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secured in fine condition. Highland: Unusually good yield of hay. Loudoun: Fall 
pasture fine. Prince George: Hay-crop above average. 
NortH Caro.ina.—Davidson: Grass-crops recovered by late rains from former 
drought. Chowan: Rain rendered it difficult to save hay. Cumberland: Hay prospect 
rery good. Bladen: Looks well. 
GrorGia.—Heard: Grass and pastures fine. Jefferson: Grass-crops never better. 
ALABAMA.— Bibb: Guinea-grass the only kind growing here; yields 4 tons per acre 
good hay; cut four times a year and is very satisfactory as food for horses and cat- 
tle. Coffee: Grass-crops good. Montgomery: Hay-crop good. £llis: Hay-crop the 
best ever made; prairie grass, mesquite, &c. ; 
Texas.—Red River: Hay of all kinds never better. Coryell : Better than ever be- 
fore. Collin: Great increase of prairie-hay. Comal; Hay-crop large. Austin: 
Prairie pasture excellent ; artificial pastures produce abundance of hay; crab-grass 
full 3 feet high. 
ARKANSAS.— Arkansas: Hay good. Crittenden: German millet produces 2 tons of 
hay per acre, the second crop being pastured. /Vashington : Increased sowing of 
timothy. 
TENNESSEE.—Lhea : Grass-crops good. Hamilton: Clover and timothy short. Wash- 
ington: Hay would have turned out well but for heavy freshets. Bradley : Grass-crops 
injured by grasshoppers. Coffee: Hay-crop greatly increased by the large quantity of 
German millet lately sown; this grass brings from 2 to 4 tons per acre, and promises 
to revolutionize the grass culture to the north and south. Sumner: Large and supe- 
rior hay-crop well saved. Obion: Grass good. Giles: Best hay-crop ever made; first- 
rate condition. De Kalb: Grass crops magnificent. Monroe: Hay of all kinds aver- 
age or above. Putnam: Fine quality and full average quantity. Hancock: Pastures 
eaten by grasshoppers. 
West VirGINiA.—Jefferson: A good deal of fox-tail hay made. Marion; Fall pas- 
tures fine and rank; blue-grass springing where it appeared to be killed with grub- 
worms. Mercer: Full'average and in good order. Pocahontas: Large and fine crop. 
Pendleton: Beautiful prospect for fall pastures. Grant: Haying delayed by rains ; 
corn double loss. Monongalia: Hay-crop short. 
Kentucky.—Clarke: Grass burning up. Jefferson: Favorable season. Lincoln: 
Meadows largely winter-killed ; hay-crop well secured. Lewis: Hay remarkably good. 
Hardin: Pastures very short. . 
Out0.— Coshocton : Good crop well secured. Jackson: Fall pastures never better. Lo- 
gan: Some early-cut clover swept away by a freshet; in one case a mowing-machine 
was just visibleabove water. Stark: Hay-crop damaged by drought. Athens: Hay of 
all sorts better than last year, but much of it has been destroyed by floods; it is worth 
from $16 to $20 per ton. Medina: Grasshoppers destructive on pastures. * 
MIcHIGAN.— Shiawassee: Hay shortened by drought, but of fine quality. Calhoun: 
Early-cut hay injured by showers. Kalamazoo: Pastures nowhere; scarcely anything 
Fie Bee to eat. Newaygo: Hay full average. Van Buren: Grass seriously affected by 
rought. 
InDIANA.— Decatur: Hay saved with difficulty ; clover-hay principally lost. Jen- 
nings: Grass very good. Morgan: Above average. Switzerland: Hay light and inferi- 
or; meadows foul. Cass: Pastures suffering for rain. Lake: Fine harvest weather; 
splendid crop of hay secured in good condition. Crawford: Fall pastures very short. 
Owen: Clover-hay abundant; timothy three-fourths of a crop. Clay: Pastures dry 
enough to burn. 
Inuinois.— Pike: Pasturesall dried up. Crawford: Injured by grasshoppers. Clinton : 
Hay short but good. Pope: Hay our only good crop. Carroll: No after-maths for 
hay; pastures dried up. DeKalb: Hay 5 per cent. below average. Knox: Hay short ; 
pastures burned up. Marshall: Pastures very nearly used up. Warren: Pastures 
dried up, and some farmers feeding green corn. Edwards: Badly injured by grasshop- 
pers; meadows partly saved by wet weather, but the quality of the hay was not good ; 
pastures good. Boone: Very light timothy crop. Cass: Hay light. Mason: Good 
yield and quality. , 
Wisconsin.— Waukesha : Suffered from drought. Dane: Clover-hay short. Dodge: 
Pastures dried up. Richland: Summer pasture badly dried up; meadow fall-feed poor. 
Dunn: Weather favorable for hay harvest. Outagamie: Pasture literally burned up. 
Green : Hay-crop generally short. 
Minnesota.— Waseco: Timothy-crop heavy. Goodhue: Hay good but somewhat re- 
duced by the winter-killing of clover, and by damage to wild grass by high water 
Murray: Hay poor; natural grasses never better. Meeker: Abundance of wild hay, 
rather above average in quality, but not equal to average in quantity. 
Jowa.—ice: Pastures dried up. Harrison: Hay mostly from prairie-grass, and is 
not so good as usual. Blackhawk: Tame hay excellent; wild hay above average. 
Clinton: Hay-crop large, but no after-feed in meadows or pastures. Marion: Pastures. 
suffering for rain. Jefferson: Pastures dried up. Mahaska: Pastures drying up. 
Johnson: Pastures dried up. 
