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- large quantity secured in good order; tame-grass culture increasing. Phelps: Very 
good. Franklin: Good. Newton: Shortened by drought; quality good. Cole: Splen- 
did crop and secured in the finest order. 
Kansas.—Nemaha: Very large quantities put up and of superior quality. Clay: 
Large quantities of hay as well as wheat in the field burned by prairie-fires. Jefferson : 
Crop short but well secured and in good order. Cowles: Good, and got up in good con- 
dition. 
NEBRASKA.— Antelope : Crop large and excellent; allof natural grasses. Sage: Much 
hay and stacked grain destroyed by prairie-fires. 
CaLiIvoRNIA.—San Luis Obispo: Pastures poor; without speedy rain live stock must 
suffer. 
OrEGON.—Tillamook: Acreage of hay double last year’s; yield increased. Douglas: 
More or less injured by June and July rains; grass will be short the coming winter. 
Uran.—Kane: Hay, mostly alfalfa, a large crop, but late cuttings are inferior. ~ 
ARIZONA.— Yavapai: Increase of hay yield trom late rains and more acres cut; all 
wild grass except 150 tons of Hungarian, alfalfa, &c. Santa Ava: A complete fail- 
ure. Thurston: Abundant, but not well secured. 
SUGAR-CANE. 
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In all the Gulf States there are counties reporting the cultivation of 
sugar-cane to some extent. But outside of Louisiana it is evident that 
this production is small. In Georgia all the counties reporting show a 
crop in advance of last year’s, which is probably the result of increased 
acreage, as injuries to the cane-crop are reported in some localities from 
drought anda in others from excessive rains. In Florida, which returned 
50 per cent. more sugar in the late census than Georgia, there was more 
variation in the yield, several counties reporting a decrease. Much in- 
jury was done to the crop by the severe gales of September. All the 
counties reporting sugar-cane in Alabama indicate an inereased yield, 
but as the total crop of this State, reported in the census, amounted to only 
31 hogsheads, this increase will but lightly affect the general aggregate. 
The same remarks apply to Mississippi to a still greater degree. In 
Louisiana, several of the larger sugar-producing parishes indicate a yield 
equal to last year’s, while several smaller ones report an increase, but 
these indications are more than counterbalanced by adverse reports 
from severallarge parishes. Lafourche and Assumptiong which, together, 
produced 18.62 per cent. of last year’s crop of the State, (108,520 hogs- 
heads, according to Bouchereau,) this year show a decline, the former of 
15 and the latter of 20 percent. Several counties in Texas, whose sugar-. 
-erop was too small to find a place in the census, indicate a greatly in- , 
creased yield, but counties producing much larger crops report a serious 
decline. Brazoria, for instance, which returned 1,423 hogsheads of the 
2,020 reported ‘from the whole State in the census, estimates this 
year’s crop at only 65 per cent. of last year’s. In this county the stubble- 
crop is poor, while the acreage both in stubble and plant cane has been 
reduced. In some localities in Texas irrigation was used with good re- 
sults in the culture of sugar-cane. 
GrorGia.— Marion : Sugar-cane good, but would have been better with a seasonable 
fall; no rain for ten weeks. Liberty : Injured by rain. 
FLoripa.— Manatee: Much injured by storm of October 6. Jefferson: Damaged 10 
per cent. by late storms. Leon: Good, but suffered greatly by the gale of September 
19. Wakulla: Materially damaged by the September gale. Jackson: Acreage in- 
creased ; good as last year. Crenshaw : Grows well. 
LovuIsIANa.— Assumption : Greatly improved since last report. Hast Baton Rouge : 
Promising. Lafourche: Reports not encouraging. Rapides: Better than last year. 
Saint Mary: Stubble-cane a failure, yet the general average equals last year’s. 
TEXaAs.—San Saba: Does well with irrigation. Brazoria: Stubble poor: acreage of 
both stubble and plant cane less than last year. Titus: Does well. 
