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Macon County, lU. — Chinch-bugs have commenced on the corn. 



Sangamon County, III. — Chinch-bugs at ^ ork on corn, and will bring the crop bclo\v 

 average. 



Clinton County, III. — Com suffering for want of rain. 



Wabash County, III. — Drought threatens the corn. 



Crawford County, III— Dry weather injuring the corn. 



Greene County, III. — Chinch-bugs injuring the coru. 



Tazewell County, 111.— Thu fly has attacked the corn-fields, and I fear many acres will 

 be destroyed. 



Schuyler County, III. — I fear the corn cron will be materially damaged by the chinch- 

 bug, which has attacked it four weeks earlier than usual. Some farmers plowed under 

 spring wheat destroyed by the bug and planted the ground Avith coru. lu every in- 

 stance the corn has been utterly destroyed. 



Effinyhatn County, III. — The chinch-bug is damaging the corn crop. The loss will 

 depend mnch on the season; if rain is plenty, it will be light; if dry, nuich greater. 



Iroquois County, III. — In some localities the chinch-bug is injaring the coru, but the 

 crop is, nevertheless, unusually promising. 



Peoria County, III. — Chinch-bugs leaving the wheat and going for the corn. 



Lee County, 111. — Corn never better. It never was as forward, stands well on the 

 ground, is healthy and large. The weather is all that could be desired. 



Montgomery County, III. — Chinch-bugs injuring a fine stand of corn. "Weather favor- 

 able. 



McHenry County, III. — Corn in tassel. 



Hancock County, III. — Coru unusually promising. The chinch-bugs have done some 

 injury, but generally they only injure from ten to twenty rows. 



TVilliamson County, III. — The acreage of coru has been greatly increased iu consetpieuco 

 (jthe clearing of new ground and the diminished acreage of cotton. An abuudaut 

 yield is promised. 



McDonough County, III. — Chinch-bugs have attacked the corn, and are doing somo 

 injury. 



Green County, Wis. — Corn never looked better. 



Dane County, Wis. — Coru, of which there is an increased acreage, is unusually prom- 

 ising. 



Dunn County, Wis. — Corn looks well and bids fiiir to be a good crop. 



Bremer County, Iowa. — Corn looks better than ever before at this season. 



Dallas County, Iowa. — Our coru cro^J is unusually fine ; I never saw a better prospect 

 at this seasou. 



Chickasaw County, loica. — Corn and other crops very forward for the season. 



Jackson County, Iowa. — Corn promises a fin'e crop. 



Muscatine County, Iowa. — Corn more than usually promising. 



Hardin County, Iowa. — Our corn now gives the t)rst jjromiso for twenty years. 



Cherokee County, Iowa. — Corn is earlier than usual, and looks reinarkal)ly well. 



Decatur County, Iowa. — Chinch-bugs, after destroying the wheat, have comnu'i;ced on 

 the corn. 



Page County, Iowa. — Coru never looked better. The chinch-bug has, however, been 

 at w ork upon it. 



Marshall County, Iowa. — Coru far ahead of other years. 



Allamakee County, Iowa. — Coru three weeks earlier than usual, and the best crop in 

 fifteen years. 



Story County, Iowa. — We never had a finer prospect for corn at this seasou. 



Johnson County, Iowa. — The prospect for coru is lt;;tter than ever known. 



Delaware County, Iowa. — Earliest coru known for many years; tlie harvest will be 

 nearly one month earlier than usual. 



Floyd County, Iowa. — Corn never so fine at this season. 



Marion County, Iowa.— Covu is growing finely, and promises an oujrmous yield. 



Hancock County, Iowa. — Coru is larger than we ever saw it befoie on the Ist of July ; 

 generally four feet high. 



Washington County, Iowa. — Corn was never farther advanced at this season. 



Adams County, Iowa. — Corn very forward; some now stands slumlder lii^li. 

 Wayne County, Iowa. — Chinch-l)ug leaving the wheat and atfaeking the corn. 



Mahaska County, Iowa. — Corn never looked so well at this date; it is now as liigh as 

 the horses' backs. 



Sherburne County, Minn.— Coru looks well, but iu sjioTs cut- woruis have been at work. 



Steele County, Minn. — Corn looks Avell ; the crop will eiiual the average. 



Freeborn County, Minn. — Corn splendid. 



Mcleod County, Alinn. — Corn looks well; in some fields it is .seven f( et high. 

 Chase County, Eans. — The best prospect for coin ev( i kiu.wu. 



Osage County, Eans. — Chiuch-bugs iu countless millions at work on the corn crop. 

 June 28th a great storm badly damaged corri. 



Atchison County, Eans. — Weather too dry for corn. 



