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weather in the early part of the Season, but greatly improved of late. Jasper: Badly — 
drowned out or overrun with water-grass, which is cured for hay ; out of danger from 
frost. Marion: Very good where well tended; ripening retarded by excessive rains, 
which have interfered with cultivation on all ground not naturally dry or well under- 
drained. Marshall: Crop lighter than last year’s; out of the way of frost. 
Intinois.— Bureau: Too wet for corn up to August 10; since then too dry; ero 
damaged considerably. Hardin: A splendid crop blown down by storms. Ford: 
third of a crop if frost holds off. Carroll: Area, 75,000 acres, or 2,000 more than last 
year; August all that could be desired for ripening; early plantings already ripe. 
Clinton: Uplands very fine; lowlands inferior. De Kalb: Fine weather for ripening ; 
approximate average. Effingham: Damaged by wet in June and July; not over half 
acrop; kernel good. Fayette: Full average. Franklin: Injured by drought for sey- — 
eral weeks. Jefferson: Fine, especially on high lands. Madison: Heavy on dry lands; 
poor on low undrained fields. Marshall: Excellent on rolling and well-drained 
land, but poorly cultivated on account of excessive rain in June and July. Mercer: 
Crops excellent in quality and abundant on well-drained land. Scott: Injured by a 
drought of five weeks. Shelby : Some crops totally failed on account of excessive rain. 
Winnebago: Safe from frost,and good. Woodford: Thousands of acres will not average 
a peck per acre; ruined by extremely wet season. Clark: Excessive rain in June and 
July drowned out many crops and caused an immense growth of weeds. Hamilton: 
Suffered from wet on level land, but lately by drought; yet it is a better crop than 
last year. Lee: Doing finely; will be full average if the season continues favorable. 
Ogle: Some good, and some small and weedy. Stephenson: In most places very good. 
Johnson: Ordinary cultivation; condition excellent—better than for many years. 
Macon: Damaged by rainin June. Mason: Good on highlands, but poor on lowlands 
from excessive rain. Pope: Too wetseason for cultivation. White: Crop forward and 
ripening finely, but will yield only 40 per cent. of a full crop. Morgan: Still in dan- 
ger of frost. 
WIsconsIN.—Dunn : High temperature and frequent showers ot August brought out 
the crop’finely ; large ears and plenty of them; two weeks of good weather will save 
the crop; one slight frost which did no harm. Washington: Chinches took the crop 
when the corn was too far advanced to do much injury, but they damaged the fod- 
der greatly. Clark: Crop fast maturing under the favorable weather ; promises a full 
average. Columbia: Ripening nicely. Crawford: Ripening fast, and will be nearly a 
full crop if frost holds off. Fond du Lac: Never better. Richland: Doing well. Wal- 
worth : Improved beyond expectation, and will be a good crop. Outagamie: Out of 
danger from frost. 
MinneEsora.— Yellow Medicine: Nearly ruined by drought and grasshoppers. Red- . 
wood: Almost destroyed by grasshoppers. Faribault: Large acreage; well advanced ; 
about average in spite of a destruction of 10 per cent. by grasshoppers. Meeker: Full 
crop if not ruined by grasshoppers. Nicollet: Injured by grasshoppers. Blue Earth: 
Injured somewhat by grasshoppers. Nobles: A small amount of corn escaped the grass- 
hoppers. 
Te rt tonto : Never better. Poweshiek: Backward. Wayne: Average; fifteen 
dayslate. Crawford: Shortened 30 per cent. by grasshoppers. Hancock: Never better; 
safe from frost. Hardin: Doing well. Harrison: Crop extra, but grasshoppers reduced 
ittoan average. Henry: Fine weather bringing up the discouraging condition of corn. 
Howard: Promising, and out of danger from frost. Humboldt: Injured somewhat by 
grasshoppers. Jefferson: Brought out some by favorable weather in July and August; 
where nothing was expected from teu to fifteen bushels were raised. Johnson: Greatly 
improved in August by favorable weather; the late plantings will be average if frost 
keeps off. Washington: Nothing on wet, flat lands; average on dry lands. Calhoun: 
Looks well, except some “trimmed” by grasshoppers. Cherokee: Would have been 
very heavy but for grasshoppers, which cut it down 25 per cent., especially late plant- 
ings. Greene: Injured by grasshoppers. dndubon: Injured by grasshoppers. Sae: Cut 
down 25 per cent. by grasshoppers. 
MissouRI.—Chariton: Ravaged by field-mice when first planted, and subsequently 
injured by excessive rain and drought ; athird of acrop. Clay: Shortened by excessive 
rain in spring and by drought insummer. Buchanan: Very promising. Cass> Weedy 
from excess of rain in spring; yet a goodaverage. Greene: Largest crop ever raised here. 
Johnson: Suffering from drought; blades yellow and ears small. Harrison: Maturing 
finely. Nodaway: Promising, but late. Saint Charles: Late plantings promise finely. 
Crawford: Nearly ruined. Mississippi: Greatly improved within the last month. | 
Perry: Good ; season favorable for maturing. alls : Injured by wet weather prevent- 
ing cultivation. Cape Girardeau: Good. Pettis: Fair crop in spite of heavy rains. ~ 
Camden: Severely injured by rains and floods ; old white selling at 50 cents per bushel. 
Caldwell : Much corn planted late. Carroll: Worst corn season for years, but the county 
is full of old corn. Cole: Very excellent. Dent: Injured by drought in the greater 
part of the county. Holt: Rapidly maturing, with a prospect of little or no soft corn. 
Mason: Under average. Newton: Continued drought has reduced a bountiful crop to 
