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West Virginia. — Putnam: Above average on our best lands; below average on poor 

 soils, owing to severe drought in May. Harrison : Finest crop for eighteen or twenty 

 years, Brooke : Better than for many years. Monroe ; Heavy yield and excellent quality. 

 Nicholas : Good. Cahell : Better than for many years. Hardy : Superior iu quality and 

 quantity. Barbour: Good. Grant: Considerably reduced by drought. Jefferson: In- 

 jured in some places by chinch-bugs and rust ; tilled finely, but straw not heavy. Mercer: 

 generally good, though injured in 'some places by the midge and grub-worm. Monongalia : 

 Largest and best crop in twenty years ; equal to the last two crops. 



Kentucky.— i?ow«n .- Wheat the only successful crop. Shelby : Above average in spite 

 of drought. FranMin : As good as any previous crop. Adair : Better than usual. Mont- 

 gomery: Never better. Laurel: Good. Bracken: Some smut and midge, but yield is 

 good and quality better than for many years. Anderson : Good; somewhat injured by the 

 midge. Christian : Best for years, both in quantity and quality. Lincoln : Good. Leicis : 

 Largest harvest ever known. Warren : Best crop ever raised iu the county. Graves : 

 Reduced 10 per cent, by wet spring and dry June. Logan : Large yield of fine, plump 

 grain. Mason: Excellent in quality, but the yield short of expectation. Mercer: Approxi- 

 mates the great crop of 165.5. Touzelle, from the Department, heads well, but the straw is- 

 rather delicate; Tappahannock ruuch better. Scott: Unusually good; the only crop ap- 

 proaching average. Owsley: The only successful crop. Nelson: Excellent, having 

 matured before the drought. Melcalf : Good. Gallatin : Ahove Average. ' 



Ohio. — Trumbull : Abundant. Coshocton: Largest and best crop for years; Fultz 

 superior to other varieties. Delaware : May and June very favorable ; crop recovered from 

 winter-freezing, and is fine in yield, stand, and plumpness of berry. Licking: Harvest 

 early and abundant ; better crop than for many years. Montgomery : Good. Erie r 

 Quality fine. Hancock: Unusually fine; some fields will average 30 bushels per acre. 

 Marion : Spring-wheat about abandoned. Scioto : Better than for years. Athens : Average- 

 in spite of drought. 



Michigan. — Saginaw : Injured by spring frosts. Kalamazoo : Ripening finely. Hillsdale .' 

 Tappahannock 10 inches above the Touzelle, both sown at the same time ; the Deal and 

 Treadwell our most usual varieties. Twsco^a : What survived winter-killing is doing very 

 well. Calhoun : The dry, windy, hot weather may injure the crop, Montcalm : Never 

 better. Cass : Just ripening ; if well secured, the yield will be larger than ever. 



Indiana.— Gr«wf: Very seriously damaged by chinch-bugs. — £/A74«r« ; badly winter- 

 killed on clay soils; filled unusually well on sandy soils. Madison : Moderate. Hoxoard : 

 Nearly half-destroyed in March, but the remaining half is 10 per cent, better than last year. 

 Decatur: Injured by storms in harvest. Kosciusko: The crop, on other than clay soils, 

 never filled better ; a week or ten days early ; tine season. Perry : Injured by chinch-bugs. 

 Putnam: Chinch-bugs cut the crop down below average. Ripley: Yield good and grain 

 tine ; harvest hastened by drought. Shelby : Ch>nch-bugs very injurious to late-sown win- 

 ter-wheat. Washington: Best crops since 1869 ; chinch-bugs injured it a little. Gibson: 

 Berry good ; will average 20 bushels per acre. Harrison : Wmter-wheat above average. 

 Brown: Early-sown good ; late sown damaged by chinch-bug. Cass: Some fields [thin, 

 but with large heads. Crawford: Somewhat injured by chinch-bugs, but will probably be 

 average. De Kalb : Winter-wheat a failure on clay and flat grounds ; very good on saTidy 

 soils. Floyd : Best crop in twenty years. Hamilton : Damaged by rain and wind ; much 

 will be lost in cutting. Morgan : Some fields taken by chinch-bug ; some had been plowed 

 for corn ; yield reduced. Notle : One-fifth of the wheat on clay ground was badly winter- 

 killed ; the rest as good as ever. Pike : Never better ; some farmers average 25 bushels per 

 acre. Steuben : Greatly improved since early spring. Switzerland : Surpasses any previ- 

 ous crop. /ra?/we ; The grains unusually goud. fran/fZim ; Unusually good. Tippecanoe: 

 Unusually fine fields on drained lands. Warren: Somewhat damaged by chinch-bugs in 

 places. Whiteley : Badly frozen out, but what .survived did well. Paoti : Injured by chinches 

 in some cases slightly, and in others very severely. 



Illinois. — Pike : Looks well ; straw heavy ; some rust ; and a great many chinch-bugs. 

 Logan: Spring-wheat injured some by rust and chinches. McLean: Grain of all sorts 

 looks well ; less injured by insects than was supposed ; weather warm and showery. Cum- 

 berland : Somewhat injured by chinches. Jersey: A tornado, June 28, scattered the shocks 

 and sheaves ; the crop will be well saved. Macon : Winter-wheat heads well filled ; some 

 pieces infested with bugs. Madison : Generally good; some, fields infested with chinches. 

 Saint Clair : Harvested in fine order. Carroll : Too dry to fill well. Cass : Spring-wheat eaten 

 by chinches. Clinton : Much injured by chinches. Winnebago : Prospects dampened with- 

 in a few days. Montgomery : Mostly good and fine, but somewhat injured by chinch-bugs. 

 Moultrie : Not over a fifth will be cut ; the rest ruined by chinches. Sangamon : Dry, hot 

 weather favorable to winter-wheat, but not to spring crops. Vermillion: Injured by 

 chinches to some extent, but the yield will be full average. Washin^ton : Largest crop ever 

 ches in the south part of the county ; winter-wheat generally good, being fine and 

 raised here ; wheat superseding other crops. Piatt : Spring-wheat destroyed by chin- 

 plump. Perry : Good, although chinches were very troublesome. Schuyler : Winter-wheat 

 harvested in tine order ; quality extra ; spring-wheat mostly destroyed by chinches. White : 

 But for chinches the wheat-crop would have exceeded any prior one. Mercer : Rapidly dry=» 

 ing up. 



