is mainly used iu the South for winter pasture, and only the seed is 

 required for the next crop. Product, 14,891,000 bushels, 98 per cent, of 

 the last crop. 



The Eastern States and New York have increased yields of oats; 

 New Jersey and Pennsylvania show a decrease. The Southern States 

 mostly report decreased yields, the reduction being marked in Arkansas 

 and Tennessee ; and in the Western States the decrease is generally 

 heavy. The following figures will illustrate the decline : 



The comparative scarcity is everywhere indicated by increase in 

 prices. Product, 240,000,000 bushels, a decline of nearly 30,000,000 

 bushels. 



Barley yields somewhat less than last year iu the Western States ; in 

 the Eastern, where little is grown, there has been an improvement in the 

 rate of production. Product, 32,704,000, 1 per cent, increase. 



Potatoes. — The yield in all of the New England States, except Ehode 

 Island, exceeds one hundred bushels per acre; of the remaining States, 

 only New York, Florida, California, and Oregon reach that average. In 

 the West the ravages of the beetle are less marked and the rate of yield 

 generally increased, as the following estimates of yield per acre, in 

 bushels, indicate : 



The aggregate is 106,000,000 bushels, about the same as the previous 

 crop. 



Tobacco gives the smallest aggregates made in many years, both the 

 area in cultivation and rate of yield being small. A special report will 

 be made in the next monthly upon this crop. 



Hay. — In nearly all of the Atlantic States the yields are greater than 

 last year, and in many of the Central and Western are somewhat smaller. 

 A few figures will serve to illustrate this fact : 



The yield iu 1873 was averaged at 1.14 tons per acre ; in 1875, 1.16 tons. 

 The product aggregates about 25,500,000 tons, an increase of 500,000 

 tons. 



