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8; Nebraska, 16; Ohio reports a decrease of 14 per cent.; Mississippi 
and Louisiana, 10; Alabama, 9; Wisconsin and Iowa, 7, In the re- 
maining States the variations from the acreage of the previous year are 
slight. 
Condition.—In Connecticut, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Min- 
nesota, and Nebraska, the condition averages 100; in California, 101; 
the remaining States, below 100. The lowest is in Louisiana, 81; the 
next in order of ascent are Mississippi, 84; Alabama, 85; Georgia, 86 ; 
Florida, 89; Pennsylvania, 91 ; Illinois and Iowa, 93; New York, Texas, 
and Wisconsin, 9b: * A. general and protracted drought was the main 
cause of reduction in the Gulf States. 
BEANS. 
The only States in which the condition does not fall below 100 are, 
New Jersey, Delaware, and Oregon, 100; California, 103; Vermont, 
104; and South Carolina, 107. Grasshoppers were very destructive 
to the crop in the section visited by them. Rust is reported in 
Androscoggin, Maine, excessive wet weather in Guthrie and Marion, 
Iowa, and drought in some other localities. The States returning the 
lowest averages are Nebraska, 65; Alabama, 76; Ilowa,79; Minnesota, 
81; Maryland and Illinois, 84; Rhode Island, 87; Connecticut, 90; 
New York, 91. The other States range between '92 ,in New Hampshire, 
Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and 99 in Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, 
and Wisconsin. 
FATTENING CATTLE. 
The numbers of fattening cattle are apparently somewhat less than 
last year, though the difference is small. Maine and Vermont, most of : 
the Southern States, and especially the States of the Missouri Valley, 
return increasing numbers; while the returns from the Middle and Cen- 
tral Western States are uniformly below 100. Their condition is very 
generally higher than the returns of condition last year, the principal 
exceptions being in New York, New Jersey, and in New England. 
