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in stands by cut-worm. it has been a hard struggle to keep the grass out (from inces- 
sant rains) and many acres are thrown out. Late, but now growing well. Conecuh : 
Looking well. Calhoun: Rather grassy, owing to the great amount of rain. Marengo: 
The continued rains have seriously injured corn; now too late for it to recover even 
with good weather. Morgan: On the highlands, never better. Randolph: Where it 
has been worked is splendid. Perry: Greatly injured by excess of rains. Bullock: 
The rain has been excessively injurious to corn. Marshall: Cut-worms so destructive 
that many fields had to be plowed up and replanted once, twice, and even three times 
before aa stand could be obtained. Prospect now fine. Pike: Continuous rains since 
early in May; all lowland corn is entirely lost; the upland very much injured by grass 
and weeds. Limestone: Crop about lost in weeds and grass; on many plantations it 
- has not yet been plowed. Tuscaloosa: On uplands very good; on lowlands drowned 
out. Wilcox: Could not be worked sufficiently to make it ear. 
Mississipp1.—Warren: Unusually promising. Pike: Generally in good condition. 
Newton: Better than for many years; with favorable season, we look for extraordinary 
yield. Amite: Above average, both in acreage and condition. Jasper: In consequence 
of rain almost every day since May 1, the grass and weeds have outgrown the crop. 
Marion: Not more than three days have elapsed for the last six weeks without rain. 
The crop has suffered immensely. Grenada: Quite promising. La Fayette: Would be 
very fine but for the effects of continued rains. Yazoo: Having all the time too much 
rain for corn. Winston: The corn in bottoms is drowned out and will make little of 
anything. Tishomingo: In the grass; will be good. Tunica: Heavy rains throughout 
June have damaged the corn prospect. Yalabusha: Prospect not encouraging ; very 
grassy. Kemper: In the light, rolling lands, good, but in the best lands, that always 
make the heavy crop, very much injured by the wet weather and consequent want of 
work. Panola: Has rained almost every day for the last seven weeks; this, with in- 
creased acreage, has got the crops so in the grass that they never can be cleaned in 
time. Lowndes: Lowlands drowned out, and highlands very much injured; impossi- 
ble to make more than half acrop. Neshoba: Looking bad, owing to the excessive 
rains. Noxubee: Much below last year. Lowlands cannot make one-third of a crop, 
owing to excessive rains, which still continue; uplands about an average. Wilkinson: 
Daily rains since May 12 have very seriously damaged corn; the boll-worm is dama- 
ging the corn now curing. Madison: Had twenty days of rain in June, making if im- 
possible to work crops. Grass, had complete control, and some of the corn-crop has 
been abandoned. Jejferson: Stalk large and fine-looking, but ears small with undue 
proportion of shuck. Pennsylvania yellow corn from the Department of Agriculture 
very fine—ears large. 
Lovuistana.—Last Baton Rouge: Should the almost incessant rains since the beginning 
of May now cease, and labor be obtainable to meet the extra demand for work, per- 
haps half a crop of corn might be realized. Avoyelles: The low condition owing to 
rains nearly every day for six weeks. La Fourche: In fine condition the latter part of 
April; in the first week of May it commenced raining and continued for forty-six 
days—each rain a flood. The early corn very much injured, and a large part of that 
planted in April a total loss by reason of the rain or for want of work. ast Feliciana ; 
Better than the cotton. Claiborne: In danger of an overwhelming grass assault. Frank- 
lin: Early corn very good; late, promising. Morehouse: In excellent condition. Red 
River: Looking remarkably fine. Zensas: Better than at any time since I began to 
report. Saint Mary: Very much injured by constant rains in May and the first part of 
June. Rapides: After a cold and backward spring, heavy rains set in on the 1st of 
May and continued until the 20th of June, which entirely ruined all the last plantings 
of corn; the best is not more than half an average in condition. ; 
TExas.—Caldwell: The great decrease in condition is owing to the excessive rain-fall 
for the last three weeks. Polk: Have had six weeks of rain. Planters have been un- 
able to work their corn in time; there can be but little corn out. Milan: Crop sup- 
posed to be safe. Dallas: Very much damaged with an excess of water, and a rank 
growth of grass and weeds. Tarrant: Promises an abundant yield. Navarro: The 
uplands will produce a very large yield, while the lowlands will make about a half 
crop, which will make the crop a good average. endall: Extensive corn-planting 
after the disappearance of the grasshoppers and late frost, and the crop, though late, 
promises well, provided the rain, which has been almost incessant for five weeks past, 
ceases so as to permit the farmers to commence weeding operations. Collin : It was 
impossible to work corn properly in consequence of continued rains from the 20th of 
May to the 20th of June. Red River: March and April were delightful months, and 
heavy crops were planted in good condition. On the 5th of May it commenced rain- 
ing, and up to June 20 there were but a very few days without rain. There will be 
some corn made on elevated spots, but on other Jand it is completely drowned. Bexar: 
Damaged to some extent by too much rain. Comal: Killed by late frost; farmers had 
to replant; excessive rains for the last four weeks. Kaufman: Acreage increased 75 
per cent. over last year, but owing to the wet season the condition is 5 per cent. below. 
Coryell: Though the frost cut our corn down twice, the fine rains that set in the first 
