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Tioga: Wheat late sown, and not very promising. Lycoming: Looks fine. Clearfield: 
Looks poor. 
MARYLAND.—Balttimore: Wheat looks well; fine autumnal weather. Howard: 
Increased acreage, especially of Fultz. Montgomery: The large tobacco-crop absorbed 
so much attention that winter-grain was comparatively neglected. 
VIRGINIA.—Spottsylvania: Fall favorable, and growing wheat looks stronger than 
usual. Caroline: Weather too cold. Dinwiddie: Since the Fultz wheat came, thin 
seeding has become more general; crop seeded late, but in average condition. Glouces- 
ter: Increased acreage; season good. Middlesex: Seeded late and looks inferior. 
Pulaski: Much poor seed and late sown, but crop improved by late rains. Carroll: 
Looking fine. Augusta: Good stand of wheat. Halifax: Sown early and looks well. 
Washington: Some signs of fly in early sown. 
NortH Caroriina—Lincoln: Sowing late; increased use of Navassa phosphate. 
Mecklenburgh: Late sown. Yancey: Does not look so well as usual. Davidson: Finest 
seeding season for years. Nash: Largest acreage of wheat—1,500—ever known; 800 
acres of rye. Transylvania: Increased wheat-acreage. Hertford: Increased acreage. 
Wilson: Increased acreage. 
SouTH Caroiina.—Looks well. 
GEORGIA.—Forsyth : Wheat sown late. Troup: More wheat and oats sown than 
since 1865. Carroll: General disposition to sow largely of small grain. /MWileox: In- 
creased acreage in oats. Dawson: Wheat looks well; good sowing season. Hall: 
Wheat-acreage increased 10.per cent. Barton: Fine fall for seeding. Madison: Seed- 
ing delayed by rains. : 
are gpte in Increased acreage in wheat, rye, and oats. Calhoun: Seed- 
ing late. 
Mississippi.— Winston : Crops not half up. 
TEexas.—Coryell: Wheat in larger acreage than ever before. Bowie: Department 
seeds doing finely. Dallas: Increased wheat-acreage, but condition injured by drought. 
Titus: Drought since September; increased acreage, but ground too dry to sprout it. 
Collin: Wheat backward; drought. Williamson: Wheat-acreage more than double; 
looks well. McLennan: Wheat-acreage nearly doubled. Lamar: Too dry. Bosque: 
Seeding thirty days late; grasshoppers and drought. Gillespie: Increased wheat- 
acreage. San Saba: Sowing late on account of drought. 
ARKANSAS.— Baxter : Seeding delayed by drought. Independence : Depressed condi- 
tion on account of latesowing. Fulton: Injured by long drought. Montgomery: Late 
sown. Calhoun: Wheat-acreage tripled. Boone: Late seeding. 
TENNESSEE.— Fentress: Unusual pains in preparing ground and seeding wheat; in- 
creased use of drills; acreage increased 20 per cent. Blount: Late seeding. Lincoln: 
late sown. Putnam: Wheat unusually fine. Bledsoe: Looks very well. Gibson: Rains 
have delayed seeding and cut down the acreage. 
WEsT VIRGINIA.—Jefferson: Wheat-acreage reduced 10 per cent.; that of rye in- 
creased 40 per cent.; wheat-acreage about 25,500 acres. Mercer: Acreage reduced by 
drought. Taylor: Looks well. Raleigh: Looks well. Upshur: Late sown but thrifty. 
Kentucky.—VNicholas: Wheat late sown’ but looks well for the time. Boyle: Acre- 
age gradually decreasing, owing to scarcity and inefficiency of labor. Graves: Late 
sown and poor; Hessian fly and grasshoppers complained of. Lincoln: Wheat weil got 
in and secured. Logan: Very imperfect seed causes great anxiety as to the next 
wheat-crop. Ohio: Acreage small on account of drought and fear of grasshoppers; the 
insects damaged early-sown crops so as to require the fields in some cases to be re- 
sown. Owsley: Good seed scarce. Butler: Wheat has come up badly; in some fields 
not 1 grain in 50 has sprouted. Hardin: Looks badly ; injured by grasshoppers. 
Ou10.— Coshocton : Wheat looks remarkably well. Morrow: Looks remarkably well. 
Noble: Too wet. Tuscarawas: Looksremarkably well. 4dams: Late sown and reduced 
inacreage; thin on the ground. Crawford: Looks well. Montgomery: Fine growing 
weather. Morgan: Great reduction of acreage. Hocking: Looks well. Wood; Very 
promising. 
MIcHIGAN.— Wexford : Remarkably poor. Ottawa: Stands very evenly. 
InDIANA.—Clark: Wheat looks well. Grant: Looks well. Carroll: The poorest 
growth for years. Steuben: Looks bad. Warren: Looks fine. Harrison: Unfavorable 
sowing season ; early-sown fields injured by the Hessian fly. 
Inuinois.— Madison: Backward and feeble; poor prospect. Edwards: Small and 
puny. Pope: Late sown. Fayette: Poor. Schuyler: Low condition. Pike: Looks 
very poor. 
WIScoNsIN.—Unnsnally small. Crawford: Late sown, but looks well. 
Iowa.— Guthrie: Will have a hard time with the dry winter-freezing ; no snow yet. 
MissourRI.—Gasconade: Very poor prospect. Jefferson: Very unpromising; eaten 
by asmall red grasshopper as fast as it sprouts. Franklin: Very backward. Craw- 
ford: Wheat-acreage small. DeKalb: Wheat looks well, but the ground is too dry to 
protect the roots. Carroll: Small acreage and not doing well. Moniteau : Small aere- 
