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by late rains. Wanvick : Grain shrunk through rust on blade and stalk. Spofisylvania : 

 Grain line; forty to seveuty-tive grains in a head. Fultz yields largely, but is short- 

 strawed from drought in May. Stafford : Greatly iiuproyed during May and June ; straw 

 short, but grain plump. Loudoun: Great improvement in sis weeks; filling well. Claw- 

 son wheat from the Department stood the wintw well, and promises a heavy yield ; sex- 

 eral days later tlniu the Fultz. Kew Kent ; Grain of better quality than for many years. 

 Frederick : Fultz excels all others ; makes two bushels to one of Mediterranean or Lancas- 

 ter. Orange: Straw short ; grain of first quality. Henry: Light, but of good quality. 

 Henrico : Straw short, but grain fine. Crairj : Thin ou the ground and short-st rawed ; 

 heads short, but well filled ; gi'ain good ; Lancaster and Fultz the best ; Touzelle 

 scabbed in the head, and will make only half a crop. Dinwiddic : Fine in quantity 

 and quality. Halifax: Injured by rust and chinches. King Gcortje : Remarkably fine 

 season for maturing and harvesting ; straw short, but heads fine and full. Mcclioihurgh : 

 Fine quality. Xehon : Thin, but of very superior quality; heads well filled. Wash- 

 ington: Third of a crop ; Fultz the best seed, Lancaster next. Wythe: Full average. 

 Page: Shortened, but well filled and in good condition. Charles City: Short, but 

 quality and quantity better than last year. Cnniberland : Full crop of good quality. 

 CamijheU : Promises a good yield; heads well filled. Prince William: Matured well. 

 Wasliington : Drying up; spots ou the head. Matthews: Some rust. Westmoreland: 

 Fine quality and heads full, but straw short ; Fultz the best. Augusta : Largely win- 

 ter-killed. Culpeper : Sti'aw short, but heads well filled; Clawsou, from the Dex^art- 

 ment, a great acquisition ; well adapted to the climate. Fairfax : Remarkably well 

 filled; Fultz still superior. Highland: Not over half a crop. Roanoke: Injured by 

 cold and drought. Chesterfield: Very promisiug. 



North Carolixa. — Poheson: Shortened by frost. Chowan: Good. Mitchell: Badly 

 injured by snow and freeze of April 17 ; thin and short ; Clawson wheat, from the 

 Department, the finest ever grown here ; will ripen July 10 ; many heads 7 inches long. 

 Madison : Clawson, from the Department, stands nest to Tappahauuock, which is our 

 earliest variety; stood winter well. Perquimans: Unusual promise. Alamance: Un- 

 usually fiue. Yadkin : Full average, and of good quality. Duplin : Increased growth. 

 This townshix> harvested three-fourths of the aggregate of the entire county in the 

 census of 1870, Greene: Injure'd by frost; half crop. Hertford: Best crop for years. 

 Haywood: Injured considerably on bottoms by heavy rains: Fultz does well on all 

 soils. Montgomery: Fair. Stanley: Damaged somewhat by wet in the shock; crop 

 generally good ; Fultz very fine. Caldwell: Somewhat rusted as well as injured in the 

 shock by rains. Buncombe: Injured by April freezes, as also by rust. Clay : Fultz the 

 best variety furnished by the Department. 



South Carolina. — Greenville: Small in area, straw, and grain. Pichland: Small; 

 grain excellent, csiiecially wheat. Spartanhurgh : Small area; looks well. York: Light; 

 rust. Lexington : Average in spite of frost. 



Georgia. — Forsyth : Grain good, but crop short ; acreage increased. Towns : In- 

 jured by late frost, but the increased acreage /will make uj) the deficiency. Lumpkin : 

 Fully 50 per cent, better than last year. Troup): Good yield and grain. Gilmer: Well 

 matured by the dry weather. Gordon: Quality good on uplands. McDuffie : Best crop 

 in twenty years. Gwinnett: Fair. Columbia: Considerable rust. Catoosa: Rust injured 

 a very finex^romise. Butts: Good. Hancock : Good yield. Up)son : Short. Telfair : Rusted. 

 Walton : Improved quality. Clayton : Mostly good ; one man averaged 20 bushels x^er 

 acre, one acre yielding 42. 



Alabama. — Crenshaw : What little wheat was sown matured well. Calhoun : Good 

 yield; grain sound. De Kalb : Straw in excess ; grain x^oor. Franklin: Double any 

 crop since the war. Marshall : Yield good ; flour good. Colbert : Largest crox) pver 

 made here. Lawrence: Average, 7 bushels x>er acre. Lauderdale: Good quality; Fultz 

 and other wheats from Department doing finely. 



Mississippi. — Greene : Efforts to grow wheat have all failed ; rust invariably takes 

 it in bloom. Kcicton : Crox) unsurpassed. Grenada: Injured by rust and smut. 

 Xeshola : Croxi fiue, but injured by rust in some places. Jasper : A few acres of winter- 

 wheat, but destroyed by rust after beginning to ripen. De Soto : Unusually fijie. 

 Winston : Rust ; only early varieties escape. Franklin : Entire failure. Keniper : 

 Georgia wheat fine ; Dex3artment wheats all rusted. Lowndes : Good. Lee : Average 

 20 or 30 bushels x)er acre ; croj) sufficient for home demand. Yalabusha : Fultz from 

 the Department better than any other ; heads a third larger ; tillered more extensively ; 

 60 stalks of wheat from one grain, but rusted after all. Sunfiower : Acreage in small 

 grain inci'eased. 



Louisiana. — Bienville : Shortened 15 per cent, by rust. Jackson : A total failure 

 through rust. 



Texas. — Dallas : Yield from 15 to 40 bushels x^er acre ; average about 25 ; grain large 

 and ijlumxi ; weight 60 to 65 x^ounds x»ei' bushel. Henderson : Fine wheat is raised. 

 Burleson : Average 25 bushels per acre. Coryell : Finest croxi ever raised here ; from 

 20 to 40 bushels per acre. Kaufman : Average of county, 18 bushels i^er acre ; fine 

 condition. Fed Fiver : Good. Bowie : A field of 300 acres is expected to yield 25 



