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the early and the late-sown arc looking' .well, wliilo that seeded in 

 October is winter-killed. In Robertson, Fnltz wheat, sown Oetober27, 

 makes a iJne show. The poor appearance of late-sown grains is marked 

 in JMeigs, Eoane, Lincoln, Madison, and Jefferson. 



Tiie accounts from Kentucky are quite various — some promising, 

 others gloomy. A fall drought prevented sufficiently early sowing. 

 In some places where a good stand appears, the severity of the weather 

 has prevented early and rank growth. Several counties compare the 

 prospect favorably with that of last spring, and several present unquali- 

 lied assertions of line condition. On the whole, the average appear- 

 ance is indicative of a fair crop. 



Severe freezing and backward condition are reported from. AYest Vir- 

 ginia. Tiiere is nothing to indicate an exceptionably ]ioor crop. 



A few quite unfavorable reports come from Ohio. Our Franklin cor- 

 respondent had not seen a green field, and says there has, not been rain 

 enough in thirty-six months "to run in a furrow." Alternate freez- 

 ing and thawing in March, in the flat lands of the northwestern part 

 of the State, have wrought much injury. The appearance of fields is 

 "very poor" in Putnan? aiid Defiance; " mtich worse than usual" in 

 Medina; "miserable" in Franklin; "worse than for many years" in 

 Lawrence; "much worse than usual" in Medina; and "the poorest 

 ever known " in Jackson. In several counties indications of improve- 

 ment are reported, and many others make no complaint of injury. 

 With good weather, a fiiir crop may be expected. Of forty-nine coun- 

 ties reporting wheat, forty-one represent a comparatively unpromising 

 condition. 



Nearly all Michigan correspondents report rather an unpromising ap- 

 pearance of winter-grain, or the fact that the ground was frozen and 

 deeply covered with snow. Manistee is the only county claiming an 

 unqualifiedly "good" appearance of all winter cereals. 



The condition of winter-grain is included in reports from fifty-sis 

 counties in Indiana, of which thirty-nine are below an average. The 

 counties making the most favorable returns are Warrick, Wayne, Floyd, 

 Knox, Clay, Clinton, Carroll, Pike, Scott, Fountain, White, Bartliolo- 

 mew, and Boone. The superior condition of drilled wheat is general. 

 The Decatur correspondent says, but little wheat is discernible except 

 that sown upon clover-sod broken in the summer and rebroken in Sep- 

 tember. Eesidts of the season remarkably demonstr;ite the superiority 

 of the drilling. 



Ptcturns from fifty-eight counties in Illinois indicate a condition below 

 an average in twenty-six counties ; the remainder show either an aver- 

 age or a superior condition. In Fayette the plant is more vigorous tlian 

 usual; in Morgan it is fine on drilled land; "better than for several 

 years " in Lawrence ; "better than ever" in Saint Clair ; in Madiv^on, 

 " excellent, never better." In some of the more southern counties the 

 warm weather Vv"as having a favorable influence. 



Of seventy-six counties reporting in Missouri, forty-nine present com- 

 paratively unfavorable returns, four only superior condition, tweh'e 

 good appearance, while the remainder are ecjuivalent to an average. In 

 be Kalb, " broadcast wheat is mostly winter-killed, while drilled prora- 

 ,ises well ; " in Grundy, where most farmers plow butonct and Carelessly 

 brush in their seed, wheat is killed; in Marion, drilled wheat is saved 

 from the destruction attending that sov/n broadcast. 



Little winter-wheat is produced in AVisconsiu, Minnesota, Iowa, or 

 Nebraska. In Wisconsin but ten counties mention it, of which two 

 return good condition, four average, one poor. Of nine in Miunesota, 



