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of seed. Cass: Almost a failure. Laclede: A fourth of a crop. Pemiscot: Silver-hull 
yielded well. 
Kansas.—Nemaha: Area largely increased, but very little has been harvested, and 
that of inferior quality ; silver-hull did best. Howard: Silver-hull from the Depart- 
ment failed through drought. Shawnee: Mostly killed by early frost. Washington: 
Killed by early frost. Jefferson: Nearly a failure through drought. Labette: Almost 
a failure from drought. Woodson: A total failure; even the silver-hull, which last year 
‘yielded 50 per cent. more than the common seed, failed through drought. Coffey : Hardly 
half acrop. Cowley: Silver-hull not successful here. Osage: Ruined by drought and 
insects. Smith: A failure. Cherokee: Silver-hull destroyed by prairie-chickens. 
OREGON.—Grant : Materially injured by early frosts. 
Daxota.—Clay: A failure. 
IpaHo.—Bon Homme: Killed by early frosts. Nez Perce: Silver-huil from Depart- 
ment did well though late sown. 
BEANS AND PEASE. 
Maine.— Piscataquis: Beans largely killed by frost August 28. Androscoggin: Beans 
good, 
VERMONT.— Franklin : Decreased acreage, but the steck of merchantable beans is 
larger than last year. Lampille: Beans raised on a larger scale than formerly by a few 
farmers. 
New Yor«.— Tioga: Beans and pease good. JVyoming: Beans a large yield. 
Virernta.— Clarke: Abundant and good. | 
NortH Carorina.—Chowan; Pease a half crop. Gaston: Pea-crop unusually fair. 
Greene: Early frost eut the pea-crop short 25 per cent. Haywood: Beans very prolific. 
Martin: Pease a good crop. 
SoutH Carorina.—IVilliamsburgh: Pease a fine crop, but harvesting is costly, en- 
croaching on the margin of profits. Marlborough : Pease nearly a failure. 
GEORGIA.—Jackson : Beans and pease very good. Whitfield: Pea-crop large and sound. 
TEXxAs.— Upshur: Fine pea-crop, helping out the deficient corn-crop. Cherokee: Pea- 
crop fine. 
ARKANSAS.—Bradley : Increased acreage. Garland: Pease cut short by drought, but 
equal to last year ; beans yielded a surplus and sold well. 
TENNESSEE.—Blount : Pease good. 
Wesr Virernra— Mercer: Beans and pease good. 
On10.— Washington : Beans largely planted to meet the anticipated deficiency in 
potatoes. Medina: Beans extensively planted to make up an anticipated deficiency 
in potatoes, but grasshoppers and aly, frosts diminished the yield to an average. 
MicHigan.—Livingston : Beans a good yield of good quality. 
ILLINOIS.—Knox: Beans frosted. 
WIsconsin.—Dodge: Beans a good crop and well cured. 
Minnesora.—Steele : Small crops, but fair. 
lowsa.—Monona: Beans and pease planted in larger quantities than ever before, but 
destroyed by grasshoppers. 
Missourt.—Laclede : Beans half crop. 
NEBRASKA.—Antelope: Beans rusted badly ; much eaten by grasshoppers. 
OREGON.—Grant: Beans materially injured by frost. 
Urau.—San Pete: Beans light, but good; pease not so abundant as last year, bury of 
excellent quality. 
Ipsno.—Ada: Beans injured by frosts. 
Daxora.—Bonhomme : Beans injured by grasshoppers. 
New Mexico.—Mora: Better than last year, but below average. Dona Ana: Beans 
and pease injured by lack of water. 
TOBACCO. 
The average in comparison with last year is 94. The returns for to- 
baceo make the yield above that of Lance in West Virginia, 129; 
Kansas, 114; Arkansas, 108; Virginia, 102; Illinois, 101; New Hamp- 
shire, New York, Texas, and Oregon, 100. The other States range 
between 70 in Pennsylvania and 98 in South Carolina and Florida. 
In condition, Connecticut reports an average of 135; Massachusetts, 
120; New Hampshire, 118; Vermont, 110; Maryland, Louisiana, and 
Oregon, 106; IJXansas, 102; Virginia, Georgia, and Alabama, 101 
Other States ran ge between 100 in Illinois and 91 in Missouri. 
MASSACHUSETTS.— Franklin : Tobacco is doing well; no pole-sweat; scarcity of money 
“SV prevent the early marketing of the crop. 
