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plump and full as one would expect, from the favorable spring we have had. It was a 

 common remark, that the spring was as desirable as could be wished io develop the 

 wheat crop, being cool and comparatively dry. 



Erie County, Ohio. — Weather favorable for wheat harvest, much of which has been 

 cut ; fine plump berry, and the cro^i is the best for several years. 



Meifjs County, Ohio. — The fly was active iu wheat sowu ou high ground, especially 

 stubble, but on bottom lauds the crop is heavy and fully up to the average. 



Cosliocton County, Ohio. — Wheat harvesting commenced June 20, unusually early. 

 The dry weather of May shortened the crop in some localities, but the grain is of ex- 

 cellent quality. 



Vinton County, Ohio. — A dry spring, fly and drought have shortened the wheat crop. 



Miami County, Ohio. — Wheat is being rapidly harvested. It is much the largest crop 

 ever harvested in the county. Barley all harvested iu splendid couditiou ; it will 

 average 45 bushels per acre. 



Hamilton County, Ohio. — Wheat cut, and considered the best for ten years. 



Hardin County, Ohio. — Many fields of wheat were struck with rust on the leaves, and 

 although it did not -get on the stock, it stopped the growth, causing the grain to shrink 

 to half its size, and the straw to break down before it could be cut ; of live acres of the 

 Tappahannock wheat, my crop will be almost an entire failure, although it looked very 

 j)romising a week or ten days before harvest ; the same has been the case with almost 

 all kinds of wheat in certain localities. 



Huron County, Ohio. — The wheat prospect is not as good as in May. " Kust and blight 

 on the leaves will shrink the grain." 



Madison County, Ohio. — Wheat never known better. 



Medina County, Ohio. — Spring wheat is the greatest failure I ever knew. Drought 

 and worms have so damaged it that not one-fourth of the fields are worth harvesr.iug. 

 Some farmers have plowed them up and sown corn for fodder, and more would havo 

 done so but for the grass seeds sown with the wheat. ■ ^ 



Ashland County, Ohio. — The season has been very favorable — every crop more forward 

 than usual, a large amount of wheat already cut. 



Johnson County, Ind. — Wheat is threshing out below the expectations of the farmers. 

 The average of this county will not exceed ten bushels. 



Fountain County, Ind. — Season forward, and all vegetation far advanced. Some wheak 

 is short, owing to dry weather, but the berry is generally very good. 



Washinyton County, Ind. — Season dry, and all crops suffering for raia. Wh-^afc all 

 harvested in good order. It stood thin on the ground. The berry of all bearded vario- 

 ties is full and plump ; a part of the smooth varieties very much shrunk. Tae crop ii 

 below average. 



White County, Ind. — The wheat crop is one of the best ever raised in this country and 

 has been harvested two weeks earlier than in any preceding year. 



Howard County, Ind. — Wheat cut two weeks earlier than usual, but the berry was not 

 well filled in some fields. 



Franklin County, Ind. — Wheat abundant in straw, but not well filled generally, owing 

 to rust on the blades and fly. 



Pike County, Ind. — The grains of wheat are good, but the yield will be reduced 33 per 

 cent. 



Jasper County, Ind. — Crops never looked so well. Showers every day. 



Elkhart County, Ind. — Wheat ready for the reaper June 23 and 24. S')me cut ou these 

 days, but ou the 26th the harvest Avas general. It never was so early. Twenty-five 

 years ago wheat was harvested June 23. 



Madison County, Ind. — Weather very dry iu Indiana. Wheat not so good as was 

 anticipated ; all harvested. 



Ripley County, Ind. — Red rust attacked the wheat blades before the wheat headed, 

 ruining them. The fly was also injurious in some places. The wheat crop will fall 

 cousiderablj' below the average. 



Marion County, Ind. — The wheat crop is about an average in quantity and quality. 

 The harvest was the earliest ever known. 



Parke County, Ind. — Wheat all harvested ; the weather has been too warm and dry, 

 and the yield will not be over nine bushels per aci'e. 



Noble County, Ind. — Wheat harvest earlier than usual. The greater part of the crop 

 will be cut before July 4. Wheat generally of good quality, although in some locali- 

 ties somewhat injured by rust. The yield will be more abuudaut than for many years. 

 Weather favorable for harvesting. 



Dubois County, Ind. — Wheat all cut ; yield average. Some fields of poor or hilly 

 ground were not cut ; straw f;illeu and uo grain. Barley is very fine ; ou some good 

 ground the heaviest ever seen iu the county. 



Cass County, Ind. — Wheat all cut iu goo(i order, and some in the stack. Tappahan- 

 nock wheat, sent from the Department, doing the best. 



Boone County, Ind. — The wheat crop, iu quantity, is not sustaining the prospect of a 

 month ago ; frost, midge, chinch-bug, and dry weather are charged with this result. 



