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by winter-killing. Zapeer: Fair crop, except on hill-sides and ridges denuded of snow 
in winter by the winds. Kent: Badly winter-killed. Benzie: Rust has appeared. 
Washtenaw: Not a usual crop. Tuscola: Below average, but better than last year. 
Shiawassee: Largely winter-killed; heading short through drought. Mecosta: Winter- 
wheat remarkably good; some fields average 40 to 50 bushels per acre; Fultz and 
Tappahannock succeeding better than the old standard varieties. Hillsdale: Largely 
winter-killed. Clinton: Suffered from the late drought. Cass: Lightest average in 
twenty years. Van Buren: Light crop. Jonia: Badly injured in winter. Calhoun: 
At least 10 per cent. winter-killed ; injured by spring cold and drought. Branch: Not 
over two-thirds average. 
InpIANA.—Putnam: Injured by late storms; much remains uncut, having been in- 
jured by chinch-bugs and black rust. Brown: Long heads well filled; grain large and 
plump; rather thin in the ground. Miami: Fultz splendid; promises to double the 
yield of the Egyptian in the same field. Perry: Badly blown down; late. Morgan: 
Heads large and well filled; grain fine; thin on the ground in many places. Mont- 
gomery: ‘Thin on the ground in some places; where thick it has considerably fallen 
down on account of late winds and rains. ells: Fultz ripened early; Arnold’s 
Hybrid No. 9 promises well; wheat universally well headed, and will yield well in 
proportion to the straw. Knox: Considerably black-rusted by wet; damaged at least 
15 per cent. Jasper: Most winter-wheat winter-killed; some fields protected by tim- 
ber-belts escaped. French spring-wheat grew well till hot weather, when it died. 
Howard: Thin on the ground, but well headed and well filed. Gibson: Average; 
grain good. Julion : Badly winter-killed; rain renders harvest precarious. Franklin: 
Badly injured by the fly. Switzerland: Best crop, both in quality and quantity, for 
years. Stark: Badly winter-killed, but what survived is well filled. Noble: Injured 
by winter; drought prevented it from filling well. Newton: What escaped winter- 
killing is doing well; spring-wheat, little sown, but promising. La Porte: Fly in the 
spring-wheat, which will not be over half acrop. Harrison: Better than was antici- 
pated; thin, but well headed and well filled; weather favorable, but harvest late. 
Hamilton: Tolerable quality, but badly lodged; unfavorable harvest weather; much 
wheat will be lost. Cass: Light crops, but well headed; better than was anticipated. 
Bartholomew : Winter-wheat very good; harvest delayed by wet weather. Kosciusko : 
Badly winter-killed on prairies ; extra near timber. Dubois: Thin, but well eared, and 
of good grain. Lake: Winter-wheat almost entirely winter-killed. Owen: Fine heads 
and healthy straw. Orange: Thin, but better headed and filled than last year; fields 
often choked with rag-weeds; Allen’s hybrid excels; fully medium with good white 
wheat. Decatur: Badly winter-killed and injured by the fly. Huntington: Cut-worms 
in the crop in some places. Scott: Thin on the ground, but well headed. Vander- 
burgh: Fine breezes saved wheat from rust in the warm, wet weather. 
ILLINOIS.—Douglas : Too wet for harvest. Perry: Wet time for harvest; wheat 
will be injured in the shock. Ogle: Spring-wheat looks well, but is in danger of spoil- 
ing from wet weather; winter grain injured by freezing. Massac: Injured by scab; 
thinned by freezing. Lee: French spring-wheat shows no indications of heading. 
Fayette : Looks well, but harvest weather is unfavorable. Edgar: Acreage of winter- 
wheat reduced 15 per cent. Cass: Rain delays harvest; spring-wheat injured by chineh- 
bugs. White: Some fields of winter-wheat plowed up for corn; wheat injured by 
ehinch-bugs; grain generally good. Richland: Harvest delayed by heavy rains. Cum- 
berland : Harvest late. Stephenson: Small grain getting a remarkably heavy growth. 
Putnam: Spring-wheat looks well. Macon: Harvest ten days late; Fults and Tap- 
pahannock both froze out. Lawrence: Better headed than for many years; will be 
injured in the sheck by wet, the storms having knocked the shocks down. Lake: 
Small grains doing finely. Hancock: Badly winter-killed. Fulton: Badly winter-killed, 
but coming out better than was expected; spring-wheat looks fine. De Wiit: Spring- 
wheat very promising. De Kalb: Spring-wheat looks fine; winter-wheat not so good. 
Clinton : Very wet harvest ; much grain will be damaged in the shock. Carroll: Pro-_ 
vence spring-wheat has not headed ; it is probably a winter-wheat. Whiteside: Small 
grain doing extremely well. Pike: Winter-wheat spotted by the winds of winter 
blowing snow from ridges; well headed and not so weedy as last year. Jersey: Good, 
well filled ; harvest-weather fair. Iroquois: Acreage of spring-wheat restricted by un- 
favorable spring. Clark: Crop better than was expected. Sangamon; Injured by 
hail-storm June 27; winter-wheat thin, but of good quality; spring-wheat generally 
very fine. 
WISCONSIN.—La Crosse: Winter-wheat three-fourths winter-killed. Outagamie: 
Badly tangled by storms. Dunn: Early-sown wheat good. Dane: Spring-wheat threat- 
ened by chinch-bugs. Calumet: Some pieces, not sheltered by timber, winter-killed ; 
spring-wheat never looked better. Jefferson: Winter-wheat completely winter-killed, 
Green Lake: Winter-wheat badly winter-killed. “Zichland: Heavy pieces of winter- 
wheat badly blown down; will thus be injured in filling. Fond du Lac: Excessive rain 
has caused an overgrowth of straw; many acres blown down and liable to rust 
