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quality. Geauga: Has improved very much. Perry: Thin, but very well filled; 
Fultz and Clawson the best varieties. Shelby: Fine condition, but only half crop. 
Vinton: Thin and short, but plump berry. Washington: Some very excellent crops. 
Wood: The crop will be small, but the berry plump. Coshocton: About all in the 
shock in good condition. Lucas: Late wheat badly rusted. Sandusky: Better than - 
was expected ; will be half acrop. Muskingum: In the midst of harvest, and heavy 
rains almost daily. Mercer: Above average in quality. 
ARKANSAS.—Boone: Badly damaged by the fly. Cross: Damaged by rains. Saint 
Francis: Considerable rust. Baxter: Harvested; half a crop. Crawford: Suffered 
from rain during harvest. Yell: Damaged byrust. Clay: Injured byrust. Franklin: 
Harvested; below average in yield, but made up by increased acreage. Prairie: The 
Jennings white wheat the best we ever had. Jzard: Now in the shock; will make a 
very small yield. Julion: Very indifferent. Johnson: Injured by rain in harvest and 
shock. Marion: Rusted badly. 
TENNESSEE.— Anderson : Damaged by rust. Decatur: Damaged by rust. Lincoln: 
Twenty-five or 30 per cent. was sown unusually late and is much damaged by rust, 
yet the entire crop will fall very little below average. Blount: Not more than half a 
crop, owing to rust and spot. Gibson: Injured by rust and wet weather. Henry: Har- 
vested in fair condition. Johnson: More than half harvested; the best for years. 
Loudon: Badly damaged by rust. Monroe: Damaged by rust, and in the shock by 
rains. Smith: Not more than 75 per cent. of a crop. Sullivan: Harvested in good 
condition ; somesmut. nox: Injured by rust and by rain for the last ten days; many 
shocks on the bottoms washed off. Sevier: Early sown, very good ; late, injured with 
spot. 
Micuican.—Montcalm: Heavy straw, but many fields badly injured byrust. Wayne: 
Beginning to rust. Grand Traverse: Some injured by the fly. Hillsdale: All not win- 
ter-killed looks well. Jonia: The midge and wet weather doing much damage. Lee- 
lenaw : Never more promising. Midland: Never looked better. Allegan: The Clawson 
and Fultz wheats look splendid, and do not rust as other varietiesdo. Barry: Rusting. 
' Mason: Looks very well. Newaygo: Looks very slim. Mecosta: Retarded by exces- 
sive rains. 
Inp1ana.— Brown: Thin, but the grain good. Decatur: The crop very light, but the 
grain good. Steuben: Has improved wonderfully. Switzerland: Thin stand, but qual- 
ity never better. De Kalb: The weevil in smooth wheat will reduce the crop 25 per 
cent. Howard: Some fields entirely destroyed by the midge. Bartholomew: The crop, 
unpromising April 1, turns out almost a full average in quantity and quality. Carroll: In 
the midst of harvest, and the wet weather threatens to ruin the crop. Fayette: A thin 
stand in many fields, but the quality is good. Floyd: If not injured by rains in secur- 
ing, the finest for fifteen years. Gibson : Endangered in the shock by continual rains. 
Hamilton : Not over half a crop; the weevil has destroyed 25 to 33 per cent.; good in 
quality. Hendricks: Cannot be cut owing to rains. Kosciusko: Harvesting, and it 
will be bad for the crop if the rains continue. Martin: Harvesting under great diffi- 
culties, as it rains nearly every day. Morgan: Fultz wheat does remarkably well. 
Noble: Not more than half a crop. Orange: All cut and in the shock. Pike: Fear of 
injury frem the continual rains. Wabash: The weevil, in all parts of the county, will 
destroy 25 per cent. of the crop; the Fultz wheat appears to be weevil-proof. Wash- 
ington : Some very thin stands, but all well headed and good grain; all in the shock, 
but very unfavorable weather for stacking. Warren: Ready for harvest, but too much 
rain. Wells: Light crop but plump berry; the weevil doing some damage, but not 
serious. Clarke: Excellent in quality. John8on: Sprouting. 
ILLINOIS.—Clinton : Very little stacking done; too much rain. Crawford: Spoiling 
in the shock. Effingham: Light crops, but good in quality. Jersey: Good in yield and 
quality ; the finest crop since 1864. Marion: Butlittle on the ground, and that badly 
injured. Menard: Best crop for many years. Sangamon: Spoiling in theshock. Saint 
Clair: Harvested in fine condition ; the kernel very good. White: The quality very 
good, but the rains are spoiling it. Williamson: In the shock; the yield better than 
last year, but the rains threaten ruin. Mason: Good. Perry: Thin stand, but good, 
plump grain; in the shock, and in danger from excessive rains. Madison: Heavy and 
of good quality. Pulaski: Great improvement in the ripening season; all in the 
shock. Monroe: Sprouting in the shock; considerable destroyed by the overflow of 
the eelseigpt. Monigomery : Thin stand, but fine, plump grain; in danger from wet 
weather. 
Wisconsin. —ftichland : Badly winter-killed. Walworth: Largely winter-killed. 
Washington ; Rust. 
MissourRI.—Cass : The best crop for many years. Phelps: Light crop; Hessian fly 
injured it in localities. Barton: Fine. Osage: That put in with the drill, 50 per cent. 
above average; that sown broadcast, 50 per cent. below. Chariton: Injured by con- 
tinnous rains. Caldwell: Ready to cut, but we cannot get into the fields with reap- 
ing-machines. Daviess: Very fair crop. Douglas: Badly damaged with the bng and 
fly ; Fultz wheat the best in the county. JFvanklin: Will sprout unless the rain soon 
