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Pasturage good. Timothy and all meadow-grass look well. Weakley : Clover and tim- 
othy very good. Fentress : Grass extra good. ‘ 
WEsT VIRGINIA.—Jefferson : About 225 acres of Hungarian grass has been sown for 
hay, to make up in some measure for the scarcity of the regular crop of clover and 
timothy. Pocahontas: Season never better for grass. Clover, fine prospect; timothy, 
very heavy crop. Cabell: Both clover and timothy good. Harrison: A magnificent 
crop of grass; meadows will be better than for several years. Wayne: Hay nearly all 
secured in good condition ; doubt whether we ever had a more abundant crop. Bar- 
bour: The finest grass for many years. Pendleton: Pastures and meadows more than 
double in quantity and quality. Maleigh: Pastures very good. Monongalia: Rains 
during the past week fine on the pastures; meadows backward, and will not produce 
more than two-thirds of a crop. 
KEentucky.—Laurel: Meadows promising a good yield. Fayette: Clover was badly 
winter-killed. Pastures not as good as usual. Anderson: Pastures very fine, and the 
meadows better than common and much clearer of weeds. Hardin: Pastures very 
poor; clover all frozen ont. Larue: Clover killed in the winter. Lincoln: Pastures 
very good. Livingston: Have had so much rain that it has destroyed nearly everything 
except grass. Logan: All clover one year old and over frozen out in February and 
March. 
On10.—Meigs: Clover very badly winter-killed; the dry weather of last fall killed 
much of the timothy meadows. Trumbull: Very dry time; hence grass very light. 
Miami: Grass-crop very fine. Ross: The clover-crop is grand. Fulton: Extremely.» 
dry; meadows and pastures drying up. Genesee: Pastures and meadows very fine. 
Jackson: Meadows better than for many years. Medina: Pastures had turned brown, 
and meadows were at a standstill, but now they are checked in their downward course. 
Adams: No rain since June 3d; grass suffering. Hrie: Very dry; grass light. Lorain : 
Clover short in growth, but mostly secured in good order. Pastures over an average. 
Pickaway: Seasonable rains have made fine grass and hay. Vinton: Grass promises 
well. Crawford: Pastures good; good crop of clover. Athens: Grass abundant in 
pastures and meadows. 
MicHiGAaNn.— Wayne: Meadows unusually poor, owing to the severity of last winter 
and to a very severe drought in June. Hillsdale: Pastures and timothy injured by 
drought. Shiawassee: Pastures much improved bya heavy rain on the 28th and 29th 
of June. Livingston: Pastures all drying up; old meadows nearly killed ont. Mont- 
calm: Clover and timothy very poor, owing to the cold last winter; never saw timothy 
so poor in this county. Kalamazoo: A scorching drought of four weeks, commencing 
the 28th of May, had begun to tell fearfully on the pastures; a fair rain on the 29th of 
June revived everything. 
INDIANA.— Scott: Grass of all kinds splendid. Ripley: Clover and timothy made a 
good start, and clover is made, but timothy will be injured materially if rain does 
not come soon. Orange: Timothy seems hurt by winter; meadows foul. Dubois: 
Some fields of grass injured by the worm; otherwise it is extra fine. Floyd: Meadows 
not first rate, and pastures about an average. Hamilton: Clover and timothy a fine 
crop. Harrison: Pastures and meadows splendid. Switzerland: Hay-crop not quite 
as good as last year. 
ILLINOIS.—Sangamon: Clover and timothy, where recently seeded down, suffered very 
much for want of rain in June. Pike: Clover very heavy. Pastures excellent; timo- 
thy very light. Tazewell: Grass-crop will be good but late. Warren: Season very 
dry ; grass-crop very light; pastures nearly bare for want of moisture. Edgar: Our 
people now begin to appreciate clover; have increased the acreage fully 200 per cent., 
and it is very fine. Edwards: The meadows would have been excellent had not the 
army-worm swept through. Lee: Hay will be an average crop; many have cut down 
their grass, and it now lies bleaching in the field. Perry: Timothy-meadows much 
injured by the army-worm. Mercer: Most of the clover killed. Franklin: Very much 
of the timothy destroyed by the army-worm ; what they did not injure, very excellent. 
Douglas: Wet; much hay already spoiled. : 
* WIsconsIn.— Brown : Red clover greatly winter-killed; timothy partly winter-killed, 
but the wet weather has made it up to a full average. Ozaukee: Old meadows below 
an average, but new do first rate, and clover, especially where plaster has been 
applied, was never better. Pierce: Clover never so badly winter-killed; yet some 
fields sown last season, that were well covered with clover-straw, very splendid. 
Portage: Grass heavy. Richland: Clover winter-killed some in the south part of the 
county. Walworth : The winter so injured the clover that one-fourth of a crop is all 
we can realize. Waukesha: Clover winter-killed. Jefferson: Clover completely win- 
ter-killed ; upland meadows of all kinds suffered by the hard winter. Dane: Clover 
of more than one year badly killed; timothy and the native grasses have had a luxu- 
rious growth. Eau Clair: Grass ready for cutting soon as the weather will permit. 
Green : Clover badly winter-killed. Outagamie: Not twenty-four hours without rain 
MN ey past two weeks ; clover, which is generally cut the last week in June, suffering 
adly. 
