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NEw York.—Schoharie: Winter-rye good. 
PENNSYLVANIA.—Montgomery: Very promising. Berks: Looks remarkably well. 
Northumberland: Looks unusually fine. 
MARYLAND.— Howard: Promises at least an average crop. : 
Virernis.—Monigomery: Badly winter-killed, but the crop remaining improves be- 
yond expectation. Henrico: Very fine ; probably the heaviest crop ever grown in the 
county. Washington: Badly winter-killed. Highland: Greatly injured by freezing. 
Norta Caroiiwa.—Cherokee : Froze last winter worse than heretofore. Ashe: Badly 
injured by freezing. Greene: Injured by heavy rains in May. 
GrorGia.— Marion: Winter-rye received from the Department not worth anything ; 
lies on the ground all winter and spring, when native rye is from 4 to5 feet high. Mur- . 
ray: Badly winter-killed ; quality will be good. 
LoutsiaNna.— bussier : The r ye sent me by the Department last fall is the finest I have 
ever seen. 
Texas.— Burnet: Injured by frosts and grasshoppers. Medina: Winter-rye entirely 
destroyed by grasshoppers; not a bushel will be raised in the county. Williamson: 
Promises to be better than average. 
TENNESSEE.—Jefferson: Thin and short stems; injured by freezing and wet weather. 
West ViIRGINIA.— Mercer: Winter-rye badly frozen. Nicholas: Rye about average; 
looks well, Pocahontas: Rye frozen out. 
KENTUCKY. —Lincolu: Rye promising. Greaves: Good. 
Iowa.—Clinton; Rye killed. Muscatine: Badly winter-killed. Singgold: Rye badly 
winter-killed. 
BARLEY. 
Winter-barley is grown in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, Kentucky» 
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, and California; its acreage 
compared with last year’s varies from 80 per cent. in Indiana to 110 per 
cent. in Texas; its condition from 65 per cent. in Kentucky to 108 per 
cent.in Kansas. Spring barley is reported in the New England, Middle, 
and Northwestern States, none growing south of the Ohio River. The 
maximum acreage, 128, is in Oregon; the minimum, 83, is in Indiana. 
The maximum of condition, 114, is in Missouri; the minimum, 89, is in 
California. 
MASSACHUSETTS.— Middlesex: About average. 
, New York.—Genesee: Very late in starting; ground in bad condition, hard and 
Ty. 
Kentucky.—Fayette: Barley almost a failure. 
GRASS AND PASTURES. 
Throughout the New England States the grass in both pastures and 
fields, though late, appears to be *‘ well set,” and affords a favorable 
- prospect for both grazing and hay. In Ver mont the average condition 
of both clover and pastures is 99; of pastures in Massachusetts, 100. With 
these exceptions the condition of both was aboveannual average about the 
1st of June. There, is an increase in the acreage of clover, in all except 
Rhode Island, in which it is the same as last year. In New Jersey 
nearly all clover sown a year ago is reported as killed out by the drought 
last summer; that sown this spring is starting well. The report for 
Montgomery ‘County, Pennsylvania—* grass well: set, thick and thriving, 
though late for the season”—is a specimen for that State and Maryland, 
though in the latter the condition is somewhat reduced from the effects 
of drought last summer. In Georgia, Pike County returns an increase 
of acreage in clover of 400 per cent., and in Mississippi, Wilkinson re- 
turns an increase of 700 per cent. All the returns indicate an increase 
of area over last year of something over 2 per cent., and a promising, 
though backward condition. 
Maine.— York: Grass is wellset. Androscoggin: Clover good; none last year. Saga- 
dahoc: Grass is doing very well. 
