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only in those States whose yield is too small to greatly affect the gen- 

 eral result. 



The crop has beeu increased in several localities of Yirgiuia in con- 

 sequence of the establishment of tobacco-foctories. Tobacco-flies were 

 noted in Pittsylvania. In some counties of North Carolina the labor- 

 questiou was affecting somewhat the growth of the crop, Gadsden, 

 Florida, finds the Cuba tobacco the crop specially adapted to poor men. 

 One county in Kentnck^^ reports ten times the acreage of last year; 

 cultivation and prospects generally satisfactory. In Missouri grass- 

 hoppers have taken to tobacco-chewing, but no damage greatly affecting 

 the crop of the State is reported. 



CoxNECTicuT. — Xcw London : Three weeks late, but looks unusually thrifty. 



Pennsylvania. — Cumherland : Very unpromising. 



Maryland. — Charles : Acreage large. Calvert : Some increase of acreage ; stands 

 well on the ground. Harvard: Increased acreage. 



Virginia. — Powhatan : The crop promises well. Bland : Crop increased in conse- 

 quence of the establishment of several new factories. Sjwttsylvania : Large acreage 

 and promising growth. Fittfiylrania : Somewhat late planted ; some plants troubled 

 with flies. Henry: Full crop planted ; looks well. IHnwiddie : Tobacco replacing cot- 

 ton ; large area planted. Halifax : Good stand, and growing well. Mecllenhurgli : 

 Starting finely; good season for setting out plants. Campbell: Large crop planted; 

 looks well. Chesterfield: Large crop planted, and doing well. Goochland: Unfavor- 

 able planting-season. Prince George : Acreage increased 2o per cent. ; stand bad. 



North Carolina. — Yancey : More planted for family use than common. Caswell : 

 Acreage reduced, in consequence of the diminution of farm-laborers within three years. 

 Alamance: Acreage increased 25 per cent, above average. • Z>arid!80?i : Doing well. 

 Davie : Larger acreage than ever before. Buncombe : Double last year's acreage ; 

 excellent planting-season. 



Georgia. — Hall : Shortened by drought. 



Floridx.— Gadsden : Acreage in Cuba tobacco doubled ; it is our best crop for poor 

 men. 



Texas. — Titus : Too dry ; looks badly. 



Tennessee. — Smith: Four times the acreage of last year. Greene: Many tobacco- 

 consumers are raising their own supplies. Houston: Extraordinarily fine. Trousdale: 

 One of the largest crops ever planted. 



"West Virginia. — JVetsel : Plants just being set out ; weather seasonable. 



Kentucky. — Carroll : Large crop planted. Hardin : A fine season for planting, and a 

 great deal yet to plant. IVarren : Acreage double ; present condition good. Adair : Recent 

 rains have caused the setting of a large crop. Christian : Promising very fine ; acreage 

 one-fourth more than usual. Itussell : Setting ten times that of last year, and at least 

 four times the usual crop ; season good. Owen : One-fourth above an average ; flatter- 

 ing ])rospect of a large yield. Metcalfe : Full crop planted. Logan : A very large crop 

 planted, and looking very well. Harrison : Four times the acreage of 1874. Graves : 

 A fine season for tobacco ; a large crop planted. Gallatin : A large crop ; reported as 

 " rotting off at the ground" by wet weather. Edmonson : The greatest acreage of tobacco 

 ever known in the couuty. Callaway : A larger crop than in any previous year ; gen- 

 erally looks well. Breckinridge: Crop unusually large; stand good. Cumberland: 

 Crop ten times that of last year; set with good plants, in due time; land well ijre- 

 pared, and is growing rapidly. 



Indiana. — Dubois : Acreage two or three times that of any former year ; set in good 

 time, and doing well. 



Missouri. — Chariton : Large acreage ; crop well planted, and doing well. Camden : 

 Tobacco-growing rapidly increasing. Adair : Ten per cent, more plants set out than 

 last year. Lincoln : Many plants killed by the freeze of April 17. Carroll : Chewed up 

 by grasshoppers. 



SUGAE-CANE. 



Mississippi reports an increased acreage of 8 per cent., and Georgia 

 of 1 per cent. The other sugar-producing States, however, show a 

 decline. Louisiana, which j^roduces the great mass of American cane- 

 sugar, is 2 per cent, below last year's acreage 5 South Carolina, 3 

 per cent. ; Texas, 5 per cent. ; Alabama, 6 per cent. ; and Florida, 14 

 per cent. Louisiana reports average condition, and Mississippi, 3 per 

 cent, above. The other States are all below average from 3 to 10 per 



