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improving ; straw short but heads well filled; some fields may average 20 bushels per 

 acre. Calvert : Wiuter-wheat very greatly improved by the recent rains ; crop will be 

 better than for several years. Queen Anne: Straw short and light; (quality of grain 

 superior ; probably not over a half crop. 



Virginia. — Albemarle: Short but vpell filled. Clarke: Prospects improved. Meek- 

 lenhurgh : Light but of excelleut quality; fly injurious in some places; ruined the 

 Fultz wheat, which was very promising. Nelson : Crop short and light ; heads 

 unusually well filled; grain superior. Washington: More fly than last year; no rust 

 yet; falling off 20 per cent. Frince William: Crop light. Henrico: Straw short but 

 the crop average. Prince George : Of good quality and harvested in good order. Surry : 

 Injured by drought. Highland : One-third of an average. Fairfax : Straw short but 

 heads long and well filled; Fultz wheat a great acquisition. Amelia; Quality extraor- 

 dinary; yield not large. King and Queen : Injured by hail-storm in May and also by 

 drought. Orange: Greatly improved ; promises a full crop of superior quality. Cul- 

 peper: Touzelle wheat, third crop from Department seed, is very tine; 20 per cent, 

 better than any other. Fultz wheat promises finely. Ushak wheat has also created 

 a sensation among farmers by the size and beauty of the heads ; sold for seed at 

 $5 per quart. Fulaski: Excelleut in quality; three-fourths of a crop. Charlotte: 

 Straw short but grain good ; expect to thrash out a larger crop than for ten years. 

 Spottsyhmnia : Yield 50 per cent, above last year ; lands usually yielding 4 to 6 bushels 

 yielded 10 to 12 per acre. Middlesex: Early harvest ; grain fine but straw short. New 

 Kent: Better than usual; grain finer than any raised since the war. Madison : Straw 

 short; grain fine ; Fultz wheat very successful. Craig: Wheat better than was anti- 

 cipated; Fultz wheat from the Department is highly esteemed; stalk strong; head 

 well filled. Smythe: Crop excellent and secured in fine condition. Stafford: Crop fine, 

 making up in quality for its deficiency in quantity. Greenville : What little wheat was 

 sown was harvested in fine condition. Henry: Crop never better. Fauquier: Crop 

 short but of excellent quality. Angusta ; Crop equal to last year's. 



North Carolina. — Gaston : Grain perfect ; yield « or 10 per cent, above average. Gran- 

 ville: Better than any croi) within the past ten years. Forsyth: Better than for five 

 years ; grain very fine. Chowan : Grain very good. Alexander : Fultz wheat looks 

 well, but is late, and liable to rust; healthy so far. Henderson : Yield better than for 

 fifteen years. Mecklenhurgh : Crop better than any since the war, or for fifteen years. 

 Butherford : Harvested eight days earlier than usual ; crop good, 30 per cent, above 

 average. Bladen : Good yield. Eandolph : Crop larger than for years and of very 

 good quality. Person : Never better ; will turn out 25 bushels per acre ; harvested early 

 and generally housed. McDowell ; Better than for several years ; harvested in good 

 order, but in danger of being injured in the shock by continued rains; Fultz Avheat 

 has done remarkably well. Caldwell : Best crop, probably, since 1859; Boughton does 

 not yield as well as blue-stem ; Fultz promises to be a success. Ashe : Fultz looks 

 Avell, as also spring- wheat. Hen-eford : Much better than was expected. Haywood: 

 Better than for fifteen years. Burke : Largest yield and finest grain in ten years. 

 Dai¥^ : Heads did not fill well, but grains large and good. Alamance : A fair average ; 

 grain very fine ; shortened on thin soils by drought. Stanley: Thrashing out finely; 

 grain bright, full, and heavy; yield larger than usual; all varieties have done well. 

 Rowan: Remarkably full grains; yield larger than was expected; largest crop since ^ 

 the war. Eockingham : Crop double of last year's. Lincoln : Crop promises to be the 

 best for many years. Moore : Fine, and mostly harvested in good condition. 



South Carolina . — Lexington : Better than anticipated, esiiecially the Fultz. Un ion : 

 Wheat very fine ; 64 ponnds to the bushel. 



Georgia'. — Forsyth : Excellent in the grain, but thin on the ground. Catoosa: Fultz 

 wheat did remarkably well. Two quarts of seed from the Department produced 1^ 

 bushels, though sown on the poorest land on the farm. Nearly every head came out 

 the same day, and the whole ripened with singular uniformity. It may, probably, on 

 the best land, be made to yield from 25 to 40 bushels per acre. Sumter : Wheat found 

 to be a profitable crop. Gordon: Grain extra tine ; crop thin. Wilkes: Grain fine, but 

 yield not up to expectation. Lumpkin : Ushak and Fultz wheat fully answer expecta- 

 tions ; heads of Fultz very heavy. Murray : Best crop in ten years. Gwinnett: Good 

 average. Oglethorpe: Under average. Franklin : One quart of Fultz wheat from the 

 Department yielded 70 quarts. Whitfield : Crop good. Lincoln : Grain good, but the 

 crop greatly reduced by winter-killing. Fannin: Winter-wheat fine. Fultz wheat 

 from the Department did well ; a quart of seed sown broadcast yielded a bushel of 

 grain. Coli : Crop good. 



Alabama.— Co?&ec< ; Universally good. Saint Clair : Superior. Morgan : Best crop 

 in eight years. 



M1SSIS.SIPPI. — Newton : Acreage small, but yield better than for ten years. 



Tex\s.— Fannin : Yield over 20 bushels per acre. Dallas : Best crop ever raised here ; 

 averaging from 21J to 37^ bushels per acre. Fed Fiver : Fine crop harvested. Ellis : 

 Crop thrashing out fi-om 23 to 41 bushels per acre ; best crop ever made here. Ken- 

 dall : AVinter-wheat will average 20 bushels per acre. Williamson : Will average 25 to 



