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Alexander : Too dry. Coolc: Parched by summer dronglit. Tazewell: Fiue growing raius. 

 irhifeside: Not doiDg well ; a Dew winged beetle is destroying the Colorado beetle. 

 Moultrie: Early j^lautiugs injured by drought ; late ones better. Cnmherland: Almost 

 swept by bugs. Shelby : Bugs of both kinds worse than ever before known. Vermil- 

 lion: Destroyed by drought. Massac: Early plantings injured by bugs. JTliite: 

 Nearly destroyed by beetles. Montgomery: Must have rain. Heirry : Shortened greatly 

 by August drought. 



Wiscoxsix. — Adams : Colorado beetles less destructive than usual, but the drought 

 very serious. Columlna : Early Rose, good ; Peach-blows nearlj' ruined by drought and 

 bugs. Outagamie: Late crops injured by bugs. 



Minnesota. — Moiver : Poor. Sibley : Injured by drought and bugs. 



Iowa. — Washington: Severe drought. Howard: Early i)lantings good. Decatur: Not 

 half a crop. Dallas: Severely injured by Colorado beetles. Henry: Late copious rains 

 have greatly improved late plantings. Muscatine : Late heavy rains will make late 

 potatoes a full crop. Calhoun: Colorado beetles and drought materially injured the 

 crop. Polk : Suffered greatly from bugs and drought. Montgomery : Late potatoes a 

 failure. Van Buren : Fine growing rains. Woodbury : Shortened one-half by drought, 

 grasshoppers, and Colorado beetles. 



Missouri. — Cratcford : Ruined by drought. Caldwell: Late potatoes nothing. Platte: 

 Early crop fair, and selling at 80 cents per bushel ; no late crop. Ray : Seriously in- 

 jured by protracted drought. Shelby: Short. McDonald: A failure. P/fe/^Js ; Late plant- 

 ings hardljMnake seed. Johnson: Dried up. Grundy: Late crops failed ; Early Rose, a 

 fair yield. Cole : Early crops good ; late ones failed. 



Kansas. — Mitchell: Only a few potatoes, and thoseof early planting. Bourbon: Com- 

 plete failure. Osage : Total failure. Ilepublic : Early, a fair crop ; late, an entire fail- 

 ure, owdng to protracted drought. Barton : Early, half crop only, by reason of drought 

 and large green tobacco-worm ; late, entirely destroyed by grasshoppers. 



Nebraska.— DrtH'son : Utterly destroyed by Colorado beetles. Lincoln : Eatea by 

 a cantharis. Nuckolls : All late potatoes have failed to mature, owing to extremely hot 

 and dry weather. Gage: Will be no late potatoes, owing to drought and grasshop- 

 pers. Otoe : Late potatoes about destroyecl by drought. 



Oregon. — Clackamas : Injured by late rains. 



SWEET-POTATOES. 



As the entire sweet-potato area has been more or less affected by 

 drought, our returns show that the condition of this crop is from S to 

 10 per cent, below average. 



Virginia. — Washington: Fair crop. Northampton: A very remunerative crop. Ches- 

 terfield : Crop large and prohtable. 



North Carolina. — Greene : Two-thirds of a crop. 



South Carolina. — Williamsburgh : Will suffer materially from a severe drought. 



Georgia. — Clinch: Very fine. Dooly: Badly damaged by drought. Sumter: In- 

 jured by drought; acreage increased. Taylor: Injured by drought; and hot winds. 

 Terrell : Injured by heat and drought. 



Florida. — Columbia: Injured by drought. Wakulla: Injured by drought. 



Alabama. — Chambers: Crippled by drought. Montgomery: Injured by drought. 

 Coneciih : Look well, but mature slowly. 



MISSISSJTTI.— Pike : Injured by drought. Holmes : Extremely shortened by drought. 



Louisiana. — Franklin: Severely injured by drought. Jackson: A general failure. 



Texas.— Upshur : Half crop. Titus: Drying up. Karnes: Drought cut down the 

 CTO]) 25 per cent, below last year. Burnet : A total failure. EUis : Greatly shortened, 

 if not ruined. Grayson: Shortened by drought. 



Arkansas.— ^I«fZe/je«f?t'Hce : Nearly a failure. Crawford: Very short. Arkansas: 

 Half crop. 



Tennessee. — Greene: Look well. Cheatham: Look tolerably well. Monroe: Light. 



Illinois. — Cumberland : Good. 



Iowa. — Harrison : Culture profitable and increasing. 



Nebraska.— X'ixo/! ; Escaped the ravages of the grasshoppers. 



COTTON. 



Our September returns indicate a heavy decline in the prospects of 

 the cotton-crop in all of the States except Virginia, in which the condi- 

 tion remains about the same as in our August report. The crop of Vir- 

 ginia, however, is too small to influence the general result to any appre- 

 ciable extent. 



