... For December

Returns have been received froia 913 correspondents, looated in 664 townships. Five hundred and sixty-two of these returns are from 376 townships In the southern four tiers of counties. The report shows the estirnated aerease and condition of wheat sowed in 1881 as compared with 1880, the estimated yield in 1881 of corn, clover seed, and potatoes, and the condition (as regards flesh) of cattle and sheep on December 1, as compared with Deo. 1, 1880. The estirnates show that the present acreage sown in 1880 by two per cent, and in the counties north of the southem tiers by six per cent, indicating i probable acreage in the State of aboutvl ■ 834,529 acres. The condition Decent ber 1 in the sontbern four tiera of counties was about 132 per cent, and in the üorthern counties about 117 per cent, of the condition December 1, 1880, This excellent showing is supplemented in numerous instances by statements that the wheat presenta an unusually fine appearance, having started well and obtained large growth. The white grub and Hessian fly are reported present in various localities, but while they may. and undoubtedly will, injure individual fields, the report do not indicate that their ravages will noticeably affect the aggregate product of the State. Wheat seldom, if ever, has gone into the winter in better condition thanthisyear. The vield of corn in 1881 is etimated at 40,460,901 bushels of ears, or about 20,230,450 bushels of shelled corn. These figu es are based on the acreage as estimated in September, and the yield per acre as estimated in December. At the date of making the reporte bat a small portion of the clover seed had been hulled, and correspondente in the counties in the southern part of the state, and in Grand Traverse and Newago counties in the northern section, report the clover seed greatly damagfcd by the wet weather, many flelds being entirely ruined. Some of them estímate one-fourth of the erop destroyed. One correspondent in Cass reports 15 per cent. rotting in the flelds, and another thinks not a bushei will be saved inhis township. The yield of potatoes is estimated at 55 bushels per acre in the southern and 109 bushels in the northern counties. The average condition (as regards flesh) of cattle in the southern f ourtiers of counties is about the same, and of sheep two per cent. better, while in the northern counties the average of each is about seven per cent. better, than on Deeember 1, 1880.