Try using something similar to the comments in here
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/adodotnetdataproviders/thread/cfbe56cc-70b7-462a-b106-0dd9a33304eb
i.e. something along these lines:
"Text;Database=D:\Projects\Sepanta\ExcelImporter\ExcelImporter\bin\Debug\k1\;Extended Properties="Excel 12.0;HDR=No"
There are more samples here:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/37055/Working-with-MS-Excel-xls-xlsx-Using-MDAC-and-Oled
OR run this DOS command to add a heading automatically:
COPY HEADERFILE.TXT + YourFile.TXT OUTPUTFILE.TXT
Where HEADERFILE.TXT contains a heading and a carriage return
and it's generally not good table design to have country specific tables, but thats another story.