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rapidly; loose on the cob. Howard: Good. Clinton: Great crop. Benton: Last 

 year's crop one of the best ever raised ; this year's, 30 per cent, better. 



Missouri. — Scott : Early corn, average ; late, nearly a failure. Platte : Finest crop in 

 ten years. Phelps: Injured by chinches. Newton: Less than last year, but sound and 

 good. Mercer: Superior to all crops raised during late years. Linn: Largest and best 

 crop ever raised ; sells at 15 to 20 cents per bushel. Lincoln : Crop well saved. Holt: 

 Extraordinary crop, even for this region. Harrison: Well matured ; better in quality 

 than last year, but shorter. Greene : Crop very large, but grain somewhat light. 

 Chariton: Fiue corn season. Cass: Good in quantity and quality. Caldwell: 

 Splendid crop where well tilled. Cajje Girardeau: Not uniformly good, but a 

 general average. Clay : Good condition. Balls : Excellent and more abundant than for 

 live years past. Saivt Clair : Very light, owing to late planting and dry fall. Pemiscot: 

 Did not fill out well. Franklin : Good quality. Lane : Larger than for ten years. 

 Maries: Injured by chinches. 



Kjvnsas. — Woodson: Unprecedented crop. Washington: All crops good. Eiley : 

 Largest and best crop yet raised. Nemaha : Heavy and dull, sale at 15 cents per 

 bushel. Lyon : Magnificent crops. Labette : Sod crops — one-fourth the whole — below 

 last j^ear's yield. Jefferson: Late planted on account of wet, but redeemed by the fine 

 weather of September and October; cribbed in excellent order. Crawford : Late corn 

 failed to mature well; earlier crops good. Cloud: Light and shrunken on the cob. 

 Douglas : One of the heaviest crops ever produced in Kansas ; price 20 cents per 

 bushel. Livn : Very large crop. Pepullic : Corn identj' ; late planted generally worm- 

 eaten. Coff'ey: Large and sound crop, but portions of it poorly cultivated on account 

 of rain. Miami: In bad condition for gathering, having been twisted by a hurricane 

 in September. 



Nebraska. — Thayer: Crop would have been extra but for grasshoppers. Nemaha: 

 Corn harvest weather fine. Washington : Superior to any former crop both in quantity 

 and quality. Cass : Well matured. 



California. — San Bernardino : Abundant and cheap ; $1 per cental sacked; no de- 

 mand. Amador: Satisfactory in (j^ality and quantity. Coxfra Costo: Quality excellent. 

 Sacramento : Blighted by northwest winds early in the season, hence the crop is short. 



Oregon. — Linn : Average quality. Douglas : Turns out better than was expected ; 

 stood the drought better than any other crop. Clackamas : Frequent showers brought 

 out the crop fiuely. 



Utah. — Box Elder : Good except where injured by frost. Cache : Injured by late 

 frost. San Pete : Too cold for corn this year'; many farmers feeding their crop as 

 fodder without husking. 



Colorado. — Larimer: Injured by early frost. 



Dakota. — Clay: Damaged by grasshoppers. Bonhomme: Injured by grasshoppers. 

 Minnehaha : Well matured. 



Arizona. — Yuma: Increased culture; crops averaging 50 bushels j)er acre are re- 

 ported. 



Washington. — Thurston : Only used in the green state for roasting. King Philip 

 will ripen in favorable localities. Minnesota sweet has been introduced and sells for 

 half a dollar jter ear. 



COTTOK 



The present may be classed with tlie uupropitioiis seasons for cotton 

 production, but it is not a more unfavorable year than the preceding 

 one. It has been productive of somewhat less than average results, 

 not from a failure of the " stand " of plants, nor from excessive cold and 

 moisture in the spring so repressive of growth in cotton and preventive 

 of clean culture, but from the wider prevalence of insect depredations, 

 and from local droughts of more or less severity. The plant has been 

 earlier in maturing than usual, and quicker to decay, leaving less for 

 destruction by frosts, which have somewhat anticipated their average 

 date of appearing. In the Carolinas and Georgia, fertilizers have aided 

 in advancing the period of maturation. Eeturns since November have 

 not advanced the crop prospects of the season, but are not of such a 

 character as to change materially the estimate derived from the ISio- 

 vember returns. 



The November digest of tabular and other returns, the substance of 

 which was telegraphed to the press last month, is as follows : 



The weather has been fine for picking. Frosts have been earlier than 

 usual in the more northern States ; but an earlier maturity of the plant 



