MONTHLY REPORT. 
Wasuineton, D. C., July 30, 1867. 
Sir: I submit herewith for publication a report of returns to the Statistical 
Division, showing the condition of farm crops of the several States on the first 
of July, with various statistical data from foreign and domestic sources, as fol- 
lows: Wool prices in New York and Boston; imports of wool at New York ; 
exports of breadstuffs; revenues of Great Britain; the cotton caterpillar; cul- 
ture of flowers and manufacture of perfumery; Angora and Cashmere goats ; 
temperature of the soil; culture of sugar beets; farm products and domestic 
animals in Europe; mineral phosphate of lime; statistics of Bavaria; crops of 
Europe; and meteorological tables. 
J. R. DODGE, 
Statistician. 
Hon. J. W. STOKES, 
Acting Commissioner of Agriculture. 
CONDITION OF *ARM CROPS IN JULY. 
Never has the department been able to report sd favorable a prospect for uni- 
formly good crops since the establishment of the statistical division. While 
exaggerated statements have been made in influential papers, especially of the 
so-called failure of the wheat crop of last year, and the importation of wheat, 
in the face of the fact that twelve millions of dollars’ worth of breadstuffs were 
exported in the first four months of 1867, immense numbers of immigrants were 
fed, a much larger amount of wheat used for seed than usual, with a surplus 
still remaining over sufficient to break numerous speculators and several banks, 
it is gratifying to know that we shall have a surplus to more than make good 
the deficiency—not the “failure,” for there never was a failure of the wheat 
crop in this country—of the last three crops of wheat. Four States—West 
Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana—made but about half a crop. No 
other States were in that category, and Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas made a 
good crop. Instead of a deduction of fifty per cent., or ninety millions of 
bushels, which would at least have threatened a famine, scarcely more than a 
third of that deduction should be made. For three years past the product has 
been but about five bushels to each inhabitant. The crop of 1859, if the census 
returns are correct, was but five and a half bushels to each person. ‘The pro- 
mise for the present year is about six bushels. 
Wheat.—The statistical returns for July show an improvement in condition 
of winter wheat over last year, in every State but Texas, Nebraska, and Min- 
nesota, the diminution in the latter case being but 4 per cent. The highest im- 
provement is in Ohio, 160 per cent.; Georgia, 96; West Virginia, 78 ; 'Ten- 
nessee, 72; Indiana, 54; Kentucky, 53; Michigan, 35; Vermont, 25; New 
Jersey, 25; New York, 17, &c. Spring wheat was afar less variable product 
last year, and there is consequently less variation in the figures used in the pres- 
ent comparison. All the States, however, except Vermont, New York, and 
Pennsylvania, show an increase on last year. | 
