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den : Winter-oats good. Pamlico : Injured by frost May 19. IVake : Injured by cold 

 and drought. iVUson : Look better than wheat. Caldwdl : A failure, owing to drought. 

 Hertford: Unpromising, from cold and dry weather. Alexander : Suffering from drought. 



South Carolina. — Lhiion : Hopeless failure, caused by drought. Newberry : Unusu- 

 ally promising. Edgefield : Unusually fine. 



Georgia. — Gordon : Short for want of rain. Troup : Spring-oats injured by dry weather ; 

 winter-oats fine. Webster: Good. McDuffie: Suffering for rain. Chattooga : Very dry 

 May; likely to cut off oats sown in the springy Walker: Spring-oats almost cut off by 

 dry weather. Laurens: Good. Clayton: Have suffered materially for rain. Coweta: Con- 

 siderably injured by dry weather. Floyd : Spring-oats on thin land will be almost a total 

 failure. Wilkes : Fall oats, fine, but spring too low for want of rain. Hancock : Suffering 

 from drought. Carroll : Injured by dry weather. Lincoln : Spring-oats almost a failure ; 

 no rain in May. Pulaski : Cut short by four weeks' droiigbt. 



Florida. — Gadsden : The harvesting completed and the yield very satisfactory. Colum- 

 bia : Harvested ; injured 20 per cent, by rust. Leon : Most of the crop harvested ; some 

 varieties rusted. Suwannee : Much injured by what is known as rust, but believed, by 

 some planters, to be caused by a small greenish or whitish bug, always found on the oats when 

 attacked by rust. 



Alabama. — Covington : Rust has appeared, not yet general, but sufiScient to seriously 

 lessen the crop. DeKalb ' Eetarded by dry, cool weather. Madison : Injured by drought. 

 Bullock: Suffering greatly for rain. Laivrence : Good. Calhoun: Very poor, owing to 

 drought. Perry : Greatly injured by the dry May. 



Mississippi. — Pike : The growth never more luxuriant and health}^. Wilkinson : The 

 increase of acreage (200 percent.) is noteworthy. The Sandy, Somerset, and White Schonen 

 oats from the Department, utterly destroyed by rust, while the Mississippi red rust-proofs are 

 perfectly healthy. Smith: As fine as ever known. Noxubee: Winter-oats very fine ; spring, 

 hardly worth cutting. Rankin : An excellent crop of fall-sown being harvested ; spring- 

 sown almost a failure from drought. 



Louisiana. — Jackson : Oats from seed from the Department have proved a decided success. 



Texas. — Uvalde: The White Schonen oats improve; the Somerset is doing well. Upshur: 

 No rust up to this time. Red River: Very fine. Rusk: Fall-oats were killed last winter; 

 spring-oats not so good as usual. Larnar : Will yield better than ever before. Williamson : 

 The crop promises 40 to 80 bushels per acre : The acreage four times greater than ever before. 

 De Witt : Those who have sown\the anti-rust oats have succeeded admirably. Henderson : 

 Good. Cooke: Very short, owing to a drought in May. Bexar: Never better; yield of some 

 fields ^estimated at 80 bushels per acre. The red oat the only variety which never rusts 

 here. Bosque : Much larger acreage than usual, but damaged by frost and drought. 

 Waller: Red rust-proof oats from the DeparT;ment a success; free from rust. Blanco: Will 

 yield about 30 bushels per acre. 



Arkansas. — Van Buren : Extra; promise a large yield, hard: Never more promising. 

 Benton : Looking very fine. 



Tennessee. — Carter : Almost a total failure, owing to protracted drought. Knox : The 

 low condition is owing to a drought of five weeks. Sevier : Will be a failure without rain 

 soon. Hawkins : Suffering from drought. Blount : Look like an entire failure, owing to 

 drought. Rhea: Short; no rain since April. Wilson: Excellent. Washington: Look very 

 bad, owing to cold and subsequent dry weather. Sullivan : Damaged too much to make 

 anything like an average crop. Polk: Look dwarfish. Grainger: Very short. 



West Virginia. — Pocahontas: Late and dwarfed ' by dry weather. Wayne: Suffering 

 from severe drought. Cabell : Suffering from drought. Grant : A poor stand. Pendleton : 

 Greatly injured by freezes in April. Hancock : Improved by recent rains. 



Kentucky. — Shelby: Backward and low, owing to cold, dry weather. Anderson: At 

 best will be short and very inferior, owing to severe drought. Boyle : Almost beyond re- 

 demption, from drought. Jessamine : An entire failure threatened by drought. Butler : 

 Very thin and low, Lincoln : Not promising. Metcaif: Looking very bad, owing to the 

 cold weather through April and May. Gallatin : Promising a good crop. Greenup : Will 

 be almost a total failure, from drought. Hinrij : Short, and suffering f)r rain. Callawjy : 

 Small crop. Coshocton: Early sown ; injured by late frosts and drought. Erie: Prospect 

 of fair crop. Meade : Looks bad. 



Ohio. — Delaicare : A very large acreage, with more than average prospect. Adams : Did 

 not come up well ; coming forward very slowly. 



Michigan. — Mecosta : Looking well. Allegan : Planted late, but look well. 



Indiana. — Franklin: Injured by severe freeze in April, and by dry weather. Gibson: 

 Backward, but growing fast. Harrison: Very late, and do not improve well. Steuben: 

 Look well. Brown : Very backward and short. 



Illinois. — Ogle : Promising. Putnam : Damaged by the freeze, which makes the early- 

 sowed thin. McLean: The early-sown damaged by cold, aud dry weather; some fields 

 plowed up. Kankakee : A little damaged by the freeze in April, but now making a splendid 

 growth. Cook: Badly injured in April. Mason: Look well. Edwards: Some damaged 

 by chinches. I'ike : Weather too dry. Fayette : Small acreage, owing to scarcity of seed. 



Minnesota. — Isanti: Very much stunted by drought. Winona: Decidedly good in the 

 western half of the county. Sibley : One-half already destroyed by grasshoppers. 



