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next crop will be a good cue. Wayne: Not yet done sowing. The late sowing of 

 wheat iu this county is doubtless one cause of so small a yield, (five bushels per acre,) 

 as those who sow early generally reap from ten to twenty bushels per acre. Wilson : 

 One-third more area sown ; looks well. 



West Virginia. — Braxton: Looking well. Marion: Looks very well ; much better 

 than usual at this season. Mercer : Sown late to avoid the grub-worm ; looks rather 

 bad. 



Kentucky. — Taylor : The small quantity sown was owing to the protracted drought 

 this fall ; impossible to break up the ground ; sown a month too late; hence the low 

 condition. Lincoln : Season very favorable for the sowing of small grains. Spencer : 

 The drought pi'evailiug till the middle of October caused much of the wheat to be late 

 in sowing. Jackson: Couditiou equal to or better than tliat of former years. Hardin: 

 Has made but little growth. Shelby : Owing to repeated failures in the years preceding 

 the last two, our farmers had become somewhat discouraged, but the partial success 

 of the last crop has induced them to increase the acreage. I estimate the extent in 

 the county at 10,000 acres. Russell: At least '25 per cent, more sown 'than usual; 

 stand good, and looking vei-y fine. 



Ohio. — Noble: Good crop sown and looks well. Franklin: Unusual breadth sown, 

 and it looks remarkably fair. Very early fields injured somewhat by the Hessian fly. 

 Medina : More than usual put in, and put in well. Vinton : The prospect better than for 

 fifteen years. Montgomery : Fall very favorable for sowing winter-wheat ; looks much 

 better than usual. Williams ; Looks very well. Adams : Never saw wheat look so 

 well at this season. Coshocton: The acres sown will approximate ;27,000. and the pros- 

 pect was never better. Crawford : More than average amount sown ; looking well. 

 Erie : Has not looked so well for years. Geauga : Looks very fine. Delaware : The 

 most favorable season for many years ; increased acreage and looking unusually well. 

 Morrow : Almost universally sown earlier than usual, and to a great extent drilled in ; 

 looks remarkably well. 



Michigan. — Calhoun : Never looked so well, except in the fall of l'-i71, which pre- 

 ceded the best crop we ever raised both iu quantity and quality. Oakland : Looking 

 finely when it was insight; well covered with snow now. Tuscola: Has gone into 

 winter quarters in good condition ; covered with about a foot of snow. Washtenaw : 

 Looks remarkably well, (under the snow.) Wayne: Never looked better. Barry: Got 

 a fair start ; the season favorable ; the ground has been covered with snow two or 

 three weeks and not frozen. Cass: The fall and winter ., very favorable for the young 

 wheat. 



Indiana. — Switzerland : Fifty per cent, more sown than iu 1372. Dubois : Looks very 

 "well. Farmers are drilling more and more every year. Grant: Looks unusually well. 

 Franklin : Has generally a good start, and seems free from the fly. Harrison : A ma- 

 jority of our farmers prepared the land better ; are using more manure and drilling 

 more than formerly. Brown : Dry weather in August and September prevented the 

 usual crop from being sown ; 30 per cent, less than average sown ; looks well. Foiin- ' 

 tain : Prospect for a splendid yield. Marion : Looking well. Stai-k : Early sown ; 

 looks extremely well. 



Illinois. — Clark : The increased acreage sown this fall is aaffely put at 50 per cent. ; 

 many prominent farmers put it at 100 per cent., and such is the fact in some districts, 

 but I think not for the whole county. Ford : Our farmers are turning their attention 

 more to this ci'op than in years past. Wabash: Looking unusually well. Bureau: 

 Looks well. Saint Clair : Was never put in in better order, and more was sown than usual. 

 The early sown is attacked by myriads of chinch-bugs. Tazewell : Looks splendid. 

 Franklin : The fall was favorable for sowing, and very much more has been sown than 

 last year. It has a very fine appearance. Effingham : Growing finelj'. Mason : The 

 area is no greater than last year, but there is a disposition to sow more spring-wheat 

 then there has been for some time. Since the corn was gathered there has been a 

 goodly number of acres plowed for sowing wheat next spring. 



Iowa. — Fremont: Owing to the drought we could only sow fall grain in spots where 

 there were showers. Louisa: Owing to the extreme drought of the fall but little 

 plowing was done, and, consequently, but a limited amount of wheat was sown. The 

 same cause retarded the growth. 



Missouri. — Douglas : Looks better than for many years past, and at least 25 per 

 cent, more sown. Mercer: After a drought of four months, a nice shoWer, about the 

 close of November, brought the wheat out finely. Franklin : Far above average in 

 acreage and condition. Caldwell : Very good. Franklin : The best prospect I ever 

 saw at this season of the year. Maries : The fall the best for years for plowing and 

 seeding to wheat. Laclede : Looks better than for years. Adair : Ten per cent, more 

 sown than in 1872 ; condition above average. Moniteau : Exceedingly promi^jing. 

 Greene : Never looked better ; many fields have too rank a grow th. Holt : In good con- 

 dition. Caldwell: Looking healthy. Texas : Looks better than I have ever seen it at 

 this time of the year; the ground now completely covered. Platte: Greally injured 

 by the grasshoppers and grub-worms ; also by the long-continued drought th ough 

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