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many places a panic, which stimulated exaggeration, and the natural 

 result is the ultimate conclusion tbat "the loss is not so heavy as was 

 expected." It is bad enough, however, when shipments of wheat from 

 Maryland to Ohio are necessary to make a mixture that will produce a 

 passable flour. The wheat of best quality is to be found in Delaware, 

 Maryland, the South, the Pacific coast, and in Xew England. That of 

 the West averages lower than usual in every State, and among the low- 

 est averages are those of Indiana, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, and 

 Illinois. 



The following brief extracts are appended : 



Maine. — Piscataquis : Eednced 25 per ceut. by weevil and rust. Androscoggin : Very 

 fine. Waldo: Injured by rust and midge. York: Did not meet expectations when 

 thrashed. 



New York. — Genesee : Nearly a failure, and the little we get poor in quality. Onon- 

 daga : The yield better than was expected, and the berry fair. 



PENNSYLVANrA. — Bticks : Yielding worse than anticipated, and the quality not No. 1. 

 Bedford: The hue quality injured by growing in the shock. McKean : Sprouted badly. 

 JEIk : A much larger acreage than usual, very heavy yield, and quality superior ; by all 

 odds the largest crop ever raised. 



Maryland. — Calvert : Much badly sprouted. Howard : The yield, on thrashing, 

 proves far superior to the small expectation. Wicomico : Excellent in quality. 



Virginia. — Rockingham: A much better yield than promised, but iujured in quality 

 by the rains. Carroll : A total failure. Stafford : An immense amount damaged by 

 the rains, but yet the quantity is larger and the ([ualitj' better than last year. Halifax : 

 The quality injured by the wet weather. King George: About one-third of the crop 

 lost by the excessive rains. Prince William : Fultz wheat ahead in yield, but Tappa- 

 hannock in quality. Drilled wheat stood the winter best and gave the best yield. 

 Charles City : Very much injured in quantity and quality by the rains. Chesterfield : 

 Quality good except where injured by the rains. Essex : Much iujured by sprouting in 

 the shock. Highland: Much injured in the shock. Culpeper : Fully one-half damaged, 

 and most of it lost altogether. Madison : Many crops badly damaged in the shock. West- 

 moreland : All not thrashed when the rains commenced, seriously damaged. Wythe : The 

 crop was very fine, but could scarcely be secured, owing to wet weather, and fully one- 

 half is not tit for bread. 



North Carolina. — Greene : Much more damaged than was expected when har- 

 vested. Hertford: The absence of our old enemy, rust, resulted in a better crop of 

 wheat than usual. Person : Damaged in the stack. Yancg : All more or less injured 

 in the shock. 



Alabama. — Randolph : The crop more thau double that of last year, and the quality 

 superior. Calhoun : Much better than last year, and qualify suj)erior. 



Mississippi. — Twenty bushels to one last year. 



Texas. — Coryell : About 100,000 bushels of good quality raised. Price, $1 cash per 

 bushel. Caldwell : Over 20,000 bushels raised ; the largest acreage and yield since the 

 war. Collin : The crop thrashed out remarkably fine. Titus : The acreage was much 

 larger than in any previous year, and the quality exceeds any former crop. 



Arkansas. — Columbia : At least ten times as much as usual raised. Cross : A larger 

 crop than ever before known. Stone : Heaviest yield for many years. Fulton : In- 

 creased acreage and yield. Jackson : The first year any wheat has been shipped to 

 market since the war. Sharp : Considerably damaged in the field by rains. Marion : 

 Never the like produced before. Perry : Tlie very high figures arise from the fact that 

 the amount sown was extraordinary, more than double that of the previous year. 

 Franklin ; The product fully tenfold greater than last year and of a very good 

 quality. 



Tennessee. — Lincoln: Sixty per cent, of the crop more or less injuiel by rains be- 

 fore thrashing. Giles : Acreage and yield much larger than since the war, but dam- 

 aged by rains. Greene: Extensively damaged in the shock. Smith: Injured in the 

 shock. Blount: Damaged in the shock. Carter: Very badly damaged in the shock. 

 McMinn : Not so badly damaged in the shock as was thought before thrashing : grain 

 full and plump. More wheat shipped from this county than in any one year since the 

 ■war. Dickson : Damaged in the shock 15 to 20 per cent. Wilson : Product 50 per cent, 

 greater than last year, l)ut the quality not so good ; damaged by the rains. Putnam : 

 Was a very good cro]), but much sprouted in the shock, liobertson : Damaged 50 per 

 cent, in the shock. The Amber, and particularly the Fultz, less damaged than the 

 "white vai'ieties. 



West Virginia. — Pocahontas : Not more than one-half a crop, badly damaged. Bar- 

 bour : Spoiled by the wet season. Fayette : So much sprouted in the shock that farmers 

 find it difficult to get seed that can be relied on. Mercer : Lighter than expected, and 



