Excerpt from Report on Condition of Crops, "American Competition," and Freight Rates of Transportation Companies: August, 1883 Sir: I have the honor to present for publication a report on the con dition of the crops in August, including cotton, corn, spring wheat, rye, barley, buckwheat potatoes, tobacco, hay, pasture, sorghum, sugar cane, apples, peaches, and grapes. A brief report is made of essential facts bearing on the problem of American competition with European agriculture, with extracts from reports of the British commission on the same subject, with views of German, French, and Austrian publicists. Current changes in transportation freight rates are presented. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.