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Excerpt from Monthly Report of the Department of Agriculture: For May and June, 1873 In all the South Atlantic and Gulf States the general condition of the crop is below average. Virginia reports 43 counties below average, to 10 full average, and 11 above. North Carolina 26 below, against 13 average and above; 8 counties in Georgia report some growth of Spring-wheat, of which 4 are below average. Of the interior Southern States, Arkansas, is above average, while Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia are below. North of Ohio River the reports of winter wheat are below average; Ohio shows 10 counties above average against 13 below; Michigan 6 above and 21 below Indiana 8 above and 25 be low; Illinois 7 above and 25 below; 'wisconsin 2 above and 14 below. In spring-wheat, however, these States present a much more promising prospect. Illinois shows 13 counties above to 8 below; Wisconsin 10 above to 7 below. West of the Mississippi, Minnesota presents in spring-wheat 8 coun ties above average to 4 below; Iowa, 22 to 8; Missouri, 8 to 2; Kansas, 17 to 2; Nebraska, 8 to 2. In winter-wheat these States show 45 coun ties above. Average to 44 below, with a large proportion of full average counties. On the Pacific coast, California reports 7 counties above and 16 counties below average; Oregon 10 above against only 2 below. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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