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is poor ; it is late and somewhat thin in Weakley ; in Sullivan, though 

 small, it stands well ; is backward, with a good stand, in Montgomery 

 and in Robertson ; and is " decidedly good " in Sevier, and " excellent" 

 in Williamson. Among the counties where "above the average" is 

 reported, or a fine stand, are Anderson, Campbell, Davidson, Dyer, 

 Hawkins, Jefferson, Lauderdale, Monroe, Obion, Polk, Rhea, Smith, and 

 Union. 



Kentucky. — More than forty counties are reported, in this State, favor- 

 ably, with few exceptions, as in Butler, Calloway, McCracken, Gallatin, 

 and Livingston, where some complaints of winter-killing are made, and 

 in Trimble, where it is " not so good as last year." lu Carroll the plant 

 looks well, except in unfavorable situations, where it was injured by 

 freezing, as it was to some extent in Graves, where sown among corn, 

 according to the negligent mode more or less prevalent in the Ohio 

 Valley. It appears " better than for several years " in Henry ; " better 

 than for five or six years" in Anderson ; " never better" in Jackson and 

 in Russell; "unusually promising" in Hardin, Sherman, and Johnson. 

 In the following counties the condition is placed at above an average : 

 Christian, Jefferson, Fayette, Metcalf, Marion, Shelby, Oldham, Rock- 

 castle, Clark, Clay, Laurel, Scott, Warren, Lincoln, ll^felson, Owen, Ken- 

 ton, Hopkins, Greenup, Herkimer, Pulaski, Whitley, Ohio, Meade, and 

 Boone. 



West Virginia. — Sowing was generally late, cold weather came early, 

 and the growth made was small, and in j)laces weak ; and winter-killing 

 resulted to some extent. A backward and an inferior appearance was 

 noted in Morgan, Pocahontas, Raleigh, Hardy, Brooke, Hancock, Put- 

 nam, and Tucker. A poor start but healthy condition is reported from 

 Harrison ; a fair prospect is seen in Hardy, while in the mountain county, 

 Pendleton, wheat never looked better. Fields early sown usually look 

 well. Winter gTain generally appears well in Boone, Barbour, Braxton, 

 Berkeley, Cabell, Jackson, Jefferson, Hardy, Kanawha, Lewis, Lincoln, 

 Morgan, Mason, Marshall, Preston, Ohio, Tucker, and Tyler. 



Ohio. — A majority of the counties reporting represent wheat and rye 

 as unpromising in aj^pearance, below an average, or " not so good as 

 last year." Still the reports do not indicate disastrous winter-killing, 

 which would render imx^ossible a good crop. Much of the injury men- 

 tioned is like that in Butler, of which John M. Millikin says : " Wheat 

 does not look unpromising. It is injured slightly, as in former years." 

 In Medina, where it was much frozen, dry uplands look well ; a disposi- 

 tion to plow up wheat fields seems to exist in Mercer and in other coun- 

 ties, as in Miami, Clermont, and Montgomery ; the loss from freezing did 

 not occur till March. One cause of inferior condition was late sowing, 

 as the early sown almost invariably appears well. The seasou was 

 extremely unpropitious for seeding and early growth ; very wet weather 

 prevailed in southern Ohio earlj" last summer ; later a severe drought 

 rendered the soil extremely hard, and plowing difficult and late, giving 

 no time for seeding till October, when cold weather shortly set in, in 

 some instances before germination had visibly progressed. It is also 

 noted here, as elsewhere, that drilling, generally, insured a good stand ; 

 iu Morrow "drilled wheat looks one hundred per cent, better than 

 sown." The plant did not come up well in Defiance ; and iu Hardin that 

 which was covered light was lost by sprouting and drying, or " damp- 

 ing off'." But half a stand is reported in Shelby ; and in Marion, as is 

 claimed, it has not been worse in ten years. Other counties making 

 comparatively unfavorable returns are Athens, Berg, Carroll, Colum- 

 biana, Clinton. Coshocton, Drake, Green, Huron, Lawrence, Lorain, 



