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Crawford : Wheat and rye geuerally look well. Fairfield : Wheat came up irrejcularly 

 owing to drought, which also prevented many fields from being seeded. Slielhy : Wheat 

 has 8ufiered much from drought in November. 



Michigan. — Livingston: Low condition of wheat is due to extreme drought ; the 

 ground has never been so thoroughly dry ; has not been thoroughly wet for two years. 

 Montcalm : Wheat looks well. IVashtenaw : Winter-grain looks well. 



Indiana. — Decatur : Wheat looks well ; acreage probably above the average. Ferry : 

 Very dry and unusually cold for November, injuring the wheat. Owen : Winter-wheat 

 needs rain badly. Brown : Sowed rather late, but looks reasonably well. Morgan : 

 Wheat looks well ; increased acreage. Miami : Wheat looked bad even when early 

 winter set in ; Wabash frozen over and crossed by teams ; but little snow yet. Boone : 

 JWheat supposed to be injured by insects and drought. Hamilton : Small through 

 brought ; some complaint of insects. Jennings : Wheat looks badly ; chinch-bug and 

 fly eating it up. Marion : Wheat-growth retarded by drought and cold. Saint Joseph : 

 Soil generally in good order for wheat ; better cultivation ; yield reduced .5 jier cent, 

 on clay soils by the grub and on sandy soils by the Hessian lly. Warren: Wheat looks 

 killed ; ground frozen 4 inches. Hancock : Wheat looks well ; increased acreage. Fike : 

 Wheat will bo injured by the weather. 



Illinois. — Tazewell: Newly sown grain affected by drought and cold; rain much 

 needed. Wabash : Drought injuring the growing wheat. DeKalh : Wheat and rye look 

 extremely well, owing to good tilth of soil, fine weather at seeding, and growing rains 

 since. Jersey : Wheat injured by drought ; in many places but little to be seen. Law- 

 rence : Wheat suffering from drought aud hard freezing ; very poor prospect. Cham- 

 paign : Wheat seriously threatened with winter-killing. Schuyler : Wheat materially 

 damaged by the unprecedented drought and cold. Cass: Wheat looks }X)orly ; slow 

 coming up ; too short growth to stand the hard freezing of winter. Fayette : Injured 

 by drought and cold. McLean : Early sown wheat looks 200 per cent, better thau last 

 year. Sangamon : Dry weather and hard freezes have injured the fall grain. Washing- 

 ton : Wheat looks well, but is threatened by drought and cold. 



Missouri. — Perry : Wheat injured by excessive drought ; barley has failed the last 

 two years ; but little sown. Laclede : Drought makes wheat and rye look poor. Cass : 

 Season too dry for winter-grains. Chariton: Wheat very promising. Wayne: Drought 

 has limited the acreage of wheat aud prevented it from coming up very well. Audrain: 

 Too dry for seeding. Jefferson: Wheat-sowing retarded by drought. Crawford: 

 Drought delayed wheat-seeding, and consequently but little is yet out of the ground ; 

 ]irospect not flattering. Cedar : Cold dry weather threatens to injure wheat. Greene : 

 Wheat injured by drought. Mississippi : Wheat injured by the unprecedented drought. 

 Moniteau: Wheat has come up badly, but better than last year; prospect i)oor. New- 

 to7i : Checked by six weeks of drought. 



Kansas. — Marshall: Wheat looks remarkably well. EllsKorth : W^heat promising; 

 rye sown for grazing. Nemaha: Wheat very encouraging. Franklin: Average, but 

 threatened with drought. Montgomery : Increased average ; looks well. 



Nebraska. — Madison: Prospect good for a small crop of winter-wheat. Merrick: 

 White Touzelle wheat from the Department, sown September liO, looks finely. Nemaha : 

 Wheat sown late on account of drought ; much of it has not come up. Osage: Winter- 

 grain injui'ed by drought and cold. 



Oregon. — Clackamas : Late-sown grain injured to some extent by excessive cold, 

 the coldest weather for a quarter century. Lane : Early rains placed the ground in 

 fine order for fall seeding ; prospects better than for several j'ears. 



Utah. — Cache : No winter-wheat sown; too di-y to plow. 



