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EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE. 



Agricultural prospects. — Russell, Ala. — The low price of cotton 

 has caused many farmers to abandon the use of bacon entirely, it being 

 so much higher tban usual. They hud milk and butter very good sub- 

 stitutes. There is more economy practiced, with less inclination to go in 

 debt than in auy year since the war. 



I Harris, Ga. — Corn is better than last year, yet the people seem to be 

 hard run to live, money being scarcer than at any time before the war. 



Yell, Arli. — In some parts of the county there will not be enongh corn 

 for bread, and should we have a hard winter the stock will starve. In 

 many parts the farmers are moving to sections where there is a good 

 supply of breadstnfifs. 



Graujhead, Arh. — Sharp times here ; but there is this consolation, that 

 it is the same thiug everywhere. 



Hempstead, Arlc. — It seems that many of the poorer and more im- 

 provident class of persons must suffer during the coming year. Farmers 

 are coucludiug that no money can be made by employing them, and they 

 provide nothing except finery to wear to big meetings. 



Jefferson, Ark. — The lower class of laborers are suffering from scarcity 

 of provisions, with very little cotton for them to pick, and, conse- 

 quently, very little hiring to be done. 



iStone, Arlx. : Taken as a whole, we have had an unusually hard sea- 

 sou. 



Grundy, Tenn. — A fine growing summer-season to make up for late 

 planting on account of heavy tloods. Cattle doing remarkably well ; 

 pasture good, and more fodder than usual, laid by. 



Montgomery, Tenn. — Our people dread the coming winter and spring. 



Berkshire, Mass. — With all deficiencies, the amount of crops is en- 

 couraging to the farmer, and, as a whole, the products of the year ought 

 to be satisfactory. 



Northampton, Va. — We can compare with any section in regard to 

 sweet potatoes, in yield, quality, and remuneration. 

 ' Greene, N. G. — With the decreased yield and low prices of cotton I 

 feel safe to say there will be more broken farmers than in 1867. 



Gadsden, Fla. — The cotton-crop has been made at less expense than 

 any since the war. But little money was expended for commercial fer- 

 tilizers, and economy is now the order of the day, partly forced by the 

 impracticability of obtaining the usual advances from factors and mer- 

 chants, and partly voluntary, from the conviction that a reform in that 

 particular has become an absolute necessity. 



Henry, Ala. — A tendency is manifest among our people to adopt more 

 judicious rules of economy, and among farmers a determination to raise 

 their own supplies. 



Lowndes, Aliss. — The year will be remembered as one of unusual 

 anxiety and solicitude. The low prices of cotton and the high prices of 

 provisions will cause a contraction in cotton-culture. There is a dispo- 

 sition to diversify crops. 



Fairfax, Va. — Less than usual of any kind of wheat will be sown this 

 fall, on account of a growing disposition to go into something that 

 promises larger and more certain results. 



King and Queen, Va. — For the last five years previous to the preseat, 



