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fine. Harris: Native grasses choice and abundant. Coryell: More hay saved than 
eyez before ; wild pasture unusually fine, the live-stock being greatly reduced by being 
driven to Kansas. Collin: Considerable shipments of prairie- hay. ‘Bee: Prairie-grass 
as good as for fifteen years past. Milam: Finest grass-crop for ten years. Titus: Ex- 
perimental hay-crops have yielded astonishing ‘results. Parker : Crop good; one 
farmer raised 60 tons of Hungarian grass on 30 acres. Kendall : Prairie- -hay never 
better. Kaufman: Kentucky blue-grass fine; Lucerne bids fair; Italian rye-grass 
died out. Austin: Large quantity of hay made. 
i ArKANSAS.—Fulton : Italian rye-grass has done finely ; prairie-grass as good as ever 
nown. 
TENNESSEE.— Dickson: Grew well, but yielded short. Hickman: Better than last 
year in quantity and quality. Obion: Hay a fine crop. JVilson: Annual _ grasses, 
such as Hungarian and different kinds of millet, yielded finely; German millet has 
done especially well. Grundy: Turned out remarkably well. Giles: Unusual yield of 
hay, and secured in No.1 condition. Wilkinson: Increase of 50 per cent. in acreage 
and 30 per cent. in yield. Blount: A little short. Sumner: Immense hay-crop; 
large acreage in Hungarian grass and German millet; timothy never more abun- 
dant. Greene: Better than usual. Lincoln: Italian rye-grass from the Depart- 
ment growing finely; -can scarcely be distinguished from grass growing on my 
farm for forty years. Coffee: The third short hay-crop ; no Winter-erass for stock. 
Putnam: Of excellent quality, and secured in prime condition. Fayette : Unusual 
amount of hay saved, especially wild grasses. obertson: Timothy’ and herd-grass 
better than last year; clover not so good. 
West Vircinis.—Mercer : A good | hay-crop, and secured in good order. Pleasants: 
Damaged by rain in harvest. Marion: Fall pastures better than for three years. 
Braxton ; Crop larger and better than last year. Harrison: Crop heavy, and secured 
in tolerable order ; fall pastures not very good. 
KentTucky.— Oldham: Below average, but secured in good order. Logan: Fine, and ~ 
secured in good condition. Fayette: A little short, but of excellent quality. Johnson: 
Generally ood. Owsley : Hay and grass crops very five. 
Oxn10.— IVashington : Meadows mostly run out; drought for three years has pre- 
vented theirresetting. Fulton: Hay below average, but better than last year. Medina: 
Scarce. Coshocton: Above av erage, and secured in good condition. Lorain: Injured 
by grasshoppers; pastures Bory, “short. Wyandot: Shortened by drought. Lawrence: 
Light and scarce; brings $22 per ton. Perry: Much above last year, and would 
have been greater but for “floods last spring, especially on bottom-lands. Mercer : 
Timothy nearly ruined by three successive droughts. 
MIcHIGAN.—Shiawassee: Cut short by the backward spring; crop secured in good 
condition. Jason: Crop fine. Lapeer: Fair crop of good quality, and well secured. 
Ottawa: Good hay-crop. Oakland: Shortened by drought. Antrim: A good yield 
and quality. Livingston: Light; badly winter-killed ; fall pasturage good ‘and abun- 
dant. 
INDIANA.—Owen: Injured by excessive rains. Morgan: Excellent. Wells: Injured 
by rains. Brown: Crop heavy, but injured by rain; worth $10 per ton.: Dearborn: 
Average, but injured by white-top and other weeds, La Porte: Shortened by early 
drought; quality brought to average by late rains. Floyd: Light. Ohio: Shortened 
by Winter-killing and weeds, especially white-top daisy. 
Intiwois.— Pike: Two-thirds of a timothy erop, but clover enough to make up the 
deficit ; very late fall pasture fair. Whiteside: Light, but of excellent quality. Perry: 
Shortened by army-worms. Henry: Short, but excellent. Edwards: A large crop, 
but depreciated in value by army-worms; weedy. Mason: A good yield and quality; 
seldom better. Piatt: Pastures good. Clinton: Light, but well secured. Lee: Pas- - 
tures poor. 
WiIsconsin.—A dams: Timothy a half crop, but the excellence of the marsh-meadows 
made up for the deficiency. Dodge: Acreage reduced; quality depreciated by 
harvest rains. Lond du Lac: Clover-hay shortened by winter-killing. St. Croix: Acreage 
in hay annually increasing. Walworth: Light but of good quality. Washington : 
Early-cut clover was damaged by rainy weather; late- cut clover and timothy made 
excellent hay. 
Minnesota.—Steele : Extra in quantity and quality. Martin: Heavy; good mowing 
prairie-hay on high lands. 
Iowa.—Decatur: Saved in the best order. Harrison: Unusually good; mostly 
prairie. Goone: Excellent in yield and quality. Appanoose: Crop immense ; from 200 
to 500 acres of meadow on single farms; yield enormous and quality good. Fayette: 
Of splendid quality. Hardin: ~ Grass- -crop shortened by early frosts and Pas fires. 
Plymouth: Abundant and excellent. Marion: Saved in good order. 
Missouri.—Caldwell: Very good and secured in fine order. Maniteaw: Fall pastures ; 
good. Clinton: Rains in May made the crop very good; good harvest weather. 
Harrison: Well saved. Clay: A good yield; saved in good order. Baxter: Good; 
