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Good. Pulaski: Light, but better than last year; injured by chinch-bugs. Newton: 
Good quality ; 60 to 64 pounds per bushel. 
Kansas.—Labette: Wheat yield increased from 200,000 bushels last year to 500,000 
this year; would have been a quarter million more but for the chinch-bugs. Montgom- 
ery: Damaged by chinch-bugs. Cherokee: Prime where not affected by chinch-bugs. 
Cowley: Very good quality; average between 15 and 20 bushels per acre, some fields 
reaching 35. Washington: Good and of good quality. Alchison; Thrashes out 15 per 
cent. better than was anticipated. 
Nepeasks.— Madison : Shortened by grasshoppers. Cass: Damaged considerably by 
blight. Nuckolls: Severely injured by frost September 18. 
CALIFORNIA.—Sonoma: In spite of the lack of usual spring rains the wheat-crop 
thrashes out a third above last year’s yield; quality of grain unusually good. Contra — 
Costa: Yield generally beyond expectations; kernel bright and plump. Alameda: 
Price from $2.20 to $2.40 per cental. 
OrEGON.—Lane: From 30 to 50 per cent. above last year; price has risen from 60 to - 
85 cents per bushel. Benton: Spring-wheat the best. Grant: Unusually fine growing 
season for cereals. Clackamas: Crop larger and better than last year. 
Uran.—Sevier: Rust in wheat. 
New Merxico.—Taos: Almost a failure on uplands. 
WASHINGTON.—Lewis: Never better. Thurston: White Dial weighs 66 pounds per 
bushel. Cook’s white winter, Canada winter, and Australian spring are our best vari- 
eties. 
OATS. 
The oats crop averages 92. The product is equal to last year, or 
above, in Vermont, 102; Delaware, 117; Maryland, 109; Virginia, 
120; North Carolina, 100; South Carolina, 112; Georgia, 117; Alaba- 
ma, 117; Mississippi, 107; Texas, 120; Arkansas, 112; Tennessee, 
110; West Virginia, 118; Kentucky, 104; Wisconsin, 104; Minnesota, 
100; Kansas, 105; Oregon, 123; in all the other States the yield is de- 
ereased. An improved quality of grain is noted in Vermont, Delaware, 
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, 
Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, West Virginia, Michigan, 
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, California, and Oregon. The Potato 
oats appear to have succeeded better in the more southern cotton 
States. In Clarendon County, South Carolina, they grew finely, but 
ripened two weeks later than other varieties. In Saint Clair County, 
Alabama, they grew nearly 7 feet high, and did well in Barbour. The 
Schonen oats maintained their reputation in Sullivan County, Tennes- 
see, and Mercer and Harrison Counties, West Virginia. The Hopetown 
oats are well spoken of in Sullivan County, Tennessee, and the white 
Probestier in Isanti County, Minnesota. 
Matnet.— Oxford: Injured by drought. 
New HampsHire.—Carroll: Shortened by drought. 
Vermont.—Rutland: Shortened by drought; grain light in weight. 
ConNECTICUT.—New London: Fair in spite of drought. 
New York.—Genesce: Crop 60 per cent. of a full crop. Sullivan: Season too dry for 
oats. Seneca: Damaged by wet. 
New Jersey.—Cumberland: Injured by drought in June.’ Morris: Poor; straw very 
short. Warren: Quantity the same as last year, quality better. 
PENNSYLVANIA.—Cambria: Short-strawed but well headed. Washington: Yield in 
bushels large, but light in weight. ‘ 
MaryLanp.—Baltimore : Shortened by drought, but of fair quality. Howard: Short- 
ened by drought. Cecil: Below average but heavy-grained. ; 
VirGiInta.—Page: A quart of Scotch potato-oats produced 16 quarts of inferior 
quality. Pittsylvania : Late sowings poor. Prince George: Schonen oats from the De- 
partment have yielded heavily, and are becoming very popular. Highland: Never 
better. 
Nortu Carortrna.—Above average, 20 per cent. 
SourH CAROLINA.—Clarendon : Potato oats grow finely but ripen two weeks later 
than the black oats. Orangeburgh: Schonen did finely. Union: Best oats year we ever 
had. 
ALABAMA.—Barbour: Excelsior and Potato oats did well. Saint Clair: Potato oats 
from the Department grew 6 feet 10 inches high. Randolph: Full crop. 
