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Massacnusetis.Berkshire: Early rains in May were a great benefit to grass; pas- 
tures are excellent. R ” a5 a eee aay peas ee 
CoNNECTICUT.— New London: Pastures very good. ee a 
New YorK.— Westchester : Pastures never looked better. 47bany: Clover and pastures. . 
fine. \ Saratoga: Grass looks fine. Wyoming; Some clover winter-killed, but the erop 
lookswell: Sullivan: Pastures superior. Seneca: Clover badly winter-killed. Wayne? __ 
The prospects for grass and clover better than average. nae . 
New Jersby.— Mercer: Fine rains have had a wonderful effect on grass, Sussex: 
The opea winter was very disastrous to young grass and cloyer. Lurlington: Owing | 
to last year’s drought some fields have very little clover; that sown this spring looks __ 
well. Camden: Clover large, but thin; timothy yet quite small. Warren: Pasturesa. 
little short.and backward; clover half a crop. te 
PENNSYLVANIA.— Delaware: Clover is well set and of vigorous growth; in grass we 
will be more than compensated for the short yield last year; pastures afford abundant 
food: for stock. Tioga: Favorable weather has advanced the grass-crop far beyond 
expectation. Beaver: A dry and cold April hurt the pastures badly. Clearfield: Clover. 
badly winter-killed, but doing better than was anticipated in early spring. Monroe: . 
Grass looks fine. Bedford: Sufficient rain to keep grass growing; clover very good, 
though the drought last season destroyed most of that sown in the spring of 1875, 
Sullivan: Pastures and grass as forward as at the 20th of June last year. Columbia: 
Grass is late, but looking well. Indiana: Fine weather for the grass-crop, and grass 
and pastures doing finely. Miffiin: Clover-fields were much frozen out. York: Fayor- 
able indications of a more’'than average crop of hay. JVashington: Spring pastures the 
best for years, and meadows are doing finely. 
MARYLAND.—Caroline: Pastures are very good; clover never looked better, Mont- 
gomery : Grass promising, but a lack of clover. Prince Georges: Spring pastures never 
better; the decrease in acreage of clover is owing to high price of seed; the cloyer 
which caught last year looks well. Howard: Hay and pasture will be short. Har- 
ford: The hay-crop will be above an average. . 
VIRGINIA.— Augusta: Clover is heading very short. Dinwiddie: The farmers are gen- 
erally seeding more clover this season. Lancaster: Clover and pastures were neyer 
better. Loudoun; Grass and clover look well. Orange: The present dry weather ex- 
ceedingly unfavorable to grass. Montgomery: The season is most favorable for all 
kinds of grasses. Madison: Pastures good and clover better than last year, but the 
acreage less. Floyd: Grass-crop vefy promising. _ Wythe: Pastures and clover are not, 
average. 
Mori CaRnoLina.— Forsyth: Grass very fine; clover as good as need be; cloyer and 
the grasses have done finely. Haywood: Pastures looking very fine; our people are- 
increasing their clover-fields every year. + 
SourH Caronina.—Chester: More attention to clover, which is very fine. Newberry: 
Clover luxuriant and thick. : 
GrorGIA.—Troup: Spring pastures good and cattle fat. Carroll: Pastures very fine.. 
FLoripa.— Gadsden: Backward, owing to the dry winter, but rapidly improving. 
ALABAMA.—Jackson: Pastures never better, particularly red clover and orchard grass, 
Conecuh: Spring pastures good. De Kalb: Clover never presented a finer appearance. 
MississipPr.—Perry: Pastures 10 to 20 per cent. better than ordinary... Jefferson: 
Pastares splendid. 
Louisiana.— Franklin: Spring pastures very good. 
Trexas.— Washington: Very good range or pasturage. Collin; Alfalfa has been 
planted in small lots and is doing finely ; other clovers have. proved a partial failure.. 
Cooke: Prairie-grass very fine. Nueces: Grass is coming out finely, and stock of all 
kinds doing well. 
ARKANSAS.— Arkansas : 'The range is excellent. Ashley: Fine pasturage; plenty of 
a beef off the range. Fulton: Prairie-grass very fine, and cattle, sheep, and horses. 
at. 
TENNESSER.— Williamson : Pastures extra fine; very large increase of clover all over 
the county, and it looks well. Lincoln: Pastures, and especially clover, are unusually 
fine. Gibson: Spring pastures fine, and clover was never more luxuriant. Monroe: 
Spring pastures more than sufficient for the demands ; cloyer magnificent. Rheas 
Grass and clover better than for fifteen years. Sullivan: Grass and clover very fine., 
Bedford: Pastures fine, enough to supply the stock and leave a fine coat for fertiliza- 
tion. Clover very fine and now ready to cut. Sevier: Pastures never so good before, 
De Kalb: Grass and clover were never better. Granger: Pastures very good; some 
early-sown clover killed by the freeze, but otherwise the crop is doing finely. Greene; 
Clover very thrifty. ‘James: Clover and all the grasses promise well. Bradley; Pas- 
tures so rich that butter is selling at 15 cents per pound. Clover is exceedingly fine. 
Giles: Clover is increased 33 per cent. and is very fine. 
Wes VirGIniA.—Grant: Grass looks remarkably well. Marion; Meadows and 
pastures are having a very fine start; better than for five years. Nicholas: Grass 
looks well. Mercer: Grass of all kinds looking well. Greenbrier : Clover and blue 
grass are unusually fine. Wetzel: Clover will make a heavy crop. Braxton: Pastures, 
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