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sissippi very slight; in Minnesota, 13 per cent.; in Iowa, 6; in Missouri, 8; in 
Nebraska, 13; in Kansas, 23; and in California, 25 per cent. 
Many places in different parts of the country, especially in Maryland and 
Wisconsin, report a disappointment in the yield of grain in threshing. The 
disappointment, however, is sometimes in the other direction, as in the following 
case : 
Erie county, Ohio. —F rom extended observations, after threshing of wheat had 
been more general, I have made in this return the average higher, as I am 
borne out in the larger estimates, and the quality of the wheat is better than 
last~year. * 
The following items illustrate the tenor of many reports in favored districts : 
Brown county, Minnesota —Threshing commenced three weeks ago; wheat 
will average 26 bushels to the acre. This is above the average for the last five 
years. The grain was all put in the stack in good order and the quality is 
good. 
Winneshiek county, Iowa.—W heat will average full 23 bushels in this county, 
some as high as 35 to 38, and but a few go under 20. 
Bates county, Missouri—T here never was a better crop of wheat harvested 
in our county. Some fields went as high as 35 bushels per acre, and one 37, 
and this in a region where it was said wheat could not be grown profitably 
until the Yankee invaded the country. 
McCracken county, Kentucky—Our crops will probably average one-fourth 
better than usual. 
Coryell county, Texas.—The grasshoppers made their appearance yesterday, 
(23d,) in vast numbers, and if they continue with us as long as they did last 
fall, there will be another entire failure of wheat. The prospect was never more 
favorable for wheat sowing than now, if it were not for the grasshoppers. 
Oats.—This crop is light in the eastern, middle, and southern Atlantic States ; 
is not a full average in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa; in the other States 
the product is above the average, the largest increase being 21 per cent. in 
Nebraska. In Wisconsin the deficiency is 9 per cent. Our Green county cor- 
respondent says: ‘The oat crop of this vicinity has been considered almost a 
certainty, but owing to very hot weather just as the oats were beginning to fill, 
the crop was materially injured. Fields that bid fair from 40 to 75 bushels per 
acre, when harvested, actually produced from 20 to 30. From many inquiries, 
I have heard of but one field producing over 30 bushels per acre. As a whole, 
the crop has been quite as large as that of last year.” 
Rys&, in most of the States, is marked by figures very similar to those which 
show the relative product of oats. 
BarLeY.—The barley crop is somewhat deficient in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, 
Wisconsin, and in most of the Atlantic States. It will scarcely make so large 
an aggregate in bushels as last year. 
Corn.—Oonsiderable injury from frost is reported in northern Indiana, Illinois, 
Towa, and more northern latitudes. In some portions of Iowa an estimate of 
two-fifths of soft corn is made. From southern Indiana, southern Ohio, West 
Virginia, and Pennsylvania, come complaints of immaturity in consequence of 
wet weather, and a few accounts of injury from drought are received. No gen- 
eral or very severe droughts have been reported. The high temperature of 
July was favorable to the growth of corn, but the unusual coolness of the later 
summer gave a sudden and injurious check at the critical period of earing, result- 
ing in late ripening, smut, and other evidences of abnormal conditions. Yet 
the acreage is undeniably large in most of the States, and nowhere is there very 
serious failure. The total product will be, therefore, not what was hoped in the 
early season, or what is needed for a country with a rapidly increasing popula- 
tion, but a somewhat larger quantity than last year, which was a season peculiarly 
adverse to corn production. A good crop should exceed one thousand millions 
