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sas : First rate all through the county. Columhia : Being housed; the quality better 

 than usual, and the quantify 50 per cent, greater than last j'ear. iStoiie: Heavy crop. 

 Frairie : Shortened by the early drought, but we will have enongh and to spare. 

 Fulton: One of the best crops ever raised. Jaclson : The best crop we ever had. 

 Izard : The best crop ever made. Marion : Have raised more than for the last three 

 years put together. In Marion, Boone, Carroll, and Baxter Counties thousands of 

 bushels offering for sale at 25 cents, and no sale. Sevier: Finely matured, and fine 

 weather for gathering. 



Tknnessee. — Grundy : Some injury from frost. Laurence: The best crop since the 

 war. Greene: Injured by drought. Smiih: The amount above average and the quality 

 most excellent. Blount: Good. Bradley: Exceedingly abundant. JilcMinn: Well filled 

 and heavy. Fayette : Beyond peradveuture a large crop ; selling at 40 to 50 cents ; the 

 general price at this season, for five years i»ast, 90 cents to $1. Henry : Matured and 

 the heaviest yield ever produced in the county. Putnam : An abundant crop of fair 

 quality. De^aZft: A huge crop. Macon: Has come out greatly. liohei-tson: The early 

 planted and well tended fine, but the late planted, a large portion of the crop, not so 

 good. Lauderdale : On bottoms only about one-fifth of the crop saved from destruction 

 by overflow. 



West Virginia. — Grant: Late and much of it yet green. Marion: Late; first plant- 

 in^ destroyed by cut-worms. Fayette : Reduced by the wet weather and want of cul- 

 ture. Mercer: Not quite average with last year; some damaged by frost. Putnam: 

 Early planted, very fine; late, indifferent. HancocJc : Above average in quantity, bat 

 injured by frost. Ritchie : Much later than usual in ripening, and somewhat injured by 

 frost. Braxton: Very promising. Brooke: Promised to be tlae largest ever grown here, 

 prior to September 19th, but from the 19th to the 25tli sharp frosts killed the blades 

 and stopped the maturing, a large part being still in the milk. Jefferson : Eeduced in 

 yield 3 or 4 per cent, by chinches. Wetzel: Some damage from frost. 



Kentucky. — Lincoln : Very promising and advanced beyond injury by frost. TVar- 

 ren : Decidedly the finest crop ever produced. Jefferson : The season very favorable. 

 Carroll: While the condition is 100 the i^roduct will not be above 90, owing to loss by 

 overflow. Owsley : Will not be half a crop owing to want of working, weeds, and high 

 waters, occasioned by the rains. Graves : Unprecedentedly fine ; excellent in quality 

 and 25 per cent, above average in quantity. 



Ohio. — Pickaway : A heavy crop, except on low, flat ground, where it is a failure. 

 Miami : The largest crop ever produced in the county. Preble : The acreage 20 per 

 cent, greater than last year, but the condition not above 80, owing to the wet weather 

 and severe frosts. Fulton : Has matured very finely. Franklin : A heavy crop on high 

 lands; ruined by rain along the streams. Montgomery: The only remunerative crop. 

 Williams : A great deal of soft corn caught by frosts. Guernsey : Late corn considerably 

 injured by two severe frosts. Lucas: Some injured by frost on the 21st. Noble: Late 

 corn injured by frost. Sandusky : Above average in quantity and in good condition. 

 Adams : An abundant crop. Hancock : About one-half the crop in good condition, the 

 remailider frost-bitten before ripe. Morgan: Heavy frosts on the 23d and 24th killed 

 all that had not been cut. Perry : Late corn injured very much by frosts on the 23d 

 and 24th. Delatvare : Yield enormous, never greater, and quality good. Harrison : 

 Very heavy. Mahoning : Mostly killed by frost two weeks ago ; will be much unsound 

 corn. Seneca: On clay-soils injured very much by frosts. Athens: On low lands de- 

 stroyed by floods, yet about an average ; some late frosted. 



Michigan.— Eaia7nazoo : Injured by a heavy fi-ost September IS. Grand Traverse: 

 Back from the bay, injured by frosts. Lapeer: Very heavy. Wexford: All killed, 

 only in the milk, September 23, by frost. Tuscola : Badly damaged by frost. Calhoun : 

 Backward, and nipped by the frost. Gratiot: Cut short by frost. Hillsdale: Ten 

 days late, and the fodder injured by frosts very much. Manistee : Seriously damaged 

 by frosts in September. Monroe: The best crop ever raised. Oceana: Great damage 

 from a heavy frost. Barry : Hurt by frost September 20. Delta : Damaged very 

 badly by early frosts. Saginaw : Cannot tell the eft'ects of frost on its ripening in the 

 shock. Shiawassee: Damaged by drought and by frost. Benzie: Injured by frosts. 

 Newaygo : The fodder nearly ruined by frosts, and not more than 25 or 30 per cent, of 

 the corn will be merchantable. Ottawa : Safiered from frosts. Charlevoix : In some 

 parts injured by a sharp fi'ost the first week in September. Livingston : Heavy, but 

 damaged by early frost. Mason : All killed by frost. Saint Joseph : Reduced 15 to 25 

 ner cent, by early frost. Wayne : Never better, but somewhat injured by frost. Oak- 

 land : A larger acreage than ever before, and would have been very heavy had it not 

 been retarded by cold in September. 



Indiana.— Tt/}to^^ : Badly bitten by frosts ; prospect that there will be no solid corn 

 in the county. Carroll : Frost-bitten ; much will be of very inferior quality. How- 

 ard: Late corn, being 25 per cent, of the crop, severely injured by heavy frosts Sep- 

 tember 20 and 21. Ilipley : Good, and now out of the way of frost. Madison : Average 

 on high lands; very poor on low. Noble: Good, and generally matured. Franklin: 

 A heavy growth ; kept green until the frosts, from the 20th to the 30th ; not thought 



