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Morgan: Early plantings good; late plantings poor. Moultrie: Shortened one-fourth 
by drought. Sangamon: ‘Little good corn in the county. Lawrence: Suffering for 
vain. Pope: Not well worked on “account of wet; in many places ruined by ehinch- 
bugs. Vermilion: Seriously injured by drought. JVashington: Shortened by drought ; 
corn being cut for fodder. Champaign: Early corn poorly filled; late, a failure from 
drought. “Jersey : Assessor reports 30,000 acres in corn which will not average 20 
bushels. Kankakee: Early planted corn but little over a half crop; late, will make 
nothing but fodder. Montgomery : Shortened by drought in the north part of the 
county. Marshall: Short crop. De Ka : Average. Effingham : Decreased acreage ; 
three-fourths average. Ford: Less than a half crop probably. Anox: Not half a 
erop. Ogle: Shortened by August drought; not filling well. Lock Island : Much in- 
jured by late planting and drought. Boone: Stand deficient. Lee: Seriously dam- 
aged by drought; ear shrunken. /JVinnebago: Improved rapidly. Jichland: Mostly 
out of danger. Washington: Did well to the middle ot August, since when it was in- 
jured by drought. Dunn: Shortened by drought. Piatt: Poor, and getting worse 
. every week. Cass: Two-thirds ofacrop. Mason: Shortened by drought. 
Wisconsin.— Waukesha: Suffering from drought. Dane: A fair crop in spite of 
drought. /Valworth: Corn needs a warm fall. Portage: Dent-corn largely ruined by 
drought. Crawford: Below average. Clark: Injured by grasshoppers. Milwaukee : 
Does not promise a large yield ; weeds got the inside track early in the season, and have 
held their own. 
Minnesota.—Blue Earth : Corn not earing very well. | Cottonwood: Looks fine ; will 
be over average. J aribault: Failed to fill on account of drought. Houston: Average, 
though the season was not favorable. Jackson: Will be average if frosts delay. Ren- 
ville: Improving. Jackson: Good but not plenty. Wabashaw: Fine corn-weather,y 
lows.—Adair: Mammoth corn from the Department did well. Crawford: Consid- 
erably damaged by grasshoppers. Louisa: Late corn a half crop. « Marion: Shortened 
by drought. Clinton: Seriously injured by drought; late and almost ruined. Jont- 
gomery : ‘Shortened by drought. Polk: Seriously ‘injured by drought. Pottawattomie: 
Light crop through late planting and subsequent drought. Buena ‘Vista: Fine growth, 
but needs three weeks to mature. Harrison: Injured in places by grasshoppers. Cal- 
houn: Mostly well eared. Chickasaw: Suffered from drought. Black Hawk: Suffered . 
from drought. fremont: Shortened one-half by drought. Jackson: Shortened by 
drought. dvdubon : Shortened by drought. Ringgold: Injured by drought. Grundy: 
Will be safe with two weeks more of good weather ; crop. choice, but jess than last 
age Adams: Shortened by drought. Jefferson: Badly damaged by drought. Jfahas- 
: Corn-fields drying up. Mitchell : Where well attended, corn is exeollanis and out 
a ‘the way of frost. "Madison : Seriously damaged by drought. 
Missount.—Clinton: Much of the late corn never tasseled « out, some farmers cutting 
it for. fodder. Greene: In some parts burnt, up; on good round and well eulti- 
vated it reaches from one-half to three-fourths of a crop. Cass : Greatly shortened by 
drought. Jackson: Reduced one-half by drought. Miller : Not even a third of a crop, 
through chinch-bugs and dry weather, some ~ farmers cutting the crop into fodder. 
Moniteau: Late corn almost nothing. Platte: One-fourth of a crop. Mayne: One- 
third of acrop. Polk: Many fields will not produce five bushels per acre. Boone: 
Half a crop. Carroll: Greatly damaged by drought. Jasper: Literally drying up. 
Adair: Drying up. Barton: Burnt up. Cape Girardeau : Suffering from drought and 
chinch-bugs. “Crawford : Very good; later crops injured by chinch- bugs. Holt: Be- 
low average. Lawrence: Sufiered from drought, chinch-bugs, and grasshoppers. 
Ozark : Injured by drought. Perry: Ruined. Ralls: Shortened two- -thirds by drought. 
Nodaway: Half crop. Putnam: Much old corn left. Worth: Below average. Mont- 
gomery: Greatly damaged by grasshoppers. Phelps: Much injured by drought. 
Pulaski: Very short. Grundy : Fast drying up. Pemiscot: Ruined by July drought. 
De Kalb: Shortened one-half by drought. Benton: Greatly shortened by drought. 
Dallas: Damaged by drought. Callaway: Half crop.- Laclede: Shortened by drought 
and chinch- bugs. 
KANSAS. —Smith: Would have been extraordinary but for the grasshoppers, which 
were very destructive. Osage : Ruined by extreme hot weather and drought. Morris: 
Surplus, though shortened by drought. Greenwood: Shortened by drought. Cherokee: 
Early crop, average; late, half a crop. Butler: Shortened by drought one-third. 
Woodson: Early plantings on bottoms largely destroyed by freshets; late planted, in- 
jured by drought; crop far below average. Shawnee: Almost two-fifths of a crop. 
Ottawa: Seriously injured by drought. Dickinson : Short crep. Washington: Injured 
by heat and drought. Lavette : Early plantings, average; late plantings, nearly a 
failure. Montgomery : Injured by chinches. Jefferson: Half a crop. Neosho: Half a 
ecrop.. Bourbon: Good on well- tilled, black soil; a failure on light, neglected land; in- 
jured by chinches. Nemahka : Suffered ereatly from drought. Miami: Suffering for 
rain. Douglas: Drying up in some parts. Doniphan: In many cases will make noth- 
ing but fodder. Coffey y: Late corn badly damaged; earlier, lighter than was antici- 
