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Effect of Industrial Depression. 



The general opinion of correspondents is that the present 

 industrial depression has had no material intiiience as yet on 

 the acreage of crops. In the Connecticut Valley the acreage 

 of tobacco has decreased because of uncertainty of tariff 

 legislation and consequent lack of a market, and in place of 

 tobacco there has been an increased acreage of potatoes, 

 onions and corn. Thirty-nine correspondents note an in- 

 crease in the acreage of crops in their vicinity and six a 

 decrease. Seventy-one note no change in acreage. One 

 correspondent writes that the acreage has increased because 

 so much help is being offered at small wages ; another that it 

 has been increased because people from the city have rented 

 land in the country ; another that there is a slight tendency 

 to increased area to offset low prices ; another that the vege- 

 table gardens in the villages have increased. 



