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used. The sugar product of Louisiana in 18fi9 was about 87,000 hogs- 

 heads. The quantity manufactured elsewhere is small, but increasing. 

 Cane is found very profitable in Southern Georgia for the manufacture 

 of sirup exclusively. Its culture is rapidly extending in Texas, and 

 seems destined to be a product of much importance there. 



In the country west of Galveston Bay, where its culture has been 

 commenced, the slightest frost had not occurred on the 11th of Novem- 

 ber, the lowest range of the thermometer being 49<=>. 



Sorghum. — Returns indicate a larger product than that of last year. 

 The States showing an increase are South Carolina, Georgia, Texas, 

 Arkansas, Tennessee, and all of the Western States. Little is grown in 

 the Atlantic States north of Virginia. It is injured by rust in Butler 

 County, Kentucky. In Greene, Tennessee, the blades and seeds rotted 

 badly. A complaint of deterioration by " second growth " comes from 

 Marion County, Iowa ; yet sorghum from seed planted early upon land 

 highly manured, yielded 175 gallons of superior sirup per acre, while 

 neighboring lots, differently treated, were not worth harvesting. 

 Drought injured the crop in some places in the West, and prevented the 

 harvesting of a second crop in Texas. 



Tobacco. — The tobacco crop is comparatively large ; the increase npon 

 the crop of 18G9 being 18 per cent, in Virginia, 22 in North Carolina, 20 

 in South Carolina, 23 in Georgia, 15 in Tennessee, 20 in Kentucky, 6 in 

 in Missouri, 6 in Illinois. Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, North Caro- 

 lina, and Missouri produce the bulk of the crop, with considerable aid 

 from Maryland, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. Connecticut and Massa- 

 chusetts still produce largely of the seed leaf for wrappers, and the 

 States of the Ohio Valley are beginning to find its production profitable. 

 The estimate of the year will aggregate at least 300,000,000 pounds. 



Say. — The hay crop is less in quantity than that of 1869 by about 15 

 per cent. The estimate will go above 20,000,000 of tons, which is little 

 more than the product of 1859. The crop in New England is reduced 

 one-sixth; one-fifth in New York ; a little in the Gulf States east of the 

 Mississippi; in Missouri, 29 per cent.; in Illinois, 31; in Indiana, 19; in 

 Ohio, 16 ; in Mississippi, 2 per cent. It is worthy of remark that Kansas, 

 l)opularly regarded as extremely subject to drought, is credited with an 

 increase of 8 per cent. Minnesota has also had a good crop, and the 

 yield of the Southwest and of the Southern Atlantic coast has been good. 

 The quality is superior to such a degree as nearly to make good the 

 the loss in quantity. 



Fotatoes. — The production of the year is little more than four-fifths of 

 the preceding, and the aggregate estimate will not vary much from the 

 total number of bushels in 1859, 111,000,000, which will afford to each 

 inhabitant four-fifths of the supply of that year. The only States pro- 

 ducing in excess of 1869 are North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, 

 Tennessee, Kentucky, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. In all these States 

 there was abundant moisture in the early part of the season, and in 

 most of them the potato matures before the summer heats set in. The 

 decrease in New England ranged from 5 per cent, in Vermont to 38 in 

 Connecticut. The reduction in the West follows the line of compara- 

 tively dry weather in spring and early summer, which ran northwest 

 through Missouri and Illinois to Eastern Wisconsin, sufficient and gen- 

 erally abundant rains falling north and west of such line. Another 

 cause of reduced yield, the Colorado potato bug, seriously affected Wis- 

 consin and Minnesota. The reduction in Illinois appears to be 23 per 

 cent., in Indiana, 45; in Ohio, 26; in Michigan, 21, in New York, 12; 

 in Pensylvania, 14; in New Jersey, 18; in Delaware, 40; in Maryland, 



