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ast three weeks. Jersey : The largest crop for many years; a great deal stands from 

 15 to 18 feet high. Marshall: Euorraons. Peoria: Prospect that it will bo fully ma- 

 tured and very heavy. Putnam : Never better. Vermilion : Promises well, but two 

 weeks late. Edwards : The high grounds, where we usually expect but little corn, pro- 

 duce well, but our best corn-lands are about nothing. Ejfingham : A failure on all low, 

 nndraiued lands. Fayette: Good on high land; ruined with high waters ou bottoms 

 and low prairies. Fulton : The hot, ch-y weatiier of the last week has nearly put the 

 crop out of danger. Iroquois: Has improved wonderfully the last ten days. Macon: 

 A fair crop, and will be out of danger by September 18. Massac: Fine on upland, but 

 on bottoms not more than half a crop. Mercer : Fine weather, making a good crop 

 almost sure. Ogle : Injured ou low grounds by frosts on August '22 and '23. lUehland: 

 Very good on high laud, but in many other places worth nothing. Scott : Curing 

 fast. Shelby : Promises a heavy crop on uphmds, but on extensive bottoms, submerged, 

 all' dead; over one hundred families have lost all their corn, wheat, oats, and potatoes. 

 Warren : Late, causing solicitude lest it be overtaken by frost. jrUite : Many thousands 

 of acres have been lost by the overliow, and many more by the continued rains. McLean : 

 Late, but will be 25 per cent, above average if not damaged by frost. 



Wisconsin. — Washington: Oue-half killed by frosts ou the nights of August 21,22, 

 and 23. Jefferson: Greatly damaged by frost. Ozaukee: lujured in some places by 

 frost. Juneau : A severe frost ou the 28th of August did immense damage to corn ; 

 one-foui'th destroyed. Columbia: Light and late. Fan Claire: Greatly damaged by 

 frost, August 22. Eichland : Badly damaged by frost in places. Sauk: Badly damaged 

 by frost in many places. Waukesha : Damaged by frost. Wahrorili : Two-thirds destroyed 

 by chinches and frost. Brown: Damaged in many places by frost. Chi2)pewa : Injured 

 very badly by the severe frost of August '22. Dodge: Very backward, and mauy pieces 

 spoiled by frost on the 21st and 22d. Milwaukee : Severely injured by frost on low, damp 

 ground. Vernon : The fixvorable prosjiect lessened by frost. Waupaca : Destroyed ou 

 low ground by fi'ost.- lotea : Killed on low grounds by frost. St. Croix: Late. Adams: 

 Late and badly injured by frost ; probably one-half will not ripen. . Calumet : Good, 

 but fourteen days late. Outagamie : Injured by the heavy frost on all low ground. Craw- 

 ford: On the high lauds, three-fourths of a crop ; in the narrow, low valleys, killed by 

 frost. 



Minnesota. — Mower : Killed by frost on the 22d in some parts of the county. Steele : 

 Late. McLeod : Backward. Waseca : Very late, but stands fair. Wright : Very back- 

 ward, and some pieces killed by frost. Goodhue : Looks well, but is late. Olmsted : 

 Badly damaged by froot on the nights of the 21st and '22d. Pope : Not as good as usual ; 

 cold and wet August. Bock : Growing finely, but will require, to mature, a September 

 without frost. *S7eaj'«8 : August too cool for corn. Carver: Badly prostrated by storms. 

 Cottonwood : Two weeks late, but promising if not killed by frost. Martin : Very lieavy- 

 eared. Winona: Later than usual, but doing finely. 



Iowa. — Van Buren: Damaged by the enormous growth of weeds, and flat ground 

 badly drowned out. Johnson : Does not promise so well as a month ago, owing to dry 

 weather at a critical time. Jones : Backward. Bremer : The weather through the 

 greater part of August too cool. Appanoose: Will not exceed ten bushels per acre. 

 Nearly all the bottoms were washed out and utterly ruined, Franklin : Looks well, 

 but two weeks late. Hardin : Is recovering from damage by rainsin June. Harrison : 

 Too wet for corn. Polk : Yield will be 10 per cent, heavier than last year. Shelby : 

 Late fifteen days. Woodbury : Promises well. Benton : Ten days late. Buena Vista : 

 A good growth, well eared, but two weeks late. Cass: Prospects unsurpassed. Clin- 

 ton : Late, but the weather all that could be desired. Decatur : Very weedy. Fre- 

 mont : That left by the grasshoppers of the first planting as good as the county ever 

 had. Howard : On bottom-lands, killed by the frosts of August 22 and 23 ; on high 

 lands, very backward. Muscatine : The prospect most glorious. Cerro Gordo : Late 

 ten or fifteen days. Chickasaw: Extra good, but late. 'Madison: Late twenty days, 

 but will be a good crop if frost holds oft' a few days. 



Missouri. — Macon: The finest I ever saw in Missouri. Shelby: Very fine. Cass : Above 

 average. Kodaway : Grasshoppers destroyed half the crop in June, and August was 

 too dry for the replanted. Polk : Badly damaged on bottoms by overflowing. Cald- 

 well : A prodigious crop. Moniteau: Promises to be enormous. Butler: Very promis- 

 ing. Boone : The yield will be at least 50 per cent, above an average. Christian : 

 Better than for years. Harrison : Never better. Phelps : Has improved. Platte : 

 Promising a fine yield. Vernon ; Probably a full crop. Wayne : Best prospect for 

 years. Adair : Ten per cent, better than last year. Laclede : On the rivers not over 

 half a crop, owing to damage by floods, but the uplands make the whole average 100. 

 Maries : Very good ou uplands, but hundreds of acres destroyed on rich bottoms by 

 wet. Perry: Very good. Saint Fi'ancis : Very fine. Balls: Good crop. Pettis: 

 Promises an abundant yield, Newton : Uu usually heavy. Clay : Planted the second 

 and third times, and promising. De Kalb : Replanted after June 20; will make feed 

 and some good corn. 



Kansas. — Doniphan : The first crop destroyed by grasshoppers; if it were a month 



