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Acreage of Faem Ceops. 

 The acreage of cultivated crops, particularly corn and po- 

 tatoes, will be considerably increased. This is due partly 

 to the easier conditions in regard to securing help, and partly 

 to the high prices which have prevailed for grain during the 

 winter. Many farmers have been led by these prices to look 

 into the question of raising more grain for their cattle, and 

 this would alone account for the general increase in the acre- 

 age of corn. The increase of acreage of potatoes is not so 

 easily accounted for, but it seems likely that more help is 

 being hired, and that this crop is being raised as a money 

 crop in many cases, rather than simply for home use. The 

 acreage of tobacco seems to have suffered a slight decrease, 

 because of poor sale of last year's crop ; and this decrease in 

 tobacco acreage is balanced bv an increase in that devoted to 

 onions. 



