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the main they seem to stand the drought better than the meadows, and the effect upon ; 
dairy products, our great specialties, is less felt than usualin dry seasons. Caledonia: 
The most severe drought for many years until June 25; since that date frequent rains, 
and the grass has improved in many places one-half. Chittenden: Not over three- 
fourths of an average crop of hay ; pastures drying up very fast. 
MassacHuseEtts.—Norfolk: All kinds of grass are short; while on some low wet 
land a fair crop will be cut, upon old and dry meadows in many ‘cases it is not worth 
cutting. Dukes: Pastures and hay-crop shortened one-half by the severe drought 
which has prevailed for some time. Berkshire: A month since we have had rain of 
any amount. Grass started most beautifully in May; now newly stocked lands and 
top-dressed meadows are in general medium—some more than that. The falling off 
will be on old meadows and very dry soils. The crop will probably be better than 
last year’s. Farmers are each year giving up plowing more and more, and top-dress- 
ing with all the manure they can make. This saves much labor and pays well. Wor- 
cester: Very dry; pasturage short. Franklin: A severe drought prevailing through 
the county; the hay-crop will be short. Pastures drying up. Hampden: No rain for 
seven weeks; pastures drying up. Plymouth: June a very dry month}; pastures suf- 
fering very much. 
Connecricur.— Windham: Never knew of such a drought at this season; many 
fields of grass are completely dried up. 
New York.—Saint Lawrence: Emphatically a grazing county, wholly devoted to 
dairying. The pastures have been very fine, and a large yield of butter and cheese, 
has been made. The hot dry weather for a few days past has shortened the pastures 
and dried up the meadows, but a larger yield than last year is expected. Columbia: 
Pastures light; a very severe drought is now affecting everything. Westchester: No 
rain for four weeks. Pastures are all dried up. Rensselaer: The worst drought I 
have seen in this county in sixty-five years. Shortest crop of hay for many years; on 
many fields and spots there will be no hay gathered... Montgomery: Searcely any pas- 
ture, (owing to the severe drought.) Some farmers are feeding their milch cows on 
grass mowed from,the meadows, and many are purchasing Western corn to feed their 
stock on next winter. Greene: Vegetation is completely dried up in our county. The 
pastures and some of the meadows are literally burned up. Chemung: We have had 
a half dozen light showers in the last week, too late to save our grass crop. Another 
winter with scarce and dear fodder is inevitable. Steuben: Old meadows are very 
light, caused by drought. Warren: Have had but little rain since April; grass is dry- 
ing up fast. Hay is unavoidably a short crop, and clover and timothy sowed in the 
spring cannot be found at present. Cattaraugus: Hay-crop injured by spring frost 
and dry weather. Albany: The earliest and greatest drought that has ever prevailed 
in the county; the hay-crop very pour. Am urging our farmers to plow up old mea- 
dows, after mowing, and sow corn for fodder, and intend to doso myself. Orange: Hay 
very light; but little more than half an average crop. Madison: Very dry; hay not 
over halfa crop. Wyoming: Clover and timothy are a short crop. Washington: Very 
dry; much of the corn planted this spring did not vegetate. Kings: Uncommonly 
dry season; hay-crop very light. Hay is selling to-day at $2 per hundred; ten days 
ago the same could be bought for $1.50. Jefferson :. Dry weather during May and June; 
our meadows cannot be benefited much more, and hay, the crop we most depend upon, 
- will be light. Onondaga: Not more than half acrop of hay. Ontario: June the dryest 
month ever known; old meadows the thinnest and poorest known. Good rains within 
a few days, and grass now doing well. Allegany: June dry until the last; pastures 
short, but now, July 5, the ground fully wet. 
NEw JERSEY.—Sussex: The clover, timothy, and pastures are injured by the dry 
weather. The hay-crop will be light. Mercer: Timothy will almost be a failure in 
some parts of the county owing to the severe drought. Union: Clover nearly all 
killed last season by the early drought; timothy short, and on gravelly soil burned ; 
only one light shower for over five weeks. Burlington : Hay-crop hurt by the drought ; 
many fields will not cut half an average. Our farmers are sowing a gredt deal of 
millet and Hungarian grass. These did good service last year, and there will be an 
increased acreage this. JVarren: Clover and. timothy rather short, owing to some 
insect destroying the clover in some measure last summer. Essex: An extraordinary 
diminution in the rain-fall; the hay-crop will be very short, and the pastures are liter- 
ally burning up. 
PENNSYLVANIA.— Montgomery : Grass and pastures are moderately good, but-want 
rain. Grass well set but short. Lebanon: Hay nearly all made and of a superior 
quality, but below an average in quantity. Butler : Cloverand timothy not over a half 
crop; will not be half-crop of hay. York: Grass an average crop. Wayne: Very dry 
the past month; the hay-crop will be light. Lancaster : Farmers are now making hay, 
and with the good weather they have had they have housed the best and most solid 
crop of hay ever harvested. It grew up with very little wet weather, and consequently 
is of a very good quality. Clearfield: A fair crop of grass. Lycoming: Having a . 
drought, which will make the timothy meadows somewhat short. Lehigh: The dry. 
