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NOTES OX THE CROPS. 



Neither the general public nor our correspondents should expect to see 

 notes from all the counties represented in the monthly reports. A 

 thousand returns are condensed into a single table, and scarcely one 

 in a score presents additional matter requiring separate mention; and 

 a hundred may inchide remarks of the same teuor, which would be dreary 

 enough if presented in one monotonous string. Yet they are useful in 

 obtaining more accurate facilities for a bird's-eye view of the whole field, 

 and many are worthy of special record for their intrinsic importance. 



coii:s. 



Aroosfoolc County, Me. — The idea that the season in this county is too 

 short and cold for the successful cultivation of Indian corn is giving 

 "way as experience demonstrates that nineteen years out of twenty it is. 

 a safe cro]). 



Greene County, Ala. — ^Now that cotton is low and corn is in demand, 

 all see the folly of planting largely of the former and sparingly of the 

 latter. There seems to be a determination to plant more corn and less, 

 cotton in future. 



Clarke County, Ala. — Corn was neglected and will not exceed the crop 

 of last year. More attention will be given to provision crops another 

 year. 



Fayette County, Tenn. — Crop insufficient for home consumption ; due 

 to the increased acreage in cotton, at the expense of the cereals. 



POTATOES. 



Aroostook County, Me. — An agreeable disappointment in the crop — 

 about the usual 3'ield, while the quality is better than for years. Among 

 new varieties the Early Kose ranks highest. One man planted 2^ bush- 

 els and harvested 145 bushels. 



Grafton County, N. H. — The dry weather caused a great falling off. 

 In towns where last year 12,000 to 15,000 bushels were made into starch, 

 this year only 5,000 to G,000 will be manufactured, 



St. Louis County, Mo. — Almost an entire failure. Destroyed by the 

 Colorado bug, except in rare instances, where the bugs were picked off 

 or destroyed by the sifting of Paris green on the vines. 



Genesee County, Mich. — Potato bugs in immense numbers, but they do 

 not appear to have materially affected the growth or quality of the tu- 

 bers. (The variety of insect not named.) 



Muscatine County, loica. — The growth made within the past month 

 (October) is wonderful, and the crop is a large one, in many instances, 

 reaching 300 bushels to the acre. The Peach Blow is the favorite. 



BUCKWHEAT, FLAX, ETC. 



Grand Isle County, Vt. — Buckwheat made large growth, but did not 

 fill well. 



Ussex County, Mass. — The crops of onions, beets, mangolds, carrots, 

 cabbages, fall about thirty per cent, short of an average, in consequence 

 of drought. 



Indiana County, Pa. — A reasonably large crop, but inferior in quality.. 



Columbia County, Pa. — Buckwheat crop almost ruined by the drought. 



Cecil County, Md. — Buckwheat much injured by the hot sun of Sep- 

 tember. 



