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Never more promising. Washtenaw : Very badly killed. Allegan : Never looked better. 

 Antrim : Both winter and spring wheat number one. Shiaicassce : Prospect of something 

 over half a crop. Lcnaicee : Indications that there will not be as much winter-wheat gathered 

 as sowed ; spring-wheat sown largely in excess of former years. Calhoun : Do not expect 

 over half a crop. Athens: Injured much by winter and spring freezing, followed by drought. 



Indiana. — Starlc : The few pieces that have survived the winter look well ; cannot be 

 over one-third of a crop, frdls : Injured by April freeze. Franklin : The poorest prospect 

 for four years. Washington : Will not make one-half that was sown in the fall. Bartholo- 

 mew : Improving. Dubois: What there is looks well, but has fallen off one-half. Gibson: 

 Generally thin. Harrison; Badly frozen out. Noble: Injured in the winter; cannot be 

 more than half a crop. Perry: Thin, but looks well. Wabash: Prospect poor. Tt;;j!;c- 

 crtnoe ; Prospect has considerably improved. Steuben: Growing finely. Shelby: Very light, 

 but improving very much. Ripley : What was not plowed up looks moderately well ; fully one- 

 half the acreage was plowed up. Jennings : Almost a total failure. Decatur : The county 

 will not produce enough for seed ; no failure half so bad since the first settling. Dearborn : 

 A few pieces promise half a crop, but they will not amount to 1 per cent, of the acreage 

 sown. Warren : Looks well in places, on clay-soil. Vandenburg : At least 40 per cent, was 

 winter-killed ; that left looks remarkably well. Fayette : So frozen out that much was 

 plowed up. Brown : Many fields a total failure ; that drilled looks best. Fountain : Favor- 

 able weather has made a wonderful improvement in the crop. Hamilton : Came out be- 

 yond all expectations during May. 



Illinois. — Clark : Some fields injured by the April freeze, but recent favorable weather 

 has brought it out finely. Massac : Not more than one-third of a good stand, but that very 

 good. St. Clair : Too much rain to make good wheat. Shelby : Winter-wheat anything 

 but encouraging. Crawford : Chinch-bugs plenty, and working on the wheat. Ogle : 

 Spring-wheat backward, but tl^e prospect good. Franklin : Where the ground was highly 

 cultivated and the seed drilled in, it stood the winter and the cold wet spring much better 

 than where sowed broadcast. The heads very short and not well filled. Boone: Condition 

 of spring-wheat low, on account of chinch-bugs. . Fulton : Winter-wheat will not return 

 the seed sown ; one-fourth more spring-wheat than usually sown, which looks well. Jer- 

 sey : Mostly very short and thin, and a great deal of cheat with it. McLean : Winter-wheat 

 mostly killed ; the little left growing finely ; very cold and dry weather caused considerable 

 damage to spring-wheat. Montgomery: Much better than was expected. Schuyler: Win- 

 ter-wheat all killed on the prairies ; a little left on new timher-land ; more on bottoms. Pope : 

 The four- tenths left on the ground looks healthy and very well, but will be late in ripening, 

 and may yet be destroyed by chinch-bugs. Kankakee: Spring-wheat making a splendid 

 growth. Cook: Spring-wheat left thin by the April weather. Vermillion : Badly injured 

 by late freezing ; will make about half a crop. Alexander : Very poor ; many plowing up 

 the ground sowed. Mason : The few fields left will not make half a crop. Edwards : Con- 

 siderably damaged by chinches. Cumberland: Looking well. PtA;e ; Winter-wheat almost 

 a failure on hill-lands ; winter-killing, dry weather, Hessian fly, and chinches. Fayette : 

 Has improved greatly. 



Wisconsin. — Dodge : Winter-wheat looks well, having been- sown only in sheltered 

 places. Spring-wheat looks very well, but there is much complaint of chinch-bugs. Iowa : 

 Winter-wheat nearly all destroyed by chinch-bugs. Jefferson : Chinch-bugs making sad 

 work with the spring-wheat. Milwaukee : Some fields of spring-wheat quite destroyed by 

 chinch-bugs. Fond du Lac : Chinch-bugs have commenced their ravages on some pieces of 

 spring-wheat. Sauk : A few pieces of wheat have been plowed up, owing to ravages of 

 chinch-bugs ; winter-wheat fts yet looks splendid, but the roots are completely covered by 

 chinch-bugs, laying their eggs. 



Minnesota. — Wright: The deficiency in the acreage of spring-wheat is owing to fear 

 that grasshoppers would destroy the crop. In some parts of the country they are now very 

 numerous, and threaten to destroy all before them. Isanti : Spring-wheat very much 

 stunted by drought. Wiriona : Decidedly good in the western half of the county. Sibley : 

 One-half already destroyed by grasshoppers. Crawford : Good prospect for a big yield. 

 Chippeica : Spring-wheat, our staple crop, is looking well, but in some fields the grass- 

 hoppers have hatched out and are eating the young blades. 



Iowa. — Vaii Buren : Winter-wheat nearly a failure. Hardin: Very thin. Harrison: 

 Hardly more than half as much sown as last spring, but three times as much standing now 

 as the grasshoppers left them. No grasshoppers' eggs here now. Howard : Early sown 

 came in patches ; later-sown, regular and promising. Washington: Injured by drought for 

 the last six weeks. Buena Vista : The little winter-wheat there was, killed, freezing and 

 thawing in Api'il. Des Moiries : Will not be one bushel of winter-wheat raised where fifteen 

 were-sown. Spring wheat very thin ; not over one-fourth of a stand in some fields. Jeffer- 

 son : Winter wheat almost wholly winter-killed. Spring, damaged by late frosts and dry 

 weather. Muscatine : Injured by drought. Louisa : Winter-wheat entirely killed. 



Missouri. — Bates: The cold winter killed nearly all. Lawrence: Looked fine till May, 

 when the Hessian fly took about all except the Fultz and weevil-proof. Montgomery : 

 No end to chinch-bugs ; most of the wheat sown in the fall has been plowed up. Saint 

 Genevieve : Uncommonly fine until May 20th, when the army-worm appeared in force, and is 



