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per ceut.bebiud last yeai-. Grayson: Splendid crop ; GO to 70 bushels per aero. Shelby: 

 No rust ; over average. 



Arkansas. — Fraivie : Fiue. Baxter: Promising. Ouachita: Largest crop over raised. 

 Hevipsiead : Fine. Fope : Better than for many years. 



Texxkssee. — Knox : Wonderful improvement in a month. Carter : Damaged by 

 drought, but improved by late abundant rains. Monroe : Coming out tiucly. Hawkins: 

 Shortened by drought. Johnson : laipi'ovod by late rains. Loudon : Greatly improved. 

 Blount: A third of a crop. Bradley : Fall-sown, hue and heavy; spring sown, a failure. 

 Mottt(jomcry : Very fiue. Hancock: Never better. Grainger: Superb, though we once 

 thought the crop was ruined. 



WioST ViKGixiA. — Tucker : Improved by late rains. Braxton : Late, but promising. 

 Brooke: Unusually fiue. Cabell: Much below an average. Jackson: Short, but im- 

 proving. Focahontas : Much benefited by late rains. Mercer : Not promising. Monroe : 

 Improving. Harrlnon : Promising. Mason : Kecent abundant rains have had a good 

 effect. 



Kextucky. — Shelby : Almost a failure ; too low to cut in most of the fields. Lincoln : 

 Low from early drought, but heads good and quite promising. Fendleton : Promising. 

 Metcalfe: Look very fine. Gallatin: Looking exceedingly well. Anderson: Have im- 

 proved. 



Ohio. — Trumhull : Look well. Williams : Have never had so fine a prospect. Mor- 

 row : Promise unusually well. Ferry; Fine. Coshocton: Promise full crop. Mahoning : 

 Tall and tine. Marion : In danger of lodging. Harrison : Look well. Geauga : Early 

 sowed, promising, but the late light. Delaware ; Increased acreage and an excellent 

 prospect. Van Wert : Very much lodged and damaged by rain. Henry ; Heavy growth, 

 but lodged ; cannot be over three-fourths of an average. 



Michigan. — Branch : Never better, and a good breadth sown. Lake : Damaged by 

 frost in June. Livingston : uuequaled. Shiawassee : Look well, but need rain. 



Indiana. — Jennings: Very fine. Franklin: Look unusually well. Steuben: Univer- 

 sally good. Decatur: Doing well. Wliitley : Prospect fine. Washington: Look very 

 fine, ^oble : Good; never a better prospect. Cass: The best crop for twenty-five 

 years. Scott: Remarkably fiue, with large increase iu area. Hamilton: A heavy 

 growth of straw, in danger of lodging, and not filling. 



Illinois. — Vermillion: The heavist crop for years, but falling down. Randolph: 

 Have grown too rauk. Effingham : Will likely be a partial failure, on account of the 

 very wet harvest weather. De Witt : Rank growth, but have recently fallen down, 

 and are not promising. Cook : Largely damaged by April freeze. Sangamon : Growing 

 rank, and badly lodged iu some places by heavy rains and wind. Cass : Falling badly. 

 Livingston: In some places blown down. Mason: Badly down, yet look well ; "Early 

 Fellow " and " Somerset " excel native varieties. Massac : Fine. McLean : Badlj^ 

 blown down. Fiatt : Too much straw, and iu danger of falling. Moultrie : Badly 

 down. Fayette : Good, but badly falleu. 



Wisconsin. — Vernon : Generally look well. 



Minnesota. — Cottonwood: Very good. 



Iowa. — Crawford: Splendid. Story: Season has been favorable for oats. Mills: In 

 danger from rain and rust. Louisa : Growing tall, and in danger of falling. Hardin : 

 Overgrowth of straw, and falling. Hancock: Heavy. 



Missouri. — Crawford: Acreage small, from lack of seed; crop looks well. Greene: 

 Best crop for the last ten years. Maries : Never better, but lodged badly. Saint Francis : 

 Very fine. Jasper : Never better. Grundy : White Schonen, Potato, and Somerset oats 

 from the Department a great improvement on our native varieties. 



Kansas. — Neosho : What the grasshoppers left is good. Woodson : Somerset oats 

 from the Department larger and heavier than the common black oats, but later in 

 maturing. Labette : Best crop j^et raised here. Crawford : Looking well. Cherokee : 

 Excellent prospect. Brown: Badly injured by grasshoppers. Chase: Injured by 

 drought in June. Cowley : Very tine. 



Nebraska. — Antelope: One-third destroyed by grasshor)per3. FranMin : Injured by 

 grasshoppers. 



California. — Sonoma : Considerably injured by heavy rains. 



Oregon. — CZaofcam-rts ; B3uefl ted by favorable seasons. Columbia: Excellent. Tilla- 

 mook: Backward. Grant: Favorable season. 



The Territories. — Sevier, Utah : Straw short. Walla- Walla, Washington : Look well. 

 Lewis and Clarke, Montana : Backward, but doing well. Yankton, Dakota : Growth 

 rank. 



EYE. 



In the States producing rye on a large scale, except Wisconsin, 109, 

 the condition is reported considerably below average; in Kew York, 

 winter 77, spring 90; Pennsylvania, 90 and 97 ; Illinois, 97; Kentucky, 95. 



