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the clover, li'aslimgton : Grass crops good. Morgan : Spriiiij pasture never better. 

 Mamillon : The old crop does uot look well, but young clover very tine. Hancock : 

 Good season for grass ; some meadows destroyed by black cut-worms. li'cUs : Most of 

 the clover over one year old destroyed by cut-worms. 



Illinois. — Edgar: Grass jiromising. Cuks : Clover of former years nearly all winter- 

 killed, but this spring's sowing is doing finely. Spring pasture, blue grass, and timo- 

 thy never were better. I'ile : Many fields of clover winter-killed ; scarcely one has a good 

 stand. Logan: Clover greatly damaged by winter cold. Lee: Pasturage looking 

 finely. Monroe: Army worm destructive on timothy. Boone: Clover badly winter- 

 killed. Clarke: Clover injured by drought. Knox: Clover on wet ground badly 

 Avinter-killed. 



MicniGAX. — Wayne: Copious rains have improved the grass. La Pierre: Nearly all 

 of last fall's sowing of clover ruined by drought. Calhoun: Drought retarded grass. 

 Van Burcn: Grass promising largely. Montcalm: Old clover fields badly winter-killed. 

 Shiawassee: Grass crops improving. Livingston : Last year's sowing of clover lost. 



Wisconsin. — Jumeau: Grass promises an abundant crop. Pierce: Many fields of 

 clover damaged by freezing where the crop was taken off last fall for seed. Portage: 

 Spring favorable to grass. Saint Croix: Grass looking remarkably well. Adams: Clo- 

 A'er acreage greater than ever before, the soil having developed a superior adaptation 

 to that crop. Calumet: Quite a percentage of the land heretofore devoted to cereal 

 growth has been laid down in meadow and pasture. 



Missouri. — Greene: Hay crop will be large. Some meadows, seeded down for 

 twenty-five or thirty years, will yield three tons per acre, a good admixture of clover 

 remaining with the timothy. Harrison: Grass looks well. Moniteau,: Meadows look 

 unusually well. Cole: Hay cro^) very i)romising. Pike: Old clover largely killed; 

 that sown this spring is doing well. Carroll: Clover generally winter-killed. Calla- 

 ivag: Clov^er and timothy sown this spring look very Avell, 



Iowa. — Clinton grass looks very well. Cedar : Grasses growing finely. Louisa : 

 Army worm injuring the meadows. Guthrie: Light rains have finely brought out 

 grass crops. Howard : Clover badly winter-killed. Muscatine : Clover and pasture 

 fine. Floyd : Clover badly winter-killed, especially last year's, sowing. Chickasaw : 

 Grass looks well. Henry : Timothy injured by worms resembliug the cut-worm. 

 Their work appears to be done, and they are dying. Hogs eat them greedily. 



Minnesota. — Meeker: Spring pastures excellent since May 10. Goodhue: Large in- 

 crease of clover. Houston : Grass promising. 



Kansas. — Morris : Pasture full average. Cloud : Clover first sown this year. Ee- 

 intblic : A few experimental patches of clover. 



New Mexico. — Dofia Ana : No clover except alfalfa, which is cut from four to six 

 times from May to November, being used exclusively for green feed. The native grass 

 — grama — may be cut the year round. 



California. — Contra Costa : The hay crops will be of poor quality, except that 

 made from seeded-grain. Pasturage abundant, but the wild oats and clover are trenched 

 ou more and more by noxious weeds. Placer : Pasturage, though later than usual, is a full 

 averti.ge and will last longer than for two years past, on account of the great amount 

 of moisture left in the ground by the heavy rains. Sonoma : Hay aud grass crops 

 light ; feed will soon be scarce on stock ranges. Sacramento : Clover-fields have been 

 killed out by excess of rain. Tuolumne : Hay-crops will be light. Alameda : Hay 

 a fair crop. Nevada : Much hay made in the southern part of the county by mowing- 

 oats and other graiu. San Joaquin : Large crops of grass and hay. 



Oregon. — Umatilla: Native grasses drying up. Josephine: Grasses short. Douglass: 

 Alfalfa promises to be a good crop. 



FRUIT. 



Apples. — The apple crop of New England gives very fair promise. 

 Eeports from the different couuties indicate an amonut of bloom 28 per 

 cent, above average, and an improvement in condition and prospects of 

 nearly 17 per cent, above average. Every county reports a full average 

 condition except Hartford County, Connecticut, where the canker- 

 worm has reduced the average 20 per cent. This is the only 

 county in New England from which any reports of insect depredations 

 have been received. In Kent County, Rhode Island, a severe north- 

 eastern storm denuded the trees of a large proportion of their blossoms, 

 yet the general crop prospect is estimated at 50 per cent, above average. 

 Norfolk County, Massachusetts,- reports a very remarkable increase of 

 bloom — 200 per cent. — and an improvement of 50 per cent, ia the con- 



