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last year's, even if the couditions of growth should be most favorable for 

 the remainder of the season. 



The following notes from our correspondence will give some of the 

 more striking local aspects of this crop : 



Pennsylvania. — Cumberland : xicreage limited by drought. Lancaster : Crops discour- 

 aged by low prices. 



Maryland. — Charles: Greatscarcity of plants, Montgomery: But little tobacco planted, 

 on account of drought and scarcity of plants; probably not a half crop will be set out. 

 Calvert : About 75 per cent, of a crop set out ; plants looking well. Frince George's : A large 

 proportion of the crop not planted. 



ViRGLVlA.— A't«o- William : Acreage diminished by failure of plant-beds. Poichatan : 

 Plants nearly all destroyed by the fly ; not a third of a crop will be planted. Fluvanna : 

 Lack of plants will cut down the acreage one-half. Orange : Late planting and scarcity of 

 plants will cut down the crop. Mecklenbiirgh : Early-set plants look well ; later have con- 

 siderably died out, with little i)rospect of re-settiiig from the scarcity of plants. Prince 

 George: Stunted, but healthy. Prince Edward : Failure of plants. Pittsylvania: Season 

 very discouraging. Campbell : Prospect bad ; much tobacco-land was put in corn. Henry : 

 A third of a crop planted. Liinenhurgh : Three-fourths of a crop planted ; plants inferior. 

 Madison : Half-crop planted. Halifax : Unprecedented failure of plants. 



North Carolina. — Person : Scarcity of plants cut down the acreage one-half. Cas- 

 well : Planting reduced one-half; fly destroyed the plants. Randolph: Crop growing 

 weaker every year ;, will soon be raised only for medicinal purposes. IFarren : Plants in- 

 jured by late spring. Haywood : Shortened by drought. Madison : Acreage and condition 

 reduced by drought. 



Florida. — Gadsden : Cuba tobacco made a poor stand, but the plants are growing well. 



Texas. — Austin: Backward; drought. 



Tennessee. — Gret.ne : Tobacco-growing has nearly ceased since the enactment of the law 

 forbidding sales to any except manufacturers and shippers ; grown mostly for home con- 

 sumption. Montgomery : Almost an entire failure. 



West Virginia. — May drought fatal to tobacco-seeds ; have never known plants so 

 scarce. Cabell: A small black fly destroyed nearly all the tobacco-plants. Randolph : UGarlj 

 a failure. 



Kentucky. — Shelby : Want of plants, and of a season for setting them, will make an ex- 

 traordinarily short crop. Adair: This county produced, last season, 2,300,000 pounds? 

 up to June 2o not over 25 acres had been planted ; flies destroyed many plants, others dried 

 up. Bracken : Flies, bugs, and drought have almost entirely prevented tobacco-planting ; 

 plants set out died ; not over a fourth of a crop. Taylor : A failure ; plants destroyed by fly. 

 Anderson : Badly injured by drought. Christian: No tobacco set as yet ; plants burned up 

 in their beds ; those set dried up. Hopkins : Not over a tenth of a crop. Warren : Short- 

 ened by nine weeks' drought. Carroll : Drought prevented the setting out of plants. 

 Grant: Almost a failure through the fly. Graves : Only a fifth of the usual acreage. Lo- 

 gan: Almost an entire failure. Marion: Too dry to put out tobacco; drought since May 

 15. Mason: Almost a failure; plants scarce and dying in the bed; too late now to set 

 them. Russell: A complete failure. Edmonson: Fly destroyed more than half the tobacco- 

 plants ; not a tenth of a crop will be made. Owen : Tobacco is our great staple ; drought 

 destroyed two-thirds of the plants, and it is already late for transplanting. Grayson : Not 

 a fiftieth part of a crop planted ; nine weeks' drought. Henry : Not a fourth of a crop will 

 be planted, and the plants mostly destroyed. Trimble : Damaged by the fly. Metcalf : 

 None planted; no rain since May G. Gallatin: Plants mostly destroyed by worms ; very 

 little tobacco planted. 



Ohio. — Vinton : Drought and fly destroyed most of the plants. Monroe : Drought; not 

 over a fourth of a crop. Guernsey : Almost an entire failure, from the great yield and low 

 prices of last year, and from the efforts of eastern dealers to discourage planting this sea- 

 son ; to say nothing of the failure of plants through drought. 



Wisconsin. — Dane : Growth discouraged by low prices; much difSculty in getting plants ; 

 much of the seed did not germinate. 



Iowa. — Humboldt : Injured by grasshoppers. 



Missouri. — Randolph : Looks well. Adair : Looks well. 



SUGAE-OANE. 



Six States report the cultivation of sugar-cane, in all of which the 

 acreage has been increased, viz: Alabama, 131; Mississippi, 120; Texas, 

 110; G-eorgia, lOS; Louisiana, 101; Florida, 103. The condition in all these 

 States is above average, viz: Louisiana, lOS; Mississippi aud Texas, 105; 

 Florida, 104; Alabama, 102 ; and Georgia, 101. It is the prevalent opin- 

 ion that the Louisiana sugar-product will be equal to that of 1873, not- 

 withstanding the overflow. 



