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VirGiniA.—Chesterfield: Large acreage, planted in good time, and looking well.. 
Northampton: Cannot expect more than 75 per cent. of a crop, owing to diseased 
plants and fleas. : 
NortH CaroLina.— Wake: Rather dry for setting the plants. 
SoutH Caronina.—Clarendon : Very promising. Colleton: Never better. 
GEORGIA.—Very fine ; acreage 200, and condition 150. Henry: More planted than 
last year by 25 per cent.; nearly all the freedmen have a patch. Jefferson: Unusually 
large and good crop. McDuffie: A dry May and wet June have been the life of the 
crop. Walton: Good. 
FLoripa.—Jackson : Will be deficient, owing to drought in May. 
ALABAMA.— Covington : Unfavorable season for setting out the vines. Crenshaw: 
Fine. Lauderdale: Looking well. Conecuh: Increased acreage and more advanced 
than last year. 
Texas.— Waller: Fine weather for the crop. Austin: Promise well. Dallas: Never 
better. JVashington: Quite promising. 
TENNESSEE.—Gibson : Doing well; fine season for setting the plants. 
KENTUCKY.—Gallatin: Remarkably fine. 
Missourrt.—Cut short by dry weather at the time of setting out the plants. 
BEANS. 
The acreage in beans is equal to or greater than that of last year in 
all sections, except the States north of the Ohio River, in which there 
is a reduction of 4 to 8 per cent, but the acreage in all the States is 
about equal to that of last year, the deficiency in the section last 
named being made up by an increase elsewhere. Our returns indicate 
about an average condition of the crop on the Ist of July. 
SORGHUM. 
No returns of acreage have been received from any Atlantic State’ 
north of Maryland. In the Southern States generally, there has been 
an increased planting over last year, but in the Northwest, a reduction 
in all the States except Indiana, which reports an acreage equal to last 
year’s. In the South Atlantic and Gulf States the condition of the 
crop is about average on the whole, but in the Northwest a considerable 
depression is noted. No culture of sorghum is reported on the Pacific 
coast. 
VirGinia.—Madison: Larger crop than ever before planted, and looking well. 
SoutH Caro.insa.—Edgefield : Little patches of sorghum in all directions. 
GEORGIA.— Upson: Area increased 20 per cent. Troup: Acreage, 150. Baldwin: 
Acreage, 200, and condition 150. Hancock: Acreage, 130; condition, 120. 
ALABAMA.—Covingion : Acreage increased, but still small. Crenshaw; Acreage and 
condition each 150. Conecuh: Increased acreage and more advanced than last year. 
Mississippi.—Amite: Diminished acreage, with increase of Louisiana cane. Lauder- 
dale: Not as good as last year. The cultivation diminishing, and Louisiana cane in- 
creasing. Coahoma: Our first crop, and old sugar-raisers say it looks splendid. 
TExas.— Upshur: Acreage increased 50 per cent., and condition 120. Austin: Fine. 
Burleson: Doing well. 
ARKANSAS.—Grant : Coming into notice slowly. 
Uran.— Weber: Backward, but looking well. 
SUGAR-CANE. 
Seven States report a greater or less acreage in sugar-cane. Of these 
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas indicate an increase 
of 5 to 19 per cent. over the acreage of last year. South Carolina plants 
15 per cent. less and Louisiana 2 per cent. less than last year. The de- 
crease in Louisiana is more than sufficient to counterbalance the increase 
in all the other States. Texas and Georgia seem to be enlarging their 
cane-culture very considerably. 
Fiorrpa.—Jackson: Looks well; fully up to theseason. Gadsden: Acreage increased 
20 per cent., and the condition full average. 
