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Abbeville County, S. C. — The spring has been dry, which is favor-* 

 able to the yield of wheat. The straw is short, but the heads are better 

 filled than usual, and the crop is free from disease. It is now about 

 ripe, and the rains have set in, and the crop may yet be injured seriously. 



G-reenville County, 8. C. — May has been unusually dry, and it is feared 

 that the grain crop will be light. The writer's Eed Bearded Mediter- 

 ranean and the Tappahannock look as fine as he ever saw them in Penn- 

 sylvania. He soaked the seed in salt and water, and dusted with lime 

 before sowing, and top-dressed in winter with barn-yard manure. 



York County, 8. C. — Only half a crop of wheat can be expected, owing 

 to the drought of seven weeks. 



LumpTcin County, Ga. — Wheat and rye give promise of a very abund- 

 ant harvest. The acreage in wheat is fully fifty per cent, greater than 

 that of last year, and the yield will be fifty per cent, above last year, 

 nnless there be disaster in the next fortnight. 



Clayton County, Ga. — Wheat generallj^ promising — especially the 

 Tappahannock, which bids fair to excel all other varieties grown liere. 



Chattanooga County, Ga. — Wheat on bottom land, although killed to 

 some extent by cold, promises over an average crop ; that on upland is 

 below the average. 



Murray County, Ga. — The season has been favorable for wheat. 



Crawford County, Ga. — Wheat promising. The cold spring injured 

 all crops but wheat. 



Forsyth County, Ga. — Wheat is good, though injured somewhat by 

 the seven weeks' drought. 



Gordon County, Ga. — Wheat is extra good. 



Pulaski County, Ga. — Wheat is excellent for this section. The Tap- 

 pahannock wheat, received from the Department, is the best v-ariety 

 grown here. 



8chley County, Ga. — Wheat crop much injured by birds — perhaps one- 

 sixth destroyed. 



Cave 8pring, Ga.— Crops look well — Avheat being harvested — a good 

 yield. 



Randolph County, Ala. — Wheat is in more than average condition. 



Attala County, Miss. — Wheat is in good condition, but the acreage is 

 only one-third that of former years. 



Williamson County, Texas. — The raising of small grain has been nearlj 

 abandoned, and increased acreage of cotton has been substituted. 



Bexar Cotmty, Texas. — The wheat harvest is nearly concluded. Al- 

 though the acreage is less than that of last year, the quality of the crop 

 is better, and the yield per acre is judged to be greater. 



Red River County, Texas. — The spring has been remarkably cool, and 

 wheat is ten days lat^r than it was last year, but is very fine. The crop 

 is one-tenth less than an average, owing to damage by rice birds. 



Upshur County, Texas. — Spring wheat is in promising condition, and 

 the acreage is about the same as last year. Winter wheat is in aver- 

 age condition^ but continues to decline in acreage. 



Grayson County, Texas. — The wheat crop was seriously injured April 

 10, by a severe hail-storm which traversed the county from east to west. 

 Several good wheat fields were entirely destroyed, and the total loss 

 will amount to 10,000 bushels. 



Ullis County, Texas. — Wheat is now mostly cut and shocked ; the har- 

 vest is much later than usual. 



Independence County, Arli, — Wheat was planted in good season and 

 with unusual care, but has given little promise. Harvest is at hand, 



