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bushels per acre. JViUiam-soi} : Crops average 20 to 25 bushels per acre. Bexar : Aver- 

 ages 20 bushels per acre of 02 pounds each. Titus : Twenty-five per cent, above aver- 

 age. Some7TUJe: Average 20 bushels per acre. Grayson: Spleudid crops; 1.5 to 45 

 bushels per acre. Bosque: Better than for years; 20 to 30 bushels per acre. Coolie; 

 Fair. Hunt: Small grain turning out more per acre than for ten years. Uvalde: De- 

 partment wheats not successful. Hamilton : Splendid crop. 



Arkansas. — Woodruff: First crop sown since the war; splendid, averaging from 15 

 to 40 bushels per acre. Monroe : Large acreage and fine condition, promising 20 to 25 

 bushels per acre. Baxter : Best crop since the war. Dallas : Unusually good. Inde- 

 jjendence : One crop averaged 40 bushels jier acre ; lack of labor for harvesting ; reapers 

 and mowers extensively introduced. Bradley: CTreatly reduced by rust. Horsey: Im- 

 mense crop harvested. Franklin : Best general crop grown ; Tappahaunock and Tou- 

 zelle did well. OuachUa: Largest crop ever raised; wheat from northern seed badly 

 rusted. He^ipstead : Fine. TVashington : Pastured in winter and spring, but the grain 

 is good and yield above average. Jefferson : Good yield. Sebastian : Changing base 

 from cotton to wheat ; double last year's acreage. Fulton : Best crop for j-ears. Fope : 

 Better than for many years. Sevier : Best crop ever raised here. Hoicard : Five times 

 greater than any crop since the war. 



Te]sxessee. — Lincoln: Late sown injured by rust. Fentress: Some rust. Smith: 

 Average yield of fine quality. Sevier: Very fine quality. Knox: Grain good, but the 

 yield is small ; no smut from seed soaked with solution of bluestone. Fultz stood the 

 freezes well, and for three years has produced 50 per cent, more than the Tappahaunock. 

 Carter : Fultz from the Department is good, but Clawson a failure. Our winter-wheats 

 are generally a fine yield. Greene : Good quality, but many crops light. Monroe : 

 Some sprouting in the shock; yield average and quality excellent. HawVnis : Stand 

 thin and straw short, but the grain beautifully ripened. Cheatham : Injured 20 per cent, 

 by rains. McMinn : Grain remarkably full and plump ; heads short. Henry: Largest 

 crop ever grown here. Obion : From 20 to 30 bushels per acre. Trousdale : Good. 

 Van Buren : Injured by freezes in spring. Bradley: Grain fiue, plump, and heavy; 

 raised 102^ bushels of Golden Straw on two acres. Diclson : Season propitious. Mont- 

 gomery : Grain good ; acreage a third greater than last year. Bobertson : Injured in 

 shock by rain. Hancock: Average. Bhea ; Injured iu the shock by rain. Grainger: 

 Greatly improved. 



West Virginia. — Baleigh : Short, but good and heading splendidly. Brooke: Badly 

 ■winter-killed, but will x>erhaps make half a crop. Cabell: Thin, head small, but 

 promises good quality. Jackson : Winter-killed, and iu some neighborhoods damaged 

 by spring floods. Marion : Improving, but will be poor. Pocahontas i Not much over 

 half a crop. Jefferson : Not well filled ; quality middling ; will probably not average 

 over 5^ to 6 bushels to the acre. Mineral: The poorest crop for many years. Wood: 

 Badly damaged by severe winter. Putnam: Not more than half an average; recent 

 wet weather developing rust; some complaint of smut; Clawson thought to be supe- 

 rior to Tappahaunock; it has a larger head, resists the midge; promises to be valuable, 

 but late. Mercer: Unpromising. HancocJc : Many fields not worth harvesting ; a few 

 up to fair average. Barbour: About one-third of a crop. Monroe: Injured in April. 

 Harrison: Scarcely half a crop. Mason: If not injured iu the shock by warm rains, 

 will make from one-half to two-thirds of an average. 



Kextucky. — Carroll: Injured by severe winter; later ^ than usual. Hardin: Bat 

 little over half crop. Warren : Acreage double ; condition better than an average. 

 Shelby : Thin on the ground, and low, some fields not high enough to cut ; heads fair, 

 Adair: Injured by recent rains. Lincoln: Thin on the ground, and injured by rust. 

 Eussell : The best crop for many years ; mostly cut. Pendleton: About half an average ; 

 quality fiue; late sown an entire failure. Metcalfe: Not more than half a crop — three- 

 fcurths at best — owiug to severe winter and dry spring. Livingston : Nearly ruined by 

 rust. Graves: Not an average ; thin on the ground, but grain good. Edmonson: Har- 

 vested, and good, but in danger from rain. Callaway: Good. Cumberland: A fair 

 crop. 



Omio. — Trumbull: Improving. Morrow: Improved beyond expectation; will be a 

 good crop. Erie: Doing well; no rust. Sandusky: Improved very much; weather 

 favorable to its filling. Coshocton : Rust has appeared ; fears of serious injury ; harvest 

 late. Medina : Harvest interrupted by heavy rains. Holmes : Somewhat injured by 

 late frost. Harrison: Promising. Hancock: A heavy straw, but ripens slowly. Geauga: 

 Very heavy. Fairfield : Harvest ten days to two weeks behind the usual season, and 

 wheat threatened with rust. Delaware: Weather just right. Van 77 erf; Thin on the 

 ^r )und, and badly struck with rust. Gallia : About one-third of an average. Lucas : 

 Has a rank growth; is very late, and is threatened with rust. Henry: Late; badly 

 down ; not tilling well ; Fultz and Tappahaunock stand the best. 



Michigan'. — Kalamazoo: Two-thirds of a crop iu this county. Wexford: Ruined by 

 frost June 13. Branch : Twelve days later than last year ; an excess of rain. Jackson: 

 That not winter-killed promises a large yield ; heads long and well filled. Hillsdale: 



