480 



soft. Wanli'mgton : Late-planted, light and loose on the cob; injured by floods on flat 

 lands ; but eady-plauted on dry laud, never better. 



Mrssouui. — Chariton: The largest crop ever raised, and of excellent quality; many 

 Avill gather 75 to 80 bushels per acre. Greene: The best crop in ten years. Camden: 

 Late corn materially damaged by frosts, but the best crop for four years. Xodaivay : 

 This year and last, 50 per cent, of a crop. Moniteau, : Extraordinary in yield and qual- 

 ity. Benton: Magnificent. Christian: An abundant yield. Saint Clair: Ten to one 

 of last year, and very good quality. Saint Francis: Considerably injured by frost. 

 Johnson : That planted in June and July killed by frost. Perry : Compared with last 

 year, 150, but about an average crop. Phelps : Very much more abundant than last 

 year, and better quality. Morgan : The largest crop ever raised, and very sound. 

 Newton : Unusually large yield. Lawrence : Better than for the last ten years. Be 

 Kalb : The early planted not injured by grasshoppers, heavy; replau/ted, fair. Holt: 

 Of the first stand, which is one-half the entire crop, the yield is enormous, being Yrom 

 80 to 100 bushels and higher. Howard : The best for thirty-five years. Bent : Late, 

 injured by frost. Maries : Now in fiue condition for gathering. Caj)e Girardeau : Good 

 in yield and quality. Laclede: Good, notwithstanding the floods destroyed much on 

 the river-bottoms. 



Kansas. — Jackson: The very favorable fall for corn planted after the locusts had 

 left, accounts for the high percentage; selling on the streets by wagon-load for 20 to 25 

 cents per bushel. Marshall : Some fields yield over 100 bushels per acre. Miami : An 

 extraordinary breadth, and the season just right ; ears 12 inches long, well filled with 

 the most solid grains, quite common. Mitchell : Stalks 17 feet high, with two or three 

 good ears. Boniphan : Planted about the first of July, it makes a remarkably good 

 showing. Smith : Will yield about 50 bushels per acre ; the best filled of any crop ever 

 raised. Cherokee : The quality very superior. Cowley : The product at least 500 per 

 cent, greater than last year, grasshoppers not considered; will produce 1,250,000 

 bushels. Butler: Much better than ever raised before; will average more than 50 

 bushels i3er acre, aud in some instances will yield 100. Clay : Will yield 50 bushels per 

 acre; price 15 cents- at the depot. Lahcite : The yield enormously above anything we 

 ever had before. Osage: Immense crop ; much now in the crib, averaging 85 to 100 

 bushels per acre, aud the general average 50 bushels, of supei'lative quality. Atchison : 

 That planted before June 20, fully matured; that later, frosted. Leavenworth: More 

 than average in quantity, but a part soft. Shawnee: Will average about 60 bushels 

 jier acre. 



Neckaska. — Bixon : The best crop ever raised. Lancaster: So much that farmers 

 hardly know Avhat to do with it. JVehster : Last year none ; this GO to 100 bushels per 

 acre, aud the quality extra. Antelope : Will average 30 bushels per acre ; 10 per cent, 

 soft. York : None last year ; 20 per cent, above an average crop this. Cass : A large 

 amount being planted after the grasshoppers left, about the 20th of June, will conse- 

 quently be very light. Thayer : None last year ; 125 in yield and quality this. Clay : 

 An entire failure last year; this, runs from 20 to 60 bushels per acre, aud averages 40; 

 all sound ; sells at 20 cents. Nuckolls: Sound and good. Merrick: Last year none ; 

 this, a better crop than for ten years. Adams : Last year all taken by the gi-asshop- 

 pers ; this, a good crop. 



Okegox. — Douglass: Cut short bj' drought. ■ 



Colorado. — Wild: Has generally matured. 



Utah. — fVashingion: Extra good. San Fete: Light, and the quality inferior. 



POTATOES. 



As fore.sliadowed iu previous returns for condiUon, the crop is extra- 

 ordinary in both i)roduct aud quality. The total yield in the districts 

 reported is made fully one-fourth greater than last year. Among the 

 States producing heavy crops, New York exceeds last year's product 7 

 per cent.; Pennsylvania, 12; Ohio, 25 ; Michigan; 59; Indiana, 41 ; Illi- 

 nois, 107; Wisconsin, 28; Iowa, 71. In Missouri, Kansas, and iSTebraska, 

 where partial failures were reported last year, the crops are very large, 

 upon an increased acreage. North of the Potomac, States not claiming 

 a larger yield than in 1874, are: New Jersey, 99; Delaware, 95; and 

 Maryland, 86, the reduction being chiefly caused by early drought and 

 by the beetle ; and Maine 20 per cent, below last year in product, caused 

 mainly by early rust, which killed the crop in many localities before ma- 

 turing, and occasioned more or less rotting. In Aroostook County 

 which grows potatoes on a large scale for both food aud starch, and u 

 which the yield is usually abundant and the quality superior, the ground 



