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Mississippi. — Jefferson : Almost a failure. 



LouisiAXA. — Franklin : Shortened by drought. 



Texas. — Austin: Second crop very good, especially Early Eose. Fayette: Yielded 

 well and kept well. Scott : Drought. 



Arkansas. — Washington: Drought. Fulton: Early plantings did well ; late, short- 

 ened by drought. Columbia: Early Eose did well. 



Tennessee. — Hancock: Abundant and fine. Dt/er : AfuWuve. Monroe: Early plant- 

 ings a failure ; later somewhat better. Hardin: Drought. James: Short. Sequatchie: 

 Early plantings ruined by drought. Kuojc : Drought. Greene : Short. Lincoln : 

 Drought. 



West Virginia. — Tyler: Drought. Eitchie : Early plantings injured by insects; late 

 ones good. Marion: Small but sound. JLfoccer; Very good. Kanawha: Short. Jeffer- 

 son : Colorado beetles. Hancock : Drought and bugs. Harrison : Bugs and drought. 

 Hardy : A failure except where Paris green was used. Doddridge : Drought. Brooke : 

 Better than last year ; Colorado beetles destroyed by picking, and Paris green. Boone: 

 Early crops light; later ones good. Berkeley: Early jjlantings swept by the bugs; 

 later plantings escaped. 



Kentuckv. — Scott: Drought and bugs. Nicholas: Colorado beetles. Lincoln: Late 

 plantings good ; early scarce returned the seed. Harrison : Very poor. Hart : Very 

 poor; drought. Gallatin: Half average, and of inferior quality. Boyle: Euined by 

 drought and bugs. 



Ohio. — P/fce; Drought. Belmont: Very inferior; bugs and drought. Crawford: 

 Tolerable; injured by drought and bugs. Champaign: Drought and bugs. Delaware: 

 A failure, except in moist low lauds. Lawrence: Extrordinarily good. Lorain: good iu 

 spite of bugs. Lucas : Light, but good quality. Morrow : Closing season fine. Mercer : 

 Sound. Montgomery : Early plantings good ; late did not mature. 



Michigan. —i>ra.Hc7i : Crops on oak openings scarcely worth digging. Lake: Abund- 

 ant and good. Macomb: Drought. Calhoun: Early injured by drought ; Paris green 

 effectually used against the bugs. Newaygo : Good crops of peachblows since Septem- 

 ber 1 ; early kinds no better than last year. Oakland : Drought and bugs. Ottawa : 

 Drought and bugs. Grand Traverse: Colorado beetle injurious. Houghton: Eot in 

 some localities; skin appears sound, but when taken iu hand it feels like a bag of 

 water. Ingham : Drought. Lapeer : Bugs. 



lisDiATS! A.— Whitley : Seldom better. Switzerland: Drought. Dubois: Unusually small ; 

 drought. Franklin: Short and scarce; |1 per bushel. Fulton: Colorado beetles not 

 so bad as formerly. Gibson: Shortened by rain. Howard: Largest crop ever raised. 

 Noble : Scarce ; severe drought. Posey : Late crops good ; in the beech hills the yield 

 is 100 bushels per acre. Fike : Late plantings improved. Steuben: Good in timber 

 lauds ; a failure in sandy and gravelly soils ; 50 to 60 cents per bushel. 



Illinois. — Mason : A few late crops are good. Sangamon : Very poor ; drought and 

 bugs. Winnebago: No frost to injure vines. White: Bugs. Shelby: Late rains have 

 greatly improved the crops. Saint Clair : Eemarkably good. Pike : Good what there 

 is of them. Pope: Injured 30 per cent, by drought. Ogle: Drought and bugs. Mont- 

 gomery : Late potatoes fine. Massac : Late plantings better than for several years. 

 Macon : Very fair crops, especially when earlj^ planted. Hancock : Good and well 

 secured. Fulton: Late fine weather has made the crops. Fayette: Have grown 

 rapidly since late rains. Clinton : Crops covered with straw took a second growth, 

 and gave us a splendid yield after the bugs left. Champaign : Bugs and drought. 

 Carroll: Late potatoes good; 40 cents per bushel. Henry: Poor quality; not well 

 ripened. Boone : Struck by frost ; many unsound ones. Henderson : Late crops good ;. 

 early ones poor. 



Wisconsin. — Walworth: Better than for years. Trempealeau: Better crop than last 

 year; better season, and an efiective use of Paris green. Saint Croix : Drought and 

 Colorado beetles. Cheboygan: Good season. Sauk: Late potatoes greatly improved., 

 /oicrt; Never better. Co/Hw/nrt : Some bugs. Chippewa: Potato bugs abuudant. Adams: 

 Good. Jackson : Bugs not so bad as last year. 



Minnesota. — Chisago: Badly rotten. Isanti: Good in spite of drought and bugs; 

 early plantings more practiced than formerly. Martin : Brought out by rains after the 

 grasshoppers left. Sherburne: Double last year's yield and of fine quality. Stearns: 

 Eednced by beetles. Sibley: Injured by grasshoi^pers to some extent. Swift: Drought. 

 Todd : Some rot in the cellar. If'right : Bugs. 



Iowa. — Page: Shortened by drought. Montgomery: Early Eose a fair average; peach- 

 blows a failure. Mar-ion : Crop made within six weeks. Lee : Grew too rapidly to be 

 as good as usual in quality ; ready sale at 50 and 60 cents yier bushel. Jones : Crop 

 made bj' the August rains. Jackson : Abundant and good. Harrison : Failed through 

 insects and drought. Henry : Early crop almost a failure. Delaware : Very fine. 

 Dallas: Colorado beetles injurious. Buena Vista: Greatest failure ever known. Ben- 

 ton : Late crops tine. 



Missouri. — Pemiscot: Both early and late crops an entire failure through drought. 

 Chariton: Late varieties failed. Platte: Scarce; .^1.20 per bushel. Perry: Ship[iiug. 



