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Vermont.— Omrt<;e; Oats increased in acreage aud improved iu appearance. Orlcavn : 

 Look well. 



New York. — Livingston: Sown in good order and season. Genesee: Need raii:. 

 Wyovdng: Small. Otsef/o : Promising. Rensselaer: Beginning to grow finely. 



New Jersey. — Camden: Light ou the ground. 



Pennsylvania. — Bucks: Probably short. Ch-eene: Healtliy but short. Lancaster: 

 Short, but well set ; with good weather will make an average crop. York: Look prom- 

 ising, on account of late rains. Centre: At a stand-still. Indiana: Making poor pl-o- 

 gress. 



Maryxand. — Frederick: Almost a total failure. Howard: Spring drought ijrevented 

 the oat-straw from forming fully ; both straw and grain will be light. (>«ee» Jnwe.- 

 Late sown and short; will make but a poor crop. Cecil: Very unpromLsing. Kent: 

 Dried up. WasJnnglon: Doing well, owing to recent rains. 



"\ irginia. — Culpcper: Look badly; without great improvement in the conditions of 

 growth they will not make half a crop. Schoueu 90 per cent, of average. Spotisylvania: 

 Average sowing a month late; prospects of a poor crop. Henrico: A serious failure, 

 especially winter-oats. Botetourt: Injured by drought, dy, aud joint-worm. Stratford: 

 Severely affected by drought. Giles : Poor. Sumj : Acreage slightly decreased and 

 25 per cent, inferior in quality. Fluvanna: Rain has greatly improved the crop but it 

 will be short. King and Queen : In a very bad coudition. Orange: Very short. Madi- 

 son: Very unpromising. New Kent: Fall-oats, on thin lands, died out; those on good 

 land will make three-fourths of a crop. Si)ring-oats, though futfering for rain, look 

 well ^nd will make an average crop. Fall-sown Schoueu oats will scarcely make 

 seed ; spring-sown Schoueu oats will be 50 per cent, better than any others. Frince 

 George: Crop suffered from drought. Bath: Very short. Amherst: lujuied seriously 

 by drought. Nelson: Exceedingly short. Fairfax: Abundant rains may bring up oats 

 to three-fourths of a crop. Augusta: Ybvj aXwrt. Prince Edward: Backward. Clarke: 

 Crop worse than for years. Prince William: Suii'ering from lack of rain. King George: 

 Sown late, head low, and are very nupromisiug. White Schonen and Excelsior the 

 best. Wise: Much injured by drought. 



North Carolina. — Norlham])ton : Late, on account of drought, but promise to be as 

 good as usual i?m(f7o/jj/i; Promising. Mechlenhurgh : IvinveA by drought. Chowan: 

 Good, Eowan : Stunted by drought, but maybe redeemed by favorable weather. Bla- 

 den : Nearly all killed out. Gaston : Badly winter-killed. Franklin : Greatly improved 

 by late rains. Moore: Greatly injured by drought, but improved by late rains. Perqui- 

 mans: Fall sown better thanlast year. Alamance: Improving, but will not make a 

 good crop. Haywood: Injured by drought. Henderson: Improving. Stanley: Injured by 

 drought. Montgomery : Increased acreage aud better than average condition. 



South Carolina.— Union : Fall-sown oats on good clean land, good ; spring-sown, 

 very unpromising; harvest has couunenced. Edgefield: The crop very short from 

 drought; that sown early in cotton land will yield 2.5 to 30 bushels; late-sown, 3 

 to 15 bushels ; harvest commenced. Chesterfield: The red rust-proof oats, introduced 

 from Georgia are the favorite; have been harvested, M'hile the common oats are just 

 headiuo- out. The Schonen oats I sowed were killed by the winter. Ilichland: When 

 sowed in the early fall the yield has been good, but spring-oats are a perfect failure, 

 except in bottom-lands, owing to drought. The rust-proof variety has been uuiver- 

 sallj used. Darlington : Considerably injured by a drought of eight weeks in April 

 and' May. Orangeburgh: Season too dry. 



Geohgia. — Muscogee : Heading low, ou account of dry weather Gordon : An unprece- 

 dented amount of chess or cockle among fall or wiut er oats. Murray: Full average 

 crop. Glascock: Very poor; especially spring-oats. Oglethorpe: Improving. Fayette: 

 Injured by drought. Forsyth: Doing well, but low on the ground. Cobb: Backward. 

 Chattooga: Improving. McDvffie : Improving. Wilkes: Rains rather too late for 

 spiing-oats. Marion: Schonen oats sown in November vegetated well but were half 

 killed by winter; the balance rusted. Upson: Drought shortened the oats. Butts: 

 ShorteneVi by drought in May. Madison : Not much sown ; spriug-oats almost a failure ; 

 fall- oats good, i^ecw/m; Much damaged. 



FhOKii) A.— Jacksonville : A failure ; affording limited pasturage. Wakulla : Injured 

 by drought. 



Alabama.— LoM'n<7es : Drought injured the oats. Blount: V/eather unfavorable. 

 Conecuh: Acreage increasing. Greene: Drought has materially injured oats. Sumter: 

 Culture increasing. Clark: Norway oats will not do; the only successful variety is 

 called the non-rusting oats. Clay: Drought disastrous; crop too late to cut. Calhoun: 

 Oats a little shortened l)y dry weather. Lauderdale : Growing well. 



MisSiSSiPPL— Lee: Promises an extrao dinary yield ; Excelsior ahead of all others. 

 Wayne: Injured by drought. Neshoba: C()nditi(>n below that of the same date last 

 year, owing to spiing drought. L'ankin : The red oats, generally raised here, proves 

 a valuable variety, and is the only kind which escapes rust; wherever sown late in 

 the fall it has a good growth, and h)oks promising, but the spring-sown oats look 

 indifferently. Be Soto : Doing well. Winston : Very sorry condition ; headed out at a 



