Robert Brown, jr., Cincinnati post office, Cincinnati township, Hamilton 

 county, Ohio. 



Mr. PiERSON is fhe president of the society, and Mr. Brown, secretary. 



THE TABLES OF THE CROPS FOR AUGUST. 



In our remarks on the tables no further notice will be taken of the States 

 ■which have suffered by the frost, but those only noticed where the crops will, 

 probably, now mature without injury. These States are Connecticut, Delaware, 

 Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New 

 Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. 



Corn. — In these States this crop is excellent. In Maryland and Pennsyl- 

 vania it is but one-tenth below an average, whilst the rest are either an average 

 or above it. The average of all is lOj. 



Tohacro. — This crop, in the same States, is within a very small fraction of an 

 average crop. The injuries to it are small. 



Sorglium. — Of the States named, this crop is grown in but six of them, and 

 in them it is just an average crop ; but the heavy crop of this product lies 

 within the frosted States, and hence it is unnecessary to dwell longer upon it 

 now. 



Flax. — The crop of flax, being uninjured by frost, may be considered for all 

 the States, except Delaware, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, which do not 

 produce it. The crop is nearly a general average, being 9| bushels to the acre ; 

 but the States producing most, as Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa, are below an aver- 

 age, being 8, or two bushels below, and Illinois and Pennsylvania are 9, or one 

 bushel below, for the yield of an average acre is about 10 bushels. The great 

 amount sown places the actual production far above the crop of 1862. This Avill 

 be seen from the report for July, where the general average is 120 per cent, greater 

 than the crop of last year. 



The lint or straw of jlux. — To the question whether the lint or straw was 

 saved, the returns show 213 yes against 46 no. In the heavy flax-growing 

 States we have, in Illinois, 20 yes, 14 no; in Indiana, 24 yes, 13 no; In Iowa, 

 27 yes, 5 no ; and in Ohio, 36 yes, and 7 no. The amount of straw w^ill be ade- 

 quate to the demands for it, unless the success of the improvements in machinery 

 for spinning it should be such as to create a demand beyond what the want of 

 cotton will produce. 



The world is determined to show itself independent of King Cotton, as will 

 be seen from the following notice of the increase of flax culture in Ireland, in 

 the London Money Market Review, August 29 : 



" Flax cultivation. — The impetus given to the cultivation of fibrous articles, 

 in consequence of the absence of our usual cotton supplies from America, is 

 shown in the large increase of land under flax cultivation in Ireland this year, 

 the total being returned at 214,092 acres, against 150,070 acres last year, being 

 an increase of 64,022 acres." 



Cotton. — As nearly all of this product, of which we have returns, is in the 

 frosted States, we must await the next monthly report for an account of its 

 condition. But here we set right an erroneous statement made in reference to 

 the production of cotton in Utah, in our July report, being led into it by returns 

 made in the northern part of this Territory. Mr. J. E. Johnson, of Spring Lake 

 Villa, near the southern line of the Territory, about equidistant from Los An- 

 gelos, in California, and Salt Lake City, thus writes to the Department; "Last 

 year we produced cotton — say, 75,000 pounds — some ten or more tons of which 

 was hauled across the plains and sold in New York. This year Ave shall 

 probably fall not much short of 200,000 pounds. The cotton-growing district 

 is on the Rio Virgin and Santa Clara, some 350 miles south of Salt Lake City, 

 where we have a colony of some 500 families." 



