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Martin : Shortened by drought; bugs the whole season. Steuben: Colorado beetles not. 
so destructive as formerly. Wells: Half crop, but excellent. Brown: Shortened by - 
drought, but excellent ; worth 60 to70 cents per bushel. Dearborn: Early and medium 
plantings fair; late a failure. La Porte: Yield larger and better than last year in 
‘spite of bugs and drought. Ohio: Injured by drought and Colorado beetles. 
ILLinois.— Kankakee: Almost a failure. Fayette: Good quality, but a little below 
average. Pike: Very short and poor. Whitesides: Very scarce; worth $1.25; half the 
home consumption must be imported. Tazewell: Shortened by drought and bugs. 
Macon: Almost a failure; only early plantings gave any return ; shortened by drought 
and bugs; selling at $1.40 per bushel. Putnam: Almost destroyed by drought and 
bugs. Bureau: Almost a failure ; sold at $1.25 per bushel. Sangamon: Greatly short- 
ened by Colorado beetles. Henry: Shortened and depreciated in quality by drought. 
Ogle: Scarce, but good; selling at 75 cents to $1 per bushel. Winnebago: Late plant- 
ings did not mature. Cass: Lightest crop ever known here. Edwards: Yield large, 
but of poor quality. Hancock: Selling at $1.20 per bushel. Knox: Poorest crop ever 
raised here; Peach Blows hardly returned their seed; Peerless did better. Mason: A 
failure through drought and bugs. Boone: Shortened by drought and bugs; selling at 
60 to 0 cents. Clinton: Injured by bugs and wet. Lee: Nearly a complete failure. 
WISCONSIN.—Clark : Season too short. Richland: Many fields not dug and winter 
begun. Calumet: Early Rose least effected by the bugs. Dodge: Great’ variation in 
the field from 75 to 110 per cent. St. Croix: Reduced acreage; quality good; Colo- 
rado beetles troublesome. Walworth : Moderate crops of good quality. Outagamie: It 
looks as though root crops would remain undug all winter; snow 12 inches deep. 
Green Lake: Very fine. Washington: Early plantings average where the Colorado 
beetles were killed ; Peach Blows greatly shortened by drought. 
Minnesora.—andiyohi: Almost a failure through drought and bugs in some portions. 
of the county. Steele: Average and of the finest quality; acreage increased. Colo- 
rado beetles not very injurious. . Redwood: Almost a failure through drought and grass- 
hoppers. Martin: Injured by grasshoppers. A 
lowa.—Shelby: Poorest crop yet known. Ringgold: Injured by extreme drought in 
summer and very scarce; sell at 75 cents per bushel. Story: Damaged by the back- 
ward spring and early frosts. Clarke: Badly injured by summer drought. Decatur : 
Nearly a failure. Harrison: Acreage reduced on account of low prices; crop almost a 
failure through drought and grasshoppers. Mills: Halfacrop. Montgomery: Injured 
by drought. Boone: Almost a failure through drought. Fayette: Injured by drought 
and Colorado beetles; early plantings best. Hardin: Early plantings best ; Peach 
Blows light. Audubon: Shortened by late spring, summer drought, and bugs; tubers 
small and poor. Benton: Late plantings destroyed by early frosts. Plymouth: Injured 
by grasshoppers. Linn: Crop very short; quality excellent. Des Moines: Selling at 
$l to $1.20 per bushel. Pottawattamie: Shortened by Colorado beetles; selling at 60 to 
80 cents per bushel. Jinnesheik: Early plantings good; late a light crop on account 
of bugs and drought in the latter part of the season. Louisa: Early plantings good ; 
late plantings injured by drought. Marion: From one-eighth to half a crop. Monona: 
Crops large and fine. Guthrie: Half a crop but very good in quality. Calhoum: Very 
few in the hill. 
Missourt.—Caldwell: Early planting good; Scotch russets good; Peach Blows poor. 
Audrain: An entire failure. Platte: Early plantings did well; late plantings scarce 
return their seed. Clinton: One-fifth of last year’s crop; tubers small and inferior. 
Harrison: Short but good. Baxter: Reduced by drought to a half crop. Douglas: 
Early potatoes good; late a failure. Pettis: Suffered greatly from Colorado beetles. 
Some success in the use of powder, glass, and coarse flour, dusted on the vines through 
a fine cloth, while the dew was on. Care should be taken not to inhale the glass-dust. 
Adair: Half crop, but good quality. Howard: No potatoes worth mentioning, ex- 
cept the Early Rose: Perry: Late planting a failure through drought. Phelps: Early 
plantings good; late nearly afailure. Franklin: Average yield and quality. Maries: 
Injured by bugs and drought, but partially recovered before harvest. Laclede: About 
50 per cent. short. Stone: Half cropand poor. Dallas: Only early varieties planted ; 
hence the drought was too late for serious injury. Newton: A little better than last 
year in quantity, but quality not so good. Cole: Late plantings failed, except in a 
few bottoms. 
Kansas.—Miami : Greatly shortened by summer drought. Clay: Much injured by 
drought; early frosts. Bourbon: Shortened by drought. Shawnee: Late plantings 
almost worthless. Washington: Almost a failure. Jefferson: Early plantings good ; 
late almost a total failure. Labette: Early plantings good; late poor; Linn: Early 
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plantings of early varieties did well, but late was injured by drought. Montgomery : 
Shortened one-half by drought. Woodson : Total failure on many farms ; bottoms that 
last year returned 300 bushels per acre yielded only 50. Coffey: Early plantings fair ; 
late a fourth of a crop; selling at 80 cents per bushel. Republic: Early Rose average ; 
late plantings short. Cowley: Early plantings good; late ones tolerable. Osage: 
Nearly all plantings after May 1 are worthless. Smith: In the south part of the 
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