384 



60: Georgia, G5; Alabama, 71; Mississippi, 84; Texas, 90; Arkansas, 

 85- Tennessee, 60 ; West Virginia, 103; Kentucky, 75; Missouri, 102 ; 

 Illinois, 93; Indiana, 90; Ohio, 99 ; Michigan, 110 ; Wisconsin, 90 ; Min- 

 nesota, 75 ; Iowa, 90 ; Kansas, 113 ; Nebraska, 96 ; California, 90 ; Ore- 

 gon, 101. The quality is generally superior. It is placed above an 

 avesage in all the Western States except Kentucky, Iowa, and Nebraska. 



Drought and grasshoppers reduced the yield materially in portions of 

 Maine aiid Vermont. In Albany County, ZsTew York, there was loss of 

 ^arlysown wheat from weevil, but in several of the best wheat-growing 

 counties of that State the best result for several years was obtained. A 

 fine crop in quantity and quality is reported in Pennsylvania ; in some 

 places where the straw was short the season was favorable for heading 

 well. The wheat of the Southern States was considerably injured by 

 rust. The Tappahannock is still the most reliable variety in that sec- 

 tion.' One correspondent in Tennessee (Sullivan County) reports that 

 notwithstanding the general failure of wheat, he was able to secure, 

 upon poor soil, 21^ bushels per acre, by the application of twenty two- 

 liorse loads of sheep laanure per acre. Wheat was greatly injured in 

 Kentucky by the frost of April 23, and the severe drought which fol- 

 lowed reduced still further both yield and quality. The losses in the 

 West were mainly from insects, slightly frmn winter-killing, and from 

 April frosts, and\o some extent due to drought w.hich retarded growth 

 and tillering. Spring-wheat was in many places almost destroyed by 

 the chinch-bug. 



The yield in Minnesota is greatly reduced. Several counties report 

 an average of only eight bushels per acre. Disappointment is experi- 

 enced in many places at the result iu thrashing. The depreciation in 

 Iowa is estimated at 10 per cent. The chinch-bug was especially inju- 

 rious in the Xorthwest. The product is large in Kansas, notwithstand- 

 ing the destruction of spring-wheat by this pest.^ In Doniphan County, 

 fall-wheat is unusually heavy and of fine quality; averaging sixty-three 

 pounds to the bushel and twenty five bushels per acre, but spring- wheat 

 is so destroyed by the chinch -bug as to be scarcely worth harvesting. 

 In Isebraska there will be a large increase of fall sowing, as the result 

 of experience of the past. The crop of Oregon is a good one ; one county 

 (Polk) reports a product of half a million bushels. 



OATS. 



The product of oats will be about as large as the crop of last year. 

 The States producing more than in 1870 are New Hampshire, Massa- 

 chusetts, Pthode Island, Connecticut, Xew York, Mississippi, Arkansas, 

 •Indiana Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and Kansas. The quality in the East- 

 ern, Middle, and Western States is good. Drought and grasshoppers 

 cut'short the crop in Maine. The product iS la^^ge in New York, though 

 not uniform, some counties reporting less than last year, others an 

 " enormous yield." The harvest was shortened in New Jersey by dry 

 weather early in the season, and wet weather prior to harvesting; and 

 also in sections of Pennsvl vania, as in Berks, where the weight is reported 

 at 24 to 30 pounds to the bushel. Eust prevailed generally in the South- 

 ern States, and drought wrought local injury. In Kentucky, oats is the 

 best grain cro]). In Illinois the product is an average one. In Decatur, 

 as in many other counties, the crop is^ reported good, notwithstanding 

 the drought, and in Livingston, as ekewhere, " the yield is 40 to 30 

 bushels per acre where not injured by the chinch-bug." In ^.afayette 

 Couaty, Wisconsin, is reported " the finest crop of oats ever raised ;" 



