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Has improved. Tuscola : lu some parts of the county, fully up to an average ; in others 

 not so good. Saint Joseph : Only half a stand on account of wiuter-killiufj; straw of a 

 rank growth ; weather quite unfavoral)le. Mecosta: Materially injured by frost June 

 12 ; some fields mown for the straw, others plowed under and sown to millet. Lake : 

 Damaged by frost in June. Grand Traverse: Damaged by frost June i:{. Manistee: 

 In good condition until June frosts. Livingston : Badly winter-killed, but recovering. 

 Oakland: Has improved since the late rains, but in danger of rust. Monroe: Not 

 promising. Allegan : Promising ; straw bright and berry plump. 



Indiana. — Grant: About a half crop. Clarke : Injured by the winter, and by frost 

 in April. Jennings: Almost an entire failure. Spencer: Good quality, but thin on the 

 ground; many fields are too thin to harvest. Elkhart: Badly down. Franklin: 

 Ureatly improved ; half to two-thirds of a crop. Madison : On fallow, or dry lauds, 

 looks well ; that sown among corn, of but little account. Sfeuhen : The prospect never 

 better. Decatur : Badly winter-killed ; this county will perhaps produce seed, and 

 not more. Orange : Prospect poor ; many fields will not be harvested. IFarren : Fine 

 on clay soil. Dubois : Less than half a crop ; grain injured by wet weather. Shelby : 

 Improved since last report. Washington : Will not produce the amount of seed sown. 

 Itipley : What there is is doing well ; Clawson White Winter very promising. Pike : 

 Damaged by rain. Noble: Ripening very unevenly; has been injured by weevil. 

 Howard : Being badly damaged by midge. Hendricks : Some red weevil, or midge. 

 Crawford : Being injured by rust aud chinch-bugs. Clinton : Midge abounds, and will 

 materially lessen the crop. Cass: Two weeks late. Scott: Very thin, but well filled. 

 Kosciusko : Has come out beyond all expectations, owing to favorable season. Tippe- 

 canoe : Improved ; will be nearly or quite an average. Brown : Badly winter-killed. 



Illinois. — Edwards : Coming out better than was expected. Stephenson : Promising. 

 Clark : More than an average. Madison : Late, weedy, and not well filled. Vermillion : 

 Greatly improved, but will not be more than 60 per cent, of a full crop. Popte : Thin, 

 but well filled. Williamson: Improved 10 per cent, or 15 per cent, since May. Owing 

 to the increased acre.age the yield will probably nearly equal that of 1874. White: 

 Will not yield one-half the seed sown, owing to the ravages of the Hessian fly. Saint 

 Clair : Fully two weeks late. Ground too wet for harvesting except with the cradle. 

 Randolph: Fair. But little injury from army-worm. J/acou ; Fall wheat full of chinch- 

 bugs, but not damaged much by them. Jersey : Improved very much, and from present 

 appearances will make half a crop. Livingston: No winter- wheat ; small acreage 

 of spring; condition good. Mason: Spring-wheat looks well. Montgomery: No. 1, 

 but will be ditiicult to harvest on account of rain. Massac : That not winter-killed 

 has long heads aad is well filled. Monroe : Grain superior but yield below an average. 

 Fayette : Good, but being harvested with difficulty on account of rain. 



Wisconsin. — Vernon : Spring-wheat looks well. Injured in some places by chinch- 

 bugs and grub-worms. Lowa : Will be about half crop owing to the ravages of chinch- 

 bugs. Calumet: Spring-wheat very promising. Green: Spring-wheat all destroyed 

 before it was four inches high by chinch-bugs, and was plowed up and sown in buck- 

 wheat. Saint Croix : Looks unusually well, Crawford : The best winter-wheat for 

 years. 



Minnesota. — Stearns: The outlook for spring-wheat was never better. Sherburne: 

 Some fields injured by grasshoppers, others not touched. Cottonwood : The wheat-crop 

 is the finest raised since the settlement of the county. 



Iowa. — Crawford : Splendid. Story : Season favorable. Lee : Winter-wheat a fail- 

 ure ; spring looks well. Poweshiek: Some complaint of rust. Mills: Fears of a fail- 

 ure from rain and rust. Louisa : Spring- wheat looks well, but is growing tall and is 

 in danger of falling down. Howard : Looks well on dry soil, but in many places 

 suffering from continued rain. Hardin : An overgrowth of straw, and inclined to fall 

 down. Tama: Injured by wet weather, especially on low lands. Guthrie: Winter- 

 wheat a failure ; useless to sow it, unless hardier varieties can be found than any yet 

 tried in this county. Spring- wheat rank aud beginning to fall. Buena Vista : Fears 

 of rust. Cherokee : Late, but promises to be heavy. 



Missouri. — Crawford: Wheat largely mixed with chess; not over three-fourths of 

 the crop will be full average. Ozark: A little short on account of winter-killing. 

 Greene: Crop greatly beyond expectation. Polk: Abundant rain keeps the chinch 

 back ; wheat out of all danger. Gasconade : Lowland-crops injured by chinches. 

 Chariton : Largely plowed up to be put in corn ; not over a half crop, but good and 

 well saved. Franklin : Greatly improved. Adair : Total failure. Carter : Average. 

 Howard : Too much rain. Daviess : Badly winter-killed. Johnson : Euined by grass- 

 hoppere. Lincoln : Only one-fourth of a crop will be made ; grain good. Maries : 

 What survived winter came out beyond expectation. Taney : W"ill be 2.5 per cent, 

 larger than ever before ; Clawson, from the Department, is splendid. Stone: Short- 

 ened by fly, rust, and chinch. Stoddard : Increased acreage; somewhat winter-killed 

 but promising. Saint Francis: Never better. Perry: Very good. Lawrence: Crop 

 has come out T\-onderful]y ; Clawson especially fine ; heads run 80 to 100 grains each. 



