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wheat. Xeosho : Enined by drought, chinches, and p^rassboppera. Woodson: Destroyed 

 by drought on high prairies, fair average in tiie valleys. Pennsylvania Feld-corn from 

 the Department a success ; matures early. Osage : All destroyed by drought, chinch- 

 bngs, and grasshoppers. Itepnblic : The long drought proved nearly fatal, and the 

 grasshoppers completed the destruction of the crop. Graham : The grasshopper army 

 arrived about the 14th of July, and have destroyed all the corn. Crawford : So injured 

 by drought and chinches that it will not average more than 10 bushels per acre, and 

 that of jioor qualitj\ Ellsworth: Total failure; grasshoppers took it. Greenwood: In- 

 jured more by drought than by grasshoppers. Pawnee: Eaten up by grasshoppers. 

 Chase : Amounts to scarcely anything ; drought, chinches, and grasshoppers. 



Neijhaska. — Boone : Cleaned out by grasshoppers ; not a bushel left. Dixon : Al- 

 most totally destroyed by grasshoppers. Pawnee : lieduced to nothiug by drought, 

 hot winds, and grasshoppers. Merrick : Destroyed by grasshoppers. Lincoln : De- 

 stroyed by grasshoppers. JJnrt : Almost a failure in the west part of the county, owing 

 to drought and grasshoppers. Totally destroyed by grasshoppers except a few i)ieces. 

 Gage : Destroyed by grasshoppers. Oloe: Cut very short by drought. 



Califohnia. — Sacramento : Cultivated only in ihe bottoms; season favorable, and 

 yield good. 



WHEAT. 



The average condition of the wheat- crop of the United States, as 

 shown by our September returns, is 93, or 2 per cent, less than the 

 average of September, 1873. The increased acreage, however, amount- 

 ing to 7 per cent., raises the prospective yield to nearly average 

 upon last year's acreage. The September averages of the different States 

 for 1873 and 1874 are shown in the following table : 



Ehode Island, Florida, and Louisiana make no return of wheat-culture, 

 as well as a large number of counties in the Southern States. The total 

 number of counties reporting this crop is 960 ; of these 383 are above 

 average, 294 average, and 283 below average. The following table shows 

 the number of each class of counties in each of the different sections of 

 the Union : 



states. 



New Englaud States 



Miildln States 



South Atlantic States 



Gulf States 



Southern inland States , 



States north of the Ohio 



States west of the Mississippi 

 Pacific States 



Total 



Counties 



above 



average. 



383 



Counties 

 average. 



Counties 



below 

 average. 



Total. 



283 



960 



