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Schoharie County, JSf. Y. — Hops very light. 



Mercer County, 'il. J. — A good prospect for a fine crop of buckwheat. 



Hunterdon County, N. J. — Buckwheat damaged by drought. 



Atlantic County, iV". J. — The potato crop will be nearly a failure. 



Hudson County, K. J. — Everything, except potatoes, has succeeded 

 well. 



Lebanon County, Pa. — Oats are somewhat more than an average crop. 



Washington County, Pa. — Grasshoppers in many places have cut off' 

 one-fourth of the oat crop. 



Warren County, Pa. — Potatoes were never better. 



Butler County, Pa. — Oats are the heaviest crop since 1839; a large 

 area sown. Eye is about three-quarters of a crop. 



Perry County, Pa. — Rye is about an average crop; oats more than an 

 average. 



Baltimore County, Md. — An excellent crop of oats. 



Augusta County, Va. — The oat crop is i)robably the best that has been 

 harvested for twenty years. Potato crop excellent in quality and yield. 



PulasM County, Va. — Oats were never a better crop. 



Surry County, Va. — More than half of the potato crop will be lost by 

 the rot. 



Nelson County, Va. — The oat crop seriously damaged by protracted 

 rains. 



Fairfax County, Va. — Oats not up to expectations. 



Henrico County, Va. — All early crops very good, all late ones very bad. 



Wythe County, Va. — Oats injured by the wet weather. 



Tazeu-ell County, Va. — The best season for corn, grass, and oats ever 

 known in the county. 



Gloucester County, Va. — Potatoes an entire failure. 



Nansemond County, Va. — There are many truck crops raised in the 

 county. Peanuts to the extent of about 600 acres; the crop at present 

 appears well where a good stand was obtained ; it may, however, with 

 other crops, be very much injured by dry weather, which at the present 

 time threatens a severe drought. 



Alleghany County, N. C. — Oats seriously damaged by rains. 

 Willces County, N. C. — The prices of corn, wheat, and rye will about 

 range with those of 1860. 



Alamance County, N. C. — The most bountiful crops generally since 

 1852. 



New Hanover County, N. C. — Peanuts are extensively cultivated in this 

 county, and the crop is promising, say twenty per cent, over an average. 

 Obion County, N. C. — Broom corn is very fine and is becoming a con- 

 siderable crop, and is paying very large profits. 



Bavidson County, N. C. — Oats are a better crop than for several years, 



Forsyth County, Ga. — All crops are superior to those of last year. 



Murray County, Ga. — Crops in this county and throughout Northern 

 Georgia have never been suri)assed. 



Bapides Parish, La. — Sugar cane about 35 to 40 per cent, better than 

 at this date last year. 



>S'^. Marifs Parish, La. — The season has been very favorable for the 

 sugar cane. 



Plaquemine Parish, La. — Rice crop being harvested with a fair prospect 

 of an average yield. Sugar cane promising. 



Cameron County, Tex. — Cane in good condition. Many have planted 

 to get seed. 



Knox County, Tenn. — Some experiments are being made in the culti- 

 vation of hops, thus far with success. 



