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below average. Armstrong: Many fields bare and spotted, but some are extra, good. 
Columbia: Winter-killed; cannot be more than half a crop, Indiana: Improved 
greatly, the latter part of May, The’ season has demonstrated that drilled wheat 
stands the winter best. York: Indieations of, a more than average crop.’ Crawford: 
Winter-killed to some extent; that left doing well. ..Vashington ; Many spotted fields: : 
Northampton : Looks well. 
DELAWARE.— Kent : Prospect of a fine crop. 
MaRYLanp.—Caroline : Never looked so well before. Baltimore: Prospect of a fine 
crop... Montgomery :, Looks unusually well... Howard: Growing weather has brought it 
ap to a good average. Talbot: Fine, Dorchester: Looks remarkably well. , Harford : 
Looking remarkably well; promise of, the largest crop for years, Queen Anne: The 
crop will be heavy, should it escape rust and lodging. 
ViRGINIA.— King and Queen: ‘The prospect most favorable. Loudoun > Remarkably 
good ; a week earlier than last year, and promises threefold more. Patrick : The best 
ever seen ; promise of a larger crop than ever made before. . New Kent :/ Looks remark- 
ably well, even on poor land. Culpeper: Finest prospect for many years up to the 25th 
of April; since then it has been going back, and the prospect now is that the crop will 
be cut short 25 per cent.; attributed to the freeze the last of April.. Gloucester: A little 
rust.on the biade in exceptional cases, but a fair promise of a heavyicrop. Orange: 
Unusually promising up to May ist, when a frost injured it. Carroll: Exceedingly 
thrifty. “Halifax: Luxuriant, and filling well. Charlotte: Looks remarkably. well. 
Fairfax: A few backward fiélds somewhat injured by the fly, but the general prospect 
above average. King George :)The early promise injured by the fly or some other in- 
sect. Prince William: The leaves spotted to some extent with rust. Pulaski: The 
stand rather thin, but a promise of a fine yield. Richmond: Has beeu most promising, 
but red rust has appeared, Madison : The fine promise injured by the cold spell the 
first of May, and by the fly; cannot be more than half a crop. Middlesex: Consider- 
ably damaged by the fly, and some appearance of rust. Charles City: Better than for 
ten years. Clarke: Seriously damaged by the Hessian fly, but promise of an average 
crop. Floyd: Very promising. Wythe: Never looked better... Dinwiddie: Considerable 
red rust on the blade, but the heads are filling well and the crop looking better than 
for five years. Greenville: Badly rusted in many places. James City: Some crops 
injured by the fly ; others magnificent. Elizabeth City: More than an average yield is 
considered certain. Lancaster ; Gave promise of a most abundant crop, but rust has 
made its appearance on the leaf, and may do material injury. 
NortH CAroiina.— Moore: Damaged by a fly. Transylvania : Two or three weeks 
of dry weather will insure a liberal harvest. Beaufort: Very promising. Gaston: 
Highly promising until within ten days, since which rust has struck it on many farms. 
Yancy: Looks remarkably well. Lincoln : Great complaint of rust ; also of ravages by 
an insect never before seen; it somewhat resembles the cabbage-louse. Forsyth: Never 
looked better. Nash: Rusted badly. Duplin: Very promising up to this week; now 
red rust is spreading rapidly. Edgecomb: The increase is 200 per cent. Person: Very 
fine; Fultz the great favorite. Haywood: The best promise for years at the first of 
May ; considerably lessened by continuous wet throngh the month.. Stokes: Rust has 
appeared on some of the most forward wheat. Wilkes: Looks: fine, but red rust is 
appearing. 
SoutH CAROLINA.—Chester : Stalk and heads short, but well filled... Lexington : Some 
rust and mold, but fine crop—the best for years. Clarendon: Looks well, but some 
complaint of rust. Laurens: Some rust. 
GrorGiA.—Stewart; A Jarger area and good crop, now being rapidly harvested. 
Union : Never so fine before ; a large increase of acreage, and a, promised yield greatly 
in excess of anything we have eyer experienced, . Walker: Being ruined. by rust. 
Walton: Threatened with rust. Carroll: Injured, by blade rust, causing the grain to 
shrink ; also, by a fly boring into the joints. Jefferson: Good. Henry: The crop badly 
cut off by frost and red mold, Rabun: Very promising. White: Very promising. 
Towns: Very promising. Dooly: A fine prospect being injured by rust, | Gordon: 
Red rust universal on the blade; none on the stalk. Johnson; Rust to some extent. 
Gwinnett: Rust will reduce the crop 33 per cent. McDuffie: Rust on the blade; none 
on the stalk; and the yield 10 to 20 per cent. greater than last year. Butts: Has suf- 
fered from red mold, Madison: Rust almost universal on stalk and leaf; some com- 
plaint of the fly. Gilmer: Looks well, but beginning torust.. Heard: Some red mold, 
but will be a fair crop. Laurens: Very good. Troup; A red mold on the blade but 
not on thestem; damage uncertain. J hitfield :. Greatly injured by rust. Cobb: Very 
promising until two weeks ago, when the rust appeared... DeKalb: Badly rusted on 
the blade. Lincoln: Fine. 
ALABAMA.—Shelby : Materially damaged by rust and recent storms, reducing it from 
120 to 91. Blount: Generally affected with rust.on, the blade, none on the stock. 
Crenshaw : Some rust; being harvested. Perry: Injured by rust. Randolph: Rust on 
the blade and in some instances on the straw... Jackson: Damaged by rust. Russell: 
Rusted badly in some localities; all cut, and some are threshing. Calhoun: Being 
