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;iii(l high winds, formed a hard crust, which was difficult for the com to break through. 

 Fairfax: Coining u^i liadly. Augusta: Came up poorly ; where shallow-planted not at 

 all. Prince William : Cannot sprout without rain. Reury : Well worked ; looks well. 

 King George : Bud-worm destroying corn. 



North Carolina. — I\"orlhampton : Area about as usual ; crop looks well. Randolph: 

 Hopeful. Chowan : Looks well. Camden : Doing well, but the stand is below average. 

 Bladen : Clean and looking av ell. Sampson : Late but good. Perquimans : Looks well, 

 and in good order. Coahoma: Crop good. Stanley: Injured by drought, and cut 

 down by a black worm of the size of the Pyralis, which infests the grape-vine ; some 

 farmers have got but a third of a stand on the third j)lantiug. Jones: Prospect never 

 better. 



South Carolina. — Richland: The stand poor ; much not yet up. Williamsburgh : 

 Fair prospect. Orangehurgh : Favorable season ; looks fine. 



Georgia. — Glasscock: Looks badly, and farmers anxious about it. Chattahoocliee : 

 Average prospect ; better than last year. Forsyth : Fair, but uneven ; the bud-worm 

 prevented an early stand. Twiggs : Small, but healthy. Stewart : Good. Madison : 

 Stand bad, but condition good. Decatur : Suffering greatly from drought. 



Florida. — Jackson : Neglected ; three weeks behind in planting. Bradford : Suffer- 

 ing somewhat. Manatee: Yellow field-corn from the Department looks well in spite 

 of drought ; it is two weeks earlier than native corn. Levy : Nearly ruined ; an im- 

 mediate rain may make half a crop. Wakulla : Drought damaging ; not one-half a 

 crop Avill be gathered. 



Alabama. — Marshall : Early corn looks well. Tuscaloosa ; Crop fine. Autauga ; 

 Late, but looking well. Conecuh : Looking badly, but improved by late rains. Macjyn ; 

 Full average. Lawrence : Late, but promising. Colbert : Early corn promising ; late- 

 plauted poor. Greene: Late fine rains have improved the corn. Cherokee: Two late 

 heavy rains have greatly improved the corn. Dallas : Area increased 10 per cent. ; 

 crop promising. Randolph : Corn-stand imperfect, but improved by recent rains. 

 Crenshaw : Pennsylvania yellow corn from the Department looks well. Lauderdale : 

 Clean and healthy. 



Mississippi. — Newton : Very good. Wayne : Eather benefited by the drought, in giv- 

 ing a chance to clean it. Warren : Increased acreage ; looking as well as could be 

 expected. Pike : In fine condition, owing to dry weather. Pennsylvania corn threat- 

 ens to be a failure. Amite : Good crop expected. Hinds : Above an average. It is 

 the crop we should be most interested in. Lowndes ; Doing well. Holmes: Bad stand; 

 stunted and small; much of it too much so to recuperate. Yazoo: Two weeks later 

 than last year, owing to drought in April and May, but rains have since been general, 

 and crops have improved rapidly. Rankin : Has improved wonderfully since the mid- 

 dle of May. De Soto : Doing w^ell. Jefferson : Promising better than last year. Win- 

 ston : Looks finely. Smith: Pennsj-lvania corn, from the Depaii;meut, in silk May 20 ; 

 other corn waist-high. Bolivar : Very late ; not much came up till after May 23. 

 Grenada : Has kept a good color, but the stand is bad. Ken\per : LookS promising. 

 Noxubee : Fine in spite of drought. 



Louisiana. — East Feliciana : Unusuallj' promising ; season favorable. Bossier: The 

 yellow prolific corn, planted March 15, is now in tassel, and can be laid by in time to 

 work cctton. Morehouse : Several weeks later than usual, but looks well. Richland : 

 Acreage increased and stand good, after a second planting, in many places. Ouachita : 

 Good stand, and in fine condition. East Baton Rouge : Ten per cent, increase in acreage, 

 and condition good. Carroll: Has suffered severely from the attacks of a very small 

 bug. Some farmers have replowed more than once. 



Texas. — Henderson : Looks well ; better cultivated than formerly. Cherokee : Crop 

 backward. McLennan ; Crop estimated at 40 to 60 bushels per acre. Milam: The best 

 prospect for corn for many years. Kendall : Pennsylvania corn, from the Department, 

 on the 2Gtli of May had distinctly formed ears. Lavacca : Koasting-ears for two weeks, 

 from the Pennsylvania corn sent by the Department. 



Arkansas. — Newton: Below average condition, owing to wet spring. Independence: 

 Cultivation greatly interfered with by heavy rains. Columbia : Looks remarkably well, 

 though a little later than usual. 



Tennessee. — Roane : Difficult to get a stand, on account of cut- worm. Knox : Many 

 fields have been plowed up and replanted, owing to ravages of cut-worm caused by 

 the cool weather ; otherwise the crop is doing well. Wayne : Condition good. Lou- 

 don: Very promising. Sullivan: Cut-worms have been very destructive, and we are 

 still replanting. If the season is favorable, we will yet make a crop. 



Kkstucky.— Russell : Ground baked hard ; much of the corn planted has been re- 

 planted. Crop prospects very poor. Daviess : Backward, and much trouble with cut- 

 worms. He^iry : Good stand secured ; young plants thrifty. 



West Virginia. — Marion : Cut-worms very bad, cutting off some fields while disturb- 

 ing others very little. Raleigh : Late planted, owing to drought. Jefferson : Has come 

 up indifferently. Braxton : Very backward. Cabell : Cut-worms destructive. Up- 

 shur: Early plantings rotted. 



