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chinch-bugs. Jefferson: Satisfying prospects. Nelson: Many fields ruined by chinch- 
bugs; some plowed under. JW ashington: Winter grain better than was anti¢ipated ; 
very excellent; norust. Spring-wheat promises an increased yield. Sumner: Excel- 
lent. Neosho: Looked well till the chinch-bug came, a few days before harvest; 
some pieces entirely destroyed. Labette: Chinch-bugs have destroyed one-fifth of the 
crop ; two-fifths injured from 25 to 75 per cent. ; the remaining two-fifths, ineluding all 
the early.sown, escaped. This is the third visitation of these bugs. Best way to evade 
them isto sow early and use early-maturing varieties. Then cut the wheat with headers, 
plow a furrow round the field and fire the straw, burning it clean. Raise no grain on 
contiguous ground for a season or two. Linn: Excellent; seldom better. Dickinson : 
Very promising. Cherokce: Injured bylate rains and chinches. Bourbon: Many fields 
destroyed by chinches; Fultz wheat has escaped and is plump and fair. Woodson: 
Much injured on bottom-lands ; spring-wheat injured by chinches androse-bugs. Mor- 
ris: Promises a fine yield of superior quality. Davis: Spring-wheat on bottom-lands 
badly damaged by wind and rain; winter-wheat on uplands generally good. Coffey: 
Mostly harvested in fine condition; quality good. Leavenworth: Good. Douglas: 
Never better; mostly secured. Montgomery: Somewhat injured by chinches, especially 
spring-wheat. McPherson: Fall-wheat greatly improved in two months. 
NEBRASKA.—Burt: Promising on table-lands; poor on bottoms. Jefferson: Winter- 
wheat almost a failure ; many farmers have sowed their last crop. Spring-wheat extra 
good, with an increased acreage. Cass: Heavy straw; scab or blight appearing. 
Richardson: Looked finely till injured by late rains. Nemaha: Winter-wheat badly 
winter-killed. Boone: Suffering from drought. Merrick: A fullcrop. Hall: Small 
grain much damaged on lowlands. 
CaLivorniA.—Alamath: Injured by excessive rains. Humboldt: Extra. San Ber- 
nardino: Lacks rain. Mendocino; The only spring-wheat raised is from neglected 
sowings of isolated pieces which the farmers have postponed till spring; these sowings 
are, this year, very short. Placer: Crop harvests much better than was expected; full 
average. Santa Clara: Most of the late-sown grain a failure; quality good; crop will 
be about two-thirds average. Stanislaus: Wheat yield greatly overestimated; dry 
weather prevented the grain from filling well. San Luis Obispo: Injured by drought 
‘and grasshoppers. Sacramento: Shortened by drought. Del Norte: Spring grain 
greatly improved by heavy showers since June 45. Butte: Grain more or less shrunk. 
Amador: Want of rain. Sonoma: No fears of a short crop; grain excellent, full and 
plump. Fresno; Greatly benefited by cool weather in June; will average 15 bushels 
per acre. Monterey: Will be superior to last year’s crop. Contra Costa: Cool weather 
prevented rust and smut. 
OrEGON.—Polk : Grain crops fine. Columbia: Exceedingly fine. Multnomah: Sea- 
son favorable to grain. 
Daxota.—Bonhomme : Promise of a splendid crop. Hanson: Looks well. Yankton: 
Would have been in advance of last year but for a severe hail-storm June 14, in the 
eastern payt of the county. t 
Montana.—Deer Lodge: Grain crops two weeks late. Lewis and Clarke: Harvest 
late. 
Cororapo.—Larimer : Greatly damaged by grasshoppers. 
New Mexico.—Santa Fé: Grain started by late rains. 
Uran.—Kane: Promises a yield above average. 
Arizona.—Maricopa: Acreage increased; promise below last year. 
WASHINGTON.— Thurston: An abundant harvest in prospect. King: Weather unfa- 
vorable to grain crops. 
CORN. 
_ Area compared with last year—The only States in which the acreage is 
reported the same as last year are West Virginia and Minnesota. 
Florida and Arkansas return an increase of 5 per cent.; Alabama, 2; 
Mississippi, Iowa, and Missouri, 1; Louisiana, 7; Texas, 8; Wisconsin, 
3; Kansas, 15; Nebraska, 11; Maine, Michigan, and Oregon, a decrease — 
of 2 per cent.; New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and 
Indiana, 5; Vermont and Ohio, 6; Massachusetts, South Carolina, and 
California, 8; Rhode Island and Illinois, 12; Connecticut, Virginia, and 
Tennessee, 1; Pennsylvania and North Carolina, 4; Maryland, Georgia, 
and Kentucky, 3. In 1,124 county-returns the acreage in 449 is the 
same as last year; 307 indicate an increase; and 413 a decrease. 
The low price of corn in the Northwestern States, the backward, wet, 
