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and tobacco, about the same as last year, 
while hay and special crops will be better. 
G. G. 
Greensburg, Decatur Co.—Corn, an aver¬ 
age area; looks 20 per cent, better. AY heat 
average, seeded better than last year. Oats 
never better. Rye and barley little raised. 
Potatoes as good as we ever had. Apples 26 
per cont. better than last year. Pears same 
as last year—full. Cherry trees full; grape 
vines full. Meadows and Blue Grass pasture 
ns good as we ever had. Broom-corn and 
garden truck good. All crops two weeks 
earlier than usual. w. w. h. 
Green Oak, Fulton Co.—Wheat is 10 per 
cent, better than at this time a year ago; oats, 
15 per cent, better; corn, 20 per cent; pota¬ 
toes, a larger acreage; condition good. Sorg¬ 
hum, larger area, condition good. Rye good. 
Fruit earlier. Garden stuff good. w. h. k. 
Haw Patch, Lagrange Co.—Wheat, 80; 
corn, 135; oats, 75; clover seed, 300; clover 
hav, 50; Timothy hay, 75, short, want of rain 
early; potatoes, 115, beetles few; apples, 115. 
J. N. L. 
La Fayette, Tippecanoe Co.—Corn not as 
good as last year. AVheat, 20 per cent, better. 
Potatoes and garden truck about the same. 
Orchard fruits and grapes at least 50 per cent, 
better. Hay crop will not be as good by 25 
per cent. H. B. b. 
Lanesville, Harrison Co.—AA r heat is very 
heavy. Oats and grass will lie very heavy, 
and there is a fine prospect for a good crop of 
corn. Potatoes promise a heavy yield. Grapes 
are rotting badly in consequence of the rainy 
weather. A Ye have had heavy rains, and the 
outlook is gloomy. If the rainy, foggy 
weather continues, I fear we cannot save our 
crops. It is danmgiug wheat and oats badly. 
Fruit crops will be light. J. E. w. 
Montmorenci, Tippecanoe Co.—Corn and 
oats, good; potatoes and garden truck, a verage 
—better than last year; apples, grapes and 
plums, better; no peaches; pear trees nearly 
all dead; hay. very good, and wheat is better. 
s. e. s. 
Muncie, Delaware Co.—Corn quite late, 
ami outlook not good; wheat, good, much bet¬ 
ter than an average; oats good, better than 
average. Potatoes very promising; garden 
truck good; apples, very promising; grapes, 
abundant; hay, Timothy, short, two-thirds 
last year’s, clover good. p. c. h. 
Poplar Grove, Howard Co.—Corn, 110; 
wheat, 05; oats. 85; potatoes and garden 
truck, 100; apples and pears, 125; grapes, 150; 
hay and clover, 100; Timothy, 85; sorghum, 
80. w. M. 
Rochester, Fulton Co.—Corn, 100 per cent; 
wheat, 00; rye, 00; oats, 110; potatoes, 105; 
apples, 65; grapes, 00; garden truck in great 
abundance. R. D. 
Spring port, Heury Co.—Wheat, 100; corn, 
SO; oats, 80; potatoes, 75; garden truck, 90; 
apples, 100; peal’s, 40; grapes, 100; hay, 09; 
sorghum, 100. w. h. v. 
Winchester, Randolph Co.—Crops will 
average about the same as last year, with the 
exception of Timothy, which will be almost 
an entire failure. w. a. 
Illlnola. 
Altona, Knox Co.—AVheat good, oats aver¬ 
age, vegetables fine, corn average, small 
fruit abundant, rye good, apples scarce, 
grass good, potatoes good. b. m. 
Anna, Union Co,—AVheat cut and in shock; 
will be stacked next week if weather permits. 
As compared with last year, acreage 110 per 
cent.; yield apparently 125 per cont. Clover 
cut uud stored two weeks; acreage probably 
os last year ; yield and quality probably about 
80 to 90 per cent.; second crop in many eases 
promises to fie ready in two weeks or loss, and 
bids fair to make better hay than first crop. 
Such was the case lost year. Timothy or Red 
Top not yet, out, except as in my own case, 
dominated by volunteer clover, and cut im¬ 
mature to prevent loss of clover. Oats, yield, 
189 to 1-10 per cent.; acreage, 115 to 135 per 
cent. Corn, acreage, 100; condition, 100. 
Strawberries, yield simply tremendous, so 
much so that growers lost money; while pick¬ 
ers (at two cents per quart), transporters (R. 
R. or Exp. Co’s), commission men and retail¬ 
ers in market, as well as consumers, divided 
tho swag. Potatoes, early, acreage 125; 
promise 12.5; only a few Into cultivated. Sweet 
potatoes, owing to low prices for last several 
years, only a small comparative acreage, say- 
40 to 50; look well. Apples, except Early 
Harvest, or Red June, about as abundant ns 
last year; aud the trees wore loaded last year, 
and the fruit remarkably free from blem¬ 
ish and of attractive appearance and quality. 
But thousands of bushels rotted because there 
was no demand at home 01‘ in the cities of St. 
Louis or Chicago. This was notably the case 
with summer and fall apples, which had in 
other years brought fair prices. J. m. f. 
Aurora, Kane Co.—Fall grain srood; Spring 
grain fair; corn fair; grass a good average; 
pasture good; season is 10 days earlier than 
usual; fruit good, all kinds. F. o. 
Bondvillk, Champaign Co. — Corn 100; 
wheat good, small acreage; oats 100; potatoes 
100; garden truck good; apples 100; hay 100; 
sorghum 80; broom-corn 95. H. B. G. 
Champaign, Champaign Co.—The season 
has been a very favorable one from the start, 
both iu respect to the weather, which has been 
relatively dry and cool, and the condition of 
the soil that a cold and rather frosty AVinter 
put in the best condition for the crops. AVinter 
wheat came through uninjured, and so of grass 
and clover. The first is equal in yield and 
quality to the great wheat crop year, 1882, 
but the acreage is very small, not half of the 
average of the past five years. The harvest is 
going on in the latitude of St. Louis, a week 
or 19 days earlier than usual. Cool aud dry 
weather favored the seediug of oats and the 
plowing aud planting of corn. A drought 
from the middle of May to about the same 
date in June prevailed quite extensively aud 
shrank oats, late sown, a good deal. However, 
as warm aud mellow rain came on the 13th, 
the oats were saved from serious disaster. Of 
coni, there is nearly a full stand, an enormous 
acreage, aud the fields are clean, and the crop 
is now, for latitude 40, fully knee-high, and 
with 20 per cent, up to a man's hips, and the 
promise, if the weather is that of the average 
last; half of Juue, that these fields will be show¬ 
ing tassels and silk by the Fourth of July—a 
very unusual and remarkable circumstance. 
In short, if the summer season keeps its early 
promise up to the first of September, no more 
magnificent corn crop will have been made 
in the Northwest since the phenomenal corn 
crop years of 1860. 1872 and 1880, Pastures 
are good; has- fair in some places, and enorm¬ 
ous in others. Potatoes are suffering from the 
Colorado beetle, and cabbages from the 
Europeau butterfly. The apple crop does 
credit to the even-number-year notion, and 
pears are making amends for the failure last 
year. The drought from the middle of May 
to that of June may be regarded as a special 
providence, since it was succeeded by warm 
and copious rains, and I shall expect to see a 
repetition of these providences till the crops 
are all made. B. f. j. 
Clarence, Ford Co.—Corn about two- 
thirds, oats half; no rye sowu. Barley and pota¬ 
toes average; garden truck and apples about 
the same as last. Hay not as good. Flax 
average. w. s. s. 
Dover, Bureau Co.—As compared with last 
year, crops are somewhat, in advance. The 
weather has for the most part been favorable 
to rapid growth of all cereals. Apples are 
doing well; small fruit of all kinds are abuu- 
dant. Potatoes and all garden truck promise 
well. Grass abundant. T. w. L. 
Freeport, Stephenson Co.—Corn, 70; wheat, 
120; oats, 00; rye, 125: barley, 90; potatoes 
and garden truck, 50. j. R. w. 
Georgetown, Vermillion Co.—Corn about 
the same as last year. AVheat, one-half more. 
Oats, the same as last year. Rye, one-third 
more. Potatoes, one-third better; garden 
truck the same. Apples aud pears, one-third 
more. Grapes, two-thirds more. Hay, one- 
fifth better. Sorghum the same. Raspber¬ 
ries, currants and gooseberries tho same as last 
year. Blackberries, one-half better. 
H. E. H. 
Gurnee, Lake Co.—Corn, oats, potatoes 
and garden truck average with other years. 
u. d. w. 
Highland, Madison Co.—AVheat all cut; the 
last three weeks it was badly damaged by the 
chinch-bugs. A good many corn-fields are 
now being destroyed by these insects, and we 
are afraid that the corn crop failure of 1881 
will be renewed this year. The same area has 
been devoted to sorghum cane as Last season. 
The condition of rye and barley is fully up to 
the average, but the growing crop of oats is 
backward and does not promise more than a 
three-fourths yield per acre. Meadows and 
pastures are doing well and are farther than 
usual for June 13. Small fruits are in tine 
condition and will yield a large crop. The 
percentage of bloom this spriug and the con¬ 
dition of fruit June 12, as compared with an 
average, is as follows: Apples, condition, 96; 
peaches, 40; poors, 90; plums 100; cherries, 83; 
grapes, 100; currants, 100. o. z. 
Illinois City, Rock Island Co.—Wheat, 
t wo-thirds of last year’s crop; oats loss than 
half; rye and barley about three-fourths; sor¬ 
ghum aud corn took as well; potatoes look bet¬ 
ter, but need rain; garden truck suffering 
for min. Currants and gooseberries full 
crops; strawberries, raspberries anil black¬ 
berries cut short by drought. Cherries 
nearly full crop; fair last year; plums not half 
crop; fair last year. Apples about nine-tenths 
better; grapes about nine-tenths better;clover 
a full crop; Timothy cut short about one- 
fourth. T. H. 
Kankakee, Kankakee Co.—Corn, 100; 
wheat, 75; oats, good; rye, good: potatoes, 100: 
garden truck, extra good; apples, good; hay, 
good. T. C. D. 
Morrisonville, Christian Co. — In com¬ 
parison with same date last year, corn is 70 of 
a crop; AVinter wheat, 500; oats, 60; rye, 100: 
potatoes, etc., 100; apples, 100; grapes, 120; 
hay, 75; small fruits, 100; pastures, 100, Stock 
looks well ; enormous increase in poultry. 
Average number of calves, colts and pigs. 
Not enough wheat was harvested in this coun¬ 
ty last yehr for seed and bread. Fair breadth 
was sown last Fall; looks splendid; will yield 
heavily. Harvesting begun. Oats and hay 
short on account of drought. Very early oats 
good. Clover fine; 40 per cent, of corn in¬ 
jured by terrible storm May 14, and birds. 
Much replanted late. F. G. 
Polo, Ogle Co.—Corn, oats and hay are two 
weeks earlier. Prospects good for more than 
average crops. j. f. b. 
Ridgeland, Cook Co.—Com, splendid; oats 
and rye, good; of wheat we have none around 
here;potatoes never better; cabbage, good: 
have not. been troubled with c&tterpillar this 
year; garden truck, good: hay, agood average; 
small fruit very good, r. a. 
Ridge Farm, Vermillion Co.—Corn, pros¬ 
pects flattering-.average acreage, never better: 
wheat acreage 75 per ceut of 1885: estimated 
average yield, 15 bushels per acre, against five 
bushels in 1885; oats estimated at 25 bushels 
per acre; three-quarters of 1885; rye, acreage 
small;estimated at 10 bushels per acre; pota¬ 
toes one-quarters larger acreage than in 1885: 
prospects very good; hay light, owing to dry 
weather early in season; apples, grapes and 
small fruits abundant; taken altogether, our 
prospects were uever better. b. h. 
Roseville, AVarren Co.—Average, presenr 
condition and future outlook as compared 
with last year, com, 50 per cent.better; wheat. 
20 per cent, better; oats, on account of dry- 
season since May 15, 20 per cent, worse; rye 
and barley about the same; potatoes planted 
early will be better, can't say about late plant¬ 
ed ; garden truck, 25 per cent, better; apples, 
will be scarce; hay. prospect fine so far, suf¬ 
fering now for rain. General prospect good 
and farmers happy. c. f. g. 
Springfield, Sangamon Co.—Corn about 
an average, prospect good; wheat and oats 
look splendid; three times more of wheat than 
last year. Oats somewhat better. Rye good; 
not much sown. Potatoes and garden truck 
double the crops of last year. Apples last year 
none; prospect for fair crop now. Pears 
about an average. Peaches same as last— 
none. Grapes, a large crop. Hay about the 
same as last year. j. f. f. 
Michigan. 
Albion, Calhoun Co.—Compared with last 
year’s crops, corn is 100; wheat, 70; oats, 75; 
potatoes aud garden truck, 100; apples and 
pears, 125; peaches, none raised; small fruit, 
110; hay, 80. L. m. 
Bay City, Bay Co.—Crops as compared 
with last year are as follows: Cora, 100 
wheat 75; oats, rye, barley, potatoes, garden 
track, apples and pears, 100. Peaches none: 
grapes, 100; hay, 75. An abundant crop of 
strawberries. a. m. 
Buchanan, Berrien Co.—As compared with 
crops at this time last year, corn is about the 
same. Owing to drought, wheat and hay will 
be a little short Grapes ahead; small fruits 
generally about average crops. e. s. r. 
Clio, Genessee Co.—Corn, usual area; wheat 
usual area, two-thirds of a crop; oats usual 
area, 100; potatoes, average area; garden track 
usual average; apples, 150; but little other 
or hard fruit is raised, but promises 150; bay, 
two-thirds of a crop; peas, 50; greater area; 
promise well. D. s. H. 
East Paris, Kent Co.—Calling last year 
100; corn, 75; wheat, 80; oats, 50; potatoes, 80; 
garden truck, 75; apples, pears aud grapes, 
100; hay, old meadows, 50; new seeding, 75. 
On account of severe drought all crops are 
likely to be short. Haying two weeks earlier 
than usual—wheat maturing very fast. 
c. T. F. 
Grand Rapids, Kent Co.—Drought very 
severe aud affects some erops seriously, incur 
vicinity. AATheat, 85; corn, 90; oats, 45, rye, 
90; potatoes light; garden truck shortened by 
drought. Apples, 90; pears, 65; peaches far 
better than last year; grapes abundant. Hay 
less than one-half crop. c. w. o. 
Hagar, Berrien Co.—AVheat, average crop. 
Corn looking well. Oats light crop. Potatoes, 
a large acreage planted; looking well. Hay 
very light. Apples better than the average. 
H. n. s. 
Hobart, Wexford Co.—Hay a failure; for 
50 days we have had no rain sufficient to wet 
the ground half an inch. Potatoes are look¬ 
ing fairly well where they were not cut by the 
frost. A very dry and frosty season, thus far 
oats looking bad; will not make more than 
half a crop; wheat is not making much straw; 
will probably head very low; crop below the 
average probably. Not much corn raised; 
what there is is looking very well. Grapes 
and currants have been pretty generally 
nipped by the frost, No apples ns yet in this 
section: all garden crops are nearly at a stand¬ 
still on account of the drought, and unless we 
get a change very soon, it will be difficult to 
get a living on the farm in this part of the 
country. w. H. 
Ionia, Ionia Co.—AVheat an excellent crop. 
Oats injured by drought, but recent rains will 
help them; probably two-thirds crop. Barley 
the same. Potatoes coming on finely; uot so 
many planted. Apples a very full crop. Small 
fruits abundant and market glutted. Grapes 
very promising: no rot here last year; we look 
for none this year. Pears promising. Few 
peaches; trees killed two years ago. On the 
whole, outlook good. r. m. k. 
Menominee, Menominee Co,—Compared 
with crops at this time last year, the outlook 
is: AVheat, 125 per cent.; oats, 100; rye, 110; 
potatoes, 110; apples, (Duchess) 125; hay, 130. 
M. N. 
Muskegon, Muskegon Co —Com good; 
wheat good; rye good; oats and barley fair; 
garden truck fair; apples full crop; hay, 25 
Der cent. j. e. r. 
Oconomowoo, Waukesha Co.— Cora, fair; 
oats, fair; rye, fair; barley very poor; pota¬ 
toes poor; garden truck fair; apples fair; 
pears, none; peaches, none ; berries of all 
kinds fair: grapes fair: last year’s seeding of 
clover good ; old meadows all poor, but 
marshes; sorghum fair: hops good, s. f. g. 
Pierport, Manistee Co.— Cora looks very 
well now; oats, 75; rye, 75; barley, 50; pota¬ 
toes, 50; garden truck, 60; apples, 100; pears, 
75; plums, .50; hay, very light, except new 
seeding meadows near lake shore. P. c. m. 
Rockford, Kent Co.—The present condi¬ 
tion and future outlook of all crops grown in 
this section, such as corn, oats, wheat, pota¬ 
toes, apples, peaches, cherries, hay and garden 
truck compare well with the same crops at the 
same date last year. Corn never looked bet¬ 
ter; wheat, ditto; potatoes, the specialty in 
this section, are looking finp and bid fair for 
a big crop, although the potato beetles have 
made their appearance in large numbers, but 
farmers know how to manage them, so we 
don’t fear them. j. l. 
Silver Creek, Cap Co.—AVheat. 95; corn, 
125; potatoes, 75; oats, 50; apples, 100; clover 
fair, but Timothy suffered from the drought. 
J. M. F. 
South Haven, Van Buren Co.—Apples, 
pears, plums and cherries, about as last year. 
Peaches will be a full crop. Away from Lake 
Michigan the crop will be light. Small fruits 
of all kinds are showing heavy crops. Grapes, 
at present, promise much better than last 
year. T. t. l. 
St.Clair, St.Clair Co.—Cora, 133>£; wheat, 
60; oats, 90; barley, 80; potatoes, 100; garden 
truck, 80; apples, 110; pears, 75. w. a. t. 
Iowa. 
Campbell, Polk Co.— AVheat and oats will 
prove over half a crop; corn looking well but 
rather backward ; potatoes looking nice ; 
bugs are plenty; very little rye or barley 
raised here; clover very heavy: Timothy,fair 
crop; prairie grass also fair; apples midling, 
as are also plums. b. c. s. 
Canfield, Hawk Co.—Cora, 150; oats, 50; 
rye, 120. Potatoes aud garden truck the same; 
orchard fruits, 150; hay, 50. a. c. f. 
Corning, Adams Co.—Corn, 110; wheat, 
100; oats. 100; potatoes, 110; garden track, 
100; apples, 50; grapes, 150; hay, 90; sorg¬ 
hum, 100. j. s. 
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co.— 
Bin iug wheat, acreage has decreased four per 
cent; condition 98 V per cent; estimated yield 
29,129,000 bushels; winter wheat, area very 
small, but condition 106 per cent; corn, in¬ 
creased acreage 5' j per cent; condition 101 
per cent; oats, increased acreage 7 per cent; 
condition UH percent; flax, decreased acre¬ 
age 4 per cent; condition 97 per cent; Timo¬ 
thy, increased acreage 10 per ceut, with a 
condition of 106 per ceut; clover, increased 
acreage 8 per ceut, with a condition of 106 
per cent; the crop of tame hay will be the 
largest ever known; potatoes, increased 
acreage 6per ceut; condition HX> per cent; 
sorghum, 5 per cent, decreased acreage, with 
a condition of 91 la percent: garden truck of 
all kinds looking well and very early. Have 
had new potatoes and cabbages home-grown 
in market two weeks; raspberries aud black¬ 
berries are suffering for rain; otherwise the 
crops would be immense; grapes are looking 
tine; my own vineyard gives promise of 10,000 
pounds per acre 'apples, a fair crop. a. w. 
