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Fine growing season, overcoming injury of lato cTronglit. Limcutone : Late, but very 

 promising. 



Mississirri Amite : Increased acreage, better culture, and more abundant promise. 



Pike: Flourishing, but needs rain. Xewton : Increased acreage and crops nourishing. 

 (irenada: Prospect good, liankin : Late showers have saved the crop. La B'ayettc : 

 Very promising. Washinffton : Fine. Franklin: Early plantings injured by drought; 

 promising on new bottom-lauds. Kemper : Healthy and growing ; increased acreage. 

 Lowndes: Good. JAncolii: Better cultivated and more promising than for years. Lee: 

 Never more promising. Madison: Well worked; another rain will make the best 

 crop since the war. lUnds : Prospects flattering. Jefferson: Looking well. Coving- 

 ton : Kentucky corn doing well. Smith : Average. 



Louisiana. — Morehouse : Later than usual, but in fine condition ; one more rain will 

 make the crop. Franklin: Damaged by drought. East Feliciana: Suft'cring for rain 

 in some places. Tensas : Doing well. Washington : Unusually fine. Madison : In- 

 creased acreage; condition better than last year ; fine rains. Biehland: Doing well; 

 line rains. Cameron, : Too dry. Jackson : Prospect of the largest crop for years. Cald- 

 well : Old corn not so good as formerly. 



Texas. — Anderson : Unusually good condition, in spite of drought. Hamilton : Acre- 

 age increased ; crop late, but improving. Cherokee : The Pennsylvania white corn 

 retains its superiority, and is exceptionally valuable; it is now in the roasting-ear 

 state, and we are about out of corn. Dallas : Another rain will secure a bountiful 

 crop. Washington: Croi^ heavy; much old corn on hand. ZTpsAur ; Average condition 

 better than last year. Henderson: Very fine, but needs rain. Burleson: In roasting- 

 ear, but promising a fine yield. Coryell : One more rain will make the crop ; average 

 promise 10 per cent, greater than ever before; grain full and large. Collin: Never 

 more promising ; only one more rain needed. Gonzales : Ruined beyond redemption 

 by drought on some farms. Kendall : Prospect of an immense yield. Busk : Looks 

 well, but on high lands needs rain. Williamson : Fit for the table; crop full average, 

 and better than last year. Houston : Injured by chinches in some parts, but the gen- 

 eral prospect is better than for many years. Titus : Poor stand, through late, cold 

 spring, but good cultivation makes it look well. Somerville : Average and condition 

 25 per cent, in advance of last year. Grayson: Drought. Navarro: Materially injured, 

 especially late plantings. Marion. : Cut off by drought. Lampasas : Badly needs rain. 

 Austin: Disastrous drought. Blanco: Drought cutting down the crop. Bosque: Looks 

 fine, but suffering for rain. Cooke : Suffering for rain. Fayette : Suffering for rain. 

 Gillespie : 'NoQds, vain. J?M)(i; Drought. Waller: Injured by drought. Smith: Injvired 

 by drought. Matagorda : Suffering forrain. 



Arkansas. — Garland : Two rains more, and we will have the heaviest crop ever 

 raised here. Prairie : Looks well, but needs rain. Baxter : Looks exceedinglj^ well. 

 Bradley : Doing well. Dorsey : Looks lovely. Franklin : Very backward. Saint Fran- 

 cis : Damaged by drought; early sowings will be very short. Washington: Backward. 

 Craivford: Badly needs rain. Columbia: Late, but well worked. Fulton: Growing 

 fast. Izard: Fine growing rains. Pope: Promising. Marion: Very flattering. 



Tennessee. — Carter : Backward through drought, but looks well now. Greene : 

 Backward. Monroe : Unusually small, through drought. Hawkins : Growing finely, 

 and promising an average yield. Coffee : Never more promising. Houston : Extraor- 

 dinary. Johnson : Late rains have been very improving. Sequatchie : Fine. Wilson : 

 Very promising. Gibson: Fine. Jackson: Looks well; too rainy to work it fully. 

 Loudon: Fine. Trousdale: Never better. Williamson : Looks well,'though j)oorly cul- 

 tivated. Dickson: Season j)ropitious. iTaKcoc^- ; Never better. 



West Virginia. — Raleigh: Promising. Tucker: Looks well. Braxton: Increased 

 acreage, and average condition. Brooke : Has been well tended ; fields unusually free 

 from weeds ; crop promising. Cabell : Larger breadth planted ; looks well. Marion : 

 Corn growing fast. Pom/to«tas : Backward on account of late spring. 7Foo(Z; Waist 

 high, and growing finely on bottom-lands. Pendleton: Very promising. Mercer; Not 

 ecxual to last year, but improving. Monroe : Looks well, although too wet in June. 

 Preston : Doing well, and promises a bountiful yield. Harrison : Promising. Mason : 

 At this season never looked better. The growth of the last few weeks has been won- 

 derful. 



Kentucky, — Mercer: Growing finely. Shelby : Low, but of good color and growing 

 finely. Adair: Looks well; better grown than usual, but very much in the weeds. 

 Lincoln : Not forward, but a good stand and growing finely. Russell : Prospect very 

 fine, acreage 25 per cent, more than last year. Pendleton: Promising; season fine. 

 Metcalfe : In the weeds. Cumberland : Looks well, but is being damaged by continued 

 rain. Owsley : Looked weU until the 26th of June; has since been washed by heavy, 

 flooding rains. 



Ohio. — Trumbull : Not doing well, on account of cold nights. Williams : Doing very 

 well. Morrow: Increased acreage; promises a heavy crop. Perry: Weather favora- 

 ble; growing rapidly. Erie: Large breadth ; good stand; growing rapidly, but late. 

 Coshocton : Good. Jackson : Promises the largest crop ever raised here. Mercer : 



