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age, but, allowing for the amount lost by high water, the crop may be below average 

 Mason : Very greatly damaged by the floods ; never more promising on the uplands. 

 Pendleton: Promise of an abundant yield. Wetzel: Favorable weather for maturing. 

 Cabell : Looking very fine. Summers : Cut short by heavy rains, which fell almost in- 

 cessantly for two mouths. Harrison : Very promising. Wayne : Much injured on low 

 laud by high water, but the crop left is the largest ever grown. 



Kentucky. — Adair : Looks unusually well, but overshooting. FlemAnfi : Very prom- 

 ising. Cumberland : Has filled well and will yield largely. Owsley : Will not average 

 half a crop. Daviess: On the river, where submerged, a total failure. Callaway: 

 Excellent. Shelby: Above an average. Laurel: Good, on high laud, but very light on 

 low, wet laud. Grayson: Has come out wonderfully. Jackson: Cut short 10 per cent, 

 by dry weather. Clinton: Fine. Spencer: Ten days late. BrecTcinridge : Suffering for 

 want of rain. Gallatin : Immense losses by rains and floods will reduce the crop 25 

 per cent. Metcalf: Will not be a full crop, owing to too much rain. Monroe : Very 

 good. Eussell : Has been badly damaged by rains, floods, aud winds, and uow is being 

 injured by dry, hot weather. 



Ohio — Logan : The long-continued rains have been favorable to the crop. Miami : 

 The largest by far ever grown. Adams: Very promising, but needing rain. Henry: 

 Backward, aud badly down from wind and rains. Boss : Injured by wet weather till 

 the 15th of August, and since then by drought. Monroe : Extra. Coshocton : More 

 backward than last year, but promises a better crop. Delaware: An immenee yield. 

 Hancock: Backward, owing to the cool weather. Holmes: The iiresent weather very 

 favorable for corn. Jackson: Promises a large yield. Medina: Two weeks behind. 

 Van Wert : With favorable fall will make half crop. Fairfield : Ripening finely. 

 Marion: A splendid crop. Morgan: Large quantities flooded and destroyed in July. 

 Union : Will need the most of September to ripen in. Gallia : A few thousand acres 

 totally destroyed by water, yet that on the uplauds is so extra that the average is 

 maintained. Pike: Heavy rains, followed by dry weather, -will damage the crop at 

 least 10 per cent. Scioto : The Scioto swept all its bottom-lands, destroying all the 

 corn. Athens : On the liills, good; in the valleys, mostly destroyed by floods. 



Michigan — Kalamazoo : Heavy growth. Calhoun : Has a most vigorous growth, but 

 is retarded in ripening. Grand Traverse : Cool for corn. Allegan: Late, but looks first- 

 rate. Jackson: The weather all that could be desired for corn ; a large growth, but 

 ten days late. Lapeer: Never looked better. Manistee: Promised better than ever 

 before until damaged, in low places, by a frost, August 21 and '22. Mecosta : A warm 

 September will make more than an average yield. Lonia: Late, but uow maturing 

 rapidly. Shiaivassee : Snfl^eriug from drought. Mason: Badly cut by frost, August 

 21 and 22 ; will not be half crop. Saginaw: Late, but hurrying along the last ten days. 

 Tuscola: Good, but much very late. Wayne: Was never better. Barry: Hurt in some 

 places by frost, and now beginning to dry up. Ottawa: Two weeks late; 10 jier cent, 

 destroyed by frost, August 15. Van Buren : Never a larger growth ; backward, but 

 the weather now fine. Washtenaio : Weather favorable. Branch: Late. Leelenaw : 

 Looks well, but very backward. 



Indiana. — Elkhart : Rather backward. Franklin : Stands thick on the ground and 

 very tall, but is not earing well. Madison : The great floods of August ruiued a great 

 amount of corn, and the crop will be light. De Kalb : Backward. Floyd : Good. 

 Dearborn : Could have reported a great increase in the crop had it not been for the 

 floods, by which thousands of acres were overflowed aud ruined. Howard : Poorly cul^ 

 tivated, and very backward. Eipley : Will be good. Orange: The outlook good. 

 Hendricks: Not doing well, on account of dry weather. Grant: Hardly half a crop. 

 Gibson : On upland a fair crop ; drowned out on bottom-land. Clarke : Excellent. 

 Union: Damaged 25 per cent, by the rains and storms in July. Warren: Prospect 

 never better. Washington : On the bottom-lauds all lost by the floods : on upland, 

 over an average. Whitley : Fine weather for corn. Brown : Severely danmged on the 

 overflowed bottoms. Clay : Several thousand acres swept ofl" or ruined by the over- 

 flow. Dubois: On low bottoms all lost ; on high ground above au average. Hamilton: 

 Will be a short crop. Tippecanoe : Large quantities on the bottom-lauds, which pro- 

 duce the best corn, destroyed by the unprecedented floods. 



Illinois. — Alexander: Some drowned out on the bottoms. Stephenson: Frosts on 

 the nights of August 20 and 21 injured a large percentage. Pike : Late, but looks well 

 on uplands; on bottoms, poor. Schuyler: Late ou account of replanting; excessive 

 growth of stalk. Madison: Ten days backward. Henry: Immense in growth aud 

 heavy with ears. De Kalb : Promise of the largest crop for many years. Crawford : 

 The greatest damage to corn from excessive rains ever known. Foj-d : A heavy crop. 

 Lee : Very late. McHenry : Promises an enormous yield. Pope : Not well cultivated, 

 and drowned out on low grounds. Winnebago : Killed by frosts in all the valleys on 

 the nights of the 28th and 29th. Clark : Unusually large crop, but diminished one-twen- 

 tieth by the amount destroyed ou the streams. Hancock : Promises a larger yield than 

 in any former year. Pratt: Very good except where drowued out. Carroll: Injured 

 by frost in lowlands. Mason: Looks well. Moultrie: Improved wonderfully in the 



