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been unusually severe, wheat and rye look well, as far as I have seen or lieard. Grundy : 

 Winter wheat and rye made a very slim growth before winter set in, owing to dry fail. 

 But the winter and springy thus far have been qiiite favorable, and these crops are now an 

 average. Hnncuch : Winter wheat is much injured, I would think at this time .50 per 

 cent., but a week or two may lessen this estimate. Eye seems to be unharmed. Jer- 

 sey : Wheat has been injured to some extent, but the season is so backward that the 

 true condition cannot be ascertained. Johnson : Owing to the extremely hard winter, 

 the condition of winter wheat is gloomy. There are many fields that were sown broadcast 

 that will not make half an average crop, the wheat plants beiug frozen out of the ground, 

 winter killed. Lawrence: Rye is coming out in fine condition, while wheat is not looking 

 so well. However, the present prospect is more favorable than at this time last year. 

 Logan : Wheat is in better condition than average at this time of the year. We have had 

 more snow than usual, which has been a protection to it. Rye in good condition, better 

 than average. Kankakee : Better than usual. Montgomery : The farmers begin to cry out 

 as usual that wheat is badly winter-killed, but I think from what I can learn that it will 

 come out when warm weather sets in much better than expected. Mason : Wheat and rye 

 have recovered greatly by being covered with snow during the month of March. Macon : 

 Winter wheat was seriously damaged in early winter, but fields sheltered from the winds 

 look well; as a general crop, poorer than last year. Mc Henry : The condition of winter 

 rye unusually fine, owing to the protection given to it by a constant covering of snow. Ma- 

 coupin : Winter wheat appears to be but little injured. Massac : Wheat that was sown 

 broadcast is nearly a failure, not more than one-fourth standing ; that jiut in with drills will 

 be three-fourths of a good stand. Marshall: Winter wheat considerably damaged. Rye 

 very poor. McLean : Winter wheat and rye were more than average the last of March, but 

 dry weather since has reduced it more than 20 per cent. Peoria: Frozen out badly. Piatt: 

 Wheat not quite as good as last spring, but where it was sown early and acquired a 

 good growth in the fall it looks well ; but little injured by the freezing of winter. . Eye 

 about the same as last spring. Pike : I am of the opinion that we shall have a crop of 

 wheat. Pope: Winter wheat does not give promise of a good crop at the present time. 

 Pulaski: Wheat suft'ered from freezing. Putnam: It is generally thought tliat wheat is 

 mostly killed on account of the severe cold and dry weather in the early part of the winter. 

 No snow fell until in January. Richland: The condition of wheat will average well with 

 former years at this season. Fears that it was winter-killed have been dispelled in nearly 

 eveiy case. Sangamon : It is thought by most people that the germ is yet alive, and with 

 favorable weather from now it will be a good crop. Rye uncertain yet, but comparative 

 .condition^ I should say, not more than 75. Schuyler : The uuusual amount of snow and 

 cold weather — no freezing and thawing, thereby lifting the plants out of the ground — leaves 

 the wheat in unusual good fix at this season of the year. Stark : Winter wheat and winter 

 rye do not look well at present, but may improve this month. Scott : Farmers feel very 

 despondent about the wheat crop. Some say they will have half a crop ; others say one- 

 third ; for my own part, I think we cannot tell as yet how it will be. Saint Clair : Winter wheat 

 is very good, as we had no February and March freezing and thawing weather to throw it up 

 and freeze it out as it is called, and it now promises a full crop. Tazewell: Full average 

 ■with the past three years. Think the prospect for a good crop above average. Vermillion : 

 Wheat and rye went into the winter in bad condition, owing to the drought and chinches, 

 but has come through without injury from freezing, is now growing and doing well, and 

 the indications are that the crop this year will be an average or nearly so. IVarren : The 

 winter wheat appears to be killed, and rye looks badly. Wayne : The comparative coudi- 

 ,tion of winter wheat and rye is good. Wabash : Early sown, well put in wititer wheat is in 

 good condition. Late and carelessly sown is bailly frozen. Washington: Winter wheat is 

 looking well. White: Wheat is badly frozen out. Had an extremely cold winter, with but little 

 •snow. Broadcast-sown is damaged far worse than drilled. Williamson : Wheat which was 

 drilled in looks very well. The same may be said of rye, but all of either sown broadcast is 

 nearly a failure. Woodford : In poor condition. We have almost abandoned the idea of 

 ever again succeeding in raising either winter or spring wheat. 



The Northwestern States, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska' 

 do not grow winter wheat except in experimental patches. The ground 

 was so well covered with snow in Wisconsin that the small area sown 

 looks better than heretofore. In some counties in Minnesota and Iowa 

 a little was sown Mith quite as good success as usual. In Appanoose, 

 Iowa, " the drill and the snow have saved the wheat.'' In Des Moines a 

 new practice has been adopted with good results, that of plowing only 

 as deep as the drill runs and leaving the seed on a solid bed, with about 

 three inches of mellow soil above. 



Of fifty-seven counties reporting wheat in Missouri, thirty indicate 

 average condition, twenty-two below, ami only five above. The tields 



