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Connecricut.—New Haven: Excellent where not frosted. 
PENNSYLVANIA.—Lancaster : Crop short. $ 
MARYLAND.—Howard : Good season and good crop. 
Vireinis.— Madison: Generally cut before frost, and curing handsomely. Fluvanna: 
Full crop, though much of it was late. Pittsylvania: Did not recover from July drought. 
Rockbridge: Failed; did not get a good stand. Chesterfield: Heavy yield, but badly 
.frosted. Buckingham: Large crop well secured; fine harvest-season. Mecklenburg: 
Short crop planted and it failed to mature; much was cut green. Spottsylvania: Crop 
large; season fine; no frost until October 13. Orange: Crop had a bad start, but sub- 
sequent good weather made a fair yield. Goochland: More tobacco made than in any 
year since the war; quality good. Cumberland: Very fine. Nelson: Much had to be 
cut green to escape frost; curing season good. Dinwiddie: Scarcity of plants and in- 
creased cotton culture reduced the acreage; crop injured by rains. 
NorTH CAROLINA.—Person: Yield heavy and good. Alamance: Poor stand at start- 
ing; grew rapidly later in the season, but produced but little fine tobacco; cut before 
ripening. Forsyth: Good and secured. Rockingham: Heavy, but inferior on account 
of late rains. Caswell: Planting delayed by drought; later rains caused a second 
growth, which did not mature well; fine tobacco scarce. 
FLoripa.—Gadsden: Large increase of Cuba tobacco. 
ALABAMA.— Crenshaw : Acreage 25 per cent. increase; yield 25 per cent. above aver- 
age. Hancock: Increased acreage and good quality; seed mostly brought from Ha- 
vana. 
TENNESSEE.— Dickson : Good crop well secured; injured somewhat by worms. Obion : 
Very good. Williamson: Acreage 25 per cent. less; quality 25 per cent. better. Sum- 
ner: Injured by frost in some places; increased acreage will make up the deficiency ; 
Smith: Ten per cent. over last year’s yield. Trousdale: Not so good leaf as last year. 
Putnam: Crop large, excellent, and well secured. Jobertson: About 600 pounds per 
acre average ; quality 25 per cent. below last year. 
“West VirGINIA.—Grant: Badly frosted. Mercer: Very good; increase acreage ; 
more attention to this crop. 
KENTUCKY.—Hardin: Above average in quantity, but inferior in quality. Oldham: 
Secured in good order; shortened by drought. Adair: Larger acreage than ever be- 
fore ; late planted and somewhat frosted. Laurel: Above average in spite of frost. 
Nicholas: Drought injured late plantings; worms bad. Pendleton: Stand late and 
consequently ripened late, reducing the quality, though but little was frosted. Taylor: 
Crop greatly reduced by wet early season and subsequent drought. Clinton: Great 
increase in tobacco culture; aggregate yield five times as great as last year. Henry: 
Depreciated by early frosts; late planted on account of drought. McLean: Injured by 
extreme wet weather. Anderson; Average. Livingslon: Well saved; not frosted. 
OuI0.—Medina: Leaves somewhat eaten by grasshoppers, preventing their use as 
cigar-wrappers. ; 
InDIANA.—Dubois : Shortened greatly by drought. Ripley: Somewhat frosted. 
Brown: Increased acreage; late planted; considerably frosted. Edwards: Good in 
spite of worms. 
WIsConsIN.—Clark: Damaged by wet spring and early frosts. Adams: Injured by 
early frosts. 
Missourl.— Moniteau: Badly frosted. Clinton: Increased acreage, but some of it in- 
jured by early frosts. Howard: Injured by frost. Carroll: Early planting fine; late, 
damaged by frost. Franklin: Much injured by worms. Stone: Full 25 per cent. above 
last year in yield, but nearly worthless, having taken a second growth. Cass: Frost 
caught most of the tobacco. 
Kansas. —Lubetle : Experimental crops promising. 
CALIFORNIA.— Alameda: Not extensively grown, but under a new method of treat- 
ment it is thought to be equal to Havana. 
ORrEGON.—Tillamook : Growth small, but quality excellent. 
FRUIT. 
MAINE,—Cumberland : Short crop of apples, owing to freezing last winter, and to an ' 
extensive yield last year. Sagadahoc: Almost a failure; a hard blow in September 
took off half the apples left on the trees; pears very fair. Androscoggin: Grapes above 
average ; apples a failure; pears light. Piscataquis: Apples a very small crop; largely 
blown off by the September gale. 
NEw HampsHire.—Carroll: Cider $10 per barrel. Hillsborough: Apples few; pears 
abundant; grapes a fair crop. 
VERMONT.—Caledonia.—In the west of the county the crop is double last year’s; in 
the central and eastern portions but half as great. Franklin: Apples better than ex- 
pected ; choice varieties scarce, but cider-apples plenty. 
MASSACHUSETTS.— Berkshire: Grape-crop full; the valuable varieties have ripened 
