204. 



Kosclusico County, Ind. — Wheat is every day deteriorating on account 

 of the drought. 



Kanlal:€e Coimty, III. — Yery little winter wheat sown. 



St. Clair County, III. — The wheat crop is worse than for many years 

 past ; a great deal of it was plowed under, and the land put in corn. 



Lake County, III. — The reduction of the price of wheat has caused 

 many farmers to sow flax in its stead. More acres of flax have been 

 sown this spring than of wheat. 



Fayette County, III. — AVheat looks badly, but there will be a half crop 

 or more. 



Uffingham County, III. — The fall wheat will not exceed half a crop 5 

 badly winter-killed. 



Winnehago County, III. — Wheat is generally thin, on account of defect- 

 ive seed and dry weather. 



Scott County, III. — Wheat will be short.. 



Greene County, III. — AYheat is heading out finely. 



Mercer County, III. — Wheat will probably be a failure on account of 

 the drought. 



Madison County, III. — Wheat will probably be of first quality, but lit- 

 tle, if any, above half an average in quantity. 



Laicrence County, III. — Wheat heads are unusually large this season. 



Williamson County, 111. — The wheat crop will not equal in yield that 

 of last year. The plants lack vigor. 



Menard County, III. — Wheat has been seriously injured by the drought. 



Boone County, III. — A decreased acreage of wheat. 



Lee County, III. — Spring wheat has suffered seriously from drought. 



Ldgeicood, Effingham County, III. — Wheat has come out a great deal, 

 yet our yield cannot be half as large as last years crop. There was less 

 than half the acreage sown, and one-fourth of that amount has been 

 plowed under and planted to spring grain. Late sowing and the severe 

 winter weather were the causes. 



Adair County, Mo. — Everything is suffering for rain. 



Benton County, Mo. — The season is extraordinary — so very dry that at 

 this date there is scarcely any hope of more than one-fourth of a crop of 

 wheat. 



Cass County, Mo. — Winter wheat is heading low. 



Cole County, Mo. — We have had no rain to do any good through tl^e 

 month of May. Grain is heading out, and looking tolerably well where 

 the ground was plowed deep and the grain drilled in ; but if we miss 

 our seasonable rains, we shall have empty ears in wheat, barley, and 

 oats. 



Dade County, Mo. — Wheat, oats, &c., were never so short. 



Frayiklin County, Mo. — Wheat early sown will head well, with full 

 ^ain ; late sown is very unpromising. 



Hiclcory County, Mo. — We have had the dryest May that has been 

 known in the last fifteen years. Wheat, oats, grass, «S:c., are cut short. 



Lincoln County, Mo. — Xo wheat on the prairie; the dry weather of the 

 past month has cut the crop short in the timber. 



Mercer County, Mo. — Wheat and corn, and small grain generally, look 

 Tery well, having the best season there has been for eight years. 



Moniteau County, Mo. — Wheat badly winter killed. 



Montgomery County, Mo. — Wheat is cut short, and oats much injured. 



Osage County, Mo. — The wheat crop in this section will not average a 

 fall crop ; possibly, not more than two-thirds. All that was sown on 

 high laud was winter-killed. 



