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lllinois—Monroe: The season has been so wet that plowing for winter 
wheat is very backward; not much sown yet, but a few fields are 
up and looking well. Hancock: An increased area of wheat is being 
sown. Jefferson: The breadth sown exceeds that of last year nearly 
30 per cent. , 
Missouri.—Camden : The weather is remarkably fine for farm-work ; 
three-fourths of the wheat is sown. Early-sown wheat never looked 
better. Rye is also A No.1. Cole: The weather was never more favor- 
able; we have finished sowing wheat, and have increased the acreage 20 
per cent. Moniteaw: The past month has been very favorable for fali 
work, and a very large breadth of wheat has been sown, in splendid 
order. Holt: The new wheat and rye in the upper part of the county 
have been nearly all destroyed by the grasshoppers. Saint Genevieve: 
The ground is in remarkably fine condition, and wheat-sowing bas been 
progressing rapidly since the 15th of September. Platte: Commenced 
seeding about the 10th of September. The growing wheat is looking 
well, the weather being favorable to its rapid growth. Boone: The favor- 
able weather has enabled the farmers to put in their wheat in fine con- 
dition; but having failed for two consecutive years to raise much wheat, 
they have not been disposed to sow as much as usual. 
Kansas.—Brown: The grasshoppers have destroyed about all the 
wheat, rye, aud timothy that have come up, and will doubtless destroy 
all that has been sowed. The farmers have stopped sowing, owing to 
their presence. Sedgwick: The grasshoppers alighted on the Ist of 
September, not in such numbers as two,years ago, but enough to eat 
all the young wheat and rye as fast as it appears. Many of the farmers 
are still sowing wheat. Bourbon: The grasshoppers appeared on the 
28th of September, and are eating the wheat clean as they go. Cowley: 
The grasshoppers have taken all the early-sown wheat and rye, and they 
are still with us; they keep us from sowing wheat. Douglas: Owing to 
the prospect of another grasshopper raid, but little wheat was sown 
until within two weeks; the early sewn looks fine. Woodson: Grass- 
hoppers came on the 9th of September by the million, and have destroyed 
all the early-sown grain. Chase: The grasshoppers came September 9, 
and the wheat that had been sown is all destroyed. Lyon: The fall 
sowing of wheat and rye has all been devoured by the grasshoppers. 
Osage: On the 9th, 10th, and 11th of September, the wind from the 
northwest brought billions of grasshoppers, and consequently all the 
small grain is a total loss. Reno: The farmers are still busy in sowing 
wheat; some ground is being planted for the third time; only about 
half the area will be sown that would have been if the grasshoppers 
had not come; all the early sown was entirely killed. Shawnee: The 
grasshoppers have eaten about half of the wheat and rye sown; the 
farmers are sowing these grains over again. Washington: The farmers 
are now busy in sowing fall grain; we do not fear the grasshoppers in 
the spring, for the farmers will plow all they can this fall and winter, 
with the expectation of killing the grasshoppers in the egg. Saline: 
All wheat sown before the grasshoppers came has been destroyed by 
them ; some farmers have lost 200 acres, and one has lost 1,200. 
Nebraska.—Richardson: The grasshoppers are thick here, and have 
taken all the fallsowing. Pawnee: Winter wheat and rye are all de- 
stroyed by the grasshoppers. 
DISEASES AMONG FARM-STOCK.—Maryland.— Worcester: In one small 
section, within a few days, a very fatal disease has broken out among 
cattle, supposed to be Texas fever, communicated by a drove from the 
South, which passed through. 
