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Mitchdl Cotiniy, Iowa. — Au cxccllL-ut crop. 



Washington County, Iowa. — Suck crops, for quautitj- ami quality, iiever kuown bore 

 before. 



Crawford County, Ean.s.—XxeragG yield '2.5 per cent, better than last year; average 

 largely increased. 



Clai/ Cotinty, Kuns. — Crop remarkably beavy ; ripened up well; yield 15 or 20 bush- 

 els per acre above au average. i 



Douglas County, Kans. — Muck injured by chincb-bug; now selliug corn at 20 to 30 

 cents per busbel. 



Franld'm County, Kans. — Yield not equaling expectations ; eliincb-bng. 



Washington County, ^wns.— Yield not so good as anticipated, though better tliau in 

 years past ; the chinch-bug injured the crop. 



Atchison County, Kans.— Some very good, some very poor, in consequence of the chiucli- 

 bug, especially wben planted near small grains. 



Labelte County, Kans. — In quantity and quality above the average of any that I 

 have seen this season in any of the Western States. 



Butler County, Kans. — Better than ever before in this part of Kausa-^. 



Cowley County, Kans. — lu quantity and quality No. 1. 



Osage County, Kans. — Very light ; caused by chinch-bug and white grub. Chinch-bug 

 still alive by the million. 



Cloud County, Kans. — Almost au entire failure, owing to drought. * 



Anderson County, Kans. — Largest acreage and largest yield per acre ever grown in the 

 county. 



Dixon County, Nebr. — Temperature higher the past season than ever before known by 

 white men here. Hence corn did remarkably well. Potatoes not so well. 



Cuming County, Kehr. — Very heavy crop, dry enough to sliell as soon as gathered. The 

 trouble of farmers seems to be to find places to put their corn. 



Cass County, Kehr. — Considerably above the average Vhere not cut up by the hail-storm 

 of July. More than an average the county over. 



Lancaster County, Nebr. — A perfect success ; ripening perfectly before frost. 



Lake County, Cal. — Crops all matured well. 



Fresno County, Cal. — Acreage double that of 1870. Quality of crop better also. 



Box Elder County, Utah. — Attacked by grasshoppers in mauy localities just at the time 

 of silking, reducing the yield to not over (30 per cent, of that of 1870. Acreage increased 

 about 50 per ceut. 



Jaos County, X. Mcx. — Far above average. Matured unusually well in this valley. 



San Miguel County, N. Mex. — Far l»elow average, owing to the drought. 



Yuma County, Arizona. — A failure, owing to the drought. Xo overJlow in the Colorailo 

 Eiver in three years. 



COTTOX. 



The November returns relative to the condition and yield of the cot- 

 ton crop indicated a larg'er product than was expected in October, prom- 

 ising fullj' to make good the moderate expectations of July and August. 

 There were no killing- frosts np to the date of these reports. In rich 

 and well-cultivated soils of the lower tier of States the plant was as 

 green and as vigorous as in summer. In some places the top croi) was 

 maturing, though complaints of the immaturity or loss of the later 

 growth are quite general. In the latitude of Middle Georgia, the squares 

 formed between August 23 and September 25, under favorable circum- 

 stances, made good cotton. 



The principal cause of the reduction of the yield in Texas is drought; 

 in Louisiana, drought, insects, and black rot; in Mississippi, vret weathef 

 in spring, drought in summer, and in isolated sections the caterpillar or 

 boll- worm; in Florida, driving winds and floods, which occasioned nearly 

 total destruction of considerable areas ; and drought has wrought more 

 or less injury in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. The yield per 

 acre, as indicated by the November returns, is larg-est in Arkansas, 

 decreasing in the following order: Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louis- 

 iana, North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida. The 

 more northern belt of the cotton States shows the least reduction from 

 their usual averages. 



The tabulations for November are estimates for each county of the 

 total product of the year, expressed as percentages of tlie actual crop 



