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Dro ight causing profuse slieddiDg. Homion : Being late plauted the crox') was 

 destroyed by drought. 



Ark.ws"Sas. — Franklin : Will average 200 or 250 pounds per acre seed-cottou. Hemp- 

 stead : Rapidly failed iu two weeks past; drought aud hot winds. Randolph: De- 

 structive drought. Independence : Cotton which in July promised a hale per acre will 

 not yield a third of it ; uplands will make a bale to ten acres. Izard : Half crop ; 

 drought. Jefferson : Hundreds of acres never came up. Monroe : Disastrous drought ; 

 half a crop. Crawford : Bottom crops splendid ; ujilands almost a complete failure. La- 

 fayeite : Quarter crop; no rain since May. iScofi : Drought. Asliley : Terrible drought. 

 Bradley: Disastrous drought. Calhoun: Entire failure ; no raiu since May. Fnlaski : 

 Only one rain since April 20 ; dead as a November frost could make it. Fulton : 

 Withering drought and hot winds. It will be a benefit if it teaches farmers to diver- 

 sify their crops. Prairie: Devastating drought. Woodruff: Excessive drought, ex- 

 treme heat, and hot winds have cut off the crop one-half. Sharp : Cooked by hot winds. 

 Dorsey : Disastrous drought of ninety days ; a third of last year's crop. Breiu : De- 

 stroyed by drought, heat, and parching winds. Xewton : Burned up. No raiu since 

 June 1. 



Texnessee. — Hardin : Suffered greatly from drought. Loudoun : Two-thirds of a 

 crop. Dyer : Shortened two-thirds by drought. Madison : Not a third of a crop. 



HAY AND PASTURES. 



The product of hay, compared with last year, is, in Maiue, 83 per 

 cent. ; Pennsylvania, 95. The remaining New England and Middle 

 States range from 110 in New Hampshire and Vermont to 134 in New 

 York and New Jersey ; Virginia, 105 ; North Carolina, 102. The other 

 South Atlantic aud the Gulf States range from 98 iu South Carolina to 

 67 iu Louisiana : Arkansas, G2 ; Tennessee, 7G ; West Virginia, C7 ; Ken- 

 tucky, 51. In the Northwest States the extremes are : Ohio, 72, and Min- 

 nesota, 99 ; Missouri, 91 ; Kansas, 85 ; Nebraska, 87 ; California, 122 ; 

 Oregon, lOG. 



In the production of timothy, compared with last year, the New Eng- 

 land and Middle States range, taken together, considerably higher. 

 The highest are, Vermont, 111, and New York, 12G. Only two 

 fall below — Maine, 87, and Pennsylvania, 93. The product equals 

 that of last year in Nebraska. In Oregon it is 2 per cent, above. The 

 Gulf States and California do not report any timothy worth meutioniug. 

 In the remaining States the product, comi^ared with 1873, ranges be- 

 tween 49 iu Kentucky and 9G in Virginia and North Carolina. Our re- 

 turus indicate that this crop, on the whole, was secured- in excellent 

 condition. Among the Sta-tes in which it is an import&nt product the 

 figures are : Wiscousin, 100 ; Maiue, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illi- 

 nois, and Minnesota, 101 ; Vermont, 102 ; New Hampshire and New 

 Jersey, 103; New York aud Nebraska, 107; Rhode Island, 108; Con- 

 necticut, 109. South Carolina returns 100 ; Mississippi, 105 ; Virginia 

 and Iowa, 97 ; Maryland and Oregon, 98 ; Michigan and Missouri, 99. 

 Other States range between 82 in Tennessee and 95 in Indiana. 



The following facts of local interest are noted : 



Allegany, N. Y., reports millet sown in large acreage, unusually good, 

 " and the best kind of hay in the county." Franklin : The largest hay- 

 crop for twenty years. Henrico, Va. : A finer crop of clover than ever 

 before. Chesterfield : A yield of 4 tons of clover to the acre. Meckleu- 

 burgh : Increased attention to grasses, and encouraging results from trials 

 of timothy. Parker, Texas : That while prairie-grass dried up, Hungarian 

 turned out well. In Lawrence, Tenn., German millet stood the drought 

 "well. It also yielded well in Dickson, but was injured by the army- worm. 

 In Cheatham, grass-crops were badly injured by the army- worm. 

 In Grant, W. Va., timothy was injured by chinches. In Republic, 

 Kansas, more hay was put up than iu any previous year ; also in Bar- 

 ton, in spite of the drought, where the buffalo-grass is giving way to 



