390 
immature potatoes, the vines having died prematurely. In Armstrong, 
early potatoes were extra good, but late, few and small. In New York 
the average condition is reduced to65. New Jersey returns 73; Penn- 
sylvania, 68; Vermont and Maryland, 83. In Frederick, Maryland, po- 
tatoes sold one year ago as low as 20 cents per bushel; now the price is 
70 cents, and advancing. In Virginia the later crop was, to a considerable 
extent, killed in the germ by early drought. Dinwiddie reports that not 
10 per cent. of the late planted came up; the condition in the State 
averages 88. In the remaining section south of the Potomac and the 
Ohio, in which the Irish potatoe is a minor crop, the average condition 
is not much, if any, below 100. Local extremes of high and low condi- 
tion are included in this general average. In Beaufort, N. C., the late 
crop is almost a failure from rotting; in Arkansas, Garland reports a 
complete failure, but Izard an abundant crop. In Gibson, Tennessee, 
the crop is almost a failure; and in Montgomery, “ used up by drought 
and the bugs ;” but the State averages 100. 
North of the Ohio, returns confirm the indications in the September 
reports of a comparatively poor crop in both yield and quality. In 
addition to the reductions by unfavorable weather, and by the beetle, 
previously reported, damages from blight are noted in Franklin, Ohio, 
and Fond du Lac, Wis.; from rotting, in Chippewa, Mich., and Grant, 
Brown, and Clark, Wis. In Henry, Obio, the price is 70 cents per 
bushel, against 20 cents last year; in Delta, Mich., a first-rate crop sells 
at 50 cents per bushel, wholesale ; in Noble, Indiana, a crop less than 25 
per cent. of an average, at $1.25 per bushel. The average condition 
in Michigan is 55; Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin, 83; Indiana, 89. West 
of the Mississippi the condition is higher, but the promise is somewhat 
below an averagecrop. In the latter part of the season grasshoppers 
have been the most general cause of reduction in the States and Ter- 
ritories between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. The low- 
est condition in this section is 81, in Kansas; the highest 96, in 
Minnesota. Rot is reported in Alamakee, Marion, and Lee, lowa; and 
in Greene, Missouri, “‘ the early potatoes are all rotting at one end.” 
On the Pacific slope, California reports a condition 7 per cent. above 
average, or higher than that of any other State in the Union. Oregon 
falisto94. In Utahthe crop has been extensively damaged by early frosts. 
The entire returns, with their various local specifications concerning 
actual or prospective yield and quality, point to a short crop, with 
great variations in quality, and with high prices. The average of condi- 
tion for the entire country is 77. 
SWEET POTATOES. 
Returns give promise of a full average crop of good quality. On the 
Atlantic coast, from New Jersey to South Carolina inclusive, the condi- 
tion ranges from 104 to 97.. It has been reduced in Georgia to 91; 
Florida, 84; and Alabama, 87, by a general and protracted drought. 
In Mississippi the drought was severe and disastrous to the crop in 
localities, but being less general in extent, the condition falls only 2 
per cent.; in Louisiana, the same cause brings it down to 88. Texas 
averages 96; Coryell reports the best crop ever raised, all in fine condi- 
tion; Upshur, a yield equal to that of last year, with an increase of 100 
per cent. in acreage; Bexar, a failure of the crop from a drought of 
three months’ continuance. The condition is 90 in Nebraska, and 94 
in Illinois; but in all the remaining States, in which the crop is of 
any account, the range is from 98 in Indiana and Kansas, up to 109. 
