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Clinton County, Mich. — Wheat has not come up well. Some farmers have waited for 

 rain before sowing. 



Livingston County, ilicli. — Scarcely any wheat sown on summer-fallow, and much 

 of the seed sown is lost. Man j'^ fires yet burning in the swamps and marshes. 



Wayne County, Mich. — Mucli of the wheat sown in September lias not yet come up. Pas- 

 tures nearly all dried up. Much sutlering among stock for water. 



Mercer County, JFis. — Owing to the continued dry weather, wheat and rye have not 

 been sown as early as usual, but what has been sown looks well. 



Cohnnhia County, JFis. — Little grain sown this fall, owing to the dry weather. 



Washington County, Iowa. — Fall wheat prospect poor. Drought. . 



Adams County, Iowa. — Five times as much winter-wheat sown as in any previous 

 year. 



Shawnee County, Kans. — Wheat sown a month later than usual, but it is looking 

 well. 



Morris County, Kans. — Very little seeding done before October 10. A good breadth 

 sown, bnt hardly as great as last year. 



Bepullic County, Kans. — "two years ago I spent a week with a team in going after 

 winter-wheat for seeding. The result from ten bushels was very satisfactory. Last 

 year I sowed again, and four other farmers followed. The results were so good that five 

 hundred to one thousand acres have been sown this fall — last year thirty-one. I have 

 just procured five bushels of winter-rye, and will start that over the county next fall. 

 Will get winter-barley as soon as I can procure it. 



Dickinson County, Kans. — Dry month ; wheat backward. 



Osage County, Kans. — Chinch-bugs still alive by millions, and in some fields attacking 

 the growing wheat. 



Bourbon County. Kans. — Decreased breadth in wheat and put in worse than usual. 



Miami County, Kans. — Sown late, but looking well. 



Gage County, Nehr. — Early sown wheat looks well ; late sown not so good. 



Cass County, Nehr. — Wheat looking remarkably well. 



Stanislaus County, Cal. — No rain yet, but the farmers have been sowing wheat and 

 barley extensively on dry summer-fallow. 



Alameda County, Cal. — No rain since the middle of May ; but little wheat sown in 

 this section of the State for the want of rain to moisten the ground. 



VALUE OF COEN J^ODDEE. 



In the aniiual report of 1870 a digest of the views of numerous cor- 

 respoudeuts, of intelligence and experience, is presented, from which 

 the following conclusions were drawn : 



1. Green corn-fodder is neither worthless nor the poorest of all soiling matei'ial. 



2. It is best when planted in drills or hills, not so thickly as to prevent normal growth 

 and development, cultivated to destroy weeds and grasses, and cut between tasseling 

 and earing, when the elements elaborated for production of the ear are stored in readi- 

 ness for immediate use. 



3. It is probable, both from the rationale of the case and from facts presented above, 

 that in the more northern latitudes a mistake has often been made in sowing thickly 

 southern corn which cannot mature, the fodder from which, fed in August, must be very 

 nearly worthless. On the contrary, the fodder from uorthern corn, especially sweet 

 corn, drilled widely and cultivated, and fed just before earing, is found to be very val- 

 uable. 



4. Its value, compared with lucern, millet, the best grasses, and other plants con- 

 taining a large percentage of nutriment, taking into consideration the quantity pro- 

 duced and the cost of its production, has not been determined fully, and should be 

 decided by a series of thorough and exhaustive experiments. 



Confirmations of the correctness of these conclusions are received 

 from every direction, as the result of further and more careful experi- 

 ment during thepresent year. Among the authorities repeatedly quoted 

 to show the assumed worthlessness of corn-fodder, is the Boston Journal 

 of Chemistrj-. 'J'he position of that journal is that " when raised from 

 broadcast-sowing it is nearly worthless, but when sown in liills or in 

 drills and cultivated with access of air and sunlight, it is of high value.'' 

 An experiment made by the editor this season shows that fodder-corn 



