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tenor of the reports for this district differ little from those of September. To 
offset this deficiency in part, an increase, ranging from 7 to 17 per cent., is re- 
ported for the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Kansas. 
Delaware, Virginia, and North Carolina have small crops, and Pennsylvania is 
slightly deficient. The States further north and east have generally shown a 
slight increase, and the southern States have made a comparatively heavy in- 
crease. The quality is uniformly good, leaving no doubt that the value of the 
entire crop, after deducting the deficiency in the Ohio valley, and allowing for 
an increase in almost all the other States, will be greater, not only in cash but 
in the intrinsic life-sustaining and pork-producing power, than that of last year. 
As the deficiency occurs in the centre of the commercial pork-packing district, 
it will affect unduly the market, both fur corn and pork, making the scarcity 
more prominent, while the comparative abundance of the South will greatly reduce 
the demand upon the West. At the end of another season it will be shown that 
there was corn enough for pork, for beef, and a larger quantity of whiskey than 
the government will be able to collect the tax upon. 
Sorghum.—The sorghum interest has greatly declined. Frosts have injured 
the crop in many places, the acreage is much reduced, and despondency is evi- 
dent in the feelings of many growers. It is to be hoped that greater success 
will be enjoyed next year, as the quality of the sirup is yearly improving. 
Buckwheat.—This crop will scarcely equal that of last year. Hast and north 
of Pennsylvania there is a deficiency, varying from 3 to 9 per cent. ‘There is 
no deficit in Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, lowa, Kansas and Nebraska. In 
Ohio the decrease is reported at 29 per cent., Indiana 17, Illinois 9, Michigan 
6 per cent. 
Potatoes—The potato crop is a poor one this year. The heavy summer 
rains of the eastern coast, from Maine to Virginia, have occasioned much loss. 
The decline from last year is stated at 27 per cent. in New Jersey, 16 in Penn- 
sylvania, (much more in the eastern part of the State,) 17 in Delaware, 8 in 
New York, 9 in Massachusetts, 17 in New Hampshire and 40 in Maine. In 
the West the crop has suffered in some places from drought ; in others from the 
potato bug, the well-known 10-lined spearman. : 
Tobacco—A decline in the tobacco product is indicated in the principal 
tobacco-growing sections. Jor particulars see crop tables. 
Sugar.—Louisiana, the only State producing cane sugar to any extent, re- 
ports an increase of 20 per cent. over the small yield of last year. 
Cotton—Complete estimates will be made on the receipt of the November 
returns. The returns of October indicate a considerable increase in South Car- 
olina, Georgia, and Alabama; about the same yield as last year in Mississippi, 
Arkansas, and Tennessee, and a marked diminution in Texas and Louisiana. 
All estimates below 2,000,000 bales of 400 pounds are decidedly fallacious, 
while present indications favor an approximation to 2,500,000 bales. 
Fatiening cattle—There appears to be a small deficiency of fattening cattle 
in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, the centre of eastern supplies. Fur- 
ther west and northwest, the supply is generally quite as good as last year. 
In those States that report a reduced supply, there is also a reduction in condi- 
tion ; in all of the other States the reports upon condition are quite favorable. 
Old wheat.—A glance at the table will show a reduction as compared with 
last year, when the old stock was also small. Whe stock of old wheat has not 
been reduced so low for many years, if ever. 
