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fields and xjlanting corn and English turnips, which will, in a measm-e, make up for the 

 loss of hay. 



Eocklaiid Couniy, N. T. — Pastures drying up, and farmers are turning their stock inta 

 fields they had intended to mow. 



Tioga County, N. 1'.— Pastures have suffered from the frosts and dry weather. 



Hunterdon County, N. J. — Farmers are sowing their clover-seed on oats-grouud ; it 

 does not do so well as when sown on wheat or rye. It often fails to take, and dry 

 weather has more etlect upon it when sown on oats-ground. Spring pasturage injured 

 by the drought. Hay crop will be very much shortened if the drought continues. 



Cainhrta County, Fa. — Grass short, but well set and thick. 



Wyominy County, Fa. — Clover almost destroyed by the drought. 



Montgomery County, Md. — Springs are failing and pastures are unusually short. The 

 hay crop will be a failure with many farmers. 



^urry County, Va. — Farmers are beginning to see the use of clover, aud the area is 

 annually increasing. The crop fine. 



Augusta County, J a. — Most of the upland grass hardly worth mowing. Pasture short. 



Adams County, Ohio. — Clover greatly injured by the cut-worm. 



Parke County, Ind. — Owing to drought, the hay crop will be a failure this season. 



Switzerland County, Ind. — The hay crop promises to be heavy. 



Crawford Connty, 111. — Clover short uj) to May 21, when rain fell. Vegetation has 

 since flourished. 



Perry County, III. — April and early May were dry, affecting grass "disastrously.'" 

 Late May showers will bring oats up to au average, but pastures will be short. 



Winnebago County, III. — Clover and timothy wintered remarkably well, aud obtained 

 an early start. Owing to short forage, farmers turned their stock into the meadows 

 until May, and there will be another short hay crop. 



Hancock County, Iowa. — Earliest spring ever known in the county. The grass on the 

 prairie large euough to mow ; it is a month in advance of the growth of last year. 



Monona County, Iowa. — Prairie pasture earlier and better than for fifteen years. Clo- 

 ver, as an experiment, doing splendidly. 



Monroe County, Iowa. — Pastures got a good start, and keep up well. Timothy will be 

 light. 



Lincoln County, Mo. — Timothy meadows promise a light yield. 



Juneau County, Wis. — Grasses are looking much better than at this time last year ^ 

 there will be an abundant crop of hay. 



Bay County, Mich. — The lack of rain is badly felt here; the crop of hay will be light 

 unless rain falls soon. 



Emmett County, Mich. — Owing to cold nights in April aud May grass did not grow 

 rapidly, but late rains have improved all crops. 



Anderson County, Ky. — The winter was the mildest ever known in the county, and 

 the grass for pasture was the earliest. 



Lincoln County, Ey.— The frost of April 23 has done great injury. Grass, which made 

 a very early and thrifty start, has done badly since. 



Giles County, Tenn. — More of the grasses sown than in any previous year. Cold,, 

 backward spriug. 



OATS. 



Oats have shared the fortunes of clover aud the grasses, haviug suf- 

 fered somewhat from dry weather iu the Athiutic States and iu the 

 Ohio Yalley. The crop of the Gulf States will be a large one for that 

 section, aud that of the region west of the Mississippi will he a full 

 average on an increased acreage. Oregon will also make a fine crop. 

 The following items are extracted from correspondence : 



Orange County, Vt. — Increased acreage in oats, and the condition is better than last 

 year, on account of more rain. 



Monongalia County, W. Va. — Prospect for oats very poor; eaten by a small bug or 

 louse ; many fields have been planted in corn. 



Norfolk County, Mass. — Oats have come up well; a large acreage, owing to sowing 

 with grass-seeds, to be cut green for fodder. 



Albany County, X. Y. — The crop of oats must be very light, owing to the drought 

 and the open winter. 



Ocean County, N. J. — Oats suffering severely from drought. 



Greene County, Pa. — Oats are in a deplorable condition; there is no possibility of 

 making more than half a crop, and many fields will have acres on which there will be 

 no oats. They are killed by a small green louse that clusters on the blades ; the 

 trouble is general throughout the county. ' 



