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Texas. — Dallas : All harvested ; yields from 30 to 50 bushels \uiT acre. lied River : 

 Abundant crop ; price 50 cents, tlpshur : Small crop, damaged by smut; much of it 

 not fit for brea<l. The county will need 5,000 bushels imported. CoUin : Harvested 

 better than expected. Harrison : A shade better than last year. Basque: Great com- 

 plaint of smut. Titus : Far short of the crop of 1874. 



Arkansas. — Arlansas : The best yield for many years, and mostly gathered in good 

 order. Boone : The best crop I ever saw. Prairie : The most bountiful crop we ever 

 had. Fulton : So much superior to last year's crop that I was tempted to iiut it at 500. 

 The heavy croi) yet generally ungathered. General sickness for the past two months 

 has caused farming operations to be almost entirely suspended. Marion : Made; almost 

 universally an astonishing yield. Bradley : Harvested, and enough for home-consump- 

 tion. Woodruff: Better than last year, 25 per cent. Franklin: Good in yield and 

 quality. 



Tennessee. — Monroe : Best crop for many years. Bradley : More abundant than 

 ever before. Lincoln : Will be more than double last year's crop. Gibson : Unprece- 

 dented in area, yield, and quality. Greene : Late, and much not fully matured. Lou- 

 don : Turning out very well. Polk : Not as good as supposed before gathering. 

 Putnam : Abundant crop. Cheatham : The crop twice as large as last year, and the 

 quality much better. Rutherford ; Increased acreage and vastly increased product, 

 and of excellent quality. 1)'ilson : The largest crop for years. Robertson: Very fine 

 in product and quality. Sulliran : Where properly manured and carefully cultivated, 

 the crop is very heavy. Tipton: The crop unprecedented. Bledsoe: A good crop; the 

 ears sound and well filled. Giles : By far the best crop since 1861. 



West Virginia. — Raleif/h : Turned out very well, but the quality not so good. Pul- 

 nam : Better than expected. Ritchie : Unusually late, and more soft corn than aver- 

 age. Summers: Not well matured ; considerable soft corn. Braxton: Very good both 

 in yield and quality. Brooke : So large a portion was immature when the frost killed 

 the stock that the quality is much inferior. Upshur : Made a wonderful improvement 

 in the last month ; cured out beyond expectation. Jefferson : Ripened well. Mercer : 

 Frost i)revented the late-planted from maturing. Boone : Has dried out well ; late 

 corn quite chafty. Mason : Late in maturing and injui'ed to some extent by frost. 



Kentucky. — Lewis : Never before so good or the product so great. Cumberland : 

 Not a large yield per acre, but of superior quality. Ohio: Very well matured. Callo- 

 way: Very fine. Owsley: Not more than half a crop. Graves: Never better. Hardin: 

 Not turning out as well as expected. Boyle : Not well matured. 



Ohio. — Hocking : Very fine yield, but some injured by early frost. Pickaway : Loose 

 on the cob and inclined to bo chaffy. Preble : Acreage greater than ever before, but 

 poor yield and quality; injured by frosts. Ross: Chally ; affected by early frosts. 

 Logan : The product and quality considerably reduced by early frosts. Warren : Be- 

 ing gathered in fine order. Coshocton : Unusually good, but the frost came a little too 

 early. Sandusky : A great deal of soft corn. T^an Wert: Owing to early frost one- 

 half soft and the other half rather poor. Geauga : Rather light. Butler : Poorer in 

 yield and quality than expected. Clarke : Heavy, and being secured in good order. 

 lAcking : A great deal of sott corn in the level portions. Medina : Greatly exceeds the 

 yield of last year, but poor in quality. Mercer: Very poor; not well matured. Monroe: 

 At least 10 per cent, will be soft and unfit for market. NobJe : Injured by frost. Perry : 

 Large crop, but considerable soft, owing to frost. Carroll : Damaged by frosts. Craw- 

 ford : Injured by frosts. Delaware : Increased acreage and greatly increased yield. 

 Holmes: Large crop, but a considerable quantity overtaken by frost and not sound. 

 Athens : Destroyed by floods on low-lands ; a large crop on uplands, but much frosted. 

 Harrison: Large yield, but not well matured. Trumbull: Much injured by frost; a 

 great deal of soft. 



Michigan. — Kalamazoo : Considerable soft corn unfit for market, owing to early and 

 severe frosts. Wexford: Almost entirely ruined by frost. One per cent, of a crop looks 

 small, but it is fully as much as there is of sound corn. Allegan : Did not ripen, owing 

 to earlv frosts. Grand Traverse: Injured by frost, back from the water. Lapeer: A 

 good yield, but some soft corn owing to frost. Ottawa: The ripening stopped by 

 frost while much was green. Emmet: Scarcely any matured. Tuscola: Serious injury 

 by frost. Van Bur en : Large amount of soft. Washtenaio : Much soft. Lenawee: Un- 

 usual growth and the best eared ever known, but injured by frost. Barry : A heavy 

 crop but a great deal of soft, and nothing to feed it to. Hillsdale : Twenty per cent, 

 soft, and not hogs enough to eat it. Jackson : Much larger amount of soft corn than 

 usual ; much the largest crop we ever had, but a small proportion sound. Lake : Badly 

 damaged by frost. Livingston: Badly injured by frost. Mason: Almost an entire 

 failure from frost. Mecasta: Cut off by early frost. Muskegon: Injured by frost. Shi- 

 awassee: Somewhat injured by early frosts. Antrim: Late planted not well rij)ened. 

 Charlevoix: Injured by fi'osts. Lcelenaw : Did not ripen well. Nawaygo : Not more 

 than 25 per cent, available for any purpose except immediate feeding. Montcalm : 

 Nearly one-third soft, owing to frost. Oakland : A great deal soft, owing to frost. 

 Kent: A heavy crop ; badly injured by frost ; 25 per cent. soft. 



