Garnered Strain

"Wheat improved somewhat during November," says Secreiary Soper in (he December erop report, "yet the condition December 1 was far from satisfactory. Coinpared with vilality and growth of average years the condition in the sou hern counties was 91 per cent; in the central, 97 percent; in the northern, 101 per cent; and in the Siate, 93 per cent. One year ago the condition in the southern counties was 103; in the central, 99; and in the northern counlies and the State, 102. The un favorable showing is mainly due to the warm and dry September and the dry October, thongh the inJHry by fly is very exteni-ive. Nearly foriy per cent of the correstondtnts in the southern counties report ilamage by fche Hessian fly. The raproved condition as compared with a month earlier date is due to the heavy rainfall in November." "In Washtenaw county the condition of wheat on December 1 was 92, while that of horses was rated at 99, of cattle at 96, sheep at 98 and swine at 98. Fifieen milis and elevators in this tounty marketed 45,448 bushels of wheat during the month of November. The number of acres of land in Washtenaw county is 387,854, of which 278,538 are mproved. There are 3,416 farms vvi h an average of 113.55 acres apiece - which shows that the farmers in this vicinity are not land poor.