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Sherburne Couniy, Minnesota. — Spring grain nearly ruined by drought. Some fields 

 plowed up ; others •will hardly pay for harvesting. 



Meeker Count;/, AIinne«ota. — Spring wheat severely injured by dry weather. lu some 

 localities the fields were almost destroyed by a hail-storm June 30. 



Blue Earth County, Minnesota. — The Hessian liy is in some wheat fields, but has done 

 no damage. 



liandiyohi County, Minn. — June was dry, and Cropssuflfered for want of rain. June 31 

 a hail-storm cut down many fields of grain. 



McLeod County, Minn. — This county has snfi'ered very much from drought. Wheat 

 generally short and thin. •' Farmers who plow deep and keep their lands free from 

 weeds have i)romise of good crops." 



Ti'atonuan County, Minn. — Wheat injured by drought, so that half a crop is barely 

 possible. Many fields will not be harvested. 



Winona County, Minn. — Xo rain from middle of May, except two light showers. Seed 

 spring wheat did not come up well, and is much too thin. 



Freehorn County, Minn. — Drought and rust have damaged wheat to a considerable ex- 

 teut, but not so much as to give cause for serious alarm. Recent raius. have revived 

 the crop, but it will still fiill below the average. 



Steele County, Minn. — The drought iu the latter part of May and first half of June 

 seriously injured the wheat crop, which will scarcely equal the average, notwithstand- 

 ing the recent beavy rains. 



Leavenuorih Couniy. Eans. — From some inexplicable cause wheat, which promised the 

 best and largest yield for years, is undoubtedly a poor crop. Chiuch-bug is found iu 

 wheat everywhere, even on new sod broken last year. Fine rains lately. 



Woodson County, Kans. — Chinch-bugs very destructive to sirring wheat. Some fields 

 are a total failure. The uplands sutter the most this year. We have been compara- 

 tively exempt from the ravages of the chinch-bug for nearly six years. Iu this warm 

 country they are worse, we think, than farther north. They seem to survive the winter 

 and commence early in the sijriug, hence spring crops suffer most. The Tappahaunock 

 wheat, sent me from the Department, has never, until this year, had a fiiir trial, owing 

 to accident, but this season the yield will reach, from one bushel sowing, 45 bushels, 

 and others report even more favorably ; one farmer says that from 38 pounds he raised 

 2bi bushels. 



Chase County, Kans. — Winter wheat injured materially by late frosts. Spring 

 wheat rusting and not filling well. 



Wyandotte County, Kans. — Season very wet. It is thought some wheat will grow in 

 the shock. " 1 never saw a more luxuriant growth of all crops than the fields and or- 

 chards now present. Droughty Kansas is a mvth." 



Osage County, Kans. — Spring wheat entirely injured by the chinch-bug. May wheat 

 cut June 9. 



Johnson County, Kans. — Winter wheat filled well. Late wheat injured by the fly 

 but little. Barley badly damaged by chinch-bug. 



Jefferson County, Kans. — Wheat looked well until near cutting-time, when the chinch- 

 bug inflicted some damage. 



2t'emaha County, Kans. — Spring grain much damaged by chinch-bngs. 



Kiley County, Kans. — Winter wheat all harvested, and is a heavy crop. Spring wheat 

 almost a total failure, from rust and chiuch-bugs. 



Franklin County, Kms. — Wheat harvest is over. The yield is better than was antici- 

 pated a month ago. All crops more advanced than usual. Fine growing weather. 



Neosho County, Kans. — Crtips never more promising. Wheat will not yield quite as 

 well as was anticipated. 



Clay County, Kans. — Winter wheat all harvested. Spring wheat is being cut ; it is 

 injured by weeds. Farmers will sow a largely increased breadth of winter wheat the 

 coming fall. 



'Morris County, Kans. — Wheat injured by frost in the spring. 



Sedgwick County, Kans. — Wheat on low lauds injured by rust ; on high ground said to 

 be 2U per cent, better than last year. Harvest not yet commenced, owing to cool 

 weather. 



Coffey County, Kans. — Winter wheat now being threshed. Grain somewhat shrunk. 

 The yield will not be as good as was expected before threshiug. The early May wheat 

 is the largest-sown variety, but, contrary to all previous years, is now in worse condi- 

 tion thau most other kinds. 



Jackson Couniy, Kans. — Fall wheat is first-rate. Spring wheat not of much value. 



Siskiyou County, Cal. — Prospect for more thau average wheat crop till June; since, 

 considerably injured by crickets. 



San Joaquin Couniy, Cal. — Season dry ; wheat ciop very small. 



Lake County, Cal. — ^\'heatcrop a little larger thau last year; price last year $1 per 

 100 pounds; present price ^2. 



San Diego County, Ca?.— Nothing raised within thirty miles of the coast, except some 

 . small crops in the mountains, by irrigation, as wheat, &c. 



