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average. Fluvanna: Half crop. Montgomery: In clanger of frost. Amelia: Reduced 

 5 per cent, by equinoctial gales. Louisa: Much must be cut green. Orange: Injured 

 by storms. Chesterfield : Half crop planted ; quality average. 



NOKTii Carolina. — Greenville: Injured by storms; about half tlie crop is above 

 average. Alamance: Half crop ; injured in quality by storms. Caswell: Greatly dam- 

 aged by storms. Haywood: Drought. Buncombe: Not a fourth of last year's acreage 

 planted. 



Mississippi. — RancocTc : Not turning out well. 



Arkansas. — Washington: Greatly benefited by September rains. Stone: Twelve 

 ■sveeks' drought. 



Tennessee. — Henry: Very short. Smith: One-fifth of an average crop. Trousdale: 

 Pretty much a failure ; usually there are about 2,000 hogsheads shipped out of the 

 county ; this year there will not be 20. Robertson : Almost an entire failure. 



West Virginia. — Mercer : Late ; about two-thirds of a crop. 



Kentucky. — Adair : Almost a failure. Only a small amount planted; most of that 

 very late, and in danger from frost. Edniondson : Small quantity growing and that late. 

 Grayson : This, our principal export crop, is almost a failui'e. Very little was planted, 

 and that is still standing. Graves : Not over one-fourth of a crop, and a great 

 part of that will have to be cut green. Butler : Yet very green, and a very small 

 quantity of it. Owen: This crop, our great staple, will not exceed one-fourth of an 

 average. Cumberland : Our leading staple for money, aud is a failure ; dry weather. 



Ohio. — Vinton : Not more than one-eighth of a crop ; eaten by bugs, aud injured by 

 drought. Xoble: Almost a failure. 



Missouri. — Adair : Looks well; a good crop. Pemiscot : Almost an entire failure. 



Kansas. — Clay : A total failure; grasshoppers and drought. 



SUGAE-CANE. 



Georgia and the Gulf States report a considerable growth of sugar- 

 cane. In Georgia, twenty-eight counties report an average condition 

 of 95. In Alabama, fifteen counties average 78, the lowest being in 

 Pike, and the highest in Escambia. Eight counties of Mississippi report 

 a condition largely above average; a specially favorable showing is made 

 in Smith County. Eight parishes in Louisiana average 91 -, seventeen, 

 counties in Texas reach only 87. 



Georgia. — Pierce : Drought. Early : Doing nothing ; drought. Sumter : Drought. 

 Terrell: Badly injured by drought. 



Florida. — Wakulla: Terribly shortened by drought. Hamilton: Dtongiit, Leon: 

 Drought. Gadsden : Ten per cent, above average. 



Alabama. — Z)rt?e; A failure. Co/ftJe: Cut off by drought. Couecu/t; Drought. Pike: 

 Dried up. Choctaw: Seriously damaged by drought. 



Mississippi. — Hancock : Turning out poorly. Jackson : Increased attention to cane j 

 climate and soil very favorable. 



Louisiana. — Saint Mary's : Greatly shortened by drought. Iberia: Stunted by pro- 

 tracted drought. Eapides : Greatly thrown back by the drought. 



FATTEKING-CATTLE. 



The number of fatteniug-cattle is equal to or above last year in Maine, 

 Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, South Carolina, Florida, Ala- 

 bama, Minnesota, and the Pacific States; in all the others the number 

 has decreased. The condition is above average in the New England 

 States, New York, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, 

 Florida, Alabama, Texas, Iowa, and the Pacific States ; in all the others 

 it is below. 



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