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Minnesota. — Bamsiy : Grass never looked Letter. Wabashaiv : Clover and timothy 

 very liglit, from winter-killing and drought last year. Fillmore : Grass of all kinds 

 never better. ^ 



Iowa. — CUnion : The hay crop -will he light, because we were obliged to pasture 

 our meadows last fall. Cedar : Timothy and meadows injured by drought of last year 

 and the cut-worm. Mtiscatine : Timothy almost a failure. Scott : Poor show for timothy. 

 Floyd : Clover suffered severely by the winter, and timothy, notwithstanding favor- 

 able weather, does not make its usual growth. Tame pastures not up to average ; 

 wild ones above it. Entry : Timothy and meadows badly injured by worms. Ma- 

 Tiasl-a : In many localities the timothy meadows have been ruined by a worm like the 

 army-worm, which has now disappeared. Jefferson : The hay crop will be unusually 

 light, owing to the depredations of the ainiy-worm. Madwon : Timothy much dam- 

 aged by winter-killing and wire-worms. Monona : Little timothy grown, and that 

 much injured by last year's drought. 



Missouri. — Barton ; Prairie-grass splendid. It ie the only kind gi-own. Leuis : 

 Old timothy meadows- full of blue-grass ; newly seeded ones looking very well. Lw- 

 ingsion: Pasture and the grass in splendid condition. Cass: Pastures good. SuUitan : 

 Old clover nearly all winter-killed; newly sown, excellent. Pliejps : Old meadows 

 light, but newly seeded clover and timothy have heavy growth. 



California. — Tuolumne : Hay injured by cold winds and rain in the spring. Nevada : 

 Pastures dry. El Dorado : Clover and pastui-es good. 



Oregon. — Marion: The hay-crop suffering for rain. Lane: Grass rather light. 

 Meadows will not last more than three or four of our dry summers without reseeding. 

 Douglas : What little hay there is, is mostly cut. Clais&p : Grasses generally good. 



The Territories. — El Paso, Colorado : Pastures sidendid. Lincoln, Dakota : Grass 

 looks well. Lewis and Clarice, Montana : Native pastures excellent. 



TOBACCO. 



Massachusetts. — Hamjisliire : Tobacco suffering severely from cut-worms. 



Connecticut. — Middlesex : Ynwoiahle condition. Hartford: Good weather, but the 

 cut-worms destructive. 



Virginia. — Mecklenhurgh : Looks very fine. Nelson : Poor stand through drought. 

 Cumberland. Not over half a crop. Prince Edward : Bad stand ; much replanted. Prince 

 George: Drought injured tobacco. Amelia: Acreage reduced on account of drought. 

 Powhalan: Bad stand. ^Fluvanna: Shortened by drought. Madison: Shortened by 

 drought. 



North Carolina. — Person : Tobacco, the principal crop of the county, looks well ; 

 area increased ; planting season proijitious. Davie : Very fine ; planted early and 

 growing well. Alamance: Good. 



Georgia. — Murray : Drought severe on tobacco. 



Louisiana. — Morehouse : Very fine ; crop annually increasing. 



Tennessee. — Smitli : Acreage increased "25 per cent. Pohertson : Crop in good season. 

 Steicart : A fair stand. 



Kentucky. — HopMns : Acreage large and planting in good time. Oliio: Acreage 

 believed to be largely in excess of former years. Some comfdaint of bad stand, but 

 condition generally good. Jiussell : Increase of 50 per cent, in acreage, aud condition 

 good. 



Ohio. — Medina : Acreage last year 199 acres ; less this year. Vinton : Considerable 

 ground ready for tobacco, but the crop awaits rain. 



Wisconsin. — Green : Transplanting late, and precarious on account of dry weather. 



Missouri. — Livingston : Looks finely. Howard : Preparations made for a very large 

 crop, but the hot and dry weather prevented the setting out of a large portion of the 

 croi> before July 1 ; still, with a late fall, a heavy crop may be made. 



HEMP AND FLAX. 



Virginia. — Fatriel:: Flax crop promising in northern part of the county. 

 ■■ Kentucky. — Shelby: Increase of 15 per cent, in the acreage of hemp — condition 

 average. Fayette : Hemp very promising. Jackson : Increased acreage in flax, and an 

 increase of 30 per cent, of lint and seed indicated. 



Ohio. — Miami : Flax suffering for rain. Morrow : Flax is becoming quite a staple. 

 Several thousand bushels of seed and several hundred tons of straw are produced an- 

 nually. Delaware : Flax promises well. 



Indiana. — Huntington : Flax injured by cut-worms. Bandolph : Late-sown flax 

 burned up by drought. Madison : Flax badly cut by the worm. Kosciusko : Flax much 

 injured by hail tlie latter part of May. Wells : Cut-worm bad. 



Minnesota.— Jra/ornoaM,- Hemp aud flax sowed for the first time, and doing well. 



