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■White and smooth varieties are quite a faihue, and portions of red and bearded varieties 

 are not worth- liai-vestino:. Barley is extra. 



Jennings Counti/, Ltd. — We have suffered from drought eight weeks. 



Xewton County, Ind. — This has been the best season that has been iu fifteen years, all 

 things considered. We have the best crop' of winter wheat I ever saw iu this State or 

 Ohio. I feel safe in jiutting the county down at an average of twenty-five bushels per 

 acre. 



Broun Couniy, Ind. — Wheat harvest commenced June 13 and ended about the 20th. 

 Scarcely any rain in June. 



Warren County, Ind. — Wheat all cut during June, ten days earlier than usual. Some 

 fields were very good ; others, owing to the chinch-bug, did not pay to cut. The acre- 

 age is one-third larger, hence a good yield in the county. 



' Benzie County, Mich. — Drought very severe. Hard frosts June 9 and 15 ; did much 

 damage to wheat away from the influence of Lake Michigan. 



Washtenaw County, Midi. — Weather very favorable, and the wheat crop is one of the 

 finest ever raised in tbe county. 



St. Joseph County, Mich. — Wheat mostly cut and in shock. It isoue of the best crops 

 ever harvested in the county. 



Muskegon County, Mich. — Wheat looks well ; slight indications of rust on heavy 

 soils. 



Calhoun Couniy, Mich. — AVheat was cut 28th June, but the general crop will be ready 

 the first week in July. The yield is above the average. 



Clinton County, Mich. — I finished cutting my wheat in June. So far as I can learn, no 

 wheat was ever cut in the county in June before, and no one else has yet cut any. The 

 variety is Diehl. It grew on warm, gravelly soil. 



Branch County, Mich. — The prospects for the farmer are, upon the whole, cheering. 

 Wheat fine. 



Ottawa County, Mich. — June was very dry ; crops benefited by recent rains. 



Macomb County, Mich. — Weather in June was dry, injuring the spring wheat. Barley 

 and winter wheat in good conditiou. Harvest will commence July 3. 



Genesee County, Mich. — A protracted drought in May and early June injured spring 

 crops, but does not seem to have produced any bad elfect upon Avinter wheat. 



De Witt County, III. — "Winter wheat was all harvested before July 1, being at least 

 two weeks earlier than ever known. Spring wheat, our main dependence, is an entire 

 failure, owing to the chinch-bug. Not an acre will be harvested in the county. Our 

 farmers are talking of abandoning, altogether, the sowing of small grains." 



Fayette County, III. — Wheat good and all safely harvested. A larger acreage a-nd 

 better wheat than for several years. 



Winnebago County, III. — We hope to get fine, plump wheat, but the yield will be 

 somewhat diminished in consequence of unfavorable weather. 



Hancock County, IU. — "Wheat (winter) on old ground is the best we have ever had. 

 Spring wheat almost totally destroyed by chinch-bugs. All other crops are favorable. 

 Altogether this is the great crop year, and will no doubt exceed any crop for years to 

 come. The same favorable condition of the crops extends for one hundred miles 

 arouud. Fall wheat is averaging twenty-two bushels to the acre, by measurement as 

 threshed. We have had uew tlour to use iu June, which has never been the case before. 

 Vegetation and harvest have been two weeks earlier than usual. 



Iroquois County, III. — Spring wheat destroyed by the chiuch-bug ; rye injured slightly. 



Peoria County, IU. — The chinch-bugs have destroyed the spring wheat and barley. 



Massac County, III. — For four weeks before harvest the wheat suftered from rust; 

 nearly every crop was injured more or less. 



Lee County, III. — Wheat stands thin on the ground, but there is a plump, good berry. 

 Wheat, rye, and barley uever looked better. 



Williamson County, 111. — Wheat not as Avell filled out, nor the grain as plump as usual. 



Bureau County, III. — Wheat almost a failure, from the effects of hail and the ravages 

 of the chinch-bug. 



McDonough County, III. — Spring wheat is greatly damaged by the chinch-bug. Very 

 ■ many farmers say that the spring wheat crop ought to be abandoned, and by them will 

 be abandoned forever. It so hai)pens that fall wheat, which our farmers have sown 

 liberally, was never better, and, by ripening early, escaped the bugs. 



Putnam County, III. — Spring wheat almost ruined by the chinch-bug; winter wheat 

 good, but not much of it cultivated. 



Macoupin County, III. — Wheat all harvested, and is the best crop ever harvested, both 

 in quality and quantity. 



Will County, III. — Spring wheat is nearly destroyed by the chinch-bug. 



Schuyler County, III. — The probability is that the crop of spring wheat will be reduced 

 below the average by the chiuch-bug. Much of the wheat is utterly destroye<l. 



Tazewell County, III. — The fly has entirely destroyed the spring wheat. " I have not 

 heard of a piece worth cutting." 



Kankakee County, III. — The chinch-bug has been so destructive to the spring wheat 

 that it is very probable that not an acre inthe county will pay for harvesting. 



