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tity ; average yie](l not over 10 bushels per acre. This is our secoud light crop and. 

 Avorse thau last year ; croiriujured by drought. 



Lahdte Counli/l Kuus.^Wheat averages 15 bushels; rye 16 ; chinch nearly destroyed 

 the late wheat, greatly reduciug our usual average. They swept many fields of every- 

 thing green. 



Tf'itaun County, Kans. — Average yield of wheat 18 bnshels. Afield of "Red Sea" 

 yielded 2i?f per acre. An unknown variety is reported as yielding an average of 40. 



Anderson L'ouniy, Kans. — May-wheat stverages 8 bushels; nearly run out from long 

 use ; Lancaster 20 ; white-wheat 22. All new varieties have done well. 



Cloud County, Eans. — Fall-wheat very tine ; average yield 27^ bushels, in some cases 

 reaching 54 bushels. Spring-wheat below average. 



Linn County, A'««.s. — Wheat will average 12 bushels in spite of chinch. 



Jefferson County, Kans. — Average yield of wheat less than was expected from the 

 growth of straw ; average about 18 bushels, some crojis reaching 42 bushels ; weight 

 per bushel unusually heavy. 



Washington County, Eans. — Spring-wheat falls far short of the average, but winter- 

 wheat is good, and, on the whole, the crop is about an average one. The chinch-bug 

 damaged the spring-wheat. 



Dakota County, Xehr. — Wheat averages IS bushels ; quality superior. 



Nnneha County, Xebr. — Winter-wheat will average 24 bushels ; spring-wheat nearly 

 destroyed by chinch ; will not average over three bushels. 



Cuminy County, Ncbr. — Wheat averages 8 bushels ; the lightest crop ever raised here ; 

 injured by rust. 



Dixon County, Xchr. — Wlieat crop very bad; many fields not cut; others mowed for 

 fodder; cause of this faihire, drought. Arnautka spring-wheat did well. 



Johnson County, Xehr. — Spring-wheat amounts to aliaost nothing, in consequence of 

 the depredations of the cljinch. Some fields entirely destroyed ; others yield 2 bushels, 

 and the best fields but 12 bushch per acre. What little winter-wheat was sown did 

 well. Hereafter but little spring-wheat will be sown, most of our farmers intending 

 to sow the fall-wheat. 



Del Xortc County, Cal. — AVheat averages 20 bu.shels. 



Lake County, Cal. — Wheat-thrashing two weeks later than last year; quantity and 

 quality better than was expected. 



San Joaquin County, Cal. — Not one acre in twenty cultivated in wheat produced 5 

 bushels. l\iver bottoms that had been flooded produced from 15 to 16 bushels, thus 

 demonstrating the necessity of irrigation. 



Colusa County, Cal. — Wheat almost a total failure, except in a small area in the upper 

 end of the county. 



Stanislaus County, Cal. — I have heard from every thrashing-machine in the county, 

 and find the amount of wheat threshed to be 210,-585 bnshels — about one bushel 

 to each acre planted. Of barley, 90,251 bushels. Our thrashing-machine has just 

 finished thrashing 24,000 bnshels of wheat in Tuolumne Couutj', where uoue has here- 

 tofore beeu raised. 



Lane Couwty, Orey. — Wheat averages about 22 bushels; county capable of nmch better 

 yield with high cultivation. 



Marion County, Oreg. — Winter- wheat will average 25 bnshels; spring-wheat, sowed 

 before the long rain of April, about the same; that sowed afterwards is scarcely worth 

 harvesting. Straw short, but heads long and beautiful. 



Conejos County, Colo. — Wheat not harvested; grasshoppers have done great mischief 

 to the crops. 



Beaver County, Utah. — Yield of wheat decreased, as also that of barley, by ravages of 

 grasshoppers. 



Kane County, Vtah. — Wheat destroyed to a great extent by birds, especially by a 

 striped-headed sparrow. 



Salt Lake County, Utah. — Average yield of wheat 28^ bushels ; no grasshoppers yet. 



Tooele County, Utah. — Wheat averages 30 bushels. 



Ada County, Idaho. — Wheat averages, probably, 15 bushels. Season the most unfavor- 

 able since the settlement of the Territory; sudden and annoying extremes of tempera- 

 ture, and great dryness. 



(iallatin County, Mont. — Wheat averages 25 bushels; unusually large; 



Choctaw Xation, Indian Ter. — Wheat averages 15 bushels; veij little sown. 



OATS. 



The oats crop is not a full one, thoagli the cleficieuey will be small. 

 The States reporting- an average crop are New Hainpvshire, Massachu- 

 setts, Rhode Island, Oonnecticur, New York, Mississippi, Wisconsin, 

 Iowa. The depreciation, as represented by the last reports, amounts to 

 18 per cent, in New Jersey, 8 in Pennsylvania, 8 in West Virginia, 4 in 



