Florida. 
Boardman, Marion Co.—The January 
freeze killed all the young lemou wood iu this 
section, so there will be no fruit this season. 
The orange groves around Orange Lake will 
have perhaps two-thirds of Crop,but away from 
the lake the crop is very small so that, altogeth¬ 
er there will be, say, one-half a crop. Oat crop 
very good, and corn also, and double the area 
of last year—will make nearly a supply. Veg¬ 
etables plenty, but prices too low for profit. 
f. G. s. 
Green Cove Springs, Clay Co.—The frost 
last Winter mined most garden vegetables— 
melons are a month behind, only just com¬ 
mencing to ripen. There are but few peach 
trees set out yet besides native seedlings—such 
asAinsden, Alexander and Beatrice commen¬ 
cing to ripen the last of May and first of June. 
The orange trees were badly hurt with frost 
last January, and there will be no more than 
one-third to one-half a crop. Oats were good 
and cut first of June: corn is being hurt by 
drought. Rice looks well, cotton late and not 
much planted—we grow Sea Island altogether. 
Fruit trees of all kinds except the citrus are 
looking well and growing tiuely, J. M. M. 
Lake Como, Putnam Co.—Oranges prom¬ 
ise about a fourth of a crop. No lemons, or 
limes. Peen-to and Honey Peaches good. 
Potatoes are just being set out. Garden 
truck poor. Watermelons a success. 
R. W. G. 
Alabama. 
Athens, Limestone Co.—Crops are better 
than last year at this time, except cotton, 
there having been too much cool rains for it 
so far; but drier weather and a hot sun would 
bring it. ail right. Corn looks fine and is tassel- 
ing out. Oats are better than usual. Wheat 
is thin on the ground, owing to the hard 
freezes last Winter: but the berry is good, 
there being but little rust, or other blights. 
Rye and barley not much grown. The aver¬ 
age acreage of the above is more thau last 
year. Almost every farmer has his small 
patch of sorghum, and it looks fine. Apples 
are an average crop. Peaches about one-half 
crop. Small fruits a fan - average. Clover 
and hay crops are better thau usual, the wet 
weather being in then - favor. But few farm¬ 
ers grow them here, corn is our principal crop, 
and its blades are a general hay substitute, 
Garden truck is fail - and plentiful. New 
wheat is selling at 70cents; new Irish potatoes 
at 50 cents per bushel. w. m. 
Birmingham, Jefferson Co.—Crops much 
better thau last year at this date. Com one- 
third; oats double; rye better; barley double; 
spring •wheat one-third; clover and Timothy 
double. All garden truck oue-tkird to double; 
Irish potatoes one-third; sweet potatoes 
double; apples one-third better; peaches short. 
Tobacco, broom-corn and sorghum I should 
think double. Cotton poor, but may come 
out. Grapes, tame and wild, are one-third 
better. a. w, p. 
Selma, Dallas Co.—Owing to unusually 
heavy rainfalls and high waters in all our 
streams, the prospects for good crops are any¬ 
thing but flattering. Late planting followed 
by so much rain as to prevent cultivation, has 
seriously delayed work on our principal crops, 
cotton and corn. Oats are usually sown in the 
Fall; what were sown were killed by January 
freezes, and the spring crop was light. Hay 
crop was good but not large. Compared with 
last year, the prospects are not as good for 
our main crops, cotton and corn. The sweet 
potato crop will be good. No grain raised ex¬ 
cept oats. Garden truck and fruits not much 
raised, although they could with profit. H. p. 
Mississippi. 
West Point, Clay Co. —Prospect not so 
good as 12 months ago, three weeks rain has 
put all crops in grass and weeds. Corn, pros¬ 
pect poor; no wheat. Oats, poor crop. No 
rye or barley. Potatoes good; garden truck 
fine; peaches good; apples and pears poor; 
grapes good; no tobacco or broom-corn; sor¬ 
ghum good. I think a gloomy out-look general. 
n. H. H. 
Texas. 
Dennison, Grayson Co.—Corn, muchbetter- 
never finer; oats 80 per cent, of last year, cut 
short by May drought; rye, one-half of last 
year’s; barley much reduced by drought; pota¬ 
toes, 26 per cent, of last year’s crop; garden 
vegetables, 25 per cent, of last year’s crop; 
strawberries and blackberries, about one-half 
last year’s crops; apples, average crop; grapes, 
one-half usual crop set, but above average, 
from absence of rot, owing to dry weather; 
hay, one-half usual growth; cotton, never 
was better; sorghum, very flue. Cattle in 
excellent condition. Though the grass 
is short, yet it is more nutritious than iu 
wet seasons, and fattens better. On the 
whole, our prospects are rather above the 
average, providing we have two or three 
more good rains in this and next month 
—July. It is very uncommon to have drought 
here in May or June. T. C. m, 
Eagle Lake, Colorado Co.—Corn and cot¬ 
ton better than last year. Oats very good. 
Garden track good. No wheat, rye or any 
small grain raised. Very little fruit. 
R. B. D. 
Hillsboro, Hill Co.— Wheat harvested 
and thrashing 80 to 90 per cent.; oats, 50 to 00; 
rye and barley,very small amount sown; pota¬ 
toes, 40; garden truck, 80; peaches, 25; hay, 
60 to 70; cotton, 140 to 150, and increased acre¬ 
age about 20 to 40; com, 100. h. 
Laurence, Kaufman Co.—Oat crop harvest¬ 
ed now, 65; wheat, 75; corn tasseling, 90; 
sorghum, 100; cotton, 180; grapes, 150; apples, 
130; peaches, 100; hay, 60: broom-coni, 80. 
J. h. 
Midland, Midland Co.—Small graiu a to¬ 
tal failure; corn, very doubtful; sheep espec¬ 
ially have done badly, one-fourth less wool 
clipped. J- S. c. 
Sherman, Grayson Co.—Corn is looking 
finer than last year, though suffering for rain. 
Wheat not so good, averaging only 10 bushels 
to the acre; froze out considerably last Winter 
and suffered for rain this Spring. Oats are 
nothing to compare with last year, when they 
mode all the way from 25 to 125 bushels per 
acre. Bailey fair; average 35 to 40 bushels 
per acre. Potatoes and garden truck scarce— 
the worst outlook since I have been in the 
State, 10 years. Orchard fruits were mostly 
killed by late frosts. There will be consider¬ 
able tame grapes, We raise nothing but wild 
prairie grass for hay; it will also be short for 
lack of rain at the proper season. Cotton far 
ahead of last year; in this neighborhood the 
prospect is magnificent; not much planted. 
Stock low; cows with calves at their sides are 
as low as $10,and not over $25. J. h. m’g. 
\rvv Mexico. 
Albuquerque. Bernalillo Co.—All kinds of 
small grains average crops; oats, corn and 
orchard fruits, peaches excepted, good; grapes, 
the largest crop for five years. We raise not 
enough for home consumption. We need more 
and better farmers here. J. B. H. 
Arkansas. 
Arkadelphia, Clark Co.—Corn never more 
promising. Cotton good, with healthy plant. 
Oats below an average. Wheat and other 
small grains are also short. Strawberries in¬ 
jured from drought; raspberries injured from 
same cause. Peaches and apples only about 
half crops. Tho grape prospect is finer thau 
ever before. v. m‘g. 
Fayetville, Washington Co.—No barley, 
broom corn, hops, cotton or tobacco are raised 
to any extent in this section. Fruit-raising is 
mostly limited to apples and peaches. Corn, 
90 per cent.; wheat. 65; oats, 70; rye, 65: pota¬ 
toes and garden truck, 90; hay, 60; sorghum, 
90; apples, 00; grapes, 50. A very dry spell in 
May and first of June cut down the per ceut- 
age of wheat, oats, rye and hay. Ihe quality 
is good, fully 90 per cent. Wo need more 
Rurals here, but oh, how hard to get them! 
w. m. c. 
Siloam Springs, Benton Co.—Corn pros¬ 
pects never bettor; wheat an average crop; 
oats cut short by drought; potatoes and gar¬ 
den stuff cut short by the drought; apples, 
prospect good; peaches none—killed in bud; 
small fruits injured by drought; hay aud 
grasses cut short by drought. J. T. b. 
Kentucky. 
Grisson’s Landing, Daviess Co.—Corn, 
tobacco, wheat and rye in good condition and 
promise a good harvest. Wheat nearly all 
cut. Oats are short iu straw on account of 
dry weather. Early potatoes will be short. 
Apples about the same as last year. Peaches 
and pears a failure. Hay about two-thirds of 
crop; clover hay about the same as last year. 
M. G. 
Oakland Station, Warren Co.—Cora half 
eaten down by cut-worms; second planting up 
well and growing finely; outlook good; area 
average; old corn plentiful at 40 cents per 
bushel. Wheat, over average iu yield; some 
fields extra heavy; some few not worth 
cutting, hurt by “fly” and rust; all cutting 
done; but it will be injured iu the shock if 
this rain continues; been raining for a week; 
farmers would cut between showers, aud con¬ 
sequently it was put up damp. Oats heaviest 
for' years; down considerable; won’t be cut 
till July 1. Rye and barley none planted. 
Potatoes tine, and gardens extra good; fruit a 
failure. Tobacco all set; good stand, but 
grassy, owing to rain. L. M. s. 
Pewee Valley, Oldham Co.—Com gener¬ 
ally good and forward. Wheat best for years. 
Oats short, owing to drought. Rye good. 
Potatoes suffered much from drought—same 
as last year. Plenty of fruit except peaches. 
Hay will be a short crop. Grapes more 
promising than last year. This year a good 
deal like last year so far. j. G. K. 
Tennessee. 
Home, Greene Co.—Corn, prospect poor, 
continued rains prevented working; yield 33 
per cent, below last year’s. Wheat harvested, 
yield 50 per cent, greater than last year. 
Oats good crop, 25 per cent, bettor than last 
year, Grass and clover, good; potatoes and 
garden truck good; peaches, none; apples 
abundant: berries plentiful; tobacco promises 
fair, with an increase of acreage over last 
year. J* 8 - 
Humboi.t, Gibson Co.—Future outlook for 
crops was never better, with very few excep¬ 
tions. Cora not quite so good, but looks well, 
wheat, 150; potatoes, 100; tomatoes, 105; ap¬ 
ples, 50; pear, 25; cotton, 150; hay, 110. 
M. c. R. 
McMinnville, Warren Co.—Apples are 
the principal source of revenue. The indica¬ 
tions are favorable for a much smaller yield 
than last season. Cotton, sorghum, tobacco, 
hay and Irish potato prospects unusually 
good—much better than last season. T he 
wheat and oats are better than a year ago and 
will be over average crops. w. H. f. 
Tullahoma, Coffee Co.—Corn, oats and 
rye, 120; wheat. 150; potatoes. 100; apples, 
pears, peaches and other fruits, 25. c. l. n. 
Waverly, Humphreys Co.—Corn prospect 
fair; some damaged by rain. Wheat aud oats 
better than for several years. Peanuts, a poor 
outlook; many fields almost ruined by exces¬ 
sively wet weather, commencing last of May 
and lasting yet. Peach trees greatly dam¬ 
aged last Winter; did not even bloom. Apples, 
light crop. J. w. s. 
WESTERN STATES. 
Ohio. 
Atwater, Portage Co.—Very dry since 
April until June 16 when it began to rain, and 
it has rained two-thirds of the time since then, 
and is raining now. Corn, acreage, 100 per 
cent.; condition, 100; wheat, acreage, 100; 
condition, 50; oats, acreage, 100; condition, 
100; potatoes, acreage, 100; condition, 100; 
gardens are in good couditiou aud clean; ap¬ 
ples and peal’s, good crops, except Baldwin 
apples, which did not blossom this year as they 
were full of fruit last; peach trees full; last 
year none; hay a good crop. R. w. 
Bucyrus, Crawford Co.—Corn, better; out¬ 
look good if sufficient rain. Wheat two-thirds 
crop: some fields good; others medium; others 
very thin on the ground. Oats not as good as 
last year; rye same as last year; barley about 
the same as last year; potatoes half a crop as 
compared with last year; apples large crop; 
pears, good; hay half a crop. The crop of hay 
has been cut short by lack of rain. 8. N. 
Cadiz, Harrison Co.—Compared with last 
year, corn is about the same; wheat, many 
times better: oats not bo good; potatoes about 
the same: apples better; pears scarcer; peaches 
plenty—a failure in 1885; orchard fruits gen¬ 
erally plenty; grapes about the same; hay 
about half last year’s; wool is by far the most 
valuable crop sold in this county; there will 
uot be as much wool as last year; on account 
of short bay crop and low price of wool many 
sheep were sent out of the couuty. b. r. 
Calcutta, Columbia Co.—The wheat crop 
is about 75 per cent., of full crop; corn, 120; 
oats, 100; rye, 100; potatoes, 100; garden truck, 
100; apples, 50; pears, a total failure; peaches, 
50; cherries and plums, full crops; hay, 50. 
Meadows full of sorrel and white-top weeds. 
J. S. 
Columbus, Franklin Co.—All crops are a 
week or 10 days earlier thau last year. Corn 
is good, equal to last year; wheat, much bet¬ 
ter; will be 400 or 500 per cent, greater on 
account of being almost entirely frozen last 
year; oats fair—about an average; uot many 
grown here; rye, little if any grown; barley, 
fair average; uot much grown; potatoes aud 
all vegetables promise to be abundant crops; 
apples promise well; pears only a fair crop; 
peaches not grown to speak of; grapes not 
grown; hay, very poor, uot half a crop, ex¬ 
cept clover, which is very heavy; Timothy 
meadows scarcely worth cutting. w. B. a. 
Dayton, Montgomery Co.—A heavy crop 
of fall barley is just harvested. Wheat will 
be ready in a few days—a magnificent crop 
too—after the complete failure of 1885, when 
from 80 acres 1 did not get seed back. Corn is 
doing fiuely; though there does not seem so 
much put in as usual. There is much spring 
barley too, aud everything most promising. 
We are having wot weather for clover cutting. 
Clover is very heavy, as an offset for last 
year’s failure. Broom-corn has been a regu¬ 
lar crop with us until lately; this year we try 
it again, but it is too soon to tell of it; there 
is usually a considerable quantity raised here¬ 
about. Tobacco also is a good crop in the 
Miami Valley. My crops never promised 
better. H - R - 
Hudson, Summit Co.—Wheat as good as 
last year, late. Some corn bettor than a year 
ago and more planted. Potatoes looking fair; 
more than as many again planted than a year 
ago. Oats looking fair; hay crop will be short; 
fruit about half crop. e. a. s. 
London, Madison Co.—Coru uot so good as 
last year, but we expect a fair crop; last year’s 
was extra. Outlook for wheat has not been 
so good for four or five years. Last year it 
was ouly two bushels to the acre; this year it 
looks as if it would average over 20. Not 
much oats or rye sown in this section. Oats 
are too rank. Hay heavier than last year. 
Potatoes and garden track several weeks 
earlier and bettor thau last year. Apples, 
peaches and grapes are in abundance; have 
not had so large an acreage for years. The 
army-worm lias done much damage to the hay 
crop, H. w. l. 
Oxford, Butler Co.—Season very favor¬ 
able; pasture good ; wheat harvest began 
June lOtb. The season promises to be a very 
fruitful one. As compared with last year, 
corn is 100; acreage, 100; wheat, 95; acreage, 
95; oats, 75; acreage, 80; barley, 105; acreage, 
75; potatoes, 100; acreage, 75; apples, 110; 
pears, 40; grapes, 100; hay, 90. w. B. 
Pleasant Hill, Miami Co.—Wheat will 
average about 18 bushels per acre. Cora, not 
so good as last year, wifi average about 45 
bushels to the acre; oats will make au average 
crop, about 50 bushels to the acre; barley, 40; 
rye, 18; potatoes, about half a crop. Hay a 
fair crop, about two tons to acre. Most fruit 
good, such as apples and grapes, peaches, 
plums aud so on. w. h. l. 
Ravenna, Portage Co.—Late rains have im- 
proved appearance of crops: wheat, 90 per 
cent, of last year’s; oats, 50; corn, 100; potatoes 
look splendid; rye, but little sown, looks very 
well G. p - T. 
Rockpokt, Cuyahoga Co.—The geueral out¬ 
look for corn is far ahead of last year; wheat 
is the best for years; oats are looking well; 
rye looks well; potatoes looking well, but feel 
the need of rain; apples promise largest crop 
for years; peaches very scarce, not more than 
half a erop. w. c. e. 
Tiffin, Seneca Co.—Cora is farther ad¬ 
vanced by 50 per cent, uud bus much better 
color than at this date last year; wheat not 
favorable for an average of over half a crop; 
oats extremely short iu the straw; hay, clover 
hardly au average crop aud is being cut at 
least 10 days earlier thau usual; apples, only 
half a erop; peaches, half a crop. T. G. b. 
Tontogany, Wood Co.—Corn bettor than 
last year; wheat, about the same: oats, ditto; 
rye and barley but little raised here; early 
potatoes aud garden track injured by drought; 
Orchard Grass better, clover good, Timothy 
hay light. n. k. 
Yankee Ridge, Coshocton Co.—Early 
planted corn looks well, prospects are good for 
an average crop; wheat, is a little above au 
average, some Fultz already in shock; oats 
very short aud will be a light crop; rye, none 
raised to spuak of; barley, none raised; pota¬ 
to prospects slim on account of drought; 
garden truck where tended to is us good as 
common; apples, prospect never bettor; pears a 
failure ; pea dies, seedlings plenty, budded ones 
none; cherries, best crop for 20 years. All 
kinds of hay crop very light on upland; clover 
is very good on the bottoms. J. h. d. 
Indiana. 
Bourbon, Marshall Co.—Last year nearly 
all of our crops were half short. The fly is 
now working badly in wheat, and some was 
drowned out. Prospect, wheat, 75; oats, 110; 
corn, 100; potatoes, 90; garden truck, 100; 
apples, 125; cherries, 125for Richmonds; others 
Of little account; grapes, 100; hay, 85 for Tim¬ 
othy, and UK) for clover. The general condi¬ 
tion of all small fruits as well as of field crops 
is tho most promising. J. h. p. 
Bridgeton, Park Co. — Corn looks well ; 
wheat about an average crop; oats, average; 
rye and barley, none ; potatoes, a large 
crop; fruits generally uot very good ; buy, 
light crop. i*. f. a. 
Colfax, Clinton Co.—Corn poor ; wheat 
good, never was better filled; oats good; Tim¬ 
othy hardly as good as last year; potatoes 
look fine; garden truck about the average. 
G. a. r. 
Columbia City, Whitley Co.—Wheat is 10 
per cent, below last year ; corn about the 
same; oats uot so good; potatoes about the 
same as lust year; garden truck the same av¬ 
erage; apples will be an average crop; grapes 
the same; clover is a good average, but Tim¬ 
othy will be about two-thirds of last year’s 
crop w. A. L. 
Evansville, Vanderburgh Co. — Wheat, 
120; corn and oats, 95; rye, barley, potatoes 
