Agricultural Notes

According to figures furnished by the department at Washington, the aggregate acreage of tobáceo is smaller than last year, the returns showing 97.3 per cent. of that area. The falling off is entirely in the hipping dtetricts, the seed leaf districts showing an increased acreage. The returns indícate a decided revival in tobáceo planting in the Connecticut valley. O. B. Potter, president, and W. J. Einith, secretary of the New York State Agricultural society, held a conferencd recently with the officers of the state World'a fair board to arrange for New York's agricultural exhibit. It is proposed to make the exhibit one of unrivaled merit and premiums will probably be offered. Thirty-five of the states and territories have accepted building sites on the northem porïion of the grounds at the World's f air. According to reports of eorrespondents, the state of Kansas has not in many years been so free from insect depreclations eis this year.