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leit over. Kalamazoo: Greatly iujured. Meva.itu : Better than for yeare. Eimnett : 

 Greatly iiuprovefl ; spring crop acreage reduced. Lapeer : Badly winter-killed. Oak- 

 land : Poorly, late sown last fall; greatly injured by unfavorable winter and 

 spring. Calhoun : About average : drilled better than broadcast. Ottawa : Stand thin 

 but doing well. Tuncola : Winter crop light. Wayne: Looks well on sandy soil; spot- 

 ted on clay land. Van ituren : Looks well. Nen-aygo : Nearly average ; nuicli bene- 

 fited by cool, damp weather. Clinton : Largely plowed up ; not a fourth of a crop. 

 Sanilac: Almost a total failure; nine-tenths plowed up. Shiawaswe : Prospects brighter. 

 Livingston : Poor show. Mawicahn : Badly winter-killed. Berrien : Spring rains very 

 beneficial. 



Wisconsin. — Walworth : Winter-wheat looks well, but the acreage is small and 

 decreasing. Juneau: Looks fine; never better. Fond dn Zac: Harvest four wrecks 

 late. Pierce : Winter wheat on prairie soil badly winter-killed. Saint Croix : Spring 

 crop fine. Calumet : Spring acreage small. IVaukesha : Late snow ; spring crop 10 per 

 cent, above average. Sheboijgaii : Spring-wheat looks well. Grant: Promising. Bay- 

 field : Acreage small, but crop promising. 



Minnesota. — Meeker: Looks well, li'aterman : Fine promise; no winter-wheat. 

 Blue Earth : Acreage decreased. Freeborn : Spring sowing late. FiUmore : Looks 

 splendidly. Nebraska: Stand excellent. Jackson: Looks well. Steele: Promising. 

 Houston : Unusually good. 



Missouri. — Caldwell : Almost a failure. Greene : Prospect better ; probably three- 

 fifths of a crop. Platte: Scarcely a good acre. Barton: Almost a total failure; no 

 spring-wheat raised. Harrison : AH winter-wheat, except early sown, a failure ; spring- 

 w^heat doing well. Polk : Almost a total failure, inchidiug Fultz, through bad weather 

 and insects. Buchanan: Almost a failure ; Fultz entirely frozen out. Newton: Half 

 winter-killed. Moniteau : A failure ; chinch bugs in vast numbers. Crawford : Fine 

 prospect ruined by chinch bugs. Boone: Poorer than for thirty years. Cole: Drilled 

 wheat a good stand ; broadcast poor. Putnam : Looks well : chinch-bugs restrained 

 by the cold. Holt: Winter-killed. Daviess: Winter-killed. Stone: Injured by cold 

 and insects; not over a half crop ; Cass: Badly winter-killed. Vernon: Drilled wheat 

 average ; broadcast one-fourth ; much of it plowed iij). Montrjomcry : Much wheat 

 plowed up. Carroll : Spring-wh.eat splendid ; winter crop a failure. Livingston : 

 Broadcast a failure. Taney : Prospect brightening ; almost an average. Macon : The 

 best districts a fourth of a crop. Nodaway: Winter-wheat ruined. Saint Louis : Half 

 a crop. Benton : Very unpromising. Morgan : Winter-killed ; yield less than in twenty 

 years. Callaway : Badly winter-killed. Jasper : Better than was expected. Howard : 

 Good upon dry rich land. De Kalh : May make seed. Shelby : Winter-killed. Frank- 

 lin: Chinch-bug. Hickory : Winter-killed and eaten by chinch-bugs. Marion : Chinch- 

 bug. Barry : Half winter-killed. 



Iowa. — Cedar: Growing finely. Shelby: Stand excellent, but the rains have made 

 fields on river-bottoms quite weedy. Audubon : Prospect good ; no winter-wheat 

 raised ; too liable to winter killing. Guthrie: Frequent light rains have brought out 

 the crop finely. Buchanan: Spring-grain growing so fast that it has been pastured to 

 prevent mildew. Muscatine : Winter crop injured by drought ; sjiriug croj) restricted 

 in acreage by wet aud by fear of chinch-bugs. Johnson : Winter wheat poorer than for 

 years; spring-wheat much better. Madison: AViuter-killed ; not over half a crop. 

 Chickasaiv : Looks well. Bremer : Looks well, but inclines to straw. Calhoun : Fultz 

 winter killed ; White Australian looks well. Cherokee : Season fine for wheat. Harri- 

 son : AYinter crop ruined; spring crop growing too fast. Tarma : Spring- wheat looks 

 well. Buena : Fultz winter killed. Mitchell : Spring-wheat promising, Lee : A small 

 white worm, resembling the Hessian fly, has attacked the crop ; Australian si^ring- 

 wheat did well. 



Kansas. — Chase : Early-sown fields sheltered from the north wind look well, but many 

 others are frozen out ; crop but two-tenths of last year notwithstanding an increased 

 acreage. Douglass : Winter-wheat a failure ; spring-wheat looks well, but acreage 

 small. Lahette : Winter-wheat improving ; spring crop good — the first in the county. 

 Bourbon : Ciiinch taking the remains of the crop. Johnson : Mostly frozen out. Shaw- 

 nee : A failure ; small area of spring-wheat. Sedgwick: Frozen out. Marshall: Mostly 

 plowed up for spring crops. Leavenworth : Frozen out ; chinch taking the remains. 

 Orange : Badly winter-killed though drilled in good corn-ground. Morris : Almost a 

 failure. Cherokee : Many fields are coming oiit wonderfully in the fine weather. Ne- 

 malia : Winter-killed; mostly plowed up. Washington: Badly winter-killed ; spring- 

 wheat largely sown. Ellsworth : A failure. Montgomery : Drilled wheat looks well ; 

 broad-cast winter-killed. Biley : Nearly a total loss. Marion : Mostly plowed up. 

 Republican : Badly winter-killed and plowed up. Osage : Winter-killed and eaten by 

 chinches. Saline : Almost totally winter-killed. 



Nearasiva. — Jefferson: Very iioor, especially the late sown. Cedar: Prospects favor 

 able. Boone: No winter grain. Gage: Winter-killed; spring crop looks well. 



Dakota. — Bon Homme : Spring-wheat looks very well. 



