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Jasper: Badly injured by cliinches. Cole: Fine weather has Lrouglit the crop to 

 average ; heads aud berries superior. Clay : Destroyed by grasshoppers. Carroll : 

 Badly winter-killed ; no spring-wheat. Shelby : Mostly winter-killed aud plowed np 

 for corn ; what was left is not good. Newtoti : Too thin aud weedy : iujured by rust 

 and chinch-bng. Benton : Season unfavorable. 



Kansas.— ;S«(*7/i; Small grain injured by drought. Marshall: Grasshoppers left 

 three-fourths of the small graii] uninjured. Doniphan : Small grain mostly destroyed 

 by grasshoppers. Neosho : Wbat the grasshoppers left is good. Washington : Spring- 

 wheat injured by drought in June ; fall-wheat good. Stunner : Finest crop yet raised. 

 Shawnee: Fall-wheat that esca^ied the grasshoppers is the best for three years; many 

 pieces average 30 bushels per acre ; spring-wheat poor, lleno : Many pieces of fall- 

 wheat drilled upon deep-jDlowed ground will average .?0 bushels per acre ; others will 

 go as low as 10 bushels. Lahette : Injured 8 per cent, by grasshoppers aud 10 per cent, 

 by chinch-bugs. Ellis: Winter-wheat, where not cut too green, is i)lump aud well 

 headed ; stand good ; spring-wheat long and stiff-strawed and long-headed. Cherokee : 

 Thin on the ground but promising; heads unusually long and well filled. Broxni : 

 Badly injured by grasshoppers. Marion : Best crop of winter-wheat ever harvested 

 here; White May and Blue Stem the favorite varieties; White Genesee and Gipsy 

 well reported. EepuhUc : Injured some by drought. Montgomery : Excellent croj> and 

 harvested in fine condition ; some little damage by rust aud chinches. Chase : Si)ring- 

 wheat damaged by June drought. Douglas : Nine-tenths taken by grasshoppers. 

 Cowles : Good and well saved. 



Nebraska. — Webster: A little injured by drought. Stanton: Injured by grasshop- 

 pers in places. Madison: Grasshoppers. Knox: Half destroyed by grasshoppers. 

 Hall: Grasshoppers. Cedar: Large yield, if it escapes grasshoppers. Adams: Above 

 average. Gage: Grasshoppers. Otoe: Grasshoppers. Antelope: One-third destroyed 

 by grasshoppers. FravMin : Injured by grasshoppers. 



Caluoknia. — Sacramento : Graiu-croj^s badly injured by freezing weather in April. 

 Alameda : Wheat and other grain will not exceed two-thirds of a crop ; drought and 

 drying winds since the middle of February ; much grain damaged by rain in the 

 shock. San Joaquin : Thrashed out only half average ; heavy rains caused extensive 

 lodging of the crop. Contra Costa : Full average on good, well-tilled land, but short, 

 as a whole, 25 to 33 per cent. San Bernardino : Spring frosts unusually disastrous. 

 Stanislaus : Injured by rain in the shock. 



Oregon. — Benton : What little winter-wheat we have looks well ; spring-wheat 

 late but promising. Clackamas: Favorable weather has benefited spring-grains. TiUor 

 mook : Small grains mostly went to straw. Columbia : Excellent.* Grant : Season 

 favorable. 



The Territories. — Santa F^, N. Mexico : Doing well in spite of drought. Taos , 

 JSfeto Mexico : Very poor. A failure of our crops will terribly affect the whole Terri- 

 tory, as nearly all the couuties draw their supplies from this. Sevier, Utah : Straw 

 short; unpromising. Choctaw Nation, Didian Territory : Increased average and unusu- 

 ally fine yield. A large thrasher has just been introduced. Yankton, Dakota: Growth 

 rank. Lincoln, Dakota : Doing well. Boise, Idaho: Season late. 



COTTOIS'. 



Our cotton returns are iiuusually full. The couditiou of the crop ap- 

 proximates a full average, showing an improvement during June in 

 all the cotton States except Texas, where the prevalence of drought in 

 some localities and some local' injuries by cut-worms, cotton-caterpillars, 

 and grasshoppers reduced the promise of the crop 3 per cent. The 

 improvement of condition in the other cotton States is shown by the 

 following figures: ]S^orth Carolina, 3 per cent.; South Carolina, 2 ; Geor- 

 gia, C ; Florida, 7; Alabama, 1; Mississippi, 3; Louisiana, 10; Arkan- 

 sas, 14:,- Tennessee, 10. The State averages on the 1st of July were as 

 follows: North Carolina, 95 ; South Carolina, 99 ; Georgia, 97; Florida, 

 101; Alabama, 102; Mississippi, 103; Louisiana, 105; Texas, 93; Ar- 

 kansas, 101 ; Tennessee, 109. 



A considerable cotton-culture is reported in some counties in Vir- 

 ginia, but to a considerable extent this crop has been superseded by 

 tobacco. The crop in these counties is late, but generally healthy. 

 It stands the drought well. 



In ISTorth Carolina the crop is late, but is generallj- in better condition 



