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crop ; " " The weather has been remarkably seasonable ; " " The universal opin- 

 ion is that the crop will be the largest ever grown in the country ; " " Crops all 

 over the country were never in a more flourishing condition." Our Lafayette 

 (Wis.) correspondent says he has never seen, in a residence of forty years, a 

 finer prospect for wheat as well as all other crops, and that the same might be 

 said of several adjoining counties. In Highland County, Ohio, the acreage of 

 winter wheat is estimated at three times that of last year ; and in Monroe 

 County, Missouri, the acreage of wheat is thought to be threefold that of 1867. 

 In Kalamazoo County, Michigan, an unusual yield is reported, the best fields 

 being estimated at forty bushels per acre ; and in Bourbon County, Kansas, it is 

 claimed that many farmers will show a similar yield. 



Exceptions to this showing are frequent in the South where rust was more 

 or less prevalent. Some loss from the same cause resulted in Maryland and in 

 the similar latitudes in the West. In a few localities, loss from lodging is 

 reported. Unusual exemption from winter-killing is manifest ; reports of dam- 

 age from freezing coming only from Northern Vermont, some portions of the 

 Ohio Valley, and a still more southern belt. Very few accounts of destruction 

 by the midge are received. In Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, this insect is 

 charged with taking one-third of the crop. In Clinton, Indiana, some loss is 

 also sustained from insects. In Queen Anne County, Maryland, the extreme 

 heat shrivelled the grain in ripening, leaving it light and poor. 



In the Miami Valley, thousands of acres of wheat just ripening have been 

 destroyed by floods ; and other crops suflfered from the same cause. Other 

 sections of the State were visited by destructive rains at the same time ; 

 and much injury resulted to wheat, corn, and other crops. With a successful 

 harvesting of the spring wheat, it may safely be declared, in summing up the 

 local reports, that a larger number of bushels of wheat, by many thousands, will 

 be grown in the United States in i863 than in any previous season. 



Cotton. — Returns from the cotton districts indicate everywhere a reduction 

 of the acreage in that crop, with the exception of Texas, which shows an increase 

 of thirty-three per cent over last year ; and Alabama, where there appears to be 

 no material change in the figures. The falling-oiF in Mississippi appears to be 

 eighteen per cent, twenty-four in Louisiana, twelve in Georgia, thirteen in Ar- 

 kansas, eigliteen in South Carolina, twenty in Tennessee, and thirty-two in 

 North Carolina. The average reduction in acreage is about ten per cent. 

 With this diminished breadth, there is cleaner and better culture, and a more 

 general use of fertilizers ; so that the yield may be quite equal to last year, the 

 season being equally favorable, with a like experience as to insects and other 

 causes of injury. It is yet too early to predict the result ; but the present status 

 of the crop is fairly shown in this statement. 



One county in Arkansas (Desha) reports less than a third of the acreage of 

 last year, while the area in corn is three times as large. Such indications are 

 hopeful. The correspondent, as might be expected, declares that the crops are 

 all in splendid condition ; and, if not injured by drought, the finest yield for 

 many years will be the result. A want of rain has been apparent in the Gulf 

 States, and a severe droueht has afflicted Western Tennessee ; but few com- 



