parison with the yield of the Miami and Sciota bottoms and the prairies 

 of Illinois ; many have thought that thin planting — a single stalk in a 

 hill — has some influence upon this result. In the Middle States the re- 

 ported yield is less by one-eighth than last year. In New York from 

 37.5 to 31 bushels ; in Pennsylvania, from 39 to 35.1 ; and in New Jersey, 

 from 39.5 to 36. The highest estimated average this year is 41 bushels 

 in California; the lowest, 9.5 in South Carolina. The estimated quantity 

 of the crop of 1872 was 1,092,719,000 bushels ; its area 35,526,83(3 acres ; 

 average yield, 30.7 bushels. The average yield in 1873 is 23.3 bush- 

 els per acre. 



Wheat. — The yield of wheat in New England is a little less than last 

 year ; is materially larger in the Middle States and in Maryland, smaller 

 in all the Southern States and in West Virginia, and north of the Ohio 

 and west of the Mississippi the average yield is larger, the main im- 

 l^rovement being in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. The rate 

 of i)rod action in California is less. The yields of wheat-growing States 

 are reported as follows : Ohio, 12 bushels ; Michigan, 12,2 5 Indiana, 

 12.3 ; Illinois, 13.5 ; Wisconsin, 16.5 ; Minnesota, 16.8 ; Iowa, 13 ; Mis- 

 souri, 12.8; Kansas, 15,5* Nebraska, 15.5; California, 13.5. In the 

 South the range is from 5.5 in South Carolina to 17 bushels in Texas. 

 The highest yields are 19 bushels in Oregon and Massachusetts, (in the 

 latter State the whole area is scarcely equal to one of the larger class of 

 western farms,) and the smallest in South Carolina. 



Oilier grains. — The average yields of rye and barley are less than in 

 1872 in nearly all the States; and the rate of production in oats is also 

 reduced in many States ; yet it is placed at higher figures in Wisconsin, 

 Missouri, and Kansas in the West, and in all of the Middle States. 

 The figures for the principal interior States are : Ohio, 27 bushels ; 

 Michigan, 30.2 ; Indiana, 25 ; Illinois, 30 ; Wisconsin, 35 ; Minnesota, 

 36.3'; Iowa, 33 ; Missouri, 28 ; Kansas, 33 ; Nebraska, 30. 



Potatoes. — The rate of yield of this esculent is low for most of the 

 States. The highest yields are in New England and New York, being 

 100 bushels or more in all but Ehode Island and Connecticut, and 130 

 in Oregon, no other States reaching a higher figure than 97. In the 

 South the range is from 60 in Louisiana to 94 in North Carolina, next to 

 the latter coming Florida, Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama. 



E.atj. — The yield of hay per acre differs little from that of 1872. The 

 rate is highest in Texas, 1.5 tons; in Oregon and Nebraska, 1.4; 1.38 

 in Minnesota ; 1.37 in Califoruia ; 1.3 in Wisconsin and Kansas ; 1.27 in 

 Mississippi; 1.25 in Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Tennessee; 

 1.23 in Kentucky; 1.20 in North Carolina, Alabama, and Louisiana; 

 1.18 in Arkansas ; 1.15 in Michigan and Pennsylvania ; 1.10 in Vermont, 

 South Carolina, and West Virginia; 1.09 in Connecticut; 1.05 in Ohio, 

 Georgia, and New Hampshire ; 1.04 in Massachusetts ; 1.03 in New Jer- 

 sey ; 1.02 in New York ; 1 in Maryland and Virginia ; .95 in Khode 

 Island ; .93 in Maine ; .81 in Delaware. 



Prices of farm crops — Cora.^-The eifect of a diminished yield 

 of corn is a marked increase in its price, notwithstanding the average 

 quality is inferior. The prices given aio not those of principal com- 

 mercial cites, but the average of local prices in the home markets of each 

 county — the prices received by farmers at home rather than those paid 

 by buyers in the great marts of trade. The difference between the rates 

 of this and the previous season, from the Missouri to the sea-board, may 

 be gathered by reference to the figures for the following States : 



