MONTHLY REPORT. 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
Statistical Division, July 19, 1876. 
Sir: I respectfully present for publication a report on the condition 
of the crops in July; a paper descriptive of the agricultural branch of 
the Centennial Exposition ; some official documents from the Spanish 
Government in regard to tree-planting; a communication from our min- 
ister in Mexico in regard to coffee-culture in that country; and the usual 
variety of minor statistics. 
Very respectfully, 
J. R. DODGH, 
Statistician. 
Hon. FREDERICK WATTS, 
Commissioner. 
DIGEST OF CROP REPORTS. 
CORN. 
ACREAGE.—In New Hampshire, New York, Michigan, and Minnesota 
the area planted is slightly less than last year. This is doubtless chiefly, 
if not exclusively, due to the protracted cold and wet spring in those 
States. Tennessee also returns a decrease of 1 per cent. In Vermont, 
Delaware, and Maryland the extent of area remains unchanged. In all 
the remaining States it has been enlarged. Among the States report- 
ing the largest relative increase were, California, 34 per cent.; Massa- 
chusetts and Nebraska, 20; Texas, 15; Wisconsin, 10; Georgia and 
Florida, 9; Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Indiana, 7; Ohio, 6; Ar- 
kansas, 5; Maine, South Carolina, Alabama, West Virginia, Llinois, 
lowa, and Oregon, 4. 
Returns from the Southern States indicate a tendency to increase the 
corn and grain crops, from a growing conviction that the production of 
home-supplies will be more conducive to agricultural prosperity than 
the hitherto prevalent system of overproduction of cotton, which not only 
depresses its own price, but also enhances the cost of provisions, clothing, 
&c., produced elsewhere by extending the market for their consump- 
tion. 
The increase of the entire corn-area of the country, over last year, 
amounts to 5 per cent. 
CoNnDITION.—The crop, in several sections, is ina condition of more than 
