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Morgan : Badly damaged. Perry : Heavy product, but damaged one-sixth by the rains. 

 Iron : All more or lesis damaged by wet harvest. Ozarlc : IJamaged by wet. Adair : 

 May be called a total failure ; the little we saved not lit for flour. Cole: Plenty, but 

 spoiled in the stack. 



Ka^tsas. — Reno : Sown early, on deep-plowed land, has averaged as high as 47 to .55 

 bushels, while shallow plowing, drilled late, has run as low as 8 bushels per acre. 

 Labette: Looks more favorable .as we progress in thrashing. Montgomery: Yield 

 increased from 300,000 bushels last year to 500,000 this year, but the quality not so 

 good. Coivley : Product, liiO,000 bushels, a full average of 20 bushels per acre. One of 

 our farmers raised 6,000 bushels, averaging 25 bushels per acre. 



Nebraska. — Burt: Coming out of stack in jjoor condition. Merrick: Good crop; 

 some damaged by wet weather. Clay : Yield and quality better than last year, but 

 damaged by wet. Otoe : Reduced in quantity and quality by the wet weather. Knox: 

 The Michigan white, introduced this spring, yielded 16 bushels per acre, while the 

 beardless, the variety commonly cultivated, yielded 10 to 12. 



California. — Del Norte: Very fine. Contra Co8ta : The yield was satisfactory and 

 the quality good. Placer : Yielded much better than was anticipated before thrashing. 

 The quality superior. Sonoma: Very plump and full. 



COEN. 



The conditiou of the corn crop, as reported on the 1st of October, is 

 exceptionally high. Its average status in several of the States is above 

 the standard of good condition ; i. e., in extra thrift and productiv^e 

 vigor. This is the case in all the Southern States except Louisiana and 

 Texas ; in all the Middle States except New York ; and in Missouri and 

 Kansas in the West, in the remaining States, with few exceptions, the 

 averages are higher than usual of late years, after the customarj' ravages 

 of insects and withering of drought. Wisconsin appears to have sus- 

 tained most injury from frost. In the Ohio Valley States the extra- 

 ordinary promise of September has been somewhat reduced by fiost in 

 low lands, or in the area i)lanted late and slow in maturing. There will 

 be a large quantity of unmerchantable corn soft and loose on the ear, 

 and a considerable proportion of unsound fodder. The crop will be 

 comparatively large in quantity, but poor in quality, except in the 

 Southern and Pacific States. Some injury from frost, between Sep- 

 tember 20 and 30, resulted as far south as Tennessee in the West, and 

 from Maine to Virginia on the Atlantic Coast. In the South, the prin- 

 cipal losses resulted from storms. The equinoctial in Texas was very 

 destructive in the southern part of the State. Worms caused some 

 damage in Florida, and drought was injurious in portions of the State. 



A return of quantities harvested will not be made till next month, 

 ■when the comparative result will be better understood. The following 

 extracts from correspondence are given: 



Maine. — Piscataquis : Full average, and 30 per cent, better than last year. Andros- 

 coggin: Vex*y good. Sagadahoc: Considerably injured by frost. Waldo: A good 

 growth, but injured by early frost. Pranliin: Injured by the cold weather in Sep- 

 tember. Cumlerland: Injured by frost in some places. York: Ten per cent, injured 

 by the frost ; ears well tilled and the kernel plump. 



New Hampshire. — Carroll: Large yield. Eockingham : Some pieces injured" by 

 firost. 



Vermont. — Grand Isle: Late, and not well ripened. 



New York. — Queens : Cutting up in fine order, with a heavy crop of stalks for fodder. 

 Wayne: Badly damaged by severe early frosts; the poorest crop in twenty years. 

 Richmond: Splendid in yield and quality. Genesee: Injured by frosts. Steuben: 

 Matures slowly auduneve.ily. Waslnngton: Kipening well. Wyoming: Somewhat injured 

 by frost. Onondaga : A light crop ; the frosts too early for late corn. Delaware : 

 Favorable weather for ripening. 



New Jersey. — Camden : Much damaged by frost. Gloucester : Very backward, but 

 now ripening rapidly and almost out of danger. 



Pennsylvania. — Bucks: Bids fair for a fine crop. Clearfield: Very materially 

 reduced in quality, though not in quantity. Bedford : Good growth, but late. Dela- 

 tvare: Seldom better. Armstrong: Late corn damaged by frost, September 24. Indi- 



