most satisfactoiy assurance that the mode adopted by it to estimate the amouut 

 of the crops results iu far greater accuracy than the statistics taken at so great 

 an expense. 



But the September and October estimates of the crop of tobacco are still 

 more extraordinary, although the difference is greater. In September Ave stated 

 this crop at 258,462,413 pounds, and the table below shows it at 267,302,770 

 pounds — a difference ot" 8,840,357 jjounds. The table for September, which was 

 not published, but the entire amount given, was based on the returns to the 

 September circular, giving the appearance and injury to the crop, and on the 

 returns for June stating the average amount of acres of tobacco planted com- 

 pared with 1862. Take into consideration the fact that the tobacco crop in the 

 loyal States has increased in a most extraordinary degree, and very unequally 

 in different States; that an unequal and extraordinary injury had fallen on it, 

 and it will be seen whether the concurrence of the estimates for September and 

 October made on answers to such different questions is not a test of the correct- 

 ness of the system established by the Department and the skill with which it is 

 carried out. 



The differences in buckwheat and potatoes are also very small, and still 

 further strengthen the reliance in the mode adopted for estimating the annual 

 crops. 



Estimate for Octohcr of ilie amounts of tlie corn, tohacco, hucJcicheat, and po- 

 tato crops for 1863. 



States. 



Corn. 



Tobacco. Buckwheat. Potatoes. 



Maine 



New Hampshire 



Vermont 



Massachusetts 



Ehode Island 



Connecticut 



Xew York 



New Jersey 



Pennsylvania 



Maryland 



Delaware 



Kentucky 



Ohio 



Michigan 



Indiana 



Illinois 



Missouri 



Wisconsin 



Iowa 



Minnesota 



Kansas 



Nebraska Tenitory. 

 California 



1,855,285 



1,8:35,113 



1,74.3,522 



2, 465, 215 



413, 021 



2, 059, 835 



24, 073, 257 



11,025,669 



30,721,821 



14, 444, 922 



3, 892, 337 



52, 835, 997 



57, 433, 802 



10, 633, 097 



54, 602, 273 



83,013,681 



43, 743, 295 



8, 069, 642 



34,538,276 



2, 756, 898 



8, 518, 251 



1,292,750 



478, 169 



7,000 



50, 000 



40, 000 



5, 200, 000 



1,680 



7, 500, 166 



10, 088, 017 



194, 330 



5, 567, 774 



48,721,415 



15,618 



113,912,938 



28,081,869 



207, 061 



10,416,-314 



20, 397, 537 



26, 340, 505 



153, 189 



300, 402 



43, 324 



26, 881 



1,900 



34, 850 



407,424 



98, 995 



233, 906 



123,302 



3,871 



300, 629 



5,378,675 



947, 577 



5,794,907 



218,405 



18, 399 



14,187 



827, 364 



630, 457 



183, 898 



258, 802 



95, 703 



59, 170 



155,914 



20, 758 



27, 906 



6,146 



14, 850 



6,693,348 

 3,310,163 

 3, 603, 972 

 2„881,711 



435,084 



2, 016, 462 



29, 753, 393 



4, 693, 151 



14, 609, 335 



1,213,707 



302, 345 

 1,449,138 

 4,103,005 

 4, 738, 260 

 3, 485, 617 

 .5, 155, 523 

 1, 493, 519 

 4,356,568 

 2, 880, 549 

 2, 433, 534 



425,952 



124, 334 

 1,298,474 



Total ! 452, 446, 128 i 267, 302, 770 | 15, 821 305 101 , 457, 144 



Estimated in September report.. 449,163,894 258,462,413 17,193,232 97,870,035 



