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boll-worm. Angelina: Very fine. Bexar: Looks well, but needs rain. Brazoria: 
Greatly improved during July. Colorado: Injured by drought and worms. Hunt: 
Prospect very favorable. Marion: Best crop ever raised here, but worms have ap- 
peared. Rush: Very good crops; 5 per cent. above average. Smith: Promise extra; 
hot days and warmnights. Uvalde: Fullaverage. Bosque: Crop promises to be much 
better than last year; stand good and well cultivated ; plants loading heavily with 
forms and fruit; rain needed. ZYannin: Too rank weed for a heavy crop; some fields 
overflowed. Lampasas: Beginning to suffer from drought. 
ARKANSAS.—Clay: Late and growing to weed. Columbia: Promising, though late: 
continued seasonable rains. Fulton: Healthy and growing; blooms and bolls abun- 
dant. Lonoke: Excellent growing season. Monroe: Too much rain in some places for 
cotton, which is beginning to shed squares; in other places the crop is promising. 
Nevada: Better than for many years. Perry: Rather too much rain. Prairie: Run- 
ning to weed. Stone: Season fine; prospect excellent. Yell: Never more promising. 
Arkansas :{Damaged 35 or 40 per cent. by high water. Calhoun : Excessive wet, causing 
shedding. €lark: Injured by heavy rains. Jefferson: Locks well but needs rain. 
Sevier: Too much rain. 
TENNESSEE.— Gibson: Prospect good. Hardeman: Very promising. Lincoln: Doing 
well. McNairy: Prospect never better. Maury: Outlook very good. Rutherford: 
Greatly superior to the crops of 1874 and 1875. Shelby; Prospect very encouraging. 
POTATOES. 
Returns for August 1 indicated a condition for the entire crop aver; 
aging about $4. The States above 100 were, in the North, Maine, 103 - 
in the interior, Delaware, 106; Tennessee, 108; Kentucky, 103; in the 
South, South Carolina, 101; Georgia and Texas, 105; west of the Mis- 
‘sissippi, Arkansas, 106; Missouri, 103; Kansas, 105; Nebraska, 107; 
California, 101. Among States producing heavy crops New York re- 
turned 88; Pennsylvania, 93; Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, 95; Michi- 
gan, 90. 
Drought was the leading cause of reduction. In Rhode Island, where 
the condition was reduced to 42, Washington reported no rain for forty- 
seven days following June 5. The next lowest, 60, was in New Jersey, 
where drought was general and severe. It was quite general, though 
less severe, in North Carolina, Louisiana, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. 
Local effects of dry weather, reducing condition in a less degree, were 
noted in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Vir- 
ginia, and Iowa. Returns generally indicate that the beetle, where 
present, had been less ravenous than heretofore. In Vermont and 
Massachusetts its presence was noted in a majority of returns, but they 
agreed in representing it harmless. In New Hampshire, in Cheshire, 
farmers were “ still fighting the beetle,” but in Hillsborough it had done 
very little injury. Its ravages were more extensive in New York and 
Michigan. Its presence, with slight injury, was also reported in Con- 
necticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, 
and Dakota Territory. Indications of rotting were only reported in a 
single county each in Louisiana, Illinois, Oregon, and Washington Ter- 
ritory. \ 
The September returns report extensive injuries to the crop in August 
by drought throughout the Northern States, and by grasshoppers in 
Minnesota, Kansas, and Nebraska, and to a less extent in lowa and 
Colorado. Eight counties in New York and two in Pennsylvania report 
more or less injury by the Colorado beetle; a dozen other States specify 
the same cause for reduction, each in a single county only. In Hamil- 
ton, Illinois, “the old-fashioned potato-bug” damaged the late crop. 
Rust or blight is noted only in Chautauqua and Wyoming, New York; 
Pulaski, Virginia; Iasco and Montcalm, Michigan; Outagamie, Wis- 
consin; aud Humboldt, California. In Utah the crop was considerably 
damaged by an unprecedented frost August 9. The condition falls 
