321 : 
ity good. Perry: Almost a failure in product. Dickson: Only 25 per cent. of an aver- 
age; failure in plants and wet weather. «, 
West VIRGINIA.—WMercer: Above average. Monroe: Rather late. Wetzel; Back- 
ward, but with a favorable season will make an average crop. ‘ 
Kentucky.—/Vebster : Greatly improved in the last twenty days. Cumberland: Late. 
Calloway : Will be 67 per cent. of an average crop. Carroll: Too much rain; some 
crops injured by frenching. Henry: Something more than half a crop will be pro- 
duced. Logan: Only 40 per cent. of a crop set out,and much of that eaten by the 
grasshoppers as soon as set. 
Oxnt0.—Noble : Too wet for tobacco. Clermont: Now being cut, 
Missourt.— Nodaway: Never better. Lawrence: Much larger crop than for years past. 
Carroll: Very promising. 
NeBRASKA.—Saunders : Wholly ruined by grasshoppers. 
SUGAR-CANE. 
Sugar-growing in some parishes in Louisiana appears to be extend- 
ing. The report from Iberia states: ‘“‘ The area in cultivation has been. 
much enlarged ; plantations and machinery have been greatly improved, 
and many plantations which have not grown cane since the war will make 
crops for the market this year.” In the fourteen counties making re- 
turns for cane, the condition averages 95. Returns from Georgia aver- 
age 101; Florida, 100; Alabama, 114; Mississippi and Texas, 107; 
Arkansas, (four counties,) 110. 
GEORGIA.— Dooley : Fine, but suffering for rain in localities. Brooks: Being injured 
by drought. Decatur: Very much damaged for want of rain. Upson: Very fine. Jeffer- 
son: Excellent. 
FLoripa.— Gadsden: The condition still favorable, but rain is now needed. Hamil- 
ton: Doing well. Columbia: Half blown down. 
ALABAMA.—Bullock: Fine. Conecuh: Doing well. Crenshaw: Never better. 
MississipPi.—Perry: Looks well; 125. Lincoln: Favorable as could be desired. 
LOUISIANA.—Saint Mary’s: The season remarkably fine and the acreage considerably 
increased. Jberia: Have had excellent seasons for cane. 
Trexas.—Harrison; African, Creole, and Chinese cane largely planted, and it looks 
well; sugar-cane bids fair to become a standard production here. Titus: Very fine. 
Upshur: Doing well. Newton: Injured by drought in August. 
STOCK-HOGS. 
~The numbers of stock-hogs reported on the 1st of September are 
greater in the South than at the same period last year, and less in the 
central corn-belt of the West. In the Eastern and Middle States, the 
numbers are slightly reduced by a decrease in New York, Pennsylvania, 
and Massachusetts, which is not fully compensated for by an increase 
in Northern New England and in New Jersey. Most of the States 
which furnish the animals for the large packing-establishments of the 
West are deficient, in comparison with their stock of last autumn, both 
in numbers and condition, though there is less falling off in the latter 
than in the former. The average decline in numbersis5 percent. The 
percentages of numbers and condition are, in detail, as follows: 
States.. : Numbers. pedi 
ton LA li Leia Shea iow $64 Rule Soae be Whe be 4 ce 5 _| 
CATE GUICE Wa Sense een ee ei et ult Mk olla a A Ng a a NS 88 98 
MASS hee Goa ean cet Cp Ba a a Ya OR 95 98 
LSC Wile Ode a ole Ml Neda aE dee ill I aS AN 0 NAL 89 96 
Whmnois: {ssh ry hae CR Elect ee PE SRA ORIG AN CL A 88 97 
HOW. ooo c ens rs eee eT eee Ot TA eames be gee 102 97 
Missouri ...-..- EE Hee BR cre 3). yO. a cle EATERS ee io cisc 99 | 99 
EUELE Sc) ee aren et See GN ye Pd 2 INR a 132 111 
LT gage S0 Ry enepeegney a oie tines ale tapes og Bi a RN Sai EO 129 112 
