Year: 1867

promising last year. Barley winter about ib per
70 95 Ser cent better than last year Whet yielded
about scarcely half crop in Indiana last year.


IHinos-AbOut 70 counties of Illinois report
slight decrease acreage but nearly so per cent increase
in condition Of Winter wheat over 1866 Spring wheat
shows per cent less acreage and about the per
condition. Rye about the acreage,
prospect per cent better Barley, about the
cent better in condition Apples 10 per cent better with
25 cent more acreage Peaches 90 per cent with 40
per cent increase in acreage OF orchards.


Visoonsin-About 40 counties Of Wisconsin show
slight decrease in the Spring but the present
condition Of the crop % per cent better than last year
Spring wheat increase in acreage but the condition
is five per cent better Rye, acreage, with 10
per cent better appearance oas seven per cent more
acreage, and five per cent advance in condition Bar
ley, less acreage but five cent better in condition.
Apples show about 40 per cent increase IN acreage ana
condition.


Ioica-Fifty- three counties in iowa report an aver
age decline six per cent the acreage OF Winter wheat
with slight Improvement Of prospect over same date
year. Spring wheat there is increase OF 2S per
in acreage and the condition Is reported five per
cent better than in 1sG6 Barley Ave per cent decline IN
acreage prospect six cent better Barley rather
better than last Oats ten per cent larger
and condition little better Apples show over 80 per
cent increase in acreage and 10 to 20 per cent better con
ditOn Peaches promise much better than last year,
with increased acreage.


McLigan.-Forty counties Of Michigan report an in
crease Of per cent acreage and 80 per cent in cond
ton Of Winter wheat compared with last year. when
tho crop fell below the average. Spring wheat presents
about the appearance last season. with an ln
per cent in acreage Rye about same acre
age but 10 per cent better in condition Barley slight in
crease OF acreage ana cOndltlOn Ohts llhe per Cet
acreage, but condition four per cent less than last
year a time. Apples and peaches show very large
Increase of acreage and are 70 per cent better condition
than in 1906


Missomi-Fifty-four counties in Missouri report
m average increase Of 2 per cent in acreage Of
Winter wheat and per cent Of Spring Wheat
who the condition both is considered from 80 to 40
I.fto i,a Ruaf pputm
age and 30 per better I'm condition Barley about 10


r cent increase of acreage and condition OF crop oats
X per cent better In acreage and five to eight IN CON
dOn Fruits from 20 TO 30 per cent better than last year
These estimates give aterng promise Of abundant crops
IN Missouri, since this state did not suffer last year Ike
other States but harvested than average yield
Of wheat, ranking second 20 but one state-Kansas.


MsSOuri-Our Pulaski County crops never looked
fine gave better promise than they do at the present
time Large acreage Of wheat put last Fall, and
the crop now ooksspleudid Corn oats rye and barley
present fatering prospects. Large numbers OF fruit
ICes have been secured and planted in TINS county tbs
year, and our farmers are also alive to the Importance or
the labOrsayng machines, and ere doing away WIN
the large percentage ormanual labor by tile htoductoh
OF machinery.


Kansas ATwenty counties report decline of II per
in acreage Of Winter wheat, and 10 per cent In
present condition as compared with last year. when the
crop was large ranking proporonally higher than any
other State spring wheat four per cent less acreage
with about the same condition as last year rye is per
cent less acreage and nine per cent less In condition than
last year Oats II per cent moro acreage wlth condO
as last BdIlty ~ Sopl az WIN
acreage Apples per cent increase OF acreage and 25
per cent better In condition Peaches ten per cent better
than last year. The grasshoppcrs destroyed much OF the
Winter wheat last Fall In Kansas.


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS counties report an increase
OF five per cent in acreage OF Winter wheat with seven
per cent better condition Spring wheat S5 per cent


reater acreage and per cent Improvement In prospect
Bercy 20 per cent increase OF acreage and the condition
Is per cent better Rye, 90 per cent greater acreage
WITH condition not good by per cent as last year
Gate 20 per Of acreage condition per cent
better than same time last year Apples 40 per cent ote
acreage with prospect 10 per cent above Last sea-