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and rot; if the weather continues dry and cool we shall have the largest crop since 
1860. Brown: Largely winter-killed. : 
MInNESOTA.—Renville: Looks well. Goodhue: Spring-wheat promises well. Hous- 
ton: Partially winter-killed; spring-wheat never better; just headed out. Martin: 
Badly injured by grasshoppers. Jackson; Grasshoppers have ruined the crops, so that 
grain enough will not be raised in the county for home necessities. Faribault: Badly 
injured by wet, especially on low grounds. Douglas : Prospects never so good before. 
Watonwan: Injured 20 per cent. by May and June rains. Meeker: Injured by wet on 
low heavy soils, but fine on light soils. McLeod: Wheat-culture giving way tostock- 
raising, to some extent. Fillmore: Very heavy on the ground and just heading out. 
Dakota : Grain of all kinds never looked better. Cottonwood : Spring-wheat prospect 
very fine up to June 15, since which time grasshoppers in large numbers have appeared, 
injuring all the crops ; on some farms the wheat is entirely destroyed and the whole 
county reduced to half an average. Carver: Some fields winter-killed and plowed up ; 
those that escaped look fine. Wright: Grain on prairie farms reduced one-half by heavy 
rains of May and June followed by hot weather. Blue Harth: Badly damaged by rain; 
some fields plowed up and sown to flax. All grain, except on high lands, looks badly. 
Iows.—Dallas: Acreage of wheat unusually large; many fields lately rusted. 
Page: Acreage of spring-wheat fully three times as great as last year. Plymouth: 
Looks well on fall plowing ; on spring plowing there is a yellow crust, not promising a 
good yield. Muscatine: Somewhat winter-killed. Madison: A few fields badly scab- 
bed. Lee: More spring-wheat sown than for many years; good prospects. Des Moines : 
Spring-wheat badly lodged. Cherokee : Somewhat injured by grasshoppers. Shelby : 
Spring-wheat straw very heavy ; much lying down. Decatur: But half the wheat 
necessary for home.consumption grown in the county for the past twenty years. 
Wayne: Better than for five years. Harrison: Spring-wheat promising. Guthrie: 
Grew so rank on strong landsthat much of it fell down; fine prospectsnow. Calhoun: 
Looks well. Crawford: Looks better than ever before. 
Missourr.—Dallas : Chinch-bugs doing mischief. Wright: Suffered from fly and 
chinch-bug as well as from spring cold. Benton: Chinch-bug destroyed 15 per cent.; 
early-sown wheat much the best. Barry: Considerable scab; chinch-bugs did some 
damage; some ripened unevenly ; Tappahannock and Fultz badly frozen, but ripened 
and filled well; Touzelle almost all winter-killed and fails to fill. Vernon: Early- 
sown a good crop; late-sown taken by chinch-bugs while in bloom or milk; the latter 
will not average over 3 bushels per acre. Sullivan: Nearly average; grain will be 
extra if fair weather continues. Phelps: Injured by chinch-bugs. Ozark: Quality, 
average; quantity, 5 per cent. below. Fultz wheat superior to Flint, both in quality 
and quantity. McDonald: Wheat sent by the Department gives general satisfaction. 
Jefferson: Much over average. Howard: Fine; Tappahannock rather more injured 
by frost than other varieties. Clay: Winter-wheat came out splendidly. Cedar: 
Drilled wheat generally good; broadcast inferior; some crops injured by chinch-bug, 
which appeared a week before harvest, and hence some fields were cut prematurely. 
Worth: Prospects fine. Saint Francois: Seriously injured by chinch-bug. Reynolds : 
Thinned by fall drought, but heads look fine. Pulaski: Promises a large increase ; 
chinch-bug has injured it in some places. Nodaway: Spring-wheat lodged by late 
storms of wind and rain. Moniteaw: Prospect fine on timber-land; largely winter- 
killed on prairies. Lincoln: Grain fine and yield large; estimated at 30 to 35 bushels. 
Lawrence: Damaged by chinch-bugs; spring-wheat from the Department looks fine. 
Holi: Wheat average, but an average is poor. De Kalb: Wheat very fine. Bollinger : 
Injured by chinch-bugs. Bates: Would have been far above average but for chinches, 
Adair: Fultz and Tappahannock all froze out. Saint Genevieve: Early-sown winter- 
wheat extra in quantity and quality; chinch-bug badly injuring the late sown and late 
maturing crops. Crawford: Injured by chinch-bugs; came a little mee than last 
year, catching only the later fields. Cole; Fair yield; heads large and well filled; 
berries large and even; on good farms the average will be from 15 to 20 bushels per 
acre. Christian: Thin. Barton: Promising up to June 25, when the chinch-bug ap- 
peared and did great injury ; much wheat cut green toevade thebugs. Jackson: The 
winter-wheat undoubtedly the best and heaviest grown in the county for thirty years. 
Caldwell: Not thick, but heads large and well filled. Chariton: Heavy crop in pros- 
pect. Cass: Crop extra. Henry: Materially injured by chinch-bugs; some crops har- 
vested very green to escape the bug. Platte: Injured by wet. 
Kansas.—Smith: Winter-wheat an entire failure; it spread over the ground instead 
of running up into stalks; it may live over another winter and make good wheat next 
year, as it did not sprout till spring. The wheat that gotstartedin the fall was all winter - 
killed. The Provence spring-wheat from the Department grew well till June 10, when it 
fell down and died. On examination it was found full of small insects near the roots. 
Cowley: Prospects good; some chinches in spring-wheat. The Provence spring-wheat 
not so early as our other varieties; Fultz fine and large headed. Shawanee: Better 
than last year. Sedgwick: Storms have prostrated small grain; norust yet. Riley: 
Winter-wheat thin; weedy and winter-killed. Howard: Spring-wheat troubled with 
