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Planted late; recent and continued rains have injured it very niucli. Marion: In 

 some places almost drowned and very weedy. Harrison : Looks well. Hancock : Badly 

 injured by wet weather. Geauga : Mostly planted in June, but doing well. Fairfield : 

 A wet June has prevented cultivation, and i^romoted weeds. Delaware : Increased 

 acreage ; good stand, good color, large growth, and a good prospect for a large crop. 

 Van Weit : Materially damaged by rain ; a large area not planted on account of rain. 

 Henry: Stands well on river-bottoms; on flat land weak and yellow. Athens: Late, 

 but of good color ; very clean and promising. 



Michigan. — Branch : Stands good, but suttering from too much rain on timber-lands. 

 Hillsdale : Eather too wet for corn. Van Buren : Cool nights have retarded the growth 

 of corn ; many fields look yellow, but in the main is doing well. Tuscola : Later than 

 usual, but doing finely now. Lake: Damaged by frost in June. Livingston: Never 

 better. Shiawassee: Late, but good condition. Oakland: The leading crop, both in 

 acreage and condition. 



Indiana. — Jennings: Very fine. Bush: Drilled in this county; too wet to cultivate 

 it ; weeds have taken possession, which will probably set many against drilled corn. 

 Elkhart: Late, but good. Fratiklin : Growing finely ; more foul thah usual, but pros- 

 pect of large crop. Madison : Looks well on high land ; a great deal of that i)lauted 

 has been drowned out. Ferry : Fine prospect. Decatur : Doing well, but too wet to 

 properly cultivate it. Warren : Too much rain ; weeds have the advantage. Duhois : 

 Condition good ; increased acreage. Shelby: Injured by heavy rain. Whitley: Suffer- 

 ing for cultivation ; too much rain. Washington: Looks splendid on upland ; bottom- 

 lands not 80 well ; too wet. Pike : Small, but looking well. Nolle : Planted late ; 

 weather has not been favorable, but corn is now doing well. Martin : Foul from con- 

 tinued rains, preventing cultivation. Jasper: Weather unfavorable; too cold and 

 wet. Hendricks : On uudrained land suttering from continued rain. Crawford : In 

 healthy condition and growing rapidly. Cass : Stand good, and coming on finely, but 

 late. Scott: Damaged by floods on bottom-lands. Tippecanoe: Backward on account 

 of excessive rains, but now fully up to an average. Hamilton : Too wet. Has not 

 been cultivated properly on that account, and wheat-harvest is now here. Broun : 

 In flat lands weedy and of bad color ; too wet for cultivation. 



Illinois. — Pike : Corn small ; stand medium ; very weedy from wet weather. 

 Edwards : Condition poor and late ; seed supposed to be imperfect ; fully one-third 

 did not come up ; constant rain has given the weeds a start. Stephenson : Backward 

 for the season. Weather too cool and wet, but the stand is good, and prospect now 

 fair. Clark : Planted late ; an unfavorable time to cultivate ; much of it small and 

 weedy. Madison : At least ten days late, and suffering from protracted rains. Menard : 

 Suffering from too much rain, and very foul with weeds and fox-tail grass. Vermillion : 

 Growing luxuriantly, but too wet for cultivation ; grass will likely shorten the crop. 

 De Kalb : Hardly an average, but promises well ; an excellent stand. Jasper : Very 

 Ibul ; great trouble from wet Aveather. White : Not promising ; hundreds of acres 

 drowned, and equally as much failed to be planted. Sainl Clair : On low and undrained 

 land it is beyond saving, on account of wet weather ; looks well on high land. Macon : 

 Growing very fast, but wet and weedy. Jersey : Doing very well, and will make 

 the largest crop raised in this county for a number of years. Iroquois : Though not 

 forward, is a good, even stand, and has been well cultivated. Tbe land was never so 

 well pulverized, and the prospect is promising. De Witt : Much of the crop in low 

 land will be an entire failure, and weeds are doing great injury, to some even on high 

 lands. Boone: Increased acreage; late and growing slowly. Livingston : Increased 

 acreage and average condition. Mason : Backward ; grassy in low ground. Mont- 

 gomery : The prospect was never better. Massac : Two weeks later than usual, and the 

 season unfavorable. Piatt : Wet weather is against the corn-crop ; it is getting quite 

 foul. 



Wisconsin. — Waupaca: A poor season for corn ; not yet three inches high ; cold and 

 wet. Washington : Cold weather caused late planting, and grub-worms the replanting 

 of about one-fourth of the crop. Trempealeau: Not promising. Sauk: Very backward. 

 Juneau :_ Baickward and puny. Vernon: Greatly retarded by the lateness of the season. 

 Columbia: Too wet to cultivate. Calumet: Behind its season. Walworth: Backward; 

 corn never smaller ou July L Green : Never better. Door : Injured by frost on the 

 11th and 12th of June. Saint Croix: Not enough usually raised for use; veryuni)rom- 

 isiug this year. Crawford: Doing well, and farmers busy cultivating it. 



Minnesota. — Waseca: One-fourth more planted than usual, owing to the low price 

 of wheat. Goodhue: Unfavorable for corn; season wet and cold. Wright: Very 

 backward. Steele: Backward and unpromising, but has been well tended. Isanti: 

 The extreme cold spring has retarded its growth. Winona : Stand generally good, but 

 condition below average. Here corn is usually made in July and August, and should 

 they be favorable, will expect an average crop. Mower : Will not exceed a half crop 

 in this county. Sherburne: Small and backward, but of good color. Far iiault : Con- 

 tinued wet weather has prevented proper cultivation. Todd: Badly hurt by hail- 

 storm and cold weather. Cottonwood: Not good; spring too cold. Chippewa: Poor, on 



