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Wayne: Very light; rusted. Crawford; Severely injured by blight. Hancock: Badly 
rusted; many crops not worth harvesting. Hardin: Light weight; rust. Howard: 
Light in weight and poor in quality; bring but 20 cents per bushel. Jefferson: 
Very little worth thrashing ; do not weigh over 20 pounds perbushel. Tuylor: Killed 
by rust. Washington: Nearly a failure. Jowa: Looked splendid; but were taken by 
rust when just filling. Cherokee : Yield 20 to 30 bushels peracre. Floyd: Light weight. 
Sac: Light yield. 
Missourrt.—Clay: Almost an entire failure from rust and wind. Buchanan: Half 
acrop; rust. Greene: Rusted badly. Johnson: Three-fourths ruined by rust. Noda- 
way: Nearly destroyed with rust., Crawford: Nearly ruined. Mississippi: Nearly 
rained by wet; Holstein oats, from the Department, superior to all others. Perry: Half- 
crop; rust. Ralls: Damaged by rains; did not fill out. Camden: Rust very destruc- 
tive; many crops not harvested; market-price for old crop, 25 cents per bushel. 
Carroll: Did not fill. Newton: Almost ruined by rust; not more than half the fields 
were cut. Phelps: Ruined by rust; crops very light. Dallas: Damaged by rust. 
Kansas.—Jackson: Almost ruined by rust. Marion: Rusted and light; many fields 
not cut. Nemaha: Suffered greatly from rust. Pawnee: Shortened by drought in May. 
Doniphan: Nearly ruined by wet weather. Chase: Almost a total failure. Woodson: 
Rust; selling at 20 cents per bushel. Montgomery: Failure; killed by rust. 
NesrRaSKA.—Knor: Riddled by grasshoppers; many fields not harvested. Otoe: 
Blasted. Lancaster: Grasshoppers. Wayne: Escaped grasshoppers; good condition. 
Antelope: Good. Pawnee: Almost a failure through rust. 
CALIFORNIA.—Marin : Below average ; farmers here are in the bad habit of sowing the 
same land to oats, sometimes as often as ten or twelve years successively. Nodrought 
ever felt here, while the rolling surface prevents injury from excessive rains. Mum - 
boldt: Destructive rust from late sowing and foggy weather in July. 
OREGON.—Linn : Good. 
CoLorapo.—Fremont : Half destroyed by grasshoppers: La Plata: Injured by the 
spontareous and excessive growth of sunflowers in the fields since the rainy season 
of July began. Weld: Badly injured by grasshoppers. 
Uran.—Summit: Slightly injured by frost. 
RYE. 
The condition of the crop is below 100 in the great majority of 
the States; it makes its best showing on the Atlantic and Pacific slopes. 
it was subject to the same extremes of heat and drought as the wheat- 
crop, but escaped with a smaller percentage of loss on the whole. The 
States full average or above are Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, 
Delaware, Florida, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Nebraska. The mini- 
mum, 75, is found in Arkansas, where grain-crops generally met with 
unfavorable conditions of growth. i 
New Yor«.—VNiagara: Destructive drought and heat. 
Pld JERSEY.—Sussex : Shortened 25 per’cent. by drought. Bedford: Extraordinary 
yield. : 
PENNSYLVANIA.—Clearfield: Light. Lehigh: Fair in quantity, but not so plump as 
could be desired. 
MARrYLAND.—Prince George's : Below average. 
VirGinis.— Madison : Good. 
Norra Carotiva.—Injured by rust and smut. 
GEORGIA.—Jefferson : A little over average. Dooly: A good crop. 
Texas.—Dallas: Averaged 40 bushels per acre. Upshur: About eqnai to last year’s 
crop. Titus: Light; cut by rust. 
ARKANSAS.—4rkansas : Full crops. 
Kentucky.—Shelby : Grain plump, but yield small. Lincoln: Good, sound, and well 
cared for. 
InpIANA.—Decatur : Thin on the ground, but well grained. 
IturyoIs.—Ogle: Winter-rye generally good. Stephenson: Light crop, but of fair 
quality. Walworth: Medium crop. 
Kansas.—Jackson : Never better. Doniphan: Good crop. 
BARLEY. 
The barley-crop is in fall condition or above, in only a few States, viz: 
Vermont, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, which, 
taken together, produce less than 1. per cent. of the crop of the country. 
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