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average upward, are Lehigh, Delaware, Mercer, Juniata, Bedford, 
Northampton, and Dauphin. The winter-wheat States farther west, in 
the same range, have suffered in an equal, if not greater, degree, from 
the same causes. Among the more important counties in Ohio report- 
ing excessive injury are Licking, 77 per cent. below average; Fayette, 
50 per cent. below on clay land, and 10 below on black land; Clinton, 
50 per cent. below; Crawford, nearly all killed in March; Champaign, 
more than 50 per cent. killed; Greene, 40 per cent. below; Clark, ‘‘not 
half a crop expected; many fields will be plowed up;” Pickaway, badly 
killed. Montgomery reports good condition on well-drained land, but 
nearly destroyed on undrained clayey soil; Wayne and Erie, good on up- 
land, but badly killed on low clayey land; Huron and Noble, early 
sown, good. Hocking reports good condition; Tuscarawas, very good ; 
Harrison, much above average; Miami, 20 per cent. above; Belmont, 
40 per cent. above last year. 
Half the returns from Indiana specify injuries from winter-killing, 
varying from an indefinite degree to 50 per cent. destroyed. Among 
these, Clinton, Stark, Martin, and Johnson place the condition 25 per 
cent. below average; Wabash and Madison, 37; Tipton, 40; Clay and 
Union,50. In Huntington, while the drilled grain is 20 below, the broad- 
castis60. In Steuben the condition of the early-sown is good, but of the 
late-sown bad; in Tippecanoe it is good on highly-cultivated land, but 
on other land ‘many fields are entirely killed.” The condition was 
never better in Lawrence, is very fine in Floyd, and much above average 
in Posey. 
In Illinois the reported injury is considerably less, something over 
two-thirds of the returns reporting a condition average or above. But 
from some of the heaviest counties the returns are quite unfavorable. 
Saint Clair reports that the condition is very bad; “it is safe to say 
that one-third is already lost;” in Randolph “ winter-wheat looks no 
way encouraging ;” in Montgomery “ the crop looks anything but prom- 
ising ;” in Clinton 38 per cent. winter-killed, and in Vermillion only half 
a crop was sown, and that promises but 50 per cent. in yield. In Pike 
“it has not been winter-killed a particle,” but owing to the fact that the 
autumn was very dry, and much of it sown very late, the condition is 
placed 20 per cent. below average. It is bad in Jackson for the same 
reason. On the other hand, in Jersey the condition is better than for 
years; fine in Macoupin and Sangamon, and in Monroe much better 
than anticipated in the fall and early winter. Among counties produc- 
ing less quantities, Hardin, Pulaski, and Tazewell return the condition 
as splendid; Saline better than ever before; Menard, 120; Cook, 150. 
Wisconsin and Iowa sow but little winter-wheat, and that has been 
very generally injured by winter-killing. 
Michigan, having had more snow, reports a more favorable condition. 
Less than one-third of the returns are below average; over half, average 
or above; the others being uncertain, owing fo the covering of snow. 
In Washtenaw the crop has done well, considering the open winter, and 
is improving; in Saint Joseph it is very bright and healthy ; in Calhoun 
good, but in Oakland 10 per cent. below average. : 
In the remaining portion of the country the condition is favorable 
almost beyond precedent. The effects of extraordinary snow and cold, 
in the last half of March, in the South, where grain was unusually for- 
ward and tender, and of a severe drought in the Southwest, during the 
autumn, are almost the only drawbacks. Out of sixteen counties report- 
ing on wiuter-wheat in Maryland, Howard alone returns a condition 
below average. Among fifty-six returns of winter-wheat from Virginia, 
