, 58; Kansas, 46. The variations from last year’s 
product in some of the principal potato-growing States are about as fol- 
lows: Increase— Vermont, 918,000 bushels; decrease— New York, 
1,187,000; Pennsylvania, 558,000 ; Kentucky, 408,000; Ohio, 1,705,000 ; 
Indiana, 560,000; Illinois, 4,157,000; Minnesota, 553,000; Iowa, 3,979,000 ; 
Missouri, 1,132,000 ; Kansas, 2,051,000; Nebraska, 575,000. In all sec- 
tions the quality, except where affected with rot, is represented as su- 
perior. Among the causes of diminished product are specified : Maine, 
Waldo County, drought and frost; New York—Washington, Yates, 
Tioga, and Ontario, rot; Albany, drought; New Jersey—Hudson, 
drought; Mercer, drought and rot; Pennsylvania—Cumberland, Wy- 
oming, Northampton, Lehigh, Bucks, and Lancaster, rot; Elk, Law- 
rence, Fayette, and Armstrong, beetles; Maryland—Dorchester and 
Baltimore, drought; Virginia—Orange, frost and drought ; Highland, 
rot, worms, and beetles; Texas—Burnet, grasshoppers; Arkansas—Gar- 
land, beetles and rot; Tenrtessee—Dickson and Coffee, drought; Hick- 
man, rot; West Virginia—Burleigh, Brooke, and Baxter, insects; Mou- 
galia, rot; Kentucky—Shelby, drought; Anderson and Livingston, 
Colorado beetle; Ohio—Washington, Franklin, Medina, Loraine, Craw- 
ford, Geauga, Hamilton, and Mercer, Colorado beetles; Fulton, Hen- 
ry, Wyandotte, and Mercer, drought; Michigan—Mason, drought ; 
Ottawa and Oceana, drought and beetles ; Calhoun, beetles; Indi- 
ana—Warren, and Brown, drought; Martin, Owen, and Ohio, drought 
and beetles; [llinois—Henry, drought; Tazewell, Mason, and Boone, 
drought and bugs; Clinton, bugs and wet; Sangamon, beetles; Cass 
