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PENNSYLYVANIA.— Cambria : Well secured. Beaver: Put up in good order. Elk: An 
enormous crop, harvested in good condition. Indiana: An immense crop, all well 
secured. Sullivan: Never more abundant. 
MaryLanp.—Baliimore : A large crop and all kinds secured in fine condition. How- 
ard: One of the best crops for years. 
VIRGINIA.— Campbell : Excellent crop in yield and quality. Middlesex: Very fine 
crop. Dinwiddie: A good crop, and was harvested in better condition than I ever saw 
before. Madison: Very heavy crop; better than for many years. Rockingham: Fine 
crop in quantity and quality. Russell : A good crop, in good condition. Carroll: Very 
good crop. Orange; Shortened by a protracted drought. Prince George: Diminished 
by drought in May and June. 
NortH Caroitna.—Orange: The crop of late grass is unprecedented. Buncombe: 
First-rate. 2 
SoutH Carorina.— Newberry : German millet yields an abundance of excellent hay. 
Greenville: Largely damaged by heavy rains. ' 
GEORGIA.—Catoosa: Quality not so good, owing to showery weather; but the quan- 
tity 15 per cent. above, owing to German millet. Elbert: Fine season for hay. 
Thomas: Better crop than last year. Upson: Very fine. Jefferson: Very good crop. 
Twiggs: The fodder has been saved in better condition than for years. 
FLoripsa.— Gadsden: Corn-fodder has been saved in good condition, and the crops of 
green pease, ground pease, and chufus promise a good yield. 
ALABAMA.—Conecuh:.As good a crop as the land can bring. : 
Texas.—Harris: The prairie-grass is fine, and the weather for cutting perfect. Ti- 
tus: Never better. Austin: A very heavy crop. Collin: Prairie-hay better than for 
years. Medina: Reduced by protracted drought. 
ArKANSAS.— Arkansas: A big crop. Jzard: German millet almost tke only kind of 
hay raised; was damaged in making. Fulton: Good; German millet extra good. 
TENNESSEE.—Blount : Extra crop. Greene: German millet and all other kinds above 
average. Wilson: Large crop; more and better clover-hay saved than any previous 
year. Fentress: Enormous crop. Millet is rapidly coming into use. Bledsoe: Good 
yield of millet; hay of excellent quality. 
West VirGINIs.—Grant : Somewhat injured byrains. Braxton: Best crop in quan- 
tity and quality for years. Hardy: Extra large crop. Mercer: The quality above av- 
erage. Jefferson: Better thanlast year. A fine cropof Hungarian and fox-tail grasses. 
KENtTUCKY.—Calloway: The best crop of all kinds ever raised. Boyle: Far above 
a general average, with fine harvest-weather. Henry: Unusual fall rains interfere 
with the saving of the millet and Hungarian crops. Lincoln: One of the heaviest 
crops in ten years. Logan: Saved in fine condition; selling at $6 to $8 per ton. — 
Oxn10.—Ross : Timothy too ripe before cutting; too much rain. Preble: The prod- 
uct of all kinds fully 15 per cent. above last year. Geauga: The heaviest crop for 
twenty years. Sandusky: All kinds never better; worth only $5 per ton. Portage: 
Considerably increased by second crop, the cutting of which is unusual here. Wood: 
Unusually large crop, but not good in quality. 
MicuiGan.—Mason: Fine. Oakland: The heaviest crop ever harvested—the timo- 
thy in first-rate condition ; clover injured somewhat. Menominee: Large crop, well 
secured. Alpena: Better than ever before; will average more than two tons per acre. 
Delta: A heavy crop, well saved; the price the lowest ever known. Lapeer: Good 
in quality and well secured. Lenawee :. Clover-hay much injured by wet weather. 
Calhoun : Injured by rains. Kent: Unusually heavy crop. 
InpDIANA.— Decatur : Good crop secured in excellent condition. De Kalb: Clover- 
hay badly injured. Franklin: A large crop well harvested. Washington: All well 
saved. Floyd: Sold last year for $16 per ton; selling now for $7. 
Intrno1s.— Jefferson : The product beyond all precedent. Hamilton : Clover injured 
in harvest but other hay fine. Ogle: Good. Pope: Large amount of clover not saved, 
owing to wet. 
WIsconsIn.— Waukesha: The best second crop ever known. Columbia: Good. Craw- 
ford: The largest yield of all kinds for years, all well saved. Walworth: A first-rate 
crop of cultivated grasses, well secured ; wild hay damaged by excessive rains. 
MrxyeEsota.—Isanti : A large reduction by the drought in July. 
Iowa.— Wayne: Never better. Jones: Timothy and clover extra good; much wild 
grass on low Jands spoiled by overflow in July. Yama: Damaged 25 per cent. by the 
flood of July Sth. 
Missourt.—Chariton : Good crop, well saved. Clay: Good. Nodaway: Very large 
crop, well secured. Mississippi: Saved in good condition; yield of German millet esti- 
mated at 4 tons to the acre. Ralls: Saved in fine condition. Caldwell: More culti- 
vated and less prairie-hay than last year. Macon: Fine. Ripley: More made than 
ever before; farmers giving much more attention to grass. 
Kansas.—Jackson. Largest yield of timothy ever harvested. Nemaha: Splendid 
crop. Woodson: A vast surplus of excellent quality will be put up. 
NEBRASKA.—Antelope: Large harvest of excellent prairie-hay. 
ORrEGON.—Douglas: Extra yield of timothy. 
