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Alabama. — Montgomei-u : Our bay, that promised nothing^ the Ist of Au^just, ia now 

 turning out heavy and of excellent quality. Lauderdale : Never so great before ; prin- 

 cipally Hungarian and German millet. Colbert : A large quantity saved. 

 ■ Mississippi.— Jf^erson ; Splendid. 



Texas. — Red River : Abundant and fine crop. Collin : Second crop extra. 



Arkansas. — Arkansas : A good crop ; somewhat damaged by rains. Fulton : A good 

 crop, but injured by rains. 



Tennessee. — Ch-undy : Great quantities of wild hay have been saved. Greene : Much 

 destroyed by floods and rains. Putnam: Extra crop; more saved than ever before. 

 Cheatham : Better in quantity and quality than last year. Rutherford : Large crop of 

 superior quality. Wilson : German and Missouri millet and Hungarian grass were sown 

 in large quantities, and a very heavy yield of hay has been secured. Robertson : Good 

 crop. The acreage of German millet and other annual grasses was largely increased. 



West Virginia. — Putnam : Spoiled by rains ; no good hay. Ritchie : Damaged, at 

 least 25 per cent., by floods. ^SMWimf^rs .- Greater yield than last year, but injured by 

 rains. Braxton : Large product, but damaged by the rains. Monongalia : The smallest 

 crop in twenty years. Monroe : Better than last year 25 per cent., though not quite 

 average. 



Kentucky. — Nicholas : Very light, and put up in a damaged condition. Meade : 

 Product large, but very much injured by the rains. 



Ohio. — P'iekawai/ : The crop equal to last year's, but that was short ; the quality the 

 worst for years. Morgan: Much injured by wet. Van Wert: Badly damaged by wet.. 

 Clark : Large crop, but much damaged by rains. Monroe : Much damaged by the 

 rains. Noble: Injured by floods. Athens: Greatly injured by the rains. 



Michigan. — Delta: A light crop. Montcalm: Very poor. 



LsTDiANA. — Vanderburgh : Cut late and injured by rains both before and after cutting. 

 Decatur: Was good, but damaged, and much of it lost by the rains. Hamilton: The 

 quality very inferior. Warrick : Fine yield, but large per cent, damaged. 



Illinois.— Pi«W; Prairie-grass was better than usual and a large amount was saved 

 in excellent condition. There was also considerable Hungarian raised and well saved. 

 Clinton: Never more nor better. Seed that was sown with wheat last fall, has pro- 

 duced, since the wheat was cut, from one to two tons per acre. Macoupin : A larger 

 crop than usual, but saved in an inferior condition. Saint Clair : A very fine crop very 

 poorly saved. Effingham : A much larger crop than usual, but of very poor quality. 

 Morgan : Damaged by rains. 



Wisconsin'. — Dodge: Good. Walworth: In unusual abundance, and of the best 

 quality. 



Minnesota. — The best in quantity and quality, both tame and wild. Winona : Seri- 

 ously injured in the stack by excessive rains. Poj)e : Damaged by rains. Steele : Much 

 injured in yield and quality by rains. 



Iowa. — Story : Damaged by overflows. Hardin ; A heavy crop, much damaged in 

 stack. Harrison : The iioods destroyed great quantities on the bottoms. Some farmers 

 lost 200 or 300 tons in the stack. Madison : Damaged by rains. Emmett : All wild, but 

 never more abundant or better. 



Missouri. — Nodoway ; Prairie-hay never better. Benton: Magnificent. Christian: 

 Much damaged by rains. Vernon : Prairie-hay seeded this year and the crop enormous. 

 Johnson : No timothy or clover, but those who had prairie-meadows or sowed Hun- 

 garian grass or millet, reaped a bountiful harvest. Perry : Abundant in yield but poor in 

 quality, owing to rains. Morgan : Badly damaged bj^ rains. Newton : Heavy crop, but 

 injured by rains. De Kalb : Cheaper than at any time for five years. Howard: Hun- 

 garian grass and millet are abundant, but timothy was destroyed by the worms. Cape 

 \rirardeau : Eeduced by ravages of the army-worm. Butler : A good crop but damaged 

 by rains. 



Kansas. — Cherokee: Very fine. Cowley: Large and fine. Osage: Exceeds any crop 

 before raised. Atchison : Fifty per cent, more put up than usual. Leavenworth : In 

 excess of any previous year, and of very good quality. 



Nebraska. — Cass : Very much damaged by the rains. Clay : More than last year 

 25 per cent., and of better quality. 



California. — Placer : A full crop, of splendid quality. 



BUCKWHEAT. 



Eeturus indicate that the entire product equals that of last year. 

 Early frosts reduced the crop largely iu Illiuois, Wisconsin, and Minne- 

 sota, and slightly in the section east of Lake Erie. Except in Wiscon- 

 sin, 45, the crop does not fall more than 1 per cent, below that of last 

 year in any State in which it is extensively grown. Maine returns 116; 

 Vermont and New York, 99 ; ■ New Jersey, 100; Pennsylvania, 112; 



