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poor. Stniben : Very backward. Genesee : Tolerable. Chenansio : Wants rain. West- 

 chister: Very short. Wyoming: Slow in starting, but rapidly progressing. Fulton: Needs 

 rain. Jefftrson : Late rains have given a fine start. Warren: Fair average. Orange: 

 Drought. Allegany : Grass frozen stiff June 4. 



New Jersey. — Monmouth : Rain much needed. Warren : Very short ; cold spring and 

 drought. Mercer: Very short. Burlington : Yixonghi. 



Pennsylvani.\. — Montour : Grass very short. Sullivan : Pastures and meadows very 

 poor ; cold and drought. Mifflin : Scarce. Cumberland : Fields bare. York : Shortened by 

 cold and drought. Franklin : Very short. Elk : Pasture late and farm-aniiuals suffering. 

 Crawford : Promises a full average. Colnmbia : Backward. Lycoming : Very poor. Wayne : 

 Drying up. ianc«s/er ; Very short. FM?<on ; Grass-crops unusually bad. ^crfcs ; Shortened 

 by drought. 



Maryland. — Calvert: Very short. Frederick: Poor. Hoicard : Shortened by drought. 

 Cecil : Grass injured by drought. 



Virginia. — Highland : Dried uit. Augusta: Drought, Goochland: Drought. Madison: 

 Poor. Pulaski : Very short. Bland : Drought. Nelson : Destructive drought. Washing- 

 ton : Dried up. Floyd : Needs rain. Rockingham : Very unpromising. Tazewell : Shorter 

 than for years. York : Poor. 



North Carolina. — Pastures injured. Caldicell : Injured by drought. 



Alabaiia. — Perry: May drought shortened pastures. Lawrence: Unusually fine. 



Texas. — De Witt: Grass-crop fine. Woodruff: Pasture and meadows never better. 



Arkansas. — Van Buren : Range our only pasture; looks unusually fine, Arkansas: 

 Very good. 



Tennessee. — Robertson : Spring pastures a failure. Lauderdale : Very little. Loudon : 

 Bad season for grasses. Blorint : Very short and dry. Haickins : Drought. 



West Virginia. — Monroe: Pastures short. Pocahontas: Spring pasture very backward, 

 Jefferson : Pastures backward and hay scarce. Braxton : Injured by cold weather. Grant : 

 Grass very scarce -and drying up. Harrison : Pastures very short, Barbour: Dried up. 

 Pendleton : Drought. Hancock : Greatly improved by late rains. 



Kentucky'. — Robertson : Pastures short and backward. Lincoln : Unpromising. Gal- 

 latin : Backward, but improving. Greenup : Almost worthless. Henry : Becoming luxu- 

 riant. Simpson : Drought, Meade : Drought, 



Ohio. — Jackson : Pastures very short. Coshocton : Short. Geauga : Grass-crop better 

 than for years. Ashland : Hardly half average. Belmont : Grass-crops very unpromising. 

 Craicford : Short. Gallia : Pastures bare 



Michigan. — Ottawa : Grass looks well. Shiaicassee : Spring pastures rapidly improving. 



Indiana. — Fayette : Pastures short. Decatur : Backward; poorer than ever before. How- 

 ard : Very backward. Ripley : Pastures in good condition. Shelby : Grasses backward. 

 Steuben : Doing well. Dubois : Fine. Harrison : Grass poor. Perry : Grass-crops fine. 

 Fountain : Remarkably good ; cattle never doing better. 



Illinois. — Sangamon: Greatly benefited by late rains. Fulton: Grass-crops look well, 

 Mercer: Slow growth. McLean: Fair average. Tazewelt : Gra,ss-CTo\) light. Clark: Grass 

 starting finely. McHenry: Grass-crops abundant. Fayette: Spring pastures good ; excel- 

 lent rains. Pike : Too dry. 



WiS(;oNsiN. — Juneau: Grasses never looked better; promise of the largest hay-crop ever 

 made here. Saint Croix : Grass growing finely. 



Minnesota, — Renville: In the big woods near Saint Peter grasshoppers have taken 

 nearly all the grass, and live stock is driven away for food. 



Iowa. — Very poor ; drought. Mahaska : Grass looks finely. Muscatine : Seriously in- 

 jured by drought and hard winter. Dallas : Injured by cold weather. Henry : Light. Guth- 

 rie : Cultivated grasses on the increase. Fayette : Kept back by drought, but promising. 



Missouri. — Caldicell: Pasture late and poor. Knox: Very backward. Moniteau: Timo- 

 thv meadows killed by drought; hardly worth cutting except on low land. Bates : Swept by 

 grasshoppers. Daviess: Doing well. Schuyler: Badly winter-killed. Henry: Cut short by 

 chinches and grasshoppers. Maries : Very good. 



Kansas. — Miami: Pasture good on high'prairies ; in the timber-belts it has been swept 

 by grasshoppers. If'ashington : In fine condition; abundant rains. Anderson: Early 

 grass cut oil by grasshoppers. 



Nebrask.-v. — Antelope : Grass starts slowly. 



Dakota. — Yankton : Grass late. 



FEUIT. 



Our statistical reports indicate a widespread disaster to the fruit- 

 growing interest, as will be seen from the following- notes. Insect-dep- 

 redations are recorded only in Maine, in some counties of which tent- 

 caterpillars were troublesome. In New England generally the crops 

 were late, and in some parts a tendency to simultaneous blooming ex- 



