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reports the lightest, and Knox the poorest, crop ever raised; Lee, 
almost a complete failure; Wisconsin— Washington, drought and beetles; 
Calumet and St. Croix, beetles; Richland reports that winter had set 
yet in, and Outagamie that the snow was a foot deep, and many fields not 
dug; Minnesota—Kandiyohi, drought and beetles; Redwood, drought 
and grasshoppers; Martin, grasshoppers; Iowa—Ringgold, Clarke, 
Montgomery, Boone, and Louisa, drought; Harrison, drought and 
grasshoppers; Fayette, Audubon, and Winneshiek, drought and beetles ; 
Plymouth, grasshoppers; Story and Benton, early frosts; Missouri— 
Baxter, Perry, and Maries, drought; Pettis and Maries, beetles; Bax- 
ter, Adair, Laclede, and Stone report half a crop; Clinton one-fifth, and 
Anderson an entire failure; Kansas—Miami, Clay, Bourbon, Labette, 
and Montgomery, drought; Smith, beetles, worms, and grasshoppers; 
Nebraska—Pawnee and Nemaha, drought; Thayer, beetles and frost; 
throughout the three States last named early plantings appear to have 
produced much better in yield and quality than late. In California—San 
Luis Obispo, the crop was greatly injured by grasshoppers, and in 
Oregon, Tillamook, by blight. Returns from the Territories are gener- 
ally favorable, but Deer Lodge, Montana, reports one-third of the crop 
frozen in the ground in September, and in Clallam, Washington, the* 
rot had appeared for the first time. 
The following are specimens of current prices reported: Vermont— 
Orleans, 35 cents per bushel; Indiana—Perry, 75 cents; Illinois—White- 
side and Bureau, $1.25; Macon, $1.40; Hancock, $1.20; Iowa, Ring- 
gold, 75 cents ; Pottawattamie, 60 to 80 cents; Des Moines, $1 to $1.20; 
Kansas—Coffee, 80 cents; Nebraska—Adams, 65 to 95 cents; Otoe, $1 
and rising; Idaho—Nes Perces, 50 to 75 cents. 
Marine.— Waldo: Light crop; shortened by drought and frost. Oxford : Crop light, 
but of good quality. Piscataquis: Will fall short a tenth; some plantings of extra 
yield and quality; one farmer raised 390 bushels per acre. Androscoggin: Crop light, 
but good. Cumberland: Yield large, quality excellent. 
New HampsHireE.—Hillsborough: Crop large and good. Carroll: Turned out splen- 
didly ; one farmer raised 3753 bushels per acre of fine tubers; one weighed 34 pounds. 
VERMONT.—Lamoille : Unusually good; larger percentage of starch than usual, with 
less rot. Rutland: Crop large and excellent. ssec: Never better. Franklin: Most 
excellent ; marked contrast with last year. Orleans: Very ripe and good; selling at 
35 cents per bushel at the starch factories. 
MassACHUSETTS.— Berkshire: Of good quality, but shortened by drought. Franklin: 
Good; average 50 cents per bushel. Norfolk: Abundant, and of better quality than 
for several years. 
CONNECTICUT.— Windham : Never finer. 
New York.—Yates: Yield fully up to last year; many tubers diseased. Seneca: 
Yield moderate, quality good. Warren: More sound than common. Chemung: Well 
matured on light dry soils, but not on heavy clay or strong loam. JVashington: Peer- 
less and late Rose rotting badly; price low. Tioga: Earlier varieties rotted on loam 
soils, on account of wet. Saint Lawrence: Excellent. Hrie: Well harvested and 
closely sold up at 40 and 50 cents per bushel. Columbia: Fine in yield and quality. 
Rockland: Early plantings a half crop; late much better and of good quality. Gen- 
esee: Very fine. Albany: Suffered from drought. Ontario: Yield light; more or less 
rot. Wyoming: Did well. Otsego: Potatoes a fine large crop. Alleghany: Very short. 
New JeRsEY.—Altlantic ; Unusually good; abundant rain since August. Mercer: 
Early potatoes shortened by drought; late plantings yielded heavily, but the quality 
was materially damaged by rot. Burlington: Late potatoes have done well; Early 
Rose, planted June 26, received the first premium at our county fair; White Peach 
Blows, planted July 2, were the best I ever saw. Union: Early Rose a very short 
crop; Peach Blows came out better than was expected. Hudson: Slightly injured by 
summer drought. 
PENNSYLVANIA.—Cambria: Much affected by rot; one farmer lost 1,500 bushels. 
Clinton : Good, and in some cases extraordinary, especially the “ Peerless.” Northum- 
berland: Better than last year and a fourth more in yield. Wyoming: On grass lawns 
rotting very badly. Northampton: Yielded better than last year, but three-fourths of 
the crop affected by dry rot. lk: Considerably injured by bugs. Beaver: Crops 
light; tubers small. Lawrence: Half a crop, and poor quality from bugs. bayettes 
