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than ever seen before. Clay : In yield and qnality cannot be beat ; never so good be- 

 fore. Otoe : The late potatoes liave developed very finely. Richardson : Look splen- 

 did. Knox : Abundant. York : Enormous crop; in many cases 500 bushels per acre. 

 California. — Sonoma : A partial failure, owing to blight and non-rotation. 



SWEET-POTATOES. 



The couditiou is average in Delaware ; in Mississippi, 111 ; Louisiana, 

 101 ; Arkansas, 113 ; Kansas, 103. In other States which grow the 

 crop to any extent, it ranges between 82 in Georgia and 98 in Pennsyl- 

 vania, Maryland and Virginia. New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennes- 

 see, West Virginia, and Missouri are 97. In the Gulf States, except 

 Mississii>pi and Louisiana, the crop did not fully recover from the pinch- 

 ing effects of the early drought. Eecent dry weather has had some 

 effect in reducing the condition in Illinois and Missouri, frost in Ohio, 

 and excessive wet in Indiana and Iowa. 



Nkw Jersey. — Atlantic: Fine. 



Virginia. — Chesterfield: Quality never better. Princess Anne : The season too wet. 

 Northampton : Poor yield. 



North Carolixa. — Gaston : Matured, and a very fine crop. Choxcan : Short crop. 



South Carolina. — Clarendon : The ground still entirely too dry and the roots very 

 small. Lexington: Suffered from the early as well as the late drought. Georgetown: 

 Has suffered seriously from drought. 



Georgia. — Marion : Shortened by drought. Muscogee : Rains came too late. Jeffer- 

 son : Almost ruined by drought. Berrien : Cut short by drought. Wilkes : It has 

 been entirely too dry for the crop. 



Florida. — Gadsden : Much benefited by the August and September rains. La 

 Fayette : Badly injured by drought. Jackson : Doing finely. 



Alabama. — Crenshaw : Improving. Mobile: Backward, but now doing well as could 

 be. Montgomery : Improving. Jefferson : The crop will be very large. Calhoun : 

 Badly injured by drought. Conecuh : Somewhat damaged by late drought. Dallas : 

 Very promising. Bullock : Improved more than 10 per cent, since September 1st. 



Mississippi. — Pike : Fine. Hancock : Yielded better than usual. Jefferson : Fine. 

 Lee : Very heavy crop. 



Louisiana. — Franklin : Very promising. 



Texas. — Austin: The crop will be the smallest for many years. Bask : Now growing 

 finely. De Witt : Short in quantity 20 per cent. ; many prevented from planting by 

 drought. Bastrop : Small crop, owing to the drought. 



Arkansas. — Arkansas : The best ever seen. Fulton : The present drought has 

 injured the crop 10 to 20 per cent. 



Tennessee. — Dickson : Large crop. Henry : Large crop and safe from damage. 



Ohio. — Lorain : Killed by frost September 24. 



Indiana. — Carroll: Much injured by the wet weather. 



Illinois. — Montgomery: Abundant and excellent. Massac: Rather dry for sweet- 

 potatoes. 



Iowa. — Harrison : Too wet for sweet-potatoes. 



Missouri.— P/ie/j>s: Cut short by drought. 



CRANBEREIES. 



New Jersey. — Atlantic : The crop promised to be extra large until a few days before 

 picking time ; then a peculiar disease, which seemed like the bite of an Insect, attacked 

 them, and most of the crop is lost. There are several hundred acres in the county, 

 and the loss amounts to many thousand dollars. Camden : Badly scalded in some 

 localities. 



Wisconsin. — Juneau : Will not be over 25 per cent, of an average crop. The loss to 

 this county is heavy, as they are an important production. Portage : Did not bring to 

 the owners one-quarter of what they promised early in August. Monroe : Afair crop, 

 although one-third frozen. 



Minnesota. — Mille Lats : Frost, August 22, destroyed the crop. Chisago : A toti 1 

 failure ; kUled by frost. 



TOBACCO. 



The condition of tobacco, on the whole, is 2 per cent, above aver- 

 age. The New England crop is unusually fine, Massachusetts being 14 



