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eretl slowly, owing to more sickness than for a number of years. Independence : 

 Seriously injured by early and severe frosts. Very favorable for picking. Woodruff: 

 Will fall short of the September estimate 3:{ per cent. OaackUa : Matured and opened 

 earlier than ever known before. Weather very favorable. Franldm : In making the 

 estimate 130 indicates the quality ; the aggregate product will be at least 200 per cent, 

 more. The fall exceedingly favorable for cotton. The staple is good in quality and 

 condition, 



Tennessek. — Lincoln: Seriously injured by frost. Maury: Seriously damaged by 

 frost. Gibson : Very seriously damaged by frost. Putnam : Slow in opening and not 

 as good as usual. Fayette : Better than last year 10 per cent., but l.j to 20 per cent, 

 below an average. Rutherford: Damaged by frosts. Wilson: The yield very light. 

 Tipton : The acreage 10 per cent, less, but the crop 10 per cent, greater than last year. 

 Hardeman : Very tine on new lauds, but light ou old. Giles : The outlook gloomy ; the 

 crop will prove a great loss to those growing it. 



TOBACCO. 



Our November returns indicate an increase in the tobacco-yield of 

 over 75 per cent, as compared with last year, when a partial failure was 

 experienced. All the large tobacco States show a marked increase in 

 production, especially Teiinessee and Kentucky. The New England 

 crop has increased about 10 per cent, in quantity, and every county 

 reporting- from this region indicates a greater or less improvement in 

 quality. The cut- worm was injurious in some parts of Connecticut dur- 

 ing the early stages of the crop, making the growth somewhat uneven, 

 but favorable conditions for curing indicate a very fine quality for leaver 

 for cigar -wrappers. The other tobacco States of the Atlantic slope 

 indicate an increased production and an improved quality. Maryland 

 increases her yield about one-tenth and Virginia and North Carolina 

 between a fourth and a third. Worms were troublesome, disfiguring 

 the leaf in Amelia, Virginia; and excessive rains are complained of in 

 one or two counties ; but the general conditions of growth, harvesting, 

 and curing appear to have been very satisfactory. Iredell, North Caro- 

 lina, reports the finest bright wrappers ever produced in that county. 

 Quite a number of counties doubled their production. Georgia and the 

 Gulf States all show an increased yield. In Bowie, Texas, some farmers 

 made two crops. The plant will probably be grown on an enlarged 

 scale in this region hereafter. All the Southern inland States show an 

 increased product and ah improved quality. A lack of skill in curing- 

 is noticed in some counties of Arkansas and Kentucky. In some of the 

 more northern counties frost cut off some of the crops, and in others a 

 lack of sunshine is noted; but these were exceptions to the i^revalence 

 of good growing and curing weather. No complaints of any sort accom- 

 pany the reports of Tennessee, where the yield has increased enormously 

 from last year. In all the tobacco States north of the Ohio Eiver there 

 has been an increased production, but a greater ov less decline in quality. 

 In many cases the crop was cut green to avoid frost, which was very 

 destructive. All the States west of the Mississippi report a great 

 increase in .yield, especially Missouri and Nebraska. Chariton and How- 

 ard Counties, Missouri, M;ill probably market each 10,000,000 pounds of 

 tine quality. Frost was but slightly felt here, but was more severe in 

 some other counties. In Contra Costa, California, an experiment in 

 tobacco-culture upon thirty acres of dry soil, unirrigated, was quite suc- 

 cessful. It is thought that California can raise a very fine article of 

 smoking-tobacco. 



Connecticut. — JFartford: Very much injured by the cut-worm in its earlier stages, 

 ■which makes the growth uneven. Favorable weather for curing, and appearances 

 indicate a very fine leaf for cigar-wrappers. 



Maryland. — Montf/omer}/ : Perhaps the largest crop ever grown. The quality gen- 

 erally good and secured in good condition. Howard : A good planting, growing, and 



