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Craig and Caroline report that the condition is bad or below average; 
Warwick, that the crop is suffering from insects; Washington and 
Westmoreland, that it is backward; ‘all others s, unqualified good condi- 
tion, and a large portion of extraordinary promise. Among the forty- 
five returns from North Carolina, Randolph reports 10 per cent. below 
average; Ashe, thin and weakly; Mitchell, badly killed; Surry, below 
average; Polk, yellow and frost- bitten; and Madison, much injured—all 
owing to snow and freezing between the 18th and 20th of March. In 
Stokes, the unusually forward crop was much injured by the same 
cause. All the other returns range between average and never better. 
The only exception to returns of good condition in South Carolina is 
Spartanburgh, in which the crop is ‘‘sorry.” In Georgia, Decatur reports 
that the little planted is a failure; Stewart, Randolph, Wilkes, and 
Carroll. that the crop was injured by the snow and freeze in March; 
Terrell, that while the condition is good there is some complaint of 
insects. The other forty-seven counties report a good condition, with- 
out drawback, and many of them the best for years, or never better. 
Among the latter are Towns, Jefferson, Heard, Franklin, Cobb, Hall, 
Lincoln, Taliaferro, Taylor, Harris, Walker, and Lumpkin. The only 
return for winter-wheat in Florida is from Madison, in which the condi- 
tion is better than ever before. 
A majority of the returns from Alabama report the condition as of 
extraordinary promise, while only one (Franklin) reports below, aver- 
age. In Shelby, though the condition is the best for years, rust is 
reported in spots. 
In Mississippi, the crop is unpromising in De Soto, and in Chicka- 
saw, was made yellow and sickly by the snow aud cold in March. All 
other returns are very favorable; Tishomingo and Newton 25, and 
Neshoba 15 per cent. above average ; La Fayette and Lee, very promis- 
ing; ali others above average. 
In Texas the only exceptions to returns altogether favorable are Gil- 
lespie, injured by grasshoppers and late frosts; Anderson, late planted, 
first rate, bat early-planted injured by the mild, wet winter ; and Gon- 
zales, more or less rust. Bosque and Ellis report the best condition 
eyer known, and Dallas, Collin, and Williamson, never better. 
From Arkansas, Lawrence and Stone are the only returns below 
average. 
In Tennessee, while many counties report the best condition for 
years, or never better, none are reported below average. The same is 
true in West Virginia, except that in three or four counties the pre- 
vious good prospect was considerably injured by the severe freeze in 
‘March. The crop suffered from the same cause to a somewhat greater 
extent in Kentucky, but yet the general condition for the State was 
left much above average. Across the Mississippi, in Missouri and 
Kansas, a severe drought in autumn conspired with the freeze in 
March to materially reduce the condition in several counties; yet, out 
of fifty-five returns from Missouri, only seven fall below average; 
and only four out of thirty-five from Kansas. Not less than ten or 
twelve counties in the latter State report a cou never exceeded ; 
in Barton, while, owing to the autumn drought, the general condition 
is 30 per cent. below average, the drilled is “50 per cent. better than 
Be Benadr -cast. Other returns also note the superior condition of the 
drilled. 
The returns from California are uniformly favorable, and a majority 
report that the condition is first rate. The same is true of Oregon. 
