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Virginia. — Camphcll: Much injured by the rains. Halifax: Rusted, and the grain 

 small and light. Fiitsijlrania : Increased in qnantity, but inferior in quality. Chester- 

 field: Quality bad, owing to the wet weather. Enaex: A failure, owing to a dry spring. 

 Madison: Poor and light. Wythe: The crop was abundant, but most of it bad in quality 

 from the wet weather. Fauquier : Almost a failure. 



North Carolina. — Hertford : Almost destroyed by drought. Person : Badly dam- 

 aged in the stack by rains. 



Georgia. — Toivns : Better than average. 



Alabama. — Calhoun: Badly injured by drought. 



Mississippi. — Wayne : Suftered a little from rust. 



Texas. — Titus : The acreage and quality exceed those of any former year ; the Red 

 Rust-proof coming into general use and giving universal satisfaction. Uvalde: The 

 White Schoneu very tine; taking the lead of all other kinds. Williamson : Acreage 

 nearly 400 per cent, greater than ever before ; product per acre about the same as last 

 year ; weight 35 to 38 pounds i>ev bushel ; price 45 cents per bushel of 32 jjounds ; kind, 

 Rust-proof. 



Arkansas. — Arkansas : Splendid. Stone : Heavier than for five years. Fulton : The 

 best crop ever raised. Baxter : The greatest yield ever known. I thrashed 65 bushels 

 of Norway oats, the yield of G5 dozen large, i)lump grains. Marion : Never the like 

 produced before. 



Tennessee. — Greene: Badly injured before and after cutting. Blount: Seriously 

 damaged by the rains. Carter: Very badly damaged in the shock. Dickson: Damaged 

 in the shock 15 to 20 per cent. 



West Virginia. — Pocahontas : Good in quantity, but light and chaffy. Fayette : Good 

 yield, and not much injured by the wet weather. Mercer : Early sown not well filled ; 

 late sown, better. Putnam : So small a portion of the crop saved from ruin by wet 

 weather, about the time of harvest, that I cannot report the quantity. Doddridge : 

 Nearly destroyed by the rains. Wetzel : Badly damaged before they could be cut, and 

 in some fields a worm stripped the stalks of grain. 



Kentucky. — Allen: Greatly damaged in the shock. Lincoln: Grain plump and fine, 

 but one-half lost by the rains and the remainder saved in a damaged condition. Ohio : 

 Very promising up to harvesting, but totally lost by excessive rains. Spencer : Destroyed 

 by the rains to the extent of 75 per cent. Bath: The quantity and quality greatly 

 reduced by the rains. Fayette: The crop injured at least 30 per cent, by the rains. 



Ohio.— Medina : Never such a yield before in the history of our county. Preble : The 

 "wet weather and the army-worm caused great destruction. Franklin : A heavy crop 

 badly used up. Williams : A great part of the crop lost. Sandusky : The crop much 

 injured by the army-worm, but better than last year. Washington: A great portiou 

 saved in poor condition. Hancock : Fully one-half of the very large crop destroyed by 

 the army-worm. Delaumre : An enormous growth, but the wet caused them to iodga 

 and rot on the ground. Harrison : Damaged by the wet w^eather and by grasshoppers. 

 Seneca : Injured by the army-worm. Athens : A good crop ruined by a wet harvest. 



Michigan. — Tuscola : Unusually good. Calhoun : Sixty bushels per acre not an 

 unusual yield. Mecosta: One field of ten acres yielded 84 bushels per acre. Ottawa: 

 Very good. Mason: Very poor. Wayne: Never better. Alpena: Clean, and will 

 weigh 35 to 50 pounds per bushel by the field. Oakland : Good crop, and the grain heavy. 



Indiana. — Carroll : Very much injured in yield and quality by the wet weather. 

 Bipley : Very poor, owing to the rains. Franklin : The heavy rains and the army- 

 worm destroyed about the entire crop. Gibson : Nearly all lost by rains. Grant : Few- 

 saved. Hamilton : Not over 30 per cent, of a large crop saved, and that in poor con- 

 dition. 



Illinois.— P/fce : A large yield, but poor in quality. Carroll : Good, both in yield 

 and quality. Pope : Good crop, but damaged by the rains before it could be housed. 

 Clark : The crop was very large, but less than an average quantity saved, and that ia 

 a bleached, damaged state. Cook : A splendid crop. Logan : Nearly all lost ; grain 

 badly bleached. Mason : Good in yield, but not in quality. Montgomery : But little of 

 the crop could bo saved, even by mowing. Lee : Average yield about 45 bushels. 

 White : Rotted in the field. Edwards : Fully half the crop lost. 



Wisconsin. — Juneau : The largest crop for ten years. Wahvorth : Exceeds any 

 recent crop in quantity and quality. 



Minnesota.— C'/ii8«5fo ; Considerably damaged by rains. Monger: The best crop ever 

 raised, and not damaged. 



Iowa. — Marion : Light in weight. Hardin : Remarkably heavy, but injured in the 

 shock and stack. Harrison : The product much greater than last year, but the quality 

 hardly equal. Franklin : Badly sprouted. Jefferson : Damaged by lodging and heavy 

 rains'; thousands of bushels destroyed in the stack. Ida: Badly damaged in the 

 shock and stack. 



MissovKi.— Barton : Far beyond anything I ever saw ; not unusual to thrash out 75 

 bushels per acre. Crawford: Very badly injured in the shock. Morgan; Badly 



