making returns might possibly improve, but the danger of 

 damage from frosts would not allow of a much longer season 

 for its increase. With the rains of September, feed in pas- 

 tures took a new lease of life and improved to a marked de- 

 gree. Mowings also that had begun to turn brown, on light 

 land, with the continued drought, recovered to the extent 

 that they again became green and luxuriant, though the 

 growth was not such as to yield any bulk of hay in these cases. 



Fall Seeding. 

 Very much less than the usual amount of fall seeding had 

 been done at the time of making returns, owing to the pro- 

 longed drought putting the land in unfit condition for seed- 

 ing, and the rains of September interrupting farm work to a 

 considerable extent. It was going on at the time of making 

 returns, and probably nearly as much as usual would be done 

 before the close of the fall season. That which was put in 

 earlier generally failed to germinate until the coming of the 

 rains, and was for that reason short and backward. There 

 was some complaint also of its being uneven in germination 

 and growth, but this was by no means general. 



Onions. 

 Onions were hardly up to the normal, taking all the returns 

 into consideration, for while there was little blight re- 

 ported, and the quality of the crop was generally excellent, 

 they were said to be smaller than usual, owing, doubtless, to 

 the long-continued dry weather, so that the yield per acre 

 would probably be considerably below the normal. Harvest- 

 ing was rather later than usual, as the crop was backward, like 

 all others, and slow in curing. 



Potatoes. 

 Potatoes are considerably under a normal crop in yield, 

 due to the effects of the long-continued drought. They are 

 reported as rather smaller in size than usual, and not particu- 

 larly abundant as to number of tubers. In the western coun- 

 ties there was more or less complaint of rot, which does not 



