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figures showing the prices of wheat in the leading wheat-producing 
States on the 1st of December: 
States. 1872. | 1873. | 1874. | 1872. | 1873. | 1874. | 1875. 
Wew York. 422.2202. $1 65 |$1 60 $1 26 $1 31 | Wisconsin ............-. $1 03 |$0 97 |$0 83 | $0 91 
Pennsylvania -....-...--: 1 67 | 1 50 | 1 21 | 1 29 || Minnesota .............. 83 80 70 86 
QOhi0 243262525 ee'2 ee ee 449) 31:| 1 04) 1/09" Towal eT a: 85 
Michigan chozs. - atc eed 1 46 | 1 35:| 1 08 | 1 15 || Missouri.-.......-...-.-- 1 41 
DNGIANY ont ss son soem 1 32 22 94 97 fl California: oso. neces Lal 
THO Shee ELIS. ae 1 23} 1 10 86 91 
COTTON REPORT FOR DECEMBER. 
The returns of the growing season, from June to October, or from 
the time when the stand is well established to the close of the first 
picking, comprise all the systematic reports of condition. The Novem- 
ber returns are estimates of the outcome of the crop in direct comparison 
with the previous one. They are made during the harvesting of the 
“‘middle crop,” usually just prior to the coming of killing-frosts in the 
lower latitudes, when the “ top crop” is still subject to all the vicissi- 
tudes of the later season. In order to the fullest possible understand- 
ing of the crop situation, it is therefore necessary to know the character 
of this closing period, as to heat and sunshine, rains and wind, dis- 
turbance of harvest-labor, and yield of lint in proportion to weight of 
seed-cotton. Especially in relation to the latter item there were hints 
in November of unusually low rates of yield, which led to systematic 
effort to learn the whole truth in the matter; and the following questions 
were asked of each county correspondent : 
How many pounds of lint will 100 pounds of seed-cotton make this year? 
How many pounds to the hundred last year ? 
The estimates, which were usually made by averaging carefully the 
results of work of gins in different portions of the county, have been 
tabulated, producing the following State averages : 
Lint in 100 pounds aS 
seed-cotton. Poy 
¥ a gz 
5 85 
1875. 1874, sks 
Ay 
Perth Cafolindss stoners 26.0. J eseshssenbo wes Senseo 29 322 90 
PE AU aOR Bobo sat goon ee cae eee 29.2 33 88 
C61 BE iar Mp lie a, ated ek = apa a aA ol aI aaa Bela ot 30 32 94 
Words <0 )os0 22 Fe Waeeeul., SERIAL Le Sh, eee 27.5 | 28 98 
Alabama a3, eka - it 2 8S LA ee 6 ek TREES 31.4 31.8 99 
Mississippicb.. ace tastas,ccbecta.nseses toe steeat setae 30 32.2 93 
EES RE aS See RE Se a Sh ares ear ey ts ee 30.5 | 30.7 ~ ae 
“LEE FSS AGS EO) ANE Said hey A eee tS Ee Bee See Wig ol A oe | 30.6 101 
Arkansas i). .¥. iGiL a eiie st Anes, io ieee 31-7 31.3 *101 
Panhessee 21sec ak ise eaten Aves eae a 28.7 | 30,2 95 
No one of the Atlantic States appears to exceed 30 pounds to each 100 
of seed-cotton this year, and the average of all is very nearly 30. 
Lust year this belt of States surpassed in figures of condition every 
State of the Mississippi Valley. It is shown that the rate of yield 
of lint to seed corresponds closely with the total quantity produced in 
each State of these two sections. Texas, Arkansas and Alabama make 
the highest averages in 1875: in 1874, South Carolina, North Carolina, 
