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and needing rain. Pike[: Not promising. Tioga : Shortened by drought. Crawford : Best 

 crop for years. 



Delaware.— Sussex : Retarded by drought following excessive rain. ■ 



Maryland. — Caroline : Early yellow oats from the Department are very fine, supersed- 

 ing all others. Baltimore: Crop will be short if rain does not come soon. Washington : 

 Will be shortened by drought. Harford : Suffering from drought. Queen Anne : Doing 

 ■well ; heads full of grain. 



Virginia. — Spottsylmmia : Very short ; no rain for two weeks while heading. Fauquier : 

 Heading low, and will be short. Nelson : Light crop. Orange : Crop short, except winter- 

 oats sown in autumn. Augusta: Improved by late rains. James City: Winter-sowings 

 are magnificent. February and March sowings very good ; later, chaffy, and scarce fit to 

 cut. Elizabeth City : Injured by drought and extreme heat. Since June 6 not enough rain 

 has fallen to moisten the rain-gauge. Mecklenburgh : Promising till the rust set in about ten 

 days ago. Prince George : Spring-oats seriously affected by drought. Buckingham : 

 Threatened by chinch-bugs. Albemarle : Chinches. Chesterfield : Winter-seeding good ; 

 spring-seeding damaged by drought. Campbell: Indifferent. Highland: Injured by 

 drought. King and Queen : Favorable. Smyth : Affected by drought. Halifax : Short- 

 ened by drought. Buchanan : Unfavorable season. Bath : Light and short. 



Nor'th Carolina. — Ashe : Very short through drouglit. Caldwell : Shortened by 

 drought ; very poor. Cleveland : Fall-sown oats a good average ; spring-soivings cut short 

 by drought. Roioan : Winter-oats good ; spring crops almost a failure on the uplands. 

 Transylvania : Almost a failure through rust. Caswell : Damaged by drought and rust. 

 Randolph : Spring-oats scarcely worth harvesting ; destroyed by rust ; fall-oats (early 

 sown) are excellent. Haywood : Injured by drought. Wilson : Poorest crop for years. 



South Carolina. — Clarendon: Fall-sowings generally good ; spring-sowings generally 

 destroyed by rust. Potato-oats ten days later than the common varieties ; Somerset will 

 probably do well, if fall-sown. Richland : Spring-oats greatly improved by late rains. 



Georgia. — Columbia: Almost a failure from rust. Upson: Some rust. Pickens: Rust. 

 Gordon : Fall-sowings good ; spring-sowings trifling. Harris : Benefited by June rains. 

 Troup : Fall-oats good. Gwinnett : Fair ; rust on bottom-lands. Montgomery : Average 

 in spite of Vust ; better than for many years. Forsyth : Badly rusted. Baldicin : Acreage 

 nearly or quite doubled. Baker: Rust-proof here, never fails ; crop fine. Cobb : Shortened 

 a third by cold spring. Upson : Suffering from dry rust. Carroll : Rusted. 



Florida. — Jackson : Acreage constantly increasing ; rusted in some localities, but a 

 good crop on the whole. 



Alabama. — De Kalb : Damaged by rust. Conecuh : Shortened by rust. Clarke : The 

 anti-rust variety is the only one that has done anything. Bullock : Very fine. Calhoun : 

 Damaged by rust and storms ; Somerset oats from the Department rusted and fell down 

 before ripening. 



MlSSiss\FPi.— Kemper : Fair. Atlanta : Red oats our only safe crop. Grenada : Potato- 

 oats from the Department did well. Wilkinson : Damaged by rain and wind. Newton : 

 Shortened by drought. Jasper : Spring-oats injured by the May drought. RanJdn : Even 

 the anti-rust oats have rusted; fall-sowing, full crop ; spring-sowings, half a (jrop ; White 

 Schonen and Somerset from the Department destroyed by rust. 



Louisiana. — Caddo : Ruined by drought. 



Texas. — Austin : Rust. Bosque : Fine ; yield from forty to eighty bushels per acre. Red 

 River : Suffered from rains and drought. Victoria : Winter. oats more extensively sown ; 

 average yield, fifty bushels per acre. Caldwell : Oats from the Department rusted. Grimes : 

 Shortened by drought. Lamar : Excessive rains have made a poor crop on flat lands. 

 Shelby : Only red rust-proof escaped rust. 



Arkansas — Independence: Suffering from drought. ■ Sebastian: Shortened by drought 

 of May and June. Fulton : Nearly ruined by drought. Marion : Almost a failure ; early 

 season wet, later very dry. Arkansas : Shortened by drought in places. 



Tennessee.— Grwwrfi/ ; Rust cut the crop down one-third. Carter : Shortened by drought. 

 Hickman: Almost ruined by drought and rust. Bedford: Injurious drought. Blount: 

 Damaged by drought and rust. Greene : Shortened by drought, Grainger : Short. Mon- 

 roe : Cut off by drought and storms. Polk: Materially injured by rust; some fields fell 

 before ripening. Roane : Shortened one-half by drought. Lawrence : Very indifferent, owing 

 to drought and rust. Bradley : Spring-oats extremely short. Macon : About knee-high. 

 Montgomery: Too low to be cut. Hancock: Some rust. Giles: Almost a failure. 



West Virginia.— H«msow : Cannot make over a half crop. Preston: Both early a'hd 

 late sown, poor. Jackson : Shortened by drought of thirty-five days. Brooke : Almost a 

 total failure through drought.. Monroe : A failure, except on good rich soil. Nicholas : 

 Haifa crop; drought. Ritchie: Shi'tened by drought. Cabell: A total failure ; drought. 

 Morgan : Shortened by drought. Barbour : More or lees injured by drought. Grant : Al- 

 most ruined by drought. Mercer: Short-strawed, but heading out well ; injured by drought. 

 Fendli.ton : Injured by drought. Monongalia : One-fourth short. Fayette : A large acreage 

 will not be harvested. 



Kentucky. — Jejersow : Shortened by drought. Shelby: From 10 to 18 inches high; 

 almost a failure. Trimble : Damaged by drought. Boyle ; Will be but a fractional crop. 



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