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Iniiwwots.—Jefferson: Keeping green beyond all precedent. Piatt: Very fine. Ogle: 
Good. Morgan: Heavy fall feed of grass and weeds. 
WISCONSIN.— Waukesha: Good. 
Iowa.—Jones : Extra good. 
Missourt.—Harrison: Fine. Putnam: Abundant. Cole: Excellent. 
CALIFORNIA.—Calusa: Very abundant, and all kinds of stock doing better than in 
any previous year. 
SORGHUM. 
Returns indicate that the extending culture of sorghum in the Gulf 
States is being encouraged by promising results. In the entire section 
south of the Potomac and the Ohio the only States reporting a condition 
not averaging above 100 are North Carolina, 98, and West Virginia, 99. 
Among the highest are South Carolina, Louisiana, and Tennessee, 104; 
Georgia, 105; Alabama and Kentucky, 106. In the Ohio Valley and 
west of the Mississippi the range is from 90 to 99. 
VirGiInta.— Madison: The largest crop ever grown. Russell: Very good. 
GrorGia.—Troup: Good. Fulton: More planted than ever before, and very fine. 
Upson: Very fine. ; 
ALABAMA.— Bullock: Fine. Conecuh: Prospect of a No. 1 crop. Crenshaw: Very 
good. Lauderdale: Good, and becoming a very important crop in this county. 
Mississipp1.—Choctaw: Much better than last year. Perry: Planted for the first 
time and successful. Lincoln: Favorable as could be desired. 
Trexas.—Titus : Better than for years. Basfrop: The yield has been as great as 120 
gallons of sirup per acre; 80 gallons is the average. This promises to be a profitable 
_ industry here, and I think many will grow sorghum instead of cotton another year. 
Upshur : Doing well; enough to supply the county with sirup. dustin: Turning out 
100 to 125 gallons of sirup peracre. Waller: Being tried bymany farmers. Rusk: The 
sorghum-mills are all busy. Medina: Reduced by protracted drought. 
ARKANSAS.— Fulton: Many crops damaged by black rust. 
TENNESSEE.— Monroe: Abundant crop made. Greene: Heavy growth. Wilson: A 
full crop and a splendid yield. 
Itutinois— Hardin: Good. Carroll: Best of weather for ripening. 
Missouri.—Johnson : The prospect for a crop grows less and less. 
NEBRAsKA.—Saunders: Largely ruined by grasshoppers. 
RICE. 
In the’ section where rice is grown occasional references to the crop 
by our correspondents indicate a promising condition. In Georgia the 
inland crop in Liberty County is promising, and in McIntosh, in which 
rice is a Staple product, the promise is reported to be better than for the 
last ten or twelve years. Our reporter in Santa Rosa, Florida, also 
states that in that section, in which rice is a principal crop, a very fine 
and remunerative yield is promised. 
SouTH CaRroLina.—Barnwell: Shortened by drought in the western part of the 
county. 
GEORGIA.—McIniosh : Rice is one of our principal crops; very fine yield; best for ten 
or twelve years. Liberty: Prospects of a good crop. 
FLoripa.—Santa Rosa: Rice our principal crop; it looks very well. Marion : Silver- 
hull from the Department a failure. 
INSECT-INJURIES. 
With the exception of the grasshopper raid west of the Mississippi 
and the cotton caterpillars in the South, the operations of the farmers’ 
insect enemies have been on a comparatively small scale. 
W HEAT-INSECTS.—Of insects especially infecting the wheat-crop,’ the 
Hessian tly (Cecidomyia destructor) is reported in Carroll, Maryland; Rus- 
sel, Virginia; Carroll, Georgia; Lake Michigan; Fond du Lac and Wine- 
bago, Wisconsin; Jackson, Iowa; and Greenwood, Kansas. The midge, 
