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Prospect full average. Madison: Best prospect iu seven years. Limestone; Unusually 

 well AYorked ; in tine coudition. Clarice: Suffered from drought and worms ; but little 

 left on stilf lauds. Aiitwif/a: Backward aud small, but looks well. Lauderdale : Fine 

 coudition ; one good rain in July will finish the latest plantings. Tuscaloosa : Crop 

 fine. 



Mississippi. — Wilkinson: Better than for three years. Wayne: Indifferent stands. 

 Neivton : Very promising. Grenada: Crop promising whore well cultivated; nearly 

 matured in some sections. ]Vinston: Crop better than for years; with seasonable 

 weather the production of the county will be greater than its consumption; yellow 

 Pennsylvania four or five weeks earlier than the native ; possibly two crops of it might 

 be made in the year. Leflore: Peunsj'lvania yellow planted March 15 yielded roast- 

 ing-ears June 15 ; will mature three Aveeks earlier than native corn planted at the 

 same time. Madison : Another good rain will make the Largest crop since the war ; 

 late crops mostly failures from bad working. Holmes: Good prospect. Tishemingo : 

 Croj) prospects fine. Noxubee: Never more promising. Neshoba: Doing very well. 

 Yalobusha : Promises to bo 50 or 75 per cent, above last j^ear. 



Louisi.vNA. — Iberia : Corn acreage 40 iicr cent, greater than ever before. Bed 

 River : On the bottoms finer than for years ; not so good among the hills. J£ast Baton 

 Rouge: Very promising. Riehland: Prospect better than for ten years. Lafourche: 

 Acreage increased, and yield promises to be large enough to do away with the impor- 

 tation. Morehouse : Promises a very largo crop. Carroll : Prospects very flattering. 

 Winn: Fine promise. Rapides: A fair average ; better than last year. 



Texas. — Fannin: Promising; nearly safe. i?a)-(?l» : Fine prospect. Fort Rend: 6,000 

 acres planted. Liberty : Crops 50 per cent, better than last year. Red River : Early corn 

 mostly replanted ; never looked finer. Pennsylvania yellow from the Department very 

 fine. Henderson: C'roji safe; better tillage than usual. Ellis: In full roasting-ear ; 

 crop fine. Kendall: Corn planted March 1 will average 40 bushels xier acre. Cherokee : 

 Late rain has placed the crop beyond danger. Williamson : Will average 45 bushels 

 per acre. Fayette : Crop safe, and better than for years. Milam : Best crop for many 

 yea];s. Rusk : On high grounds corn needs rain, but looks well. Harris : An enormous 

 yield expected. Johnson : Looks unusually well for the season. Bexar : Fine ; hard 

 enough to grind. Colorado : Best crops since 1869. Upshur : Crops very unequal. 

 Marion : Crop 20 per cent, above the best past crop. Pennsylvania yellow in roasting- 

 ear ; will yield 30 bushels per acre ; Peabody 50, a week later. Hamilton : Crop clean 

 and healthy, but low. Medina: Promises nearly an average crop. Grimes: Injured 

 by hail. Lampasas: Promising. Bell: From 30 to 50 bushels per acre. Matagorda: 

 Kuined by drought. • 



Arkansas. — Craighead : Crop retarded by rains. Union : Crop in the grass. Sebas- 

 tiun : Excessive June rains injurious. 



Tennessee. — Decatur : Crops promising. Hancock : Looks fine ; has been well cul- 

 tivated. Madison : Drought did not affect, except to give a better chance to make it. 

 Wayne : Remarkably fine. Steicart : Growing slowly ; well cleaned. Haywood : Crops 

 neglected. Bradley ; Materially injured by drought. Sevier : Beginning to look fine. 

 Humphrey : Average reduced 10 per cent. Jefferson : Rather above average. Roane : 

 Fine condition. Rutherford : Backward, through neglect aud cut-worms. Hawkins : 

 Healthy and vigorous, though backward. Davidson : Late rains have made the crop 

 luxuriant. Sullivan: Growing finely ; promises a good crop ; many fields several times 

 replanted on account of cut-worms. Macon : Backward. 



West Yirgxsia.— Braxton : The dry, cold spring put the crop back, and the worms de- 

 stroyed some fields so that replanting was necessary, but it is now growing fast. Upshur : 

 The cut-worm was so destructive that many fields were replanted the third time. 

 Squirrels also took up considerable in fields bordering upon woodland. Harrison : Very 

 backward, but doing well now. Early corn much damaged by cut-worm. Cabell : Con- 

 dition good. Fayette : Doing very well now, but the weather was too cool for some time 

 after planting, aud aftervrards too rainy for thorough culture. Monongalia: Very prom- 

 ising. Monroe : Much sod-laud was broken up to increase the acreage, but the cut- 

 worms were so numerous as to destroy the first planting, so that the crop is now back- 

 ward. 



Kentucky.— C/ar/ce: Suffering from dry weather. Hardin: Looks well. Fayette: 

 Promising. Lincoln: Backward, but of good color. Pulaski : Damaged somewhat by 

 storms. ifojjMHS : Looking well CtirroJ^ : One of the best seasons ever known. An- 

 derson : Rather backward, but in good condition. Edmonson : Rather late, owing to 

 cold, wet spring, but now growing finely. Clinton : Not large, but color good and 

 growing well. Ohio : Season favorable. Russell : Owing to dry weather in May the 

 corn looked unpromising uutil the recent favorable season. 



Ohio. — Franklin : Needs rain badly ; on thin clay lands the rows are hardly discern- 

 able yet. Ottawa : Suffering from drought. Butler : Condition good, although planted 

 nearly two weeks later than usual. Adams : On ground plowed previous to the freshet 

 of April 15, the corn looks finely, but where the ground was broken up after that date, 

 the cut-worm has been so destructive that some farmers hare replanted the third time. 



