

fT OF Agriculture, 



Statistical 1)iyisio]N', 

 ^asMngton, Septemher 15, 1870. 

 Sir : 1 herewith i"^^^bi.-for; pTifipi^ation a report upon the condition 

 of the crops for August ami Sfeptember, with notes from statistical re- 

 porters thereon, together #ffh extracts from the correspondence of the 

 Department, address of the Commissioner before the Montgomery 

 County (Maryland) Agricultural Society, and articles on the Southern 

 Agricultural Congress, the Cotton Crop of 18G0,Ixtle Fiber, Wheat Cul- 

 ture in South Carolina, Cheese Production, Cotton and Tobacco in Lou- 

 isiana, Beet-Sugar Factories in California, Canal from the Mississippi 

 Eiver to Lake Borgne, New Fertilizer, Home-made Fertilizers, Frauds 

 in Fertilizers^ Market Prices of Farm Products, Crop in England, the 

 Cotton Season of lS69-'70 in India, &c. 



J. E. DODGE, 



Siaiistician. 

 Hon. Horace Capron, 



Commissioner. 



COXDITIOX OF THE CEOPS. 



CORN. 



This crop has been injured somewhat in localities by the drought, 

 by wet weather, by the heat, by worms, and by early frost, but not 

 sufficiently as yet to threaten a material reduction of the aggregate prod- 

 uct heretofore anticipated. The great corn-producing State of Illinois 

 reports the condition of the crop September 1 at 15 per cent, above an 

 average. Missouri, ranking next to Illinois last year in corn produc- 

 tion, reports the condition G per cent, above average; Indiana claims 25 

 per cent, above : Ohio, 10 per cent. ; Kentucky, 10 per cent. ; Tennessee, 

 20 per cent. ; Pennsylvania, 5, and Xew York, 10 per cent. ; Michigan and 

 Wisconsin, 15 percent. ; Minnesota, 10 per cent. ; North Carolina, 10 per 

 cent. ; South Carolina, 13 per cent. ; Georgia, 14, Florida, 15, and Ala- 

 bama, 7 per cent. ; Louisiana, 12, Texas, 4, and Arkansas, 14 per cent. ; 

 West Virginia, 16 per cent. Of the New England States, Maine and 

 Vermont report the condition above an average; the former 5 per cent, 

 and the latter 15. New Jersey shows 10 per cent, above an average, 

 while Virginia and Iowa report the promise a full average. The States 

 showing a condition below an average are. New Hampshire, 12 j)er cent. ; 

 Massachusetts, 15 ; Ehode Island, ; Connecticut, 20 ; Delaware and 

 Maryland, 10; Mississippi, 2; Kansas, 12; Nebraska, 5; California, 4, and 

 Oregon, 5 per cent. The crop is one to three weeks in advance, and 

 without early severe frost promises to escape serious injury from that 

 source. 



