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Putnam : Over average. Ripley : Growing finely and clean. Shelby : Chinches com- 

 mencing' to eat the crop. Washington : Improved by late rains, but threatened with the 

 chmch-bug. Gibson : Uneven, small for the season. Harrison : Late and small ; suffer- 

 ing for rain. Brown : Generally good ; dry weather improved in clearing the crop ; greatly 

 improved by late rains. Cass : Clean and growing fast. Clay : Clean and of good color ; 

 some damage from chinch-bugs. Crawford : Threatened by chinches. Floyd : Promises 

 well, but needs rain very much. Hamilton : A remarkably good stand, and looks well, 

 though in some places injured by too much rain. Jasper : Looks well, but needs rain. 

 Marion: Improved by late rains. Noble: Prospect never better. PiJce : Late corn threat- 

 ened by chinch-bugs. Steuben : Never looked better. Wabash : Never looked better ; 

 seasonable rains. Tippecanoe: Rarely had such a prospect ; crops forward and well tended. 

 Warren : Promises a large yield. Whiteley : Has done finely. 



Illinois. — Iroquois: Promising; growthnot large, but even and well cultivated. Wood- 

 ford : Large crop promised. Grundy : Withering from drought. Jersey : Planted late, 

 but growing fast and doing well. Kankakee : Prospects exceedingly fine. Macon : Gen- 

 erally good ; chinches commencing operations in places. Madison : Late, and suffering 

 from chinches. Pope : Threatered with chinches. Mason : Drought, and chinches injurious. 

 • Saint Clair : Very precarious ; poor stand and greatly injured by drought and chinches. 

 Cass : Chinches commencing their work. Clinton : One-third of the acreage destroyed by 

 chinches, and the rest threatened. Effingham: Injured by chinches. Jackson: Badly 

 damaged by drought and chinches. Macoupin : Chinches have commenced at the crop. 

 Moultrie: Better than for years in spite of chinches. Richland: In many places injured 

 by chinches. Morgan : Prospe9ts declined within two weeks. Sangamon : Planting 

 stimulated by high prices. Vermillion : Never better. Washington : Late planted, and 

 would be average but for the chinch-bugs ; many fields destroyed. Wayne ; Badly dam- 

 aged by drought and chinches. Piatt : Chinches working hard on corn. Perry : Attacked 

 by chinches ; will be a failure if rain does not come soon. Schuyler: Threatened by the 

 second brood of chinches. 



Wisconsin. — Dodge : Average on old land ; sod-corn injured by cut-worms and other in- 

 sects. Douglass: Somewhat drowned out. Green Lake : Somewhat injured by cut-worms. 

 Juneau: Backward; but a good, even stand. Calumet: Late, but prosperous. Green: 

 Good. 



Minnesota. — Steele: Never so promising as now. Houston: Eather low, but advanc- 

 ing with the hot weather. Olmstead: Cold, wet weather of May and June injurious. 

 Sherburne : Backward and weedy. Jackson : Planted late to escape grasshoppers. Stearns : 

 Eetarded by the cool, wet weather of early June; late rains and warmth bringing it along 

 finely. Sibley : Late, but heavy. Isanti : Much corn injured by rain. 



Iowa. — Cass: Especially promising. Linn: Looks splendidly ; crop clean. Mahaska: 

 Looks remarkably well ; best stand for years. Washington : Will suffer from drought. 

 Clinton : Unusually good stand ; a little late, but growing rapidly. Lee : Never looked bet- 

 ter. Mitchell : Growing fast. De Moines : Injured by worms ; some pieces had to be re- 

 planted three times. Harrison : Much corn planted in place of spring-wheat. Henry : 

 Corn well worked and clean, but needs rain. Hoicard : Early plantings kept clean are 

 extra; late are about average. loica : Well tended and promising. Taylor: Fine weather 

 since June 10 has greatly improved the crop. Tama : Good stand ; unusually free from 

 weeds. 



Missouri. — Caldwell : Looks remarkably well, but is injured by chinches. Cass : Very 

 seriously injured by chinches. Vernon : Chinches destructive. Saint Clair : Chinches. 

 Greene: Beginning to feel the drought. Moniteau: Chinches injurious. Barton: Threat- 

 ened by chinches. Daviess : Fine ; not so rank as last year, but much better cultivated. 

 Taney: Well cultivated; Pennsylvania Yellow especially promising. Bates: Chinches. 

 Benton : Badly injured by chinches, especially on prairie soils. Carroll : Crop looked 

 splendid until the chinches came. Caj)e Girardeau : Affected by drought and chinches. 

 Christian : Chinches. Clinton : Chinches. De Kalb : Chinches. Harrison : Looks fine. 

 Montgomery : Chinches very bad. Miller: Chinches numerous in some fields. Perry: 

 Drought prevented planting on the best corn-lands, the black Mississippi bottoms. Potter : 

 One-fourth destroyed by chinches. Folk : Fields adjacent to wheat, mostly destroyed by 

 chinches. Ralls : Suffering from drought. Newton : Unusually clean ; injured in places 

 by chinches. Dallas: Chinches sweeping whole fields. Cote: Late but promising. La- 

 clede : Backward ; infested with chinches. Pike : Looking fine. Crawford : Very back- 

 ward and poor ; ruined by chinches. Ciaj/ ; Drought and chinches. //ojrar</ : Just shoot- 

 ing, and already injured by drought. Jasper : Corn-fields adjoining wheat and oats are eaten 

 by chinches ; others are doing well. 



Kansas. — Leavenworth : Early planted is doing well where closely tended ; late plantings 

 have either failed to come up or are feebly struggling against heat and drought. Woodion : 

 Fearfully ravaged by chinches near M'heat-tiekls. Douglass : Chinches have taken 10 per 

 cent, of the crop. Wyandotte: Never looked so well, but needs rain. Allen: Damaged by 

 chinches, .^^nrfersow ; Injured by chinches. Bourbon: Chinches sweeping crops on thin, light, 

 high prairie soil. Chase : Badly damaged by chinches ; not over a half crop. Cherokee : In- 

 jured by chinches in fields adjoining wheat-fields. Ellsworth: Must have rain soon. Doni- 



