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hogs. Putnam: Many fields frosted. Bureaw: Much soft corn. Perry: Early plant- 
ings did well; late plantings failed through drought. Sangamon: Karly season wet; 
early fall frosts; crop a comparative failure. Montgomer y: Late plantings badly frost- 
bitten, chaffy and loose on the cob. Vermiilion: Half crop, and only half of that mer- 
ehantable. Winnebago: Poor planting season and September frosts shortened the crop, 
yet it is mostly sound. Cass: Shortened by wet spring and dry summer. Edwards: 
Very fine. Grundy: Late planting reduced acreage and delayed the crop till frost 
eame. Mason: Acreage and product greatly shortened. Piatt: Half a crop; much of 
it loose on the cob. Boone: Late planted, and hence caught by the frost of September 
13. Clinton: Good corn season; large acreage ; crop injured by chinches, late planting, 
and want of tillage. Lee: Quantity 40 per “cent. and quality 10 per cent. below last 
year. 
WIsconsin.—Richland: Much corn unhusked and winter upon us. Juneaw: Six 
inches of snow and much corn ungathered; ice 2 inches thick. Greene: Badly frosted. 
Adams: Injured by hot, dry summer. Calumet: Ripened well. Dodge: Reduced 
acreage; much replanted ; early frosts prevented its ripening well; yield about 75 
per cent. of an average. "Fond du Lac : Shortened by drought while in the ear. Wal- 
worth : Early plantings average; late plantings injured by drought and frost. Outa- 
gamie: Two-thirds of the crop ungathered, and 12 inches of snow. Green Lake: Crop 
good and well matured, though injured by August drought. 
MInNESOTA.—Benton: Secured before frost. Steele: Good, but not equal to last 
year’s extra crop; acreage slightly increased. McLeod: Crops on low flat lands injured 
by cold, wet planting season; the season later .was fine, and matured the crop well. 
Pennsylvania Yellow, from the Department, made a heavy crop; some stalks 14 feet 
high. Carver: Pennsylvania Yellow turned out heavily, but was a little late; proba- 
bly too deeply planted. Redwood: Late spring made a light crop. Houston: Not half 
husked. Martin: Put back by wet spring and somewhat injured by grasshoppers; Dent 
varieties injured by early frosts. White Dent and Cherokee the best; Pennsylvania 
Yellow good. Corn, though much neglected, is one of our best crops, yielding from 
60 to 125 bushels. Jsanti: Ripened well; better quality than last year; Pennsylvania 
Yellow did not ripen well; not suitable to the latitude. 
Iows.— Pocahontas : Not so good as was expected. Ringgold: haga by extreme 
summer drought. Story: Shortened by the backward spring and early frost. Clinton: 
Well ripened, but not yielding as well as was expected. Clarke: Badly injured by 
summer drought. Decatur: Best crop we ever raised. Harrison: Late planted and 
poorly cultivated ; acreage smaller than even in 1872, the people giving special atten- 
tion to wheat; summer drought and grasshoppers did much damage; quality inferior. 
Mills: Half of. last year’s crop. Boone: Damaged by early rains ; deficiency equalized 
by increased acreage. Appanoose: Crop from 15 to 50 bushels per acre; early plantings 
best; bottom erops poorest; late corn light and chaffy. Clayton: Searcer than for 
twenty years. Fayette: Injured by drought. Floyd: Not husking out as well as was 
expected. Hardin: Frost made much soft corn and loose on the cob. Awdubon: Poor- 
est crop in thirty years. Tama: Pennsylvania Yellow too late for this climate; yields ° 
50 bushels; was frosted. Benton: Late plantings injured 15 per cent. by early frosts ; 
early plantings average. Plymouth: Injured by grasshoppers. Linn: Well matured, 
and a fair average crop. Des Moines: Severely injured by the unprecedented drought; 
even wells have gone dry. Jefferson: Seriously damaged by drought. Winneshiek : 
Good corn scarce; selling at 40 to 50 cents per bushel, ~against 25 and 30 last year ; 
acreage reduced ; poor stand; early and repeated frosts. Louisa : Equal to last year, 
where early planted and well ‘cultivated ; some sandy soils will not return 5 bushels per 
acre. With last year’s surplus there is an average supply of corn. Marion: Crops 
vary from one-third to two-thirds of last year’s. Guthrie: Pennsylvania Yellow does 
well. Calhoun: Somewhat frosted. Grundy: Half crop. Zee: Pennsylvania Yellow 
yields 65 bushels per acre, 15 more than any other variety; ripens earlier. 
MIssourI.— Gasconade: Injured by chinches. Polk: Greatly injured by drought and 
chinches. Caldwell: Perhaps average on deep-plowed ground ; late shallow plantings 
of no account except for fodder. Audrain: Wet spring reduced the acreage, subse- 
quent drought cut short the yield 60 per cent. of an average and 50 per cent. of last 
year’s crop, making theactual yield but 40 per cent. of an average. Jasper: Injured by 
drought and chinch-bugs. Miller: Cut down half by drought and chinches. Platte: 
Quarter of a crop, and inferior. Holt: Reduced by drought. Clinton: Very poor, in- 
jured by late planting, excessive rains in May, summer drought, and early frosts. Har- 
rison: Shortened by “drought but sound. Clay: Shortened by drought and grass- 
hoppers. Saint Clair: Poor ; ; cob soft; poor. fodder. Benton: Greatly injured by 
long-continued drought. Baxter: Very light ; quality inferior. Douglass: Light but 
good; late plantings injured by drought and chinches. Potter: Light and chaffy 
through drought. Carter: Lightest crop since 1854. Zeras: Yield 20 per cent. below 
last year; injured by chinches. Adair: Two-thirds of acrop; quality inferior. How- 
ard: Shortened by drought. Montgomery: Limited by wet spring and subsequent 
drought. Perry: Failure through drought and chinch-bugs. Phelps: Injured by 
