Corn, yield per acre 41 bushels. Quality 85 per cent. Potatoes, Irish 147 bushels. Quality 109 per cent. Potatoes, sweet 114 bushels. Quality 111 per cent. Hay, average tame and wild 2 tons per a. Quality 107 per cent. Sorghum, yield per acre 119 gallons. Grapes, yield and quality 88 per cent. Apples, yield and quality 97 per cent. Pears, yield and quality 52 per cent. Condition of orchards 100 per cent. Spring wheat threshed at date 82 per cent. Grade of Spring wheat, No. 2. First frost, Oct. 5. Corn ready for market, Dec. 1. In 1878 there were raised in the state 295,000 hogs, and in 1879 a total of 700,000, an increase of nearly 250 per cent. There are raised annually at the present time in Nebraska over 300,000 cattle and 250,000 sheep. The high license liquor law was passed in Nebraska in 1883, requiring the paying of $1,000 for license to sell liquor in a town of 1,000 inhabitants or more, and $500 elsewhere, all of which is thrown into the common school fund and must be paid before a drink is sold. Liquor dealers and saloon keepers are responsible for all damages or harm done by or to those to whom they have sold liquor while under its influence. During my stay of almost three months in the state, I saw but seven intoxicated men and I looked sharp and counted every one who showed the least signs of having been drinking. There are but few hotels in the state that keep a bar. I did not learn of one. Lincoln has 18,000 of a population and but twelve saloons. Drinking is not popular in Nebraska. I will add section 1 of Nebraska's laws on the rights of married women. "The property, real and personal, which any woman in this state may own at the time of her marriage, and the rents, issues, profits, or proceeds thereof, and any real, personal, or mixed property which shall come to her by descent, devise, or the gift of any person except her husband, or which she shall acquire by purchase or otherwise, shall remain her sole and separate property, notwithstanding her marriage, and shall not be subject to the disposal of her husband, or liable for his debts. "The property of the husband shall not be liable for any debt contracted by the wife before marriage."