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Muscogee: Small and backward; bad stand in many places, in consequence of cool 
weather, heavy rains, and hail-storms. Richmond: Generally very grassy; labor scarce 
and much needed. Calhoun: Injured by hail-storms and cold weather. Liberty: Badly 
in grass and weeds from daily showers. Laurens: Materially injured by the heavy ~ 
rains and cold weather; much of it has died from frost and cold winds. Madison : 
Good stand, though very late, owing to cold,dry spring. Decatur: Cottor-caterpillars 
seen on Flint River May 30. Coweta: In bad condition, owing to thirty-two days of 
wet weather; from present appearances, 20’per cent. of the crop will be lost. Troup: 
Very late cold weather in the spring caused late planting, and recent heavy and frequent 
rains render it impossible to keep the small plants from being smothered out by the 
great crop of “crab-grass;” some are contemplating plowing up and planting with 
corn. Orange: Backward, owing to the heavy frost in March, which killed much of 
the early planting, and to the long dry spell in April; the plant now growing finely. 
Milton: Late planted and very small; the last three weeks being very rainy, the grass 
beats the cotton in growing. Heard: Looks finely. Wilkes: The extremely dry April, 
the late frost, April 25, and heavy rains through May, place cotton at a great disad- 
vantage; planters are already dropping a part of their crops. Fayette: The grass is 
etting the upper hand, ana the prospect is that a considerable part of the crop will 
be lost.. Jackson: Looks well and good stand. 
In Florida three counties, Columbia, Alachua, and Levy, report each 
a decrease of 10 per cent. in acreage; and six an increase ranging from 
10 to 25 per cent. In Madison and Clay the condition is 25 per cent., 
in Taylor, 30, and in Wakulla, 10 above; in Jackson, Jefferson, and Ham- 
ilton, average ; in the others reported, below. 
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Jackson: The plant is some weeks behind in size and condition, but the weather is 
favorable. The caterpillar has already put in an appearance, some twenty days earlier 
than last year. Wakulla: Better stand than last year; crop promising. Suwannee: Bad 
stand, from defective seed and irregular spring; cut-worms doing great damage. 
Jefferson: The crop looks beautifully. i 
From Alabama, Hale reports 10 per cent., and Lauderdale 5 per cent. 
decrease in acreage; sixteen counties report an increase ranging from 
5 to 50 per cent.; the others-heard from report the same as last year ; 
Coffee reports a condition 25 per cent., and Clarke and Geneva, 10 above 
average ; Bibb, Winston, Saint Clair, Randolph, Dallas, Calhoun, and 
Jefferson, average; the remainder below, the range being from 5 to 20 
per cent., Barbour, Macon, Limestone, and Conecuh standing at the 
latter figure. 
Saint Clair: We had a severe frost on the morning of April 25, but as the ground. 
was dry, cotton was not generally up, and hence was not much injured. Lauderdale: 
Good stands of cotton up several weeks ago, but most of it has been lost by eut-worm 
and flea-bug; has been replanted, and is not yet up; will be too late to make a fall 
crop. Blount: Much more planted than usual. Crenshaw: Beginning to grow and 
look healthy, though smaller than at this date last year. Limestone: Fully two weeks 
behind, owing to late cold and dry weather; plants small but healthy. Montgomery: 
The appearance of the plant not so promising as usual on the 1st of June, but the 
warm and showery weather now prevailing will probably bring it forward rapidly. 
Macon: Seriously injured by the rains; very grassy, and we still have rains which 
keep it from being cleaned; the plant unusually small. Conecuh: Stand not so good 
as last year; late rains have caused the grass to grow faster than the farmers can 
master it. Dallas: Season propitious and the eultivation better than usual. Autauga: 
Very backward and much of it badly in grass, owing to too much rainy weather during 
May; good stands. Morgan: On bottom-lands much injured by cut-worms; some 
fields so much that they are being planted in corn. Bullock: Seriously injured by 
late frosts. 
Twenty six counties report from Mississippi. Holmes returns a de- 
crease in acreage of 5 per cent. Eleven return the same as last year, and 
fourteen an increase; Lee of 20 per cent., Rankin, 15 per cent., Yala- 
busha, Tishemingo, Sunflower, Le Flore, Coahoma, Attala, and Jefier- 
son, 10 per cent; Bolivar reports a condition of 125; Rankin, 108; 
Amite, Yalabusha, Le Flore, and Granada, 100; the remainder range 
from 95 to 75. 
