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est of not less than $150,000. Carroll: Harvest wet and wheat more or less damaged. 
Cole: “ White Cliff” wheat excellent for hills and uplands; straw stiff and ears long: 
millers prefer it to the Tappahannock. Newton: Thin on the ground; berry tolerably 
good; housed in good order. Phelps: Poor in yield and quality. Dallas: Badly 
rusted. 
Kansas.—Jackson : Crop good; berry plump. Marion: Much injured by rust; did 
not thrash out according to the promise of harvest; many fields did not pay for har- 
vesting. Nemaha: Winter-wheat good; spring-wheat a failure. Pawnee: Shortened 
by drought in May; acreage three times thar of last year. Smith: Chinches took some 
pieces of spring-wheat; we have just raised our first crop of winter-wheat. Doniphan: 
Fall-wheat good, but spring-wheat was a failure. Hllis: Injured by drought in June; 
Minorea, from the Department, yielded 8 bushels per acre, and Jennings 25 bushels, 
with plump berries and heads averaging 4 inches in length; the last named is consid- 
ered a very valuable seed for the climate. Saline: Winter-wheat poor, owing to 
drought and rust; spring-wheat yielded well, but the grain was too hard to be mar- 
ketable. Allen: Fultz in universal demand for seed. Sarton: Arnautka spring- wheat 
from the Department; it doubled the yield of any other variety, but the grain is hard 
and flinty, which injures its reputation with the millers. Chase: Will not average 
over 7 bushels per acre; poorest crop in ten years. Woodson: Plenty at 90 cents per 
bushel; 15,000 bushels to spare. Montgomery: Shortened by excessive rain at bloom- 
ing-time; will not average over 12 bushels per acre; good quality. 
NEBRASKA.— Lancaster: Grasshoppers. Platte: Grasshoppers too late for the crop. 
Antelope: About 13 bushels per acre; quality good. Nemaha: Injured somewhat by 
rains in harvest. Richardson: Grasshoppers took a third of the spring-wheat. 
CaLirorniA.—Marin: Crop of the State largely in excess of any former year; 
acreage and yield in the county about equal to last year. Merced: Thrashes out 30 or 
40 per cent. short of what was expected at harvest. San Joaquin: Half crop; low 
price, $1.45 per cental ; many shipping on theirown account. Contra Costa : Promise of 
extra crops not realized ; shrunken by excessive heat. Stanislaus ;: Short on thrashing. 
Del Norte: Fine harvest weather. 
OrREGON.— Douglas : Excessively wet winter and spring caused late seeding, and hot 
days in July prevented the grain from filling. Linn: Fall-wheat lighter than was ex- 
pected ; spring-wheat nearly average and of superior quality. 
CoLorapo.—La Plata: Low average of the crop due to the enormous growth of sun- 
flowers springing up since the rainy season commenced, about the middle of July ; 
crop smutted; some fields half smutted. 
Uranu.—Summit: Severe frost. Morgan: Severe frost. Toelle: Best crop ever raised 
here; selling at 50 cents per bushel in cash; Fultz wheat a failure; shells too easy 
when ripe, and cannot be handled without loss. Utah: Crops on bench-lands do not 
meet the farmer’s expectations. 
OATS. 
The condition of the oats crop, which averaged 86 on the 1st of August, 
declined to 81 on the 1st of September. It reached 100 only in Maine, 
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, South Carolina, Georgia, 
Florida, and Michigan. Each of tie great leading sections of the Union, 
taken together, shows low conditions. New England reports the bigh- 
est condition, 98. In some of the northern counties of this region 
late sowings were a comparative failure on account of drought. The 
Middle States together were about 7 per cent. below average. Here late 
plantings suffered from drought and rust, making both yield and weight 
very light. Schuyler, New York, pronounces the Waterloo the best 
variety for that climate. 
The South Atlantic States, as a whole, are 5 per cent. below 100, 
South Carolina and Georgia being above. In some of the northern 
counties of this region rust and heat, causing premature ripening, made 
the crop short and light in weight. Farther southward winter sowings 
were the most successful, spring sowings in many cases resulting in total 
failure. Carroll, Maryland, prefers the Schonen to all other varieties. 
The Gulf States, as a whole, are about 9 per cent. below average; 
Florida 105, showing the maximum, and Alabama 88, the minimum. 
The causes of decline are mostly those conditions of growth which 
produce rust. The red rust-proof and yellow-beard rust-proof are 
