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MINNESOTA.— Goodhue: Spring-wheat promising. Faribault: Badly injured by wet, 
especially on low grounds. Douglass: Prospect never so good before. Fillmore: Look- 
ing first-rate. Blue Earth: Injured by wet. 
lowa.— Plymouth : Good on fall plowing, but not good on spring plowing. Harrison: 
Sown largely, and promising. : 
Missouri.—Dallas : Chinch-bugs mischievous. Wright: Finest crop for years; po- 
tato oats poor. Phelps : Chinch-bugs injured the crops. Clay: Look as well as they 
can. St. Francois: Fine, but damaged by storms. Reynolds: Fine, but much thrown 
down by winds. Ralls: Unusually promising. Pulaski: Increased acreage; looks 
well. Jasper: Threatened by chinch-bugs. De Kalb: Average. Bolinger: Fine. 
Christian: Very poor. Caldwell: Remarkably good ; heading out June 26. Chariton: 
Late-sown ; looks poorly. Platte: Hardly worth saving. Rice: Potato-worms. Neoshe : 
Threatened with chinch-bugs. Labelle: Suffering from chinches ; reduced one-fourth. 
Davis: Damaged by winds and rains on bottom lands. 
NEBRASKA.—Cass : One-fourth of the oats blighted. Nemaka: Oats very prodne- 
tive and seldom fail. Boone: Suffering from drought. Merrick: Short. 
Daxora.—Hanson : Look well. 
CoLorRADo.—Larimer : Greatly damaged by grasshoppers. 
New Mexico.—Mora: Benetited by late copious rains. 
RYE. : 
Winter-rye improved during June in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New 
Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, Arkan- 
sas, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Iowa. It remained stationary in 
Georgia, and declined in all the other States reported. Spring-rye is 
average or above in Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and 
Oregon. In all the other States it is below average ; the minimum, 79, 
is in California, and the maximum, 110, is in Nebraska. 
New JERSEY.—Burlington: Quality good. 
PENNSYLVANIA.—Monigomery : Rye well grown and matured. Fayetie: Very little 
grown, and only to tie up corn-fodder. Tioga: One farmer raised 24 bushels on a 
single acre, the average being 16 bushels. 
MaryYLAND.— Baltimore: Above average. : 
New YorK.—Columbia: No grain; very fair straw. Saratoga: Looked finely. in the 
spring, but the heat burned it out. ‘ 
VinGINIA.— Pittsylvania: Rye raised only by a few old settlers: it will thrive on a 
soil less rich than that required by wheat. Sussex: Better than for several years. 
FAighland: Greatly winter-killed. : 
NortH Carorina.—Clay: Almost a failure. Greene: More or less injured. , 
TExas.—Gonzales: The common native rye has done well. Medina: Nearly de- 
stroyed by grasshoppers. Bandera: Destroyed by grasshoppers. Burnet: Injured by 
grasshoppers. Blanco: Acreage increased 50 percent. Kendall: Entirely destroyed. 
TENNESSEE.— Donaldson: Very good. Bradley: Very fine. < 
WEsT VIRGINIA.— Mercer : Stood the freeze much better than wheat. Pocahontas: 
Good prospect. 
- Kentucky.—Fayetie: Good. Butler: Badly frozen out. 
Outl0o.—Greene: Crop fine and safe. 
InDIANA.— Newton :. Winter-rye escaped the freeze, and now promises a full yield. 
Inurnors.— Bureau : Winter-rye from the Department looks splendid; other varieties 
badly frozen out. 
Kansas.— Davis : Winter-rye on uplands generally good. Leavenworth: Very good. 
NEBRASKA. Nemaha: Rye very productive. Merrick: Rye from the Deparimens 
doing splendidly. 
BARLEY. 
Winter-barley during June improved in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Ken- 
tucky, Michigan, Missouri, and California; it declined in Texas, Ohio, 
and Kansas. Spring-barley improved in New Hampshire, Rhode Island, 
Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin ; it declined in Maine, Vermont, Massa- 
chusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Min- 
nesota, lowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, California, and Oregon. 
