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A splendid crop ; better tLaii for six years. Cole : Has ripened splendidly; it sells already 

 at $1 per barrel, equal to live bushels. 



Kansas. — EUsworih : Better than ever before. FranMin : The grasshopper corn is 

 almost safe from the frost; the worm is working iu it, and will injure it considerably. 

 Douglas : No frost to hurt our late-plauted corn, and the prospect is that it will ripen 

 well. Xemaha : Immense crop. Ellis: Very heavy crop. Woodson: Avast surplus, 

 and no outside demand. Jackson : The prospect for a heavy crop never better. Leaven- 

 worth : Planted in July, and tens of thousands of bushels are out of the way of frost. 

 Barton : Materially affected by a worm, resembling the cut-worm, which works in the 

 point of the ear while the corn is soft. They have damaged the product 2^> to 30 per 

 cent. Brown : The first planted, left by the grasshoppers, is excellent, and the late is 

 coming out very fair. Cloud: Ripening all right. Linn: Late planted generally, 

 though not all, out of the way of frost ; cut a little by it in low places on the morn- 

 ing of October 1. Osage: The finest crop I ever saw; much of it will average 7.5 

 bushels per acre ; all sound and good. Cherokee : Splendid ; early corn now fit to 

 gather. Labette : Beyond all expectations. Lgon : Very abundant and cheap. Mont- 

 gomery : Unusually large crop. Cowley : The best crop I have seen in this part of Kan- 

 sas. Allen : Very favorable weather for maturing our late corn. Graham ; Kipened 

 well. Shatvnee : Best crop for three years. 



Nebraska. — A good crop, making an average of 60 bushels per acre. Pawnee : Dam- 

 aged by frost September 20 to 22. Boone: Frosted September 16. Johnson: Niue- 

 tenths safe, and the yield never better. Burt : Looks well, and is about out of dan- 

 ger. Merrick : Good. Clay : Good ; will average about 40 bushels per acre. Otoe : 

 The wet season has promoted wonderfully the growth of the corn planted after the 

 grasshoppers left, yet much of it is likely to fail of ripening. Richardson : Looks 

 splendid ; that jilanted in July, after the grasshoppers left, now looks promising ; the 

 county will have a larger crop than ever before. 



EYE. 



The crop of 1874 was about an average one. The product reported 

 this year falls short of that about 4 per cent. The crop is fully equal to 

 last year's, in both yield and quality, iu New England, and does not 

 vary much from it in the South Atlantic and Gulf States, taken as a 

 whole. Among them, the greatest decrease in product is in Georgia, 8 

 per cent., and the greatest increase 30 per cent., and 8 per cent, in qual- 

 ity, in Texas, which reported last year 13 bushels as the average yield 

 per acre, and in Mississippi 9 per cent., and 3 per cent, in quality, on a 

 yield of 9.4 bushels per acre. Arkansas, yielding last year 12.7 bushels 

 l)er acre, reports an increase of 55 per cent, in product. The production 

 of rye is not extensive in any of these States. In the States which grow 

 it on a larger scale, the figures for comparative product and quality are, 

 respectively, New York, 81 and 98 ; New Jersey, 79 and 97 j Pena-syl- 

 vania, 93 and 98 ; Maryland, 97 and 96 ; Virginia, 100 and 95 ; Ken- 

 tucky, 88 and 84 ; Ohio, 71 and 79 ; Wisconsin, 129 and 105. Among 

 the remaining States the i)roduct, compared with last year, is greater 

 in Tennessee by 1 per cent., and in Kansas by 5 per cent., while in Ne- 

 braska it is less by 40 per cent. In others it ranges from 77 in Indiana 

 up to 100 in Delaware, South Carolina, Florida, and Oregon. Between 

 the Alleghanies and the Missouri the crop was considerably reduced in 

 product, and largely in quality, by being overtaken by the extraordinary 

 rains before it was garnered. 



Among the foot-notes upon rye the following are selected : • 



Maine. — Androscoggin : Very fine. 



Pennsylvania. — Bedford : Better crop than for several years. 



Maryland. — Hoivard : Good, but somewhat damaged in the shock. 



Virginia. — Carroll : A total failure. Madison : Good. Fauquier : Almost a failure. 



North Carolika. — G-reeae: More damage than was expected when harvested. 



Georgia. — Towns : Better than average. 



Arkansas. — Arkansas : Si>lendid. 



Tennessee. — Giles : Acreage and yield much larger than since the war, but damaged 

 in quality by rains. 



West Virginia. — Mercer : Snperior to the wheat crop, and not much damaged by 

 the rains. Doddridge: Nearly destroyed by the rains. 



KENTUCKY.-T-jSjjericer ; Twenty per cent, destroyed by the rains. 



