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ver}" fiue crop a total loss, owing to wet weather in harvest j" "All not 

 swept away destroyed in the sho'ck," &g. The army-worm, or a worm 

 so designated, conspired with the wet weather in injuring the crop to 

 some extent in the Ohio Valley, as well as in Virginia and Michigan ; 

 but its ravages were quite limited, except in Ohio, where they were 

 severe. In Logan they " severed the oat from the stem, till in some 

 j)laces the ground was almost covered with oats. Fields that promised 

 an abundant crop will not be harvested;" in Hancock, they destroyed 

 fully CO per cent, of the crop. 



The figures for condition in the Middle States and on the Atlantic 

 coast, farther south, were : New York, 98 ; Kew Jersey, 84 ; Pennsyl- 

 vania, 94 ; Maryland, 88 ; Virginia, 79 ; North Carolina and Georgia, 

 92. Kansas averages 70, and Nebraska 91 ; California 94, and Oregon 95. 

 The average condition for the country is 87. 



Maixe. — Oxford : Good. Waldo : Never better. 



Vermoxt. — Orleans : A heavy crop, badly lodged. FranlcUn : Extra crop ; a little 

 rusted. Rutland : Yield less than expected. Caledonia : Rusty. 



New York. — Tioga: Damaged by a wet August. Queens: Very much injured by 

 rains since they were cut. Genesee : Mostly secured in good condition. Richmond : 

 Much damaged in harvest by wet. Erie : Heavy ; much lodged. Orange : Much dam- 

 aged in harvesting by rains. Sullivan : Good iu quantity and quality. 



New Jersey. — Mercer : A good crop, damaged by heavy rains in harvest. Sussex : 

 Poor crop ; harvested in poor condition. Warren : Rather light, and badly gathered, 

 owing to wet. 



Pexxsylvania. — Bradford: A first-rate crop; injured 10 per cent, by the wet 

 weather. Armstrong : Got up iu good condition. Bedford : Very good crop secured. 

 York: Plenty, but of poor quality. Beaver: Badly lodged; many fields will not pay the 

 expenses of cutting. Fayette: Very much damaged by storms and wet. Sullivan: A 

 large growth of straw, but yield below expectations. Washington: Much bleached 

 before gathered, and shelled badly in hauling. Erie : A great crop, 



Marylaxd. — Howard : A poor crop. Cecil : Injured by wet weather. 



Virginia. — Powhatan : Winter, yielded largely ; spring, cut short by dry weather. 

 Middlesex : Winter, good ; spring, almost worthless. Chestei-field : Good when har- 

 vested, but badly cured, owing to wet. Floyd : Damaged by continued rains. Madi- 

 son : Badly damaged, many farmers losing their entire crop. Pulaski : Badly dam- 

 aged by incessant rains. Bedford: Badly injured by wet. Craig: Damaged by army- 

 worm. Orange : Seriously damaged in quantity and quality by the long rains. Essex : 

 Cut short by drought, and a large portion of what was harvested spoiled by rains. 

 Highland: Good. Montgomery: Destroyed by the army-worm. Richmond: Much in- 

 jured by wet. Culpeper : Badly damaged in the shock. Buchanan: Seriously inj ured 

 in the shock. Page: Almost a failure. 



North Carolina. — Person: Seriously hurt by rains. Caswell: Damaged after har- 

 vest by wet. Cumberland : Greatly injured by rust. Anson : Good. Caldwell : Short 

 and some sprouted. 



Georgia. — Dooly : A fine crop, 



Alabama.— Greece : The finest crop for a number of years. Randolph: Cut oif by 

 drought. Bullock: Excellent. 



Mississippi. — Smith : Never better, Lee : The crop almost incredible. 



Texas. — Williamson : Average 45 bushels per acre, and weigh 28 pounds, Upshur : 

 Bett^er than for many years. Red River : Never better, Jasper : Good yield ; rust- 

 proof the only kind we can rely on here. 



Arkansas. — Garland : Have done well. Independence : Many crops yield 50 bushels 

 or more per acre. Woodruff: A grand crop, Newton: Good. Fulton: Splendid crop ; 

 German millet is superseding oats ; the yield, compared with oats, is enormous. 



Tennessee. — Anderson: Two-thirds damaged by rains. Sevier: What were saved are 

 in a miserably poor condition, owing to wet. Giles : Most of the oats damaged after 

 being harvested. Blount : One-third of a crop ; one-half damaged by wet. Carter : 

 Two-thirds badly damaged by rains. Hancock: Damaged 25 per cent, by wet weather. 

 Morgan : Lost in the field. Greene : Badly beat down and rotted. Wilson : Damaged. 

 Marion : The crop quite ruined by wet after being harvested. 



West Virginia. — Tucker : Very good, but several large crops destroyed by the army- 

 worm. Raleigh: Better than average. P/fiasaHfs; Materially injured by rains. Grant: 

 Harvested in bad condition. Jackson : The floods swept off at least 15 per cent, 

 Braxton : More than an average crop, but nearly one-half lost by continual rains. 

 Boone: Almost ruined hj the rains, Randolph: The army-worm very destructive 



