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weight; poorly filled. Westmoreland: Crop large but grain light. Potter: Rusted ; late 
plantings failed. Berks: Best crop for three years. Forest: Much injured by rust. — 
MaryYLANnD.—Prince George's: Below average. Howard: Poor, but better than usual. 
pata: : Late sowings ripened too fast. Carroll: Turning out well; Schonen takes 
e lead. 
VIRGINIA.—Russell: Rusted considerably. King George: Yield excellent. James 
City: Fall sown good, partly making up for the deficiency of the spring sown. War- 
wick : Spring sowings failed ; fall sowings yield fine crops besides abundant spring 
grazing. Prince George: Spring-oats almost a universal failure; winter-oats a fair 
crop. Northampton: Crops short; spring-oats weigh not over 24 pounds per bushel. 
Richmond: Damaged by rain. 
Nort Carouina.— Union: Very light; drought. Alamance: Winter sowings good ; 
spring sowings failed. Buncombe: Rusted. Polk: Rusted; rains excessive at matur- 
ing season. 
GEORGIA.—Jefferson : Much above average. Upson: Finest cropever grown. Jack- 
son: Remarkably good crop. Oglethorpe: Best in several years. Dooley: Best crop in 
twenty years. Carroll: Rusted. Lincoln: Increased yield. 
ALABAMA.—De Kalb: Tolerable yield in spite of rust. Henry: Yellow-beard rust- 
proof oats successful. 
Trexas.—Dallas: Average 40 bushels per acre. Zilis: Some rust. Williamson: Early 
sown superior. Red River: Thrashed out light. Upshur: Heavier than last year. 
Titus : Very fair, especially the red rust-proof. Harris: Better thau ever; jobbing at 
30 cents per bushel. 
ARKANSAS.—Clay: Ruined by rust, especially late sowings. Arkansas: Full crop. 
Bradley : Except the red rust-proof variety, oats have entirely failed. 
TENNESSEE.— Wilson: Very heavy. Greene: Spring sowings injured by rust and 
spring frosts; winter sowings fine, with clean straw and hedvy grain. Blount: Half 
crop of inferior quality. Union: Badly damaged by rast. Tipton: Almost average ; 
less rust than last year. Fentress: Pretty good. Shelby: Fine harvest season. Grundy: 
Almost a failure. 
Wesr VirRGINIA.— Damaged by wet. Preston: Acrerage greater than for fifteen years. 
Raleigh: Very fine. Hardy: Unusually fine. 
KENnTUCKY.—Nicholas : Half acrop. Carroll: Cut short by droughtin May. Lincoln: 
Rusted ; straw of no value. ; 
Ounto.—Ross: Damaged by rain. Delaware: Large crop, but rather chaffy. Geauga: 
Heavy strawed, but badly lodged and poorly filled; the increased average will make 
good the diminished yield. Sandusky: Very poor. Huron: Fair crop; grain not very 
heavy. Lorain: Grain not in proportion to straw; large white kinds will average 37 
pounds per bushel. 
MIcHiGAN.—Marquette: Holstein oats remarkably fine. Menomonee: Injured by the 
early rains. Lapeer: Very good. Lenawee: Light berry. Charlevoix: Light. Mecosta = 
Materially reduced by blight. Saginaw: Not one-half crop. Oakland: A good crop, 
well secured. 
Inprana.—Clark: Crop short, but grain good; the Surprise-oats from the Department 
in 1875 have done very finely. Kosciusko: Holstein did well; will give it farther trial. 
Decatur: Ruined by rust; straw heavy, but grain light; not half will be harvested at 
all. Franklin: Ruined by rust. Warren: Yielding well. Washington: Greatly in- 
jured by rust. Brown: Killed by rust. ; 
Intrwois.—Carroll: Light in yield and weight and low in price; 26,000 acres sown. 
Clinton: Drowned out. Crawford: Badly rusted; a large portion not worth cutting. 
De Kalb: Much rusted and shrunken; not over 21 pounds per bushel. Effing- 
ham: Rust from wet weather. Franklin: Shortened by rust resulting from wet 
weather in the forepart of the season. Jefferson: Grain light in weight; straw 
heavy. Madison: Light and poor; rust. Marshall: Almost ruined by rust. Piatt: 
About half the standard weight. Shelby: Injured by excessive rains. Warren: 
Promised well, but reduced a third in yield by rust; weigh but 23 pounds per bushel. 
Winnebago : Will not pay the cost of harvesting and thrashing. Woodford: But a 
small portion of the crop will be thrashed ; excessive wet produced rust. Hamilton: 
Light weight. Ogle: Light crop. Stephenson: About two-thirds the average weight 
per bushel. Macon: Damaged by rust. Mason: Very light. Pope: Light; injured 
’ by rust. 
WIsconsin.—Clark: Greatly injured by excessive rains in July and August. 
Brown: Thrash out light; yield small. Fond du Lac: Little:over half a crop. Wal- 
worth: A failure; lightest crop in thirty years. Green: Badly rusted; from 20 to 25 
pounds per bushel. 
Minnesora.— Yellow Medicine ; Nearly all taken by grasshoppers. Redwood: Cut oft. 
by grasshoppers; from 8 to 20 bushels per acre average yield. Jackson: Ten to 15 
bushels per acre. Nicollet: Ravaged by grasshoppers. Steele: Range from very poor 
to good; generally good. Jsanti: Shortened by drought. 
lowa.—Adams: Mostly destroyed by rust; light and poor. Poweshiek: Light 
