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Jackson County, N. C. — A heavy aeeding of wlieat and small area of rye ; growing 

 finely. 



Fannin County, Tex. — Almost every fiirmer has sown what seed-wheat he could pro- 

 cure. Wheat, very scarce ; price, %2 to %2 25 per bushel, in specie. 



Coryell County, Tex. — Prospect for winter wheat and rye never better. A larger 

 area has been sown to wheat than for several years. 



Prairie County, Ark. — Area in winter wheat increased 25 per cent, above average. 

 Winter-oats 20 per cent, above average. Little rye sown. 



Weakley County, Tenn. — Fine sowing season; but the area sown to wheat will be 

 smaller than for several years. 



Smith County, Tenn. — Wheat is being put in better than last year, but not very well 

 yet. 



Carter County, Tenn. — Wheat has taken good root, and looks well. 



Giles County, Tenn. — Wheat and rye quite promising. Acreage increased 10 per cent. 



Fayette County, W. Va. — Some farmers deferred sowing wheat until late in October, 

 hoping Thereby to escape the ravages of the Hessian Hy next season. 



Marion County, W. Va. — Wheat and rye have come up well. I never saw a better 

 stand at date. 



Mason County, W, Va. — The showers in October have brought up the wheat, which is 

 looking very well for the season. 



Grant County, Ky. — Wheat and rye looking badly. TJie drought and the fly are 

 -aftecting tliem seriously. 



Lincoln County, Ky. — Wheat and rye doing well. 



Livingston County, Ky. — Wheat looking well. 



Adair County, Ky. — Wheat looking better than usual. 



Vernon County, Mo. — Wheat sown nearly a month later than usual, to avoid the fly 

 and chinch -bug, but warm days and frequent showers have hastened growth. Pros- 

 pect never better. 



Phelps County, Mo. — Dry season. Grain sown late and on reduced area. 



Adair County, Mo. — Too dry for seeding. 



Putnam County, Mo. — The chinch-bug is the great pest of this county, in some in- 

 stances destroying nearly all the crop. There ajipears to be no way to get rid of it but 

 to quit sowing spring-wheat. 



Montgomery County, III. — Wheat coming up finely and growing rapidly. 



E.'hvarcls County, III. — Wheat has beuu put in well and early, but it is small and back- 

 ward, owing to drought. 



Fairfield County; III. — The rains are bringing up the wheat, and l)enefitiug pasturage. 



Scott County, III. — Large crop of wheat sown, and looking well. 



Pike County, III. — Not much mor^ than half the wheat up ; dry weather; farmers 

 put it in deep, hoping to reach moist earth. The rain came and run the ground to- 

 gether, forming a crust, which prevents the plants from coming through. 



St. Clair County, III. — Wheat very promising. 



Floyd County, Ind. — Wheat is not overgrown, but well rooted and set. 



Noble County, Ind. — Wheat has had very little rain. 



Brown County, Ind. — Dry month, but the small showers and cloudy weather have 

 kept wheat alive. 



Fayette County, Ind. — The drought ended, and fall grains are coming up finely. 



Cass County, Ind. — Wheat is in worse condition for winter quarters than for many 

 years. Drought. 



Parke County, Ind. — Poorest prospect for wheat in the past ten to fifteen years. 

 Drought. 



Scott County, Ind. — The season continues dry, with occasional showers, just enough 

 to keep wheat alive. Increased acreage sown. The fly is damaging the early sown. 



Madison County, Ind. — Eemarkably dry. Wheat looks better than could have been 

 expected. 



Franklin County, Ind. — Wheat is looking well. 



Logan County, Ohio. — The effect of the drought upon wheat cannot yet be determined. 

 I have known in other years wheat to lay in the dust in the fall, and with the late fall 

 rains spring up and mat the ground before the winter proper set in, and produce above 

 an average crop. 



Crawford County, Ohio. — Wheat doing well ; as large a growth as is desirable at this 

 time of year. 



Henry County, Ohio. — Wheat less promising than I remember to have seen it in thirty 

 years. Ground exceedingly dry at time of sowing. Came up thin and in spots. 



Vinton County, Ohio. — Most of the wheat sown late. The fly is in the early sown. 



Branch County, Mich. — Wheat looks i^oorly, owing to the drought. Unpromising for 

 a crop next season. 



Hillsdale County, Mich. — Wheat does not come up well. Fire stiU raging in the woods. 

 In many localities the earth is dry to the depth of three feet. 



