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RYE. 
Winter-rye corresponds in condition very nearly with wheat, except 
that being more hardy it has suffered less from the open winter. All 
reports from New England are favorable, except that the crop has suf- 
fered some from winter-killing in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, and is 
under average in Windham, Connecticut. In Berkshire, Massachusetts, 
a large amount was sown, and it promises a large yield. In Kent, 
Rhode Island, the condition is the best for five years. 
Washington, badly winter-killed, is the only county in New York 
reporting below average. Mercer, New Jersey, is 25 per cent. below; 
all other returns, average or above. 
From Pennsylvania, which produces nearly one-fourth of the rye 
grown in the country, a fuller abstract of returns is given: 
RF Westmoreland: Much “heaved out” by freezings and thawings. Bucks: 100. Lehigh: 
Good. Lebanon: 75—frozen out. Northumberland: Good on high ground; on low, 
frozen out. Sullivan; On new ground, good; on old, 50. Mercer: Above 100. Juni- 
ata: 100. Indiana: Early sown stands well, but the late sown does not promise half a 
crop; heaved ont.. Hik: Much above 100. Columbia: Much killed out; no snow. 
Bradford: 75. Bedford: Very good. Wayne: Much winter-killed. Perry: Injured by 
open winter. Cumberland: 100. Clearfield: Much killed ont. Adams: Many fields 
almost ruined by alternate freezings and thawings. Tioga: Full 100. Monroe: Good. 
Wyoming: Good. Northampton: Above 100. Clinton: Injured by freezing and thaw- 
ing. Cambria: Many fields will be plowed up. Lawrence: 100. Lancaster: Good. 
Fulton: 100. Forest: Under snow. Dauphin: 100. Armstrong: 100. Pike: Not prom- 
ising, owing to want of snow, freezing, thawing, &c. 
All returns from Maryland report good condition except Howard, 85. 
In Virginia, Caroline alone returns below average, while 36 counties 
return conditions ranging from average to the best ever known. There 
are but two exceptions to good condition in the returns from North Car- 
olina, and one of them ascribed to the recent freeze. In the other South- 
ern States, producing small quantities of rye, the condition is very gen- 
erally promising. 
From Tennessee, Grundy returns the condition as somewhat sickly, 
but all others are up to average, and a large portion much above. In 
West Virginia also the returns are uniformly favorable, except that con- 
siderable injury to the crop in several counties is ascribed to the freeze 
in March. Among full returns from Kentucky, the epithets “splen- 
did,” ‘best for years,” and ‘“‘never better,” &c., are frequent. , Kenton, 
thin on the ground; Pendleton, 25 per cent. below average, and John- 
son, injured by the freeze in March. In Ohio, the injury from winter- 
killing is extensive, though not as great as in the wheat-crop. About 
half the returns report good condition, and many of the others partly 
good; the crop escaping injury on high or sandy land, and on well- 
drained, well-tilled lowland. Returns from Michigan all report good 
condition. The condition in Indiana corresponds with that in Ohio. In 
Illinois, as in the case of wheat, the injury from the open winter is much 
less, and the general condition is considerably above average. 
But few returns of the condition of rye have been received from Wis- 
consin. Calumet reports the crop nearly all killed ; Washington, badly 
killed ; Adams, injured 30 to 50 per cent.; Rock, never better; others, 
average or good. About three-fourths of the returns from Iowa report 
good condition, the other fourth being more or less injured by winter- 
killing. From Missouri, the returns are still more favorable, more than 
four-fifths being average or above. In Kansas and Nebraska the prom- 
ise is extraordinary, and from the Pacific slope the returns are favor- 
able without exception. 
