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ritory, winter-oats are spoken of at several points as yielding very heavy 
crops, the Scotch Potato variety being especially satisfactory. 
The crop equaled last year’s crop in quality only in Delaware, 100; 
Virginia, 100 ; North Carolina, 100; South Carolina, 104; Georgia, 106 ; 
West ‘Virginia, 109; Kentucky, 112; Ohio, 105; California, 100. The 
greatest deficiency, 52 per cent., was in Missouri; Kansas was 37 per 
cent. short, and Illinois 34. 
BARLEY. 
The barley crop of the country yields about 6 per cent. less than last 
year. In all the States east of the Mississippi River, the yield is deficient, 
except in Connecticut and Georgia, each of which reports an increase 
of 2 per cent., and Kentucky, which has equaled her previous crop. A 
great falling-off is reported in the Middle States, in the States north of 
the Ohio River, in the States between the Mississippi and Missouri 
Rivers, and in Oregon; but Kansas, Nebraska, and especially California, 
the largest barley-raising State in the Union, have realized a large in- 
crease of yield, which, to a great extent, counterbalances the short crops 
of the other States. New York, the second, and Iowa, the third, in the 
list of barley-growing States, are deficient; the former 14 per cent. and 
the latter 12 per cent. Kansas and Nebraska, in which this crop is 
growing in importance, report increased yields; the former of 5 per cent., 
and the latter 25 per cent. The quality of the crop equals or surpasses 
that of its predecessor in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Kentucky, Ohio, 
Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska; in all the other 
States there is a decline. 
BUCKWHEAT. 
The buckwheat crop is reported as full average or above in Rhode 
Island, Virginia, Arkansas, Kentucky, Ohio, Wisconsin, and California; 
in the other States, it is below average, the minimum, 50, being in Dela- 
ware. . From some localities in Maine and Vermont come reports of 
serious injuries by blight. From some parts of the Middle States, com- 
plaints of excessive heat and drought, while in others, excessive rains 
at the ripening season, greatly injured the crop. In Kent, Delaware, it 
was prostrated by astorm, September17. The yield was remarkably fine 
at several points in Virginia, Carroll County, in that State, and Hay- 
wood, North Carolina, reporting the best crop for many years. No re- 
turns of the growth of this crop have been received from the Gulf States, 
but the small crop of Arkansas was quite satisfactory. In Tennessee 
and West Virginia, the grain was injured by drought. North of the 
- Ohio River it had a varied fortune, enjoying good conditions of growth 
in some of the more southern counties, while from Michigan come reports 
of blasting heat drying up the crop. West of the Mississippi it was 
greatly depleted by the ravages of the grasshoppers, which were re- 
ported as especially voracious in several counties of Dakota; in Yank- 
ton “ not a kernel was left.” 
CORN. ‘ 
The condition of the corn crop on the 1st of October, on the whole, 
was nearly average. In the New England States it was a little above 
average. The Middle States, except Delaware, report a depressed con- 
dition. Drought during the growing season shortened. the yield, while 
