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drought. Jessamine: A third of a timothy crop; drought; clover nearly average. 

 Daviess : Pastures short. 



Ohio.— n»?^OH : Hay-crop short ; pastures hurned up. Crawford: Hay short. Cham- 

 paign : Hay half short ; grass uearly gone. Delaware : Greatly shortened by drought. 

 Erie: Grass very short ; cattle sufteriug for vrater. Harrison: Pasture gone. Law- 

 rence : Half a hay-crop. Lorain : Pastures green and good. Morgan : Hay short. 

 Morrow: Fine in quantity and quality. Meigs: Pastures dried up. Montgomery: Hay 

 shortened by drought. Perry: Pastures nearly dried up; water for stock scarcer than 

 ever known. 



M\ciUG\yi.— Marquette: Pasture improved. Branch: Poorest hay-crop ever raised. 

 Livingston : Fall feed used up by drought. Macomb : Drought. Xewaygo : Hay short, 

 but good. Oakland: Quality good; shortened by drought. Saginaw: Hay light, bat 

 fine ; millet sown in consider aide quantities, which, through careful curing, turned out 

 well. Lapeer: Good. Lenawee: Shortened by drought. 



Indiana. — Lake: Hay-crop very good. Grant: Pasture short. JVarren : No faL 

 pasture. Franklin : Very little for sale. Howard : Hay deficieut in quality and quan- 

 tity; drought; stock- water failing. Lawrence: Extreme drought ; stock-water scarce. 

 Orange: Pastures very short; hay scarce ; .§20 per ton, against §10 last year. Posey : 

 Hay very short. 



Illinois. — Sangamon : Extra good when put up, but many stacks injured by weather. 

 Piichland : Many meadows cut a second time, the second crop being about half average. 

 Pope : Shortened by drought in June. Piatt : Pastures short. Macon : Better than 

 for years. Hancock : Increased attention to hay and grasses. Fayette : Short hay-crop ; 

 drought ; pastures fine. Carroll : Timothy §10 per ton. 



Wisconsin.— i«/fl)/ef/e ; Hay injured by floods. Saint Croix : Shortened by drought. 

 Pichland: Short; drought. Ozaukee: Pastures better than for years. Fond-du-Lac : 

 Hay product increased by the use of gypsum. Chippewa: Drought. Adams: Light, 

 but good. 



Minnesota. — Stearns: Fine harvest weather. Steele: Hay never better. 



lo^vx.— Wayne: Hay light, but fall pastures fine. Pottawattamie: Light grass-crop, 

 requiring the curing of an extra amount of prairie-grass. Marion : Improved quantity 

 and quality. Lee : Fall pasture excellent. Jones : Drought. Hardie : Tame grasses 

 light. Johnson: Pasture unusually fine. Henry: A good crop of hay, but injured to a 

 considerable extent in the stack. Floyd: Hay still lighter than last year. Clinton: 

 Fall feed good. 



Missouri. — Putnam : Pasture fine. Johnson : Hay-crop made before the drought 

 became severe. Daviess : Hay-crop escaped the drought. Clinton : Fine harvest- 

 weather. Adair : Hay-crop 10 per cent, greater than ever before ; it will be the main 

 crop hereafter ; thousands of acres have been sown this fall. 



Kansas. — Marshall : The few packages of grass-seed received from the Department 

 have, by their results, convinced our farmers that it would be a great advantage to 

 supersede our wild grasses with cultivated ones. Marion : Never knew hay to spoil so 

 much after being stacked. Miami : Prairies all mowed over. Labette : Good, consider- 

 ing the drought. Montgomery ; Hay-crop large and fine. Jackson : More hay in stack 

 than ever before. Bourbon : Unprecedented hay-crop. Barton : The destruction of the 

 corn by grasshoppers caused the farmers to give special eflbrt to securing hay, of 

 which there is abundance for stock-feed. Mitchell : Hay short and injured by rain in 

 the stack. 



Nebraska. — Lincoln: Hay-crop short, but good. Antelope: Large quantities secured, 

 but injured in the stack by rains. Webster: Hay plenty and good. 



California. — Placer : Hay-crop superior in quantity and quality. Mendocino : 

 Larger hay-crop than usual. Eern : Farmers have just finished cutting their alfalfa- 

 hay crop, having cut four or five times since May ; fine pasture. 



Op.i<.go:s.— Columbia : Hay never better; good timothy .$4 and §5 per ton in the field 

 pasturage good all season. 



TOBACCO. 



The depressed yield of tobacco was sufficiently foreshadowed in our 

 previous monthly reports. All the large tobacco States show results 

 indicating a disastrous year to this productive interest. From Mis- 

 souri comes the report of a new enemy to this crop, the chinch-bug. A 

 final report of the crop of 1874 will be made after the receipt of special 

 returns from all the principal tobacco-growing counties, including more 

 particular and complete information which may modify in some cases 

 the State percentages ot yield published in the accompanying tables. 



