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REMARKS IN EXPLANATION OF THE ABOVE TABLES. 
Wheat.—Rarely has a season been noted in which so few complaints have 
been uttered by farmers, and so much cheerfulness expressed, in view of the 
prospect for a wheat crop. Few of our correspondents make any mention of 
winter-killing, of insects, or of rust. In some parts of the south there has been 
some complaint of rust, but it has been mainly confined to the leaf, while the 
grain was so nearly ripe as to be little liable to attack. The harvest has been 
gathered in Georgia and the other Gulf States, with a very gratifying result. 
The acreage of winter wheat is as large in a majority of the States as last 
year, though it is less in a few of the principal wheat-growing States. Texas, 
Kansas, Ohio, Indiana, report a diminished acreage ; Virginia, Georgia, Arkan- 
sas, Tennessee, a largely increased breadth ; the New England States show a 
slight increase ; the middle States a similar advance, not exceeding six per 
cent.; the southern wheat-growing States an average increase of twenty per 
cent. 
In point of “condition,” the facts are still more encouraging. Ohio reports an 
average improvement upon last year of 160 per cent.; Indiana, 73 per cent.; IIli- 
nois, 15 per cent.; Michigan, 80 per cent.; Wisconsin, 22 per ceut.; Minneso- 
ta, 7 per cent.; Missouri, 39 per cent.; Kentucky, 53 per cent.; Virginia, 100 
per cent.; North Carolina, 40 per cent.; Tennessee, 53 per cent.; and other 
States, with the exception only of Texas, making a favorable comparison with 
‘last year. 
The acreage of spring wheat is largely increased ; in Ohio, 37 per cent.; in 
Indiana, 48 per cent.; in Illinois, 25 per cent.; in Minnesota, 35 per cent.; in 
Wisconsin, 15 per cent.; in Michigan, 16 per cent.; in Missouri, 31 per cent.; 
in Iowa, 28 per cent.; in Kansas, 30 per cent.; in Nebraska, 90 per cent. 
This increase of+ breadth, in the wheat-growing region, must tell very percepti- 
bly upon the aggregate yield, if no unusual casualty awaits the maturing crop. 
It is quite too early to estimate in bushels the final result of the harvest. If 
the conditions continue favorable, however, at least two hundred millions of 
bushels may be expected in all the States and Territories. 
Barley.—An average acreage of winter barley has been sown in a majority 
of the States. A decrease of five per cent. is estimated for New York; Ohio, 
eight per cent.; Indiana, three per cent.; an increase in Tennessee of ten per 
cent.; and in Arkansas of twenty-five. On the whole, there is a very slightly 
diminished breadth of winter barley, but the increase of the spring sowing will 
compensate for the deficiency. 
Clover.—The condition of clover is good throughout the country—unusually 
fine in Ohio and the middle and New England States; in Pennsylvania it is 
somewhat better than in New York, and in Maine and Massachusetts compara- 
tively more flourishing, as compared with last year, than in the remainder of New 
England. 
Oats —The acreage of oats is larger than usual; in the west Ohio is the only 
State which cannot show an increase. The crop is somewhat variable in condi- 
tion ; in the south, far above an average; in New York, ten per cent. below; in 
Pennsylvania, six per cent.; in Kentucky, fourteen per cent. In the west gen- 
erally the prospect is better than last year. : 
Wool.—lIn the principal wool-producing States, as will be seen, but a small 
quantity of wool is yet on hand. 
