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Michigan. — Monroe: Many fields as bare as the roads. Charlevoix: Tendency to- 

 ■wards spring- wheat. Grand Travei'se : Average in spite of the fly. Lenatvee: Has not 

 come np well; drought. Wayne: Greatest drought in forty-nine years; not half the 

 wheat on the clay hills came up. Cass : Wheat has made an unusual growth ; fly in 

 some pieces. Hillsdale : Wheat looks well. Livingstone : Did not come up well on clay 

 soils. Montcalm : Never looked better. Barry : Slim through drought. 



Indiaxa. — Dearborn : Drought restricted the wheat acreage. Dubois : Looks well 

 in spite of drought. Fayette: Drought. Gibson: Wheat looks fine; some fields a 

 perfect mat of dark green. Noble: Injured by drought. Morgan: Wheat fine. 

 Brown : Acreage of wheat restricted by drought. Perry : Looks well in spite of 

 drought. Howard: Injured by droughts on clay soils. Tipton: Wheat looks well. 

 Jennings : What little wheat was sown looks badly; dronght. Warren : Wheat never 

 looked better. Cass : Came up well ; fine rains wetting the ground six inches deep. 

 Marion : Low prices have discouraged sowing, consequently the acreage has been re- 

 duced. Martin : Acreage restricted by drought. 



Illinois. — Marion: Acreage enlarged; crop looks well. Pike: Never looked better. 

 Johnson : Increased use of the drill in wheat-seeding. Marion : Snow threatens to 

 smother some fields of wheat. Champaigne : Wheat injured by drought. Fulton: 

 Wheat looks nnusually well ; increased acreage. Jersey : Wheat never better. Pope : 

 Eetarded by fall drought. White: Wheat acreage increased 50 per cent. Hancock: 

 Never looked so well. Logan: Wheat prospect never finer. McLean: Very fine in 

 spite of drought. Shelby : Wheat more promising than for twelve years. 



Wisconsin.— .Sawfc ; About 5,000 acres of winter-wheat sown. Waupaca : Wheat 

 never looked better ; acreage greater than ever before. Walworth : A hard year for 

 farmers. 



Minnesota. — Isanti : Fine weather has caused the grain to stool out well ; it is now 

 well covered with snow. 



Missouri. — Bipley : Acreage in wheat at least two and a half times greater than in 

 any former year. Texas ; Double the acreage of last year ; sown mosMy in September, 

 and looks better than for teu years past ; fly in some places. Caldivell : Wheat looks 

 extremely well. Adair : The best prospect for wheat. Franklin : Early-sown wheat 

 looks better than last year. Montgomery : Wheat covered with 15 inches of snow. 

 Phelps : Putting in our wheat better than ever ; more drilling. 



Kansas. — Coffee : Wl^eat sown iu September never looked better ; later sowings in 

 danger of freezing out. Clay : Early-sown wheat looks well ; late broadcast wheat 

 injured by drought; no raiu since September 15. Leavenworth : Late rains and a 

 heavy snow protect the wheat from winter-killing. Labette : Looks promising con- 

 sidering the late sowing. Shawnee: Never better. 



Nebraska. — CViss: Timely rains have given our grain a good start. 



