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Nrw HamMpsHire.—Cheshire: Everything very late except grass; pastures look very 
fine. 
Massacuusetts.— Middlesex : Grass winter-killed in places; clover badly, but hay 
exceedingly promising. Plymouth: Grass thick-set, but suffering for want of rain. 
New YorkK.—Columbia: Clover very poor; old pastures good. Wyoming: Clover 
coming on finely. Madison: Grass suffering from dry weather. Lewis: Grass looks 
finely. WHrie: Pastures fed too close through May for their good. 
New JrerRsey.—Sussex: The clover sown last year will not make three-fourths of a 
crop, so much was lost from various causes; that sown this spring is doing well. 
Monmouth: Owing to the dry weather last summer we have but little clover. Camden: 
Will be very little clover-hay, owing to the poor stand last spring ; the crop of timothy 
will be much better; pastures very short for the season. Burlington: Many fields 
have no clover; all killed last summer; the spring very favorable for the growth of — 
young clover just starting in the wheat-fields; timothy better than clover, but does 
not promise an average crop. Warren: Clover is short; timothy promises a full crop. 
PENNSYLVANIA.—Clinton: Very promising. Union: The cold, wet spring kept the 
meadow grass back, but it is now warm, and we expect a good hay crop. Northumber- 
land: Clover and timothy look unusually fine. Lycoming; Clover and pastures look- 
ing well. Greene: Spring favorable on grass. 
MaryYLanv.—AHoward: Frequent rains have given clover and grass a fine appear- 
ance. Baltimore: Pastures very abundant; grasses for hay in fine condition. Cecil: 
Very fine growth of clover and grass, but generally thin on the ground, owing to 
drought last summer. Queen Anne: Clover very backward and thin on land; pastures 
backward. 
VIRGINIA.— Botetourt: Grass very promising. Spottsylvania: The crop of clover the 
best for many years. Fluvanna: The stand of clover is bad on account of last year’s 
drought. Hanover: The cultivation of pasture and grass-bearing lands is a necessity 
m the eastern part of the State. We shall never recuperate the endless amount of 
worn-out lands until we understand the business of stock-raising. Orchard ‘grass, 
timothy, and clover, are all susceptible of high cultivation in almost any part of the 
State. Lunenburg: Weather in May favorable for clover. Montgomery: The hay crop 
promises an abundant yield, and pastures are fine and rich. Orchard grass is becom- 
ing very popular. Culpeper: The dry weather of 1872 destroyed the growing clover, 
hence the small acreage of 1873. Henrico: Have never seen such crops of clover as 
are now growing. Nansemond: Drought in April cut short the clover crop. Prince 
George: Clover and hay crops very good. Washington: One-half the clover pulled out 
of the ground by freezes; looks healthy now. Pasturage very late, but growing. well 
now. Chesterfield: Clover yielding finely. 
Norra Carouina.—Martin: Our principal pastures are on the low grounds of the 
ima River, which has overflowed its banks this spring, and very materially injured 
them. 
SouTH CAROLIna.—Greenville: Red clover-seed sown last October came up and 
looked well, but it has disappeared. York: Spring pasturages are in fine condition. 
GEORGIA.— Troup: Some clover lots sown the past spring promise well. The Italian 
rye grass sent by the Department is doing finely. Jackson: Clover will not do well 
unless on rich land and limed. 
Loutsrana.—Franklin: Our spring pasturage is of the native grasses, and is finer 
than for some years past. 
Texas.— Medina: Pasturage suffered from grasshoppers. 
ARKANSAS.— Arkansas: Pastures ou the prairie excellent. 
TENNESSEE.— Loudon: Our clover has been almost a failure in sowing for the last 
two years. Bedford: The freeze in the winter, and the army worm in the spring, de- 
stroyed nearly all the clover crop. Gibson: The season has been favorable to grass 
and clover. Grainger: Meadows rank with chess, here called“ cheat.” The cold snap, 
March 3d, injured the clover and meadows. 
West VirGinta.— Mercer: Clover and spring pasture short, in consequence of cold, 
backward spring. Pleasant: Clover sowed last winter® purer than previous crops. 
Nicholas: Clover fine. Pendleton: Fine weather is bringing out grass crops. Putnam: 
Clover thinned out by severe winter. Harrison: Season favorable to meadows, pas- 
ture backward, but improved by late rains, and better than for two or three years. 
Monroe: Clover and pasture fine. 
Kentucky.—Shelby: Clover badly frozen out. Taylor: Clover damaged by freezing 
50 percent. Fayette: Clover promising. Lincoln: Clover badly winter-killed. Lawrie: 
Clover nearly frozen out. Hdmonson: Clover badly winter-killed. 
On10.— Warren: Grass crops promising. 
MIcHIGAN.—-/Vashtenaw: Hay prospects poor. 
Inprana.—Perry: “A strange weed or grass has made its appearance in our meadows, 
old and young, seriously threatening to destroy them. Hoeing has not proved suc- 
cessful. {[t resembles sour-sorrel, the German sauer-grass. It sprouts from the roots 
which are very long and tough. It is crowned with a brownish top of seeds or bloom 
