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plump grain. Burnet: Yield from 4 to 7 bushels per acre, Atascosa : Grasshoppers 
destroyed the small grains. Bandera: Fultz promising, but destroyed by frost and 
grasshoppers. 
ARKANSAS.— Boone : Injured by wet summer and dry fall last year. wah 
TENNESSEE.—Jackson : A good deal of sick wheat here. Rhea: Quality good ; Fultz 
wheat suits the climate. Loudon: very little No. 1 wheat raised this season. Hdémil- 
ton: Short but good grain. Washington: Many fields will not return their seed. 
Greene: Injured in the shock by rain. Carter: Red wheat damaged by scab; white 
generally of good quality. Lincoln: Tappahannock well adapted to the climate ; 
yield, 25 bushels per acre. Hardin: Injured somewhat by rains in the shock. Coffee: 
Light and poor. Monroe : Good on well-drained land properly prepared, but generally 
poor. Sullivan: Poorest yield, both in quantity and quality, since the war; where 
proper cultivation and fertilization were used a crop of 25 bushels per acre was real- 
ized by ‘‘ book-farmers.” Fultz appears to be exempt from the ravages of the fly ; it 
is hardy and prolific. Grainger : Fultz wheat is a grand success ; yields more and 
stands winter better than any other variety. 
Wesr VirGIniA.—Hardy: Injured by rain in the stack. Mineral: Considerably 
injured by wet. Pocahontas: Fair. Kaleigh: Did better than was expected ; filled 
finely. Tucker: Failure through rust ; in some places not worth cutting. Brooke: 
Sprouting in the stack ; damage 10 percent. Grant: Less than was expected. Jack- 
son: Less than was expected. Putnam: Injured by white blight, midge, and smut, 
as well as by rain, in the shock. Monongahela: Very poor. Randolph: Much better 
than was anticipated. 
Kentucky.— Taylor : Badly rusted and scabbed in many cases. Laurel: A great 
deal of “sick” wheat thrashed out. J/arion : Much affected with scab; millers report 
a great deal of “sick” wheat. Shelby; Fultz averaged 30 bushels per acre. Boone : 
A quart of Tappahannock brought 40 pounds of wheat. Lewis : Excelled any former 
crop. Scott: Fultz a success. Anderson: Average. Lincoln: Better than was ex- 
pected. Logan: Did not thrash out as,well as was expected ; some wheat raised on 
low land called sick wheat ; its flour causes sickness at the stomach when eaten. <dn- 
derson: About average. Fayette: Quality below average. Hardin: -Fultz a great 
success; 2 bushels on two acres produced 83 bushels of measured grain. 
Oun10.—Coshocton: Secured in good condition. Hardin: Tappahannock yielded more 
abundantly, but of lighter grain ; appears to hybridize successfully with Lambert and 
Mediterranean. Jackson: Thrashing out better than was expected. Stark: Rusted. 
Delaware: Will rate in market as No.2. Greene: About average in quality; some of it 
shriveled. Tappahannock ripened about seven days before the common varieties. 
Fultz five days in advance of other varieties, though sown fourteen days later. Each 
variety produced about a bushel to the four quarts. Marion: Has not turned out as 
well as was expected, being somewhat shrunk. Vinton: Fultz wheat from the Depart- 
ment excels all others; it is a great success here. Mercer: Light, but-fair. 
MicuHiGaNn.—Calhoun: Harvested in good order. Gratiot: Never harvested better ; 
best crop ever raised here. Saint Joseph: Full average in quality; quantity deficient. 
Hillsdale: Winter-killed. Jackson: Good quality; thrashing out larger than was ex- 
pected. Oakland: Good, and in good condition. Lapeer: Light, but good and well 
secured. Mecosta: Winter-wheat extra; one field averaged 48 bushels per acre, and 
others are expected to thrash out still better. 
InpIaANA.— Decatur : Much damaged by rain in the shock. Gibson: Poor on bottom- 
lands. Jennings: Yield reduced to 6 or 7 bushels per acre by fly and chinch-bug. 
Morgan: Yield tolerable; quality fair. Noble: Good, when not winter-killed. Switz- 
erland: Harvested light. Wabash: We find a white-bearded wheat the best variety ; 
it yields 35 bushels per acre without manure; no name for it; it was sent here by 
express and sold for charges, no one claiming it. Dubois : Shorter and poorer than was 
expected. Hamilton: Will average 10 bushels per acre. Orange: From 5 to 20 per 
cent. below expectations; injured by rain in the shoek. Brown: Short, but good ; not 
over 7 bushels per acre. Harrison: Not so good as was expected. Boone: Grains de- 
fective. Wells: Yields well. Owen: Injured by heavy rains after cutting. Hancock : 
Injured one-half since cutting; previously suffered from chinch-bugs. Dearborn: Did 
nee thrash out as well as was anticipated. Clay: Thrashes out poorly for the amount 
of straw. 
Inuino1s.— Morgan: Did not fill well; blown down and washed away in many places. 
Sangamon: Badly rusted in the south part of the county. Clinton: Thrashing out bet- 
ter than was expected. Lawrence: Not thrashing out as well as was expected; in- 
creased acreage will be sown. Vermillion : Three-fourths shriveled ; one-fourth plump. 
Jersey: Yield very disappointing; 6 to 15 bushels per acre; the assessor reports 49,000 
acres. Schuyler: Tappahannock wheat a failure. Winnebago: Crop good; Odessa 
wheat sent from the Department several years ago has become quite popular, yielding 
at the rate of 18 to 30 bushels per acre of 64 pounds each; China-tea wheat yields 
from 12 to 25; wheat bringing from $1 to $1.06 per bushel. Zee: Plumpand fair, aver- 
aging 20 bushels per acre. Boone: Spring-wheat afair yield, though injured by chinch- 
