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West Virginia. — Cabell: Bailly damaged. Harrison: On bottom-lands badly sanded 

 and considerable loss. Tyler: Stacks floated oft' by the floods. Wayne: Greatly injured 

 in harvest. Ealeigh : Better than last year 25 per cent. Pleasants: Materially injured 

 by continued rains. Grant: Put up in damaged condition. Berkeley: Rains came too 

 late for the hay-crop. Jackson: A good deal damaged by water. Gilmer: All bottom- 

 lands were overflowed, and the hay spoiled by being sanded. Braxton : Was double 

 that of last year, but cured in a bleached and injured condition. Mercer: Average 

 crop gathered, but damaged much by rains. Upshur : Considerably damaged by the 

 high waters. Nicholas : Grasses ruined by the army-worm. Barbour : Damaged by 

 the rains ; very little over half a crop saved. 



Kkntucky. — Callaway :. Good crop. Shelby : Much damaged bj"- wet weather. Lau- 

 rel: Saved very wet. Grant: The product of timothy was large, but owing to wet 

 weather, was not harvested till late, and in poor condition. Clover-hay destroyed 

 before it could be gathered into the stack. Logan: Hay injured 10 per cent, by the 

 wet weather. Scott : An average crop, damaged 25 per cent, by the wet. Carroll : 

 Clover in many cases ruined by the rains ; timothy, though badly damaged, will be 

 above average. S2)encer : Largely injured by the rains. liussell : Have saved more 

 than usual, but it stood too long on the ground and formed much woody fiber 



Ohio. — Rocking: Badly damaged in harvest by wet weather. Henry: Timothy 

 never better, but injured by rain after cutting. Boss : Scarce ; $10 to $15 per ton in the 

 meadow. Monroe : Considerably damaged, yet the yield over a half crop. Delaware : 

 Both clover and timothy a good yield but got up in poor condition. Hancock : Large 

 crop seriously injured by the wet. Medina: Considerably injured by rains; Hunga-. 

 rian grass and millet were largely sown, and being later than clover and timothy, the 

 crops were secured in better condition. Van Wert : Timothy promised well, but the 

 rains damaged it ; could not be harvested till long after it was ripe. Washington : Not 

 more than half saved in good condition. Pike ; Damaged by rains, 40 per cent, after 

 cutting. Scioto : Considerable destroyed by floods. 



Michigan. — Calhoun : A light crop. Saginaio : Three times the millet ever raised 

 here before ; a first-rate crop, with fine weather for curing. Washtenaw : Secured in 

 good condition, and good in quality. Branch : Plenty and good ; secured in good order^ 



Indiana. — Franklin : Very little of the crop good. Floyd : Very light crop. Howard r 

 Very little clover cut, and timothy stood so long that it was hardly worth cuttino-. 

 Grant: Hay-crop was sijlendid, but the rains destroyed a large amount. Clarke: Badly 

 damaged by the rains. Washington : Saved a considerable crop of grass and weeds for 

 hay. Clay: The meadows had long been ripe and the seed falling oft' before they 

 could be cut. Hamilton : On an average, poor stuft'. 



Illinois. — Grundy: Damaged one-half in value by excessive rains. Pike: Most of 

 the hay damaged by wet. Madison : The extraordinary rains caused a second growth 

 of hay, which may be considered as making up for the quality of the first. Pope : A 

 large amount of clover uncut; ruined by the rains. Clark: Damaged by the rainy 

 season. Mason: The prairie-hay will makeup the deficiency in timothy. Menard:: 

 The product large; damaged by the rains, Jersey : Turned out well. Perry : Reduced 

 in quantity and quality by rains. Richland : Many farmers are cutting the wild grasses. 

 for winter forage. Sangamon : Large product, but most of it in poor condition. 



Wisconsin. — Columbia : Good. Walworth : First-rate crop. Brown : The timothy 

 in nearly all the old hay-fields was winter-killed, but fields of the previous year's seed- 

 ing produced abundantly. Saint Croix: Cut short by dry spring and summer. Adams: 

 Timothy and marsh better than for years, and clover unusually good. 



Minnesota. — Renville: Scarce. Steele: Prairie-hay not so good as tame hay, which- 

 is very tine. Pope : Marsh-hay abundant and good. Nicollet : Damaged by rains.. 

 Winona : Badly destroyed in stacks by rains and floods. 



Iowa. — Appanoose: Timothy very good. Decatur: Best time ever known for cutting^ 

 and curing. Marion : Turned out well, but much of it damaged by Avet weather.. 

 Pottaivatamie : Abundance of grass, but so much rain that we cannot get it cured. 



Missouri. — Newton : Large yield, but damaged by rain. Clay : Very little timothy 

 and clover harvested; millet and Hungarian grass substituted, and did will. Cass:. 

 Millet and prairie-grass were never better, but the hay-crop destroyed by grasshoppers.. 

 Chariton : A large crop of hay, and saved in good condition. Nodaway : Timothy about 

 half destroyed by grasshoppers, and injured by wet weather; later hay never better. 

 Caldwell: Badly injured in harvesting by rains. Moniteau : Much of the hay was lost 

 by the wet weather. Butler : Good crop, but damaged by the rains. Franklin : Badly 

 damaged by rains after cutting. Vernon : Timothy and other tame meadows were 

 almost entirely killed last year by drought, chinches, and grasshoppers; but there 

 never before was raised such a crop of millet and Hungarian grass. Lincoln : Damaged 

 by rain. Adair: More than last year 10 per cent., and of average quality. Dallas: 

 Timothy could not be saved until too ripe, owing to heavy rains. Holt : Timothy- 

 meadows destroyed by grasshoppers, but prairie-hay superior, and more millet and 

 Hungarian grass than usual. Laclede: Splendid. Maries: Was extra-good, but late- 

 harvested; the finest Hungarian grass ever raised, saved in good time and condition.. 



