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Lenoir: The heaviest rain we have had for many years, on the 21st of May, washed up 
the cotton, which willhave to bereplanted. Chowan: Looks bad; too cold and wet; great 
complaint of seed rotting in the ground; numbers have plowed up aud planted again. 
Pitt: Plant looks bad, but present warm weather is bringing it out. Bertie: Cotton 
that was planted early enough to come up by the Ist of May has suffered much from 
the ants and “Collard worms,” and has required replanting. Hertford: Planting much 
delayed by excessively rainy spring ; crop looks well. Cumberland: Backward and bad 
stand. Franklin: Large quantities of fertilizers have been purchased and applied 
chiefly to cotton. Sampson: Freshet after freshet has filled our streams, so that the low 
banks are yet under water in many districts; our cotton-crops are in bad order; bad 
stands have caused many to plow up and plantagain. Rowan: Grassy and sickly-look- 
ing. Beaufort: The prospect gloomy; cool wheather and heavy rains, during May, 
caused the seed to come up badly, and much of that which came up is dying out. 
Anson: Seriously injured by the remarkably wet spring. Greene: Nearly all killed by 
frost, April 25. Perquimans: More planted than last year. Cold and rain from the Ist 
» to the 20th of May caused most of the early planted to be lost. The replanted not yet 
up. Polk: More planted and more advanced than last year. Jones: Early killed by 
frost. Owing tocold rains, cotton has died out, and in some places farmers have planted 
over more than once, making the crop very late. Stanly: The growth onhand, all pro- 
duced since the frost in April, in very promising condition. Bladen: Looks sorry. 
Among the counties reporting from South Carolina, ten return a small 
increase in acreage, and two, Barnwell and Marlborough, a small de- 
erease. Union and Richland report average condition; York, 6 per cent. 
and airfield 25 per cent. above; the remainder less than average. 
» Darlington: Killed by frost and ice, April 26. Much to be replanted ; two weeks latér 
than usual. More fertilizers by 20 per cent. than usual. Fairfield: Good stand; much 
better than last year, but recently injured by too much rain. Greenville: Seed germi- 
nated very slowly ; the stand, so far, very bad. Williamsburgh: Frosts killed the early 
cotton; the rains have prevented work fully one-fourth of the time; we have been 
unable to plow or hoe from the excessively wet and bogey condition of the land. Now the 
cotton is very grassy, and with a searcity of labor it will be impossible to put it in grow- 
ing order in time to make even a moderate crop. Orangeburgh: Four weeks later than 
last year, and injured by heayy rains. York: Looking well, but, owing to two weeks 
_ of rain in the latter part of May, it has not been well worked. Some fields have been 
abandoned on accouut of the grass. Many plowed up the crop—erass and all—as the 
best means of exterminating the grass, and replanted. The plants are vigorous, stands 
good, and, where labor has been sufficient to keep up with the grass, the crop promising. 
Richland: Stand generally very good. The grass is getting ahead of the poor farmer, 
but the wide-awake ones have no uneasiness. Newberry: The killing frost of April 26 
destroyed much of the early cotton, Stands planted later are good, but the grass has 
destroyed crops in much of the wet cotton-lands. Marion: Bad stands and “ruinously ” 
in the grass. If it is ever redeemed, it will be a triumph of free labor. Chester: Good 
stands were up May 15. The plant died out on sandy soils on account of excessive 
rains. Many of the fields presentthe appearance of luxuriant meadows; the stands will 
be reduced to three-fourths, and some to one-half, of a regular stand, by cleaning out 
the grass. Marlborough: The early planted killed by frost April 26; replanting went 
on until the grass forced planters to abandon it, and, with too much rain and no reliable 
labor, it has been a hard struggle with bad stands of cotton and flourishing stands of 
grass. Edgeficld: Cannot be worked as it should be on account of rain, but prospect 
better than last year. Union: Pretty fair stand, but much grass, owing to increased 
acreage, heavy rains, and over-cropping. 
Fifty-three counties are reported from Georgia. Dooly, Richland, 
Schley, and Troup return each-a decrease in acreage of 5 per cent., and 
Decatur of 10 per cent. Twelve counties return the same as last 
year; the remaining thirty-six report an increase; Gordon, of 100 per 
cent.; Catoosa, Cobb, and Walker, of 50; Forsyth, of 40; and Sumter, of 
30. Twenty counties return for condition 100, or average; Worth, 130; 
Twiggs, 125; Whitfield, 120; Butts and Hart, 110; Douglas, 105; and 
Spalding, 103. Six return a condition of 80, 7 of 90, and 6 of 95; the 
' others reported range between 60 (Laurens) and 98. 
McDuffee: Last year a majority had finished chopping out their cotton at this date; 
this year very few have commence d, and a great many have not finished planting, owing 
to the cold, dry spring. Lincoln; An unusual amount of fertilizers bought and used 
on the cotton-crop this year. Plintlate, but ¢ood stands. Douglas: Very good stands 
