480 



delayed two weeks. Jefferson : Crop uot so large as was expected, but of very fine 

 quality. Crawford: Potatoes fiae. Osa^fe: Very large potatoes and of excellent quality. 

 MepuMic: Damaged by bugs; sweet potatoes good. Coffee: Good and well saved. 

 Miami: Stored in good order. 



Minnesota. — Steele : The great enemy of the potato has left us ; crop an old-fash- 

 ioned big one. Wright : Too heavy to pay for digging. 



Iowa. — Tama : Tendency to rot. Muscatine : Fine crop but low prices — 15 to 20 

 cents per bushel ; sweet potatoes becoming an important crop. Marion : Abundant, 

 but inferior in quality. Lucas : Shortened by warm dry weather. Lee : Late crops 

 f<hort through drought. IJardin : Seriously cut down by Colorado beetles for sevea 

 years, but this year they escaped. Tycks seedling bug-proof. 



Missouri. — Schuyler : Sujierior. Phelps: Early crop good ; late shortened by drought. 

 Linn: Crop large and fine, but no market. Greene: Late crop inferior ; hot weather 

 of August killed the vines. Chariton : Cut- worms swept sweet-potatoes ; nearly all the first 

 j)lanting destroyed. Cass: Good; late crops short but early ones plentiful. Caldwell: 

 Excellent and well saved. Cajie Girardeau : Early potatoes good ; late a failure. 

 Franldin : Early Eose and Goodrich of good quality ; late potatoes small. Lane : Sweet 

 potatoes a poor crop. 



Nebraska. — Thayer: Entirely destroyed by blister-fly or potato-bug. Nemaha: 

 Shortened bj' drought in the latter part of the season. Washington : Superior yield and 

 quality. Cass : Good, though shortened by the beetle. 



California. — San Bernardino : Good, and bring fair prices. Sonoma : Fully equal t© 

 any previous crop ; uinety cents per bushel ; sweet potatoes very abundant and cheap ; 

 forty-five cents per bushel; but when cooked are watery and deficient in sweetness. 

 Plumas : Excellent. 



Oregon. — Linn: Enlarged and improved crop. Grant: Unusually fine ; best varie- 

 ties Early Eose, Goodrich, and Snowball. Douglas : Inferior in quality. Clatsop : 

 ISIore or less affected with rot. Clackamas : Frequent rains have brought out the crop 

 very finely. Columbia: Potato-rot general, affecting 10 per cent, of the crop; it is 

 feared that the sound potatoes will rot after digging. 



Utah. — Morgan: Large crop; forty cents per bushel. Kane: Crop injured, by rains 

 'breaking the irrigating-ditches. 



Colorado. — Laramie: Unaccountably poor. 



Dakota. — Bonhomme : Crop large aud«tine. 



HAY. 



A small increase is iudicated over the crop of last year. The abun- 

 dant rains of June and July, in New England, assured a large crop, 

 which was of good quality, except when injured in making by wet 

 weather. An increased yield was obtained in New York and Pennsyl- 

 vania, in the Middle States, in South Carolina, Texas, and Arkansas, in 

 the South, and in all the Western States except Ohio. The aggregate 

 of the crop will probably be about 24,000,000 tons. 



WINTER-GEAIN. 



From notes of correspondence on the seeding and early growth of 

 winter-grain, it appears that drought has somewhat retarded seeding in 

 the South and West ; that the seed is slow in starting, generally small 

 in size, yet healthy in appearance. West of the Missouri, where winter- 

 wheat is planted, the young crop is more promising than in States east 

 of the Missouri. In all parts of the country, however, where the soil is 

 kept in good tilth, the plant is flourishing. In the comi>acted, undrained 

 soils, where drought is so injurious at seeding-time, we shall hear in 

 the spring of "freezing out" and a sickly growth of that which 

 retains any vitality. So far there is nothing to indicate anything ma- 

 terially better or worse than an average condition of the crop in 

 autumn, the usual local complaints of drought, fly, and chinch-bug pre- 

 vailing, as seen in the following desultory extracts: 



Pennsylvania. — Cumberland : More promising than for many years. Lancaster : 

 Wheat lately sown is declining in condition under the influence of the weather; pros- 



