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bugs in some places. Lffingham: Acreage increased, but crop somewhat diminished. 
Ogle: Spring-wheat good, and harvested in fine condition, The Provencespring-wheat 
from seed furnished by the Department failed to head; it is probably a winter va- 
riety. De Kalb: Exceedingly fine. Cass: Turning out poorly. Mason: Average yield ; 
good quality. ; 
WIsconsin.— Waukesha: Best yield since 1860; gathered in prime order. Calumet: 
Tappahannock yielded 203 bushels per acre; ten days earlier than the common*wheat. 
Dane: Best crop fory ears, in spite of drought and chinch-bugs. Dodge: Averages 18 
bushels per acre; being marketed very rapidly. Pierce: Good quantity and quality. 
Walworth: Better than was expected. Washingion: Will average 20 bushels per acre; 
all kinds did well except Club, which rusted badly and is scarce worth screening. 
Outagamie: Spring wheat thrashing out wonderfully. Clark: Increased attention to 
winter wheat. j 
Minnesota.—Wrjght : Harvested in fine condition; good quality and average quan- 
tity ; priceslow. Slue Earth: Gord; the much sought Red Osauka has rusted badly. 
Carver ; Thrashing-machine men report winter wheat as averaging 30 to 35 bushels, 
and spring wheat 18 to 20 bushels per acre. Waseca: Wheat never filled better. 
Dodge: Promises to be the best crop for many years; Red Osauka rusted badly. Wino- 
na: Crop never finer. Sherburne: Good quality and condition, but one-fourth short. 
Cottonwood: Fine butlight. Goodhue: Spring wheat well secured; thrashing out more 
abundantly than last year. Steele: A little less than last year but of better quality, 
and secured in better condition for market; the increased acreage will make it the 
best crop yet grown here; 90 to 95 cents per bushel. Houston: Above average, of ex- 
cellent quality and secured in good order. Jackson: Short, but good. Nicollet: Mostly 
No.1. Renville: Looks well, but below expectations on thrashing. Benton: Stacked 
in splendid condition. Fillmore: Nearly all in the stack and uninjured by rain. 
Mower: Finer than for many years. Stearns: Harvested in good condition; good 
quality. Wabasha: Mostly thrashed in good condition. 
lowa.— Adair: Provence wheat did not hgad; soil too rich for it. Crawford: Fine 
harvest weather; injured somewhat by hail, but improved 25 per cent. by increased 
acreage and improved quality of the grain. Tama: Good quality and condition ; yield 
averages 12 bushels per acre. Woodbury: Injured 25 per cent. by grasshoppers; Aus- 
tralian spring wheat from the Department a failure, through the ravages of grasshop- 
pers. Benton: Benefited by late fine weather. Calhoun : Straw heavy but heads some- 
what blighted. Chickasaw: Never better; plump, bright, and well secured. Cass: 
Yield 17 bushels per acre; an average crop. Blackhawk: Superior both in quantity 
and‘quality. Guthrie: Some good, others indifferent; rotation here of only wheat and 
corn; about equal to no rotation at all. Polk: Somewhat smutted. Jackson: No. 1 in 
quality, but decreased yield. Shelby: Barely average, disappointing high expectations. 
Harrison : Injured by blight and rains; will average 18 bushels per acre. Mitchell: 
Well harvested. Taylor: Averages from 18 to 25 bushels per acre; Provence wheat 
did poorly. Johnson: Spring wheat above average. 
Missourt.—Moniteau : Does not thrash out as well as was expected ; Tappahannock 
a failure; freezes out worse than ever; Norman wheat has been successful here for 
twenty-five years. Platte: Saved in good condition ; selling at $1.25 per bushel. Cape 
Girardeau: Tappahannock and Fultz wheats about equally successful. Crawford: 
Tappahannock has done extremely well, as also the Fultz. Perry: Fultz a great suc- 
cess. Ralls: Yield unusual; quality good. Taney: Tappahannock the best of six va- 
rieties sown. Worth: Far better than was expected; some fields yielded 26 bushels 
per acre. Grundy: Tappahannock does not suit the climate. Dallas: Good crop but 
light. Laclede: About three-fourths of a crop; reduced by chinch-bugs. 
CORN. 
‘The yield of maize will be considerably lower than that of last year. 
None of the principal corn-producing States return as high an average 
as in September of 1872. Minnesota in the west and New Jersey in the 
east report relatively and absolutely high averages. Maryland, Vir- 
ginia, and Florida present relatively higher figures, and all other Southern 
States lower than in 1872, though those upon the Atlantic coast promise an 
average crop. The yield of the Southwestern States was unusually large 
last year, but will be considerably under an average the present season. 
It suffered from too much moisture on bottom lands. It is also a notice- 
able fact that in the States where rains have been most injurious, reports 
of local droughts are somewhat numerous. Complaints of low vitality 
from bad seed are common in Ohio and Michigan. Summer droughts , 
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