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Kkntucky. — Shelby : Thin, but heading beyond expectation. Xicholas : Fair crop of 

 -winter wlieat. Mercer : Crop abundant. Daviess : Recent rains have redeemed an 

 unpromising crop ; prospect better than for ten years. Laurel: Injured by heavy rains. 

 Grant: Badly winter-killed ; Fultz wheat looks badlj^, though the spring has been fa- 

 vorable. Henry : Crops fair. Laurel : More promising than for several years. Butler : 

 Beginning to rust. Boclcasile : Indications of rust. Anderson: As fine as ever known. 

 Graves : Yield quadrujde any former one. Adair : Crop not large, but looks well. 



West Virginia. — Pocahontas : Suffered from winter freezing. Hardy: Not over a 

 half crop. Harrison: Winter killed and injured by drought. Randolph: Below aA'er- 

 age ; winter-killed. Taylor : Better than last year. Cahell : Below average. Nicholas : 

 Half crop; winter-killed. Tyler: Half a crop. 



OBXO.—Xoile : Not over a fourth of a crop; winter-killed, and injured by drought. 

 Logan: Protracted fall drought, secured but a feeble growth. A large area has been 

 plowed up for oats. Scioto : Seasonable spring rains will probably compensate for 

 reduced acreage; spring- wheat looks well. Warren: Badly injured by frost ; spring 

 crops abandoned. Medina : May average two-thirds of a crop ; spring- wheat acreage 

 reduced one-half. Defiance : Retarded by fall and spring drought. Monroe: Some good 

 fields, but many will not pay for cutting. PicJcaway : Badly winter-killed, and after- 

 ward injured by drought and flies ; not over a half crop. Fairfield : Badly frozen out 

 Coshocton: Winter- wheat almost a total failui-e. Wyandot: Plenty of liy. Greene: 

 Fly bad, eating whole fields. Allen : Injured by hard winter aud dry spring. Franlclin ; 

 Sevei'e drought, poor tillage, and Hessian fly have made the poorest crop of winter 

 wheat for many years. Crawford: Not half a crop; broadcast nearly all winter- 

 killed ; early drilled as good as usual. Carroll : Largely winter-killed. Henry : Early 

 sown fields a full average. Delaicare: Crop exceeds expectations. Lorain: Spring- 

 wheat never better. Adams : Crops twenty-five days late ; greatly improved during 

 the first half of May. Champaign: Badly winter-killed; drought and fly injurious. 

 Geauga : Greatly improved ; nearly average. 



IXDiAXA. — Elkhart : Below average, but greatly improved by late rains. Ohio : 

 Greatly improved by seasonable rains aud fine weather. Madison: Very poor before 

 the late rains, which have greatly revived the crop. Gibson : Fine since the spring 

 rains, but tlu'eatened by the army worm. Perry: Fair crop. La Grange: Early sown 

 on well-prepared ground promises a good crop ; where sown on corn ground just cleared 

 the wheat will not be worth cutting ; late rains favorable. Kosciuslo : Injured by 

 frost May 3. Johnson : Not over a half crop. Washington : Many fields injured by the 

 fly. Miami: Australian white wheat from the Dej)artment looks well. Scott: Tappa- 

 hannock iujured 25 i^er cent, by fly ; Australian vrhite came up finelj', but has been 

 almost swept by the fly ; Fultz doing well. Morgan : Wheat ranges from extra good to 

 very indifierent. Nolle : Late rains have improved wheat ; early drilled a full average; 

 late sown but a half crop ; on corn ground not over a half crop ; the county will aver- 

 age about two-thirds of a crop. Saint Joseph : Winter croj) looks well in spite of bad 

 weather. Bandolph : Never looked worse ; early sown badly frost-killed. Wayne : 

 Almost a total failure from fly ; j)erhaps one acre in ten will be cut. Owen : Rains too 

 late except to fill the berry. '^Marshall : Harvest late. Hamilton : Good crops in some 

 fields ; almost none in others. Posey : Prospect good ; Fultz entirely winter-killed. 

 White : Wheat will head short without speedy rain. StarJc : Spring-wheat from the 

 Department looks splendid. Warren : AVinter crop good in some places, in others 

 not ; chinch-bug at work. Knox : Improved to nearly an average. Franklin ; Upland 

 wheat generally damaged by the fly ; on stout land and bottoms itlooks well ; Austra- 

 lian white spring ruined by the fly ; Fultz looks as well as any other, heading early. 

 Harrison : Thin on the ground and iujured by the fly. Dubois : Well headed. Deca- 

 tur : Badly damaged bj- dry fall and cold winter ; very thin except where drilled ou 

 fallow ground ; fly at work. 



Illinois. — Pike: Not half a stand; too deeply sown. Lee: Looks fine. Tazewell : 

 Insects in the crop. Cumberland : Harvest two Aveeks late. Fayette : Looks well, though 

 a few fields have been injured by the chinch -bug. Perry : Chinch-bugs very destruc- 

 tive. De Witt: Geuerally winter-killed. Clinton: Fly at work. Boone: Spring- 

 wheat greatly reduced by chinch-bugs. Menard: Wiuter-wheat badly winter-killed ; 

 spring croj) iujured by drought. Bandolph : Greatly improved. Clarke : Greatly im- 

 proved by fine weather. Franklin : Winter-wheat 20 per ceut. injured by chinch-bugs ; 

 Fultz wheat doing well, though sown late. Ogle : Spring-wheat unpromising. La 

 Salle: Promising. Logan: But little spring-wheat. Gallatin: Prospects better than 

 for several years. Siejihenson : Looks well. Wabash : Fly has cut down the crop one- 

 half. Saint Clair : Heading unusually large. Jersey: Good ou timber lands, but weedy 

 aud thin on prairie land. Edgar: Promising. Cass: Not over half a ci'op winter- 

 wheat: siiring-wheat looks well. Laicrence : Chinch-bug aud fly have cut down the 

 crop one-half. Crawford : Chinch-bugs have done terrible damage. Putnam : Badly 

 winter-killed, including Fultz. Bichland : Fly and chinoh have cut down the crop to 

 half an average. Hancock : Terrible ravages of fly aud chinch. 



Michigan. — Washtenav: : Wheat doing tine ; crop about two-thirds ; much old wheat 



