320 
But all do not yield to discouragement. Many are battling courage- 
ously with the grass, and victory with its rewards is anticipated. “Sum- 
ter reports: “‘ Raining almost daily for a month, and a great deal of 
grass, but our planters are straining every nerve, and ten days of sun- 
shine would enable them to put the crop in good condition.” The ae- 
count in Heard is: ‘An exceedingly wet June, and grassy crops, but 
every farmer seems determined to work it out, and I think they will 
succeed.” In Whitfield, 125, ‘‘The farmers have cultivated their crops 
well, and cotton was never more promising.” In Schley, “‘ Labor is 
working well;” and in Hart, though “ Cotton is generally in a deplorable 
condition, not having been cleaned of grass in time, the area is so much 
larger than in previous years that the probability is yet good for a fair 
average crop.” Pickens returns a condition of 200; Gordon and Madi- 
son, 125. 
Worth: The floods have nearly ruined cotton. IMcDufie: Since last report it has 
rained every week, and sometimes every day in the week. Consequently cotton is im 
a worse condition than for twenty years at the same season. In many instances the 
grass has choked out the cotton, and there is not over three-fourths of a stand in the 
county, and that three to four weeks late. Upson: Acreage large; prospect fine for a 
goo@ crop. Schley: Owing to the continual rains, up to June 18, it is very grassy. 
The caterpillar has appeared in some localities. Richmond : Wherever worked early 
and well, the condition above that of the crop of 1872 at this date. Crops on lowland 
badly damaged by grass; many fields have been abandoned. No signs of caterpillar. 
Lee: Generally in the grass, after three weeks of rain. Clinch: The heavy- rain during 
June has cut off the cotton crop fully one-third. Ogletiorpe: The unfavorable condi- 
tion of the crop is owing to the unprecedented wet weather in the last half of May 
and the first half of June, coupled with the fact that a fuller crop than usual to the 
jand was planted. In some cases the grass is larger than the cotton, and not yet hoed. 
Some will be abandoned entirely. Gwinnett: Land too wet to be stirred ; hence crops 
grassy, and in many cases materially injured. Cotton, where worked, looks well. 
Brooks: An unusual quantity of rain the past month has been damaging to the cotton- 
crop. Clayton: Owing to the wet weather farmers have had a tight scuffle with the 
grass,and some will lose a part of their cotton-crop. Marion; The crop has been in- 
jured by too much rain and an overcrop of grass. Macon: The almost incessant rains 
have prevented work and promoted the growth of grass and weeds, and the cold 
nights have caused lice. Putnam: Looks well. Spalding: Great diversity of opinion 
as to cotton; everything at work to keep down the grass. Ywiggs: Very small, poor 
stands, and in bad order. Rain twenty-three days in June. It has been impossible to 
work the crop. Walton: Injured by excessive rain and grass. Greene: Heavy rains 
have fallen for about two months, and much cottou has not been chopped out yet. 
The crop will be very short. Some upland is very fine, while some grounds have been 
abandoned. Laurens: The continued heavy rains have made it impossible to keep 
crops clean ; a good deal of cotton will be abandoned. Coweta: Where it was worked 
early and regularly looks well. Some has been thrown out, and very much has been 
injured for the want of work and by lice. Calhoun: Three weeks of rainy weather 
have caused the cotton to become lousy and badly in the grass. Muscogee: In a 
very unsatisfactory condition ; stand only tolerable ; grassy, small, and three weeks 
behind. fingham: Improving and looks very well. Wilkes: Grass now almost in 
possession of cotton; sorae fields not worth working ont; have been but few clear hot 
days to kill the grass. Dooly: Early cotton just beginning to bloom, but affected 
somewhat by recent heavy rains. Baldwin: Rains almost daily in Jane; much of 
that month the soil was too wet for plowing, and the grass has obtained the mas- 
tery in many of the plantations,'reducing the cotton to 80. McIntosh: Crop much 
injured first by the long drought, and since by the heavy rains. Pike: Prospect un- 
usually poor, owing to the excessive and long-continued rains; hundreds of acres 
have not been thinned out. Milton: Owing to heavy and continuous rains throughout 
May and June, cotton has been overrun with grass, and many fields have been 
plowed up and planted to corn, or turned out. franklin: Lice on cotton to a con- 
siderable extent. Carroll: Quite small on account of the long wet weather. Farm- 
ers have had great trouble with wet, lice, grass, and weeds. Cobb: The late spring 
and an unusual amount of rain have done much injury to the cotton-crop. Fayette: 
Greatly injured by grass, and a considerable portion has been abandoned; cannot 
possibly make more than two-thirds of a crop. Wilkinson: Small and in the grass. 
From Florida only 10 counties have reported, making an average 
condition of 99; the extremes being Suwannee, 75, and Liberty, 150. In 
