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ten. Titus: Crop safe, large, and of good quality. Harrison: Best crop in ten years. 
Grayson ; Never better; surplus over home consumption. Coryell: Above average. 
Bandera: Fine crop fully made. Bee: Largest crop ever made here. Hunt» Largest 
crop ever made in the county ; Pennsylvania yellow corn ahead of all others. 
ARKANSAS.—Clay: Late corn injured by the prevailing drought. Saint Francis: 
Best crop for several years. Prairie: Best crop for years; will not bring over 25 
cents per bushel., Jefferson: Heaviest crop since the war. Franklin: Unusually good; 
season favorable for tillage. Washington: Selling at 74 and 8 cents in the field; large 
stock of old corn on hand; new crop above average. Sevier: Never better; ample for 
home demand. Monroe: Crop made; abundant. Arkansas: Looks fine; plenty of 
rain in August. Lonoke: Largest crop ever made in the county. Pulaski: Never bet- 
ter; much old corn on hand. Benton: Late plantings ruined by drought. Bradley: 
Enough made for home use. Fulton: Increased acreage; excellent yield. 
TENNESSEE.— Wilson: Unusually fine. Rhea: Filling well. McMinn: Good, in spite 
of drought in July and August. Hardeman: Above average; about equal to last year. 
Greene: Heavy crop. Gibson: Prospect of a better crop than usual. Blount: Injured 
by drought in some localities, but a fair average on the whole. Union: Cut short by 
drought. Trousdale: Very fine. Davidson: Reduced to average by severe wind- 
storms. Cannon: Too much rain. Tipton: Very good where properly cultivated. 
Smith : Weather very favorable; crop matured. Fentress: Unusually fine. Monroe: 
Cut short. Maury: Very fine. Perry: Largest yield ever realized is confidently ex- 
pected. Shelby: Splendid harvesting season. Sequatchie: Average, but not so good as 
last year. Grundy: Below last year in condition. Putnam: Never better. 
West VIRGINIA.—Preston; Average greater than for fifteen years. Raleigh: Very 
five. Braxton: Best crop for several years Hardy: At least 10 per cent. above aver- 
age. Mercer: Recent rains have improved the crop. Monroe: Heavy, except on poor, 
slaty land. Wetzel: Greatly benefited by recent fine weather. Jefferson: Ripening 
finely. 
KentTucky.—Cumberland: Best crop'for many years. Shelby: Heaviest yield in ten 
years. Nicholas: About average. Daviess: Crop bids fair to yield 1,200,000 bushels. 
Madison: Largest crop ever raised here. Calloway: Very fine. Carroll: Unusually 
fine season for corn. Henry: Unusually heavy crop in some sections, but poor in 
others. Lincoln: Promises a heavy crop of fine quality. Logan: Fineseason. Mason: 
Not so heavy as last year, but good; ma ured early. Spencer; Crop luxuriant but 
kept green by rains, and in danger of early frosts. Owsley: Cut down 50 per cent. by 
dronght. Metcalfe: Best crop ever raised here. 
Ou10.— Ashtabula: Full average, in spite of local injuries. Clark: Full crops. 
Washington: Planting retarded by the wet weather in spring; the crop will require a 
late fall. Williams: Injured by wet weather succeeded by drought. Preble: August 
not favorable to the crop. Franklin: Remarkably favorable season. Wayne: Fine 
crop; ripening well. Hamilton: Uplands below average; bottoms above. Perry: 
Excelent, except a few pieces injured by drought; less damage from floods rhan for 
many years. Athens: Short in some localities; saved poorly; drought. Delaware : 
Increased average and good yield. Geauga: Best crop for years. Harrison : Promises 
to be one of the best crops ever raised in the county. Sandusky: Injured by wet 
weather. Henry: A fourth of a crop; continued rains prevented cultivation ; overrun 
with weeds; this failure for the third year has awakened attention to the necessity of 
underdraining. Huron; Looks well, but is late. Lucas: Greatest crop of weeds ever 
raised ; corn, where it could be cultivated, is doing well; underdraining suggesting 
itself. Muskingum: Early plantings above average; late plantings shortened by 
drought. Noble: Too wet. Portage: Rains aud hot weather bave made large crops 
which promise an early maturity. Wood: Excessive rains have caused the lowland 
and prairie crops almost entirely to fail; over 20,000 acres will not yield a bushel of 
good corn to theacre. Lorain: Very early. 
MicuiGaNn.—Kalamazoo: Corn-fodder parched with drought. Lapeer: Looks re- 
markably well. Tuscola; Injured seriously by early frost; upland crops escaped. 
Ottawa: Not well filled. Wayne: Never better. Calhoun: Injured by heavy rains. 
Mecosta: On sandy land never better; on heavy land it suffered from excessive rains 
in the fore part of the season, Muskegon: Excellent on lands dry enough to be eulti- 
vated in June, but a great breadth was drowned out or overgrown with weeds. Oak- 
land: Shortened by heat and drought in August. Mason: Promising. 
INDIANA.—Clarke: Fine crop. Decatur: Injured by excessive rain preventing culti- 
vation. De Kalb: Very poor on wet flat land, but good ov sandy soil. Franklin: Do- 
ing well; weather very favorable. Lawrence: Fine weather for corn; full crop, in 
spite of wire-worms. Pike: Largest crop yet raised in the county. Ripley: Fine crop; 
if frost delays till September 20, the yield will be above average. shelby: Greatly im- 
proved by recent reins. Warren: Improved 20 per cent. during August. Washington: 
Injured in some localities by drought in the earlier part of the season, but is good on 
bottoms, though somewhat damaged by recent storms. Wabash: Full crop on bottoms, 
but damaged on uplands. Brown: Good; ripening finely. Stark: Shortened by wet 
