397 ; 
Lewis county, Washington Territory—Heavy frosts on the night of the 11th 
instant, injuring corn. 
Polk county, lowa—We are grievously disxppointed in our corn crop. We 
have more acres by 40 per cent., and never had a better promise for the heaviest 
crop per acre. until the early and most terrible frost of the night of the 18th of 
September. At first it was supposed the damage would not be very great; 
it now proves that two-fifths of the entire crop is unripe, and unfit for market 
or shipping. 
Washington county, Nebraska —Corn is good; some of the late is somewhat 
injured by frost, still we will have a large yield. Corn is selling for from 50 to 
60 cents per bushel; oats from 40 to 50 cents per bushel. 
Prairie county, Arkansas—Our corn crop, early and late, is matured, and 
will be the largest since 1862, nearly doubling the average crop. 
Drew county, Arkansas —Corn is now being gathered ; a very large propor- 
tion is unsound. 
De Kalb county, Missourt—Corn, which early promised a large yield in some 
localities, is not over 50 per cent. of the yield promis d June 20. 
Spencer county, Kentucky.—The corn and sorghum are very green, and much 
has been prostrated by wind and rain and is suffering. 
Anderson county, Kentucky—Corn has fallen down to a great extent and 
probably damaged considerable; but the crop in this county will be better than 
any since 1855. 
Russell county, Kentucky.—After making deductions for all injured corn and 
oats we will yet have more than for 20 years. 
Fayette county, Tennessee—The corn crop is being very much damaged by 
the wet weather. The cob of the ear at the butt-end is rotting, and the grain 
sprouting, and in some sections great apprehvnsions are felt for a sufficiency 
of bread for the coming winter; some persons turn down the stalk at the point 
first below the ear, so that the shucks that envelop the grain will shed the 
water. 
Pike county, Mississippi.—The corn crop has matured, and to a great extent 
gathered ; it is the best we have had for years. 
Spartansburg district, South Carolina.—Corn is exremely fine; market 
expected to open at 40 to 50 cents. 
Franklin county, North Carolina—The corn erop as compared with 1867 is 
very good; on high land the yield will be one-third larger than in 1867, and but 
for the entire destruction of the crops on the river it would have been double. 
Bertie county, North Carolina—TYhe long drought in early summer cut short 
all the early corn from one-third to a half crop; in this and adjoining counties 
of Norfolk and Currituck it will be much shorter than estimate in the report for 
September would indicate. . 
Kanawha county, Virginia —Corn exceeded all expectation for quantity, but 
the late rains have done considerable damage. 
Clark county, Virginia—A protracted drought has prevailed in this county 
since the last of May until the rains set in in September ; corn is almost a perfect 
failure in certain portions of the county. 
Putnam county, West Virginva—The spring at the usual season for planting 
corn was very wet, so as to cause late crops and in many instances to reduce the 
quantity which farmers intended to plant; then the critical season for it, July 
and early in August, was very dry. Now, and for a few weeks past, when dry 
weather would mature and save the crop, we are and have been suffering from 
most unprecedented rains. I have never known autumnal rains to do anything 
like the amount of damage to corn which they have recently done. 
Henrico county, Virginia—Corn mostly cut and found to be very fine. 
Adams county, Pennsylvania —Corn better than I have known for years. 
