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XflA'c Coimty, Ohio. — Com is looking badly, owing to extremely wet 

 weather. 



Ashland County, Ohio. — Corn is an average crop, and, like most other 

 crops this season, is nearly three weeks earlier than usual. 



Hamilton County, Ohio. — The crop is suffering from want of rain. 



Marion County, Ohio. — Injured by drought. 



Crawford County, Ohio. — The crop is better than usual ; much of it 

 already ripe. 



Mercer County, Ohio. — The best crop for many years. 



Seneca County, Ohio. — A larger crop than ever before. 



Uric County, Ohio. — The best crop ever grown here. 



Montcalm County, Mich. — A very large crop. 



Ionia County, Mich. — The crop is a very good one, with the excej^tion 

 that it is affected by smut. 



Ccifis County, Mich. — The crop is being injured by drought. 



Brandt County, Mich. — The best crop ever known, and two weeks 

 -earlier than usual. 



Calhoun County, Midi. — Corn is excellent, most of it ready to cut up. 



Van Buren County, Mich. — Drought has been continuous since June 

 15, and corn, which had given excellent j)romise, is now drying on the 

 cob. 



Washtenaw County, Mich. — A splendid crop in quantity and quality. 

 Much of it has been cut. 



Walworth County, Wis. — The crop will be light. The harvest is 

 earlier than usual. 



Marquette County, Wis. — Late rains have materially assisted the corn 

 crop, which now promises to be heavy. 



Green Lahe Comity, Wis. — Will be a good crop. 



Dalwta County, Minn. — The best year for corn we have ever had. 



Fillmore County, Minn. — Promises a larger yield i)er acre than we 

 have had for years. 



Wright County, Minn. — Damage by frost August 12 and subsequent 

 dates. 



Houston County, Minn. — Corn will not make an average yield, but is 

 sound. 



Sac County, loiva. — Many fields have been nearly ruined by the 

 drought ; others, cultivated more deeply and planted in good season, give 

 nearly an average crop. 



Lee County, Iowa. — The crop has been greatly improved by rains of 

 August 2 and subsequent dates. 



Muscatine County, Iowa. — Corn has improved rapidly within three 

 weeks, aiul if frost holds off" till quite late the crop will be better than 

 that of last year. 



Cedar County, Iowa. — A heavy rain, August 24, has greatly revived 

 <iorn, and a large crop will be secured unless early frost prevents. 



Cherokee County, Iowa. — Corn on new ground is almost an entire fail- 

 ure, and many are cutting it up for fodder. The driest season known 

 for twelve years. 



Appanoose County, Iowa. — The late rains have worked wonders with 

 corn ; the stand is good, and as the acreage is increased the prosiJect 

 is that the product will be larger than in any previous year. 



Page County, lotca. — A heavy crop. 



Doniphan County, Kans. — Late rains will bring the crop up to an 

 average. Had it not been for the severe drought the crop would have 

 been the heaviest ever reported here. 



Cherolice County, Kans. — Corn is very wormy ; the yield, about fifteen 



