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I>ect poor. Cavibria : Growiug crops protected by a fine eiiow. Be7-lcs : Horse-diaeaae 

 iaterfored with plowing and seeding. York : Growing crops look remarkably well. 



New York. — Chemung : Wheat sown lato through scarcity of labor ; hence not up to 

 an average. Eye, small crop, planted early, looks well. Otsego: Wheat looks well. 

 Genesee: Wheat looks well. Wyoming: Wheat looks well, but the acreage has been 

 reduced. . 



Maryland. — Baltimore: Young wheat gi'owing luxuriantly; autumn favorable; 

 ground well prepared ; fertilizers freely used; large acreage of rye, which looks well. 

 Caroline: Wheat growth slow and poor; " Ushak Russian Bearded White," two years 

 from the Department, the best variety. 



Virginia. — Warwick: Newly sown-wheat looks well; has had favorable weather. 

 Pulaski: Wheat looks poor; part did not come up well; crippled by drought. Amelia: 

 Lack of labor narrowed the area sown. Frederick: Early-sown wheat injured by th$ 

 fly. Shenandoah : Early-sown wheat made a fine start, but in many fields was destroyed 

 by the 11 y ; preparation of soil good, but much of the grain put in too late and the 

 season too dry. Frincc Georgc^s : Late fall has brought the wheat to a full average 

 though some of the late seeded looks badly. Page : Wheat looks better than last year ; 

 more lime and manure used, and less of phosphates ; better cultivation ; wheat sown 

 before the 15th September has the fly to some extent, but not seriously. James City : 

 Wheat early sown and looks finely. King George: W^heat looks as well as usual; 

 heavy rains early in November. Louisa: Wheat sown late; weather not favorable; 

 hence it does not look so well as usual. Essex : Wheat injured by sharp cold weather 

 with high winds. 



North C.4JJOLina. — Mecklenhurgh : Fine seeding season. McDowell: Fine seeding 

 season; twice as much wheat sown as last season. Moore: Fall seeding later than 

 usual on account of dry weather. Clarke : Early-sown wheat considerably injured by 

 the Hessian fly ; wheat not so aftected looks well. Perquimans : Wheat-culture going 

 backward. Yadkin ; Early-sown wheat looks well. 



South Carolina. — Greenville': Wheat sown as late as November 20. Lexington : 

 Wheat not all sown, and little of that sown has come up ; weather very cold and un- 

 favorable to early growth. Chesterfield : Seeding backward. 



Georgia. — Forsyth : Wheat-seeding late. Cobb : Wheat generally sown on cotton- 

 land, and hence not yet out of the ground. 



Florida. — Gadsden : Increased area in oats, with improved preparation of soil. 



Alabama. — Colbert : Much wheat will yet be sown, but the acreage will fall short of 

 last year. 



Mississippi. — Jasper : The small amount of winter-grain sown (chiefly oats) wasslow 

 in coming up. 



Texas. — Dallas : Rains, early in November, greatly improved the new-sown wheat. 

 Williamson : Average of winter-grain resticted by drought. Bosque : Wheat coming 

 up badly through the dry and cloddy ground in spite of extra pains in putting in the 

 crop. Blanco : Sowing of grain restricted on account of the presence of immense 

 swarms of grasshoppers. 



Arkansas. — Fulton: Wheat late sown ; drought restrained its germination. 



Tennessee. — Putnam,: Wheat sown late on account of dry weather; but little of it 

 up yet. Smith : Wheat-sowing tedious ; early sown looks well. Loudon : Long fall 

 drought delayed wheat-sowing and cold weather has kept it from coming up. Greene : 

 Winter-wheat small, but of good color. Hancock : Wheat but little atlected by the 

 severe cold. Calhoun : Wheat put in better than usual. Lincoln : Wheat unusually 

 small owing to the dry fall and cold November. Robertson: Wheat-growth retarded 

 by drought. 



West Virginia. — Jefferson: Wheat acreage increased and sown earlier, with better 

 preparation of soil ; fly injurious until checked by frost October 20; four weeks of 

 warm rains, followed by pleasant weather, have nearly cleaned out the insect. Berke- 

 ley: Some complaint of fly in wheat, but damage not serious. 



Kentucky. — Butler: Wheat injured by drought. Fayette: Weather hard on small 

 grain. Graves : Wheat and rye slow in coming up, drought damaging them. Laurel : 

 Wheat-seeding unusually late, drought having delayed plowing. Nicholas: Drought 

 has injured the newly-sown wheat, which is coming up badly; springs and wells fail- 

 ing; some very cold weather in November. Lincoln: Wheat and rye injured by dry, 

 cold we.'ither. McLean: Wheat injured by drought and cold. Mercer: Fall grain 

 injured by drought and cold ; seeding late. Ohio : Dry weather unfavorable to wheat. 



Ohio. — Miami: Wheat looks bad for lack of rain ; somo fields hurt by fly. Adams : 

 Growing croj) thicker and stronger through fine growing weather; ground covered 

 with snow. Mercer: Wheat suftering from some unknown insect. Vinton: Wheat and 

 rye sown in good season, but the ground too dry for its rapid vegetation ; much of it 

 did not come up; that which came up early was injured badly by the fly. Putnam : 

 Growing wheat looks poor ; some fields half destroyed by the wire-worm. Coshocton : 

 Acreage of wheat reduced by lack of good seed, but the prospects of the crops and 

 character of cultivation in advance of last year. Marion: Winter-sown looks well. 



