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drought. Marion: Never the like produced before iu any two years. Sevier: Rust 

 mostly confined to low land. Picking progressing rapidly. FratiMin : The yield 20 

 per cent, below on uplands, and 20 above on bottom-lands ; average 110. September 

 uniformly dry, hastening the opening. 



Tennessee. — Grundy: Considerably behind. Giles: The outlook very poor. Fayette: 

 No top crop ; from the ground half-way up the stalk a good crop, but none above. 

 Wilson : Not a large yield, but the quality good. Putnam : But few bolls on cotton ; 

 what has opened is of inferior quality. Lauderdale : Opening fast, and picking pro- 

 gressing well, considering the extra amount of sickness. On the bottoms of the Missis- 

 sippi one-half the crop was destroyed by overflow. 



POTATOES. 



The crop, as a whole, promises to be extraordinary iu both yiehl and 

 quality. The ouly drawbacks upon condition, reported as originating in 

 September, are too dry weather in isolated localities in Ohio, Wisconsin, 

 and Missouri, and slight injuries from frosts in parts of Michigan, Illi- 

 nois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. The principal causes in opera- 

 tion previous to September, resulting in a reduction of condition to some 

 extent, are the Colorado beetle and rot, the latter as a consequence of 

 rust iu some instances and of excessive wet in others, lleduction by 

 the beetles is noted in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, 

 Virginia, Arkansas, and Ohio; by rotting, in Maine, Vermont, New 

 York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. 

 But at the time of reporting extensive damage from the latter cause was 

 not apparent in any State except Maine, in which rust, followed by 

 rotting, has reduced the condition since the 1st of August from 103 to 

 90. The other New England States are all above average, as are the 

 six States which, with Maine, produce more than three-fifths of the 

 whole crop, namely ; New York, 101; Pennsylvania, 108; Ohio, 110; Illi- 

 nois, 124; Michigan, 112; Wisconsin, 114. In Michigan, the returns 

 generally concur in representing the crop as unprecedented in both yield 

 and quality; and iu Illinois, "abundant and of the best quality" ex- 

 presses the prevailing tenor. Excellence of quality is also frequently 

 referred to in Wisconsin and Indiana, condition in the latter being 104. 

 The States beyond the Mississippi return, Minnesota, 101; Iowa, 107; 

 Missouri, 110; Arkansas, 106; Kansas, 119; Nebraska, 127 ; California, 

 92; Oregon, 111. In New Jersey (87) and Delaware and Maryland (80) 

 early drought had an ultimate effect, with the beetle, in reducing the con- 

 dition. South of the Potomac and the Ohio, the States above average 

 are. South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia, 102, and Kentucky, 

 108. The other States range between 91, in Alabama, and 98, in Virginia, 

 North Carolina, and Texas. Eeturus from Florida, Alabama, Texas, and 

 Arkansas call attention to the fact that the figures for condition refer to 

 a second crop. Our reporter in Prairie, Arkansas, states that he has 

 raised this season a second crop from seed of the first, and on the ground 

 which produced it. 



Maine. — Piscataquis : Not more than two-thirds of a crop ; stopped growing when 

 the rust struck them. Waldo : About three-fourths of a crop ; vines killed in August 

 by rust. Franklin : Early Rose rotted the latter part of August. York : Extra nice ; 

 some fields have rotted. • 



Vermont. — Rutland: Good crop. Orleans: Eotted in the field; some have to leave 

 on the ground ; 50 -per cent, afl^ected ones. The yield good. Starch-factories pay only 

 20 to 25 cents. 



Massachusetts. — Berkshire : The heaviest crop for years, and free from imper- 

 fections. 



Connecticut. — New London : Have seldom yielded as bountifully. 



New York. — Queens : The Late Rose very fine. Genesee : Not as good as expected a 

 month ago. Wyoming : Rotting to some extent, and do not yield as expected. 

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