MONTHLY REPORT. ' 



Department of AamcuLTURE, 



Statistical Division, September 23, 1872. 

 Sir : I rei^ort herewith, for publication, statements of the condition of 

 farm crops, as shown in the returns for August and September, and 

 statistics of market movements and prices, together with other matter 

 representing the work of the several divisiohs of the Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Respectfully, 



J. R. DODGE, 



Statistician. 

 Hon. F. Watts, Commis^'iioner. 



CONDITION OF THE CROPS. ■ 



CORX. 



The condition of corn is better than for several previous seasons, 

 throughout New England. The unusually warm weather, in connection, 

 with seasonable rains, which have kept greeu even the sandy plains of 

 the coast section, has given high promise of a large yield, which early 

 frosts can now scarcely impair. The Maine and Connecticut averages 

 are 7 above ; New Hampshire, 6 ; Rhode Island, 5 ; and Vermont, 2. 



The average of condition in New York is 110, the best reports coming 

 from the principal corn-producing counties, of which, Livingston re- 

 turns 125; Onondaga and Ontario 120; Wayne, 115; Dutchess, 110; 

 and Suffolk and other large counties, 100. 



The counties of Hunterdon, Monmouth, Salem, Warren, Morris, and 

 Mercer, in New Jersey, yielding more than half the corn supply of the 

 State, average 111, but the reraainingcounties reduce the general average 

 to 110. Salem returns 95, and Atlantic 50 ; no other returns fall below 

 100. 



In Pennsylvania, such counties as Lancaster, York, Washington, 

 Bucks, Berks, Westmoreland, Cumberland, Centre, Montgomery, and 

 Chester, none of which produce less than a million bushels, and some 

 of them nearly three millions, average together 109, which is also the 

 average for forty-one counties reporting corn. 



