422 



a KCA^ere stonn. ^hiy : Well matured; crop heavy iiiid safe. Dnvien.-s : Planted 

 jiud still quite green ; iujured sll^litly by oue frost. HoU : This is the second of 



late 

 two 



splendid corn-years; never a failure here. IvcynohJH : Injured by high winds and by 

 chiuch-bngs. Scott: Early corn a little below average; late almost a failure Saint 

 Louis: crop average; nuitured early. JialU : Yield large, but not so large as was ex- 

 pected. J'lttnam: Corn 15 cents per bushel. I'hdps: Greatly damaged by chinch-bug. 

 Newton: Full average and in good condition. Iron: Injured by drought and chitich- 

 bngs. Fettis : Late corn injured by frost. 



Kansas. — DoiKjlcas : Never better; selling at 20 cents per bushel. ' Lincoln: Corn 

 No. 1. Xcmaha: Large surplus. Linn: Injured by cliincli-bugs. Labvitc: Injured 10 

 per cent. ))y chinch-bugs. 



Nebraska. — Thayer: Splendid till the grasshoppers appeared. V Eau-qni-Court : 

 Squaw-corn the best planted in tlie county ; ripens too early for grasshop[)ers, and 

 gives the largest yield per acre. Xcmaha : Crop saved from frost. Ga'je : Not so good 

 as was expected. 



California. — Sonoma : Crop excellent ; full 10 per cent, above average. 



Oregon. — Doufjlaf^n : Less alfectiid by drought than any other crop; crop unexpect- 

 edly large. 



Arizona. — Ynma : Fine. , 



Utah. — San Pete: Injured by frost, which came three weeks earlier than usual. Iron: 

 Injured" by frost. 



Dakota. — Bon Homme: Grasshoppers injured the crop, yet the yield will be very 

 large. 



Colorado. — LI Paso : Damaged by frost. , 



COTTOK 



The cotton prcspect has undergone no serious changes since the Sep- 

 tember report. The weather has been generally favorable lor picking. 

 No violent storms are reported, and drought has not prevailed ; the rain- 

 fall in nearly all the cotton States exceeding two inches in Sfeptember, 

 Florida alone reporting fully four inches, and Tepnessee three. The 

 devastations of the caterpillar have extended farther north, even into 

 North Carolina, and have involved the top crop iiartially^ and in many 

 places wholly. The influence of drought in the later summer months 

 has been cumulative-in its eftects, and exhausted vitality is more app.ar- 

 ent than in September; yet there are districts which report exemption 

 from this i^remature decay, and promise enhanced results. The effect 

 of fertilizers in advancing the crop in the Atlantic States, and the con- 

 tinued effects of worms and drought in shortening the season of growth, 

 will greatly hasten the close of picking. In some places the crop is 

 already gathered, and in numy others the fields will be clean early in 

 November. 



The general average of condition is reduced from 91 in the first week 

 of SeptCQiber to 82 in October. In October of last year the average 

 was 7(>, which was a material reduction from that of the previous month. 

 It will be seen that that condition is i)laced still higher than in last year's 

 report for October, while the area, according to our June returns, was 13 

 per cent, greater. The State averages are as follows: Virginia, 87 ^ 

 North Carolina, JH) ; South Carolina, SO; Florida, 75 ; Georgia, 88; Al- 

 abama, 82; Mississippi, 78; Louisiana, 72 ; Texas, 85; Arkansas, 75 ; 

 Tennessee, 90. 



The local disparity existing in condition of cotton is i)erhaps more 

 nuvrked than usual. Of the two counties in Alabama producing most 

 largely, both together yielding one-ninth of the cotton in the State, 

 Montgomery reports 100 and Dallas 50. In Georgia, Dawson County^ 

 the first in amount of production, returns 100, while Sumter and Lee 

 Counties, both hirge producers, give only GO. In Mississippi few prom- 

 inent counties report high colidition: Washington, 00; Madison, 66; 

 Warren, 05 ; and Hinds, 00; while x>5oxubee and Claiborne return 100. 



