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crops backward. endali: Very late. Red River: There will be some cotton on very 
clean land, but as a general thing the cotten is run away with grass and weeds. Bexar: 
Damaged to some extent by too much rain. Comai: Late frost in the spring killed the 
cotton, and farmers had to replant. Owing to this, and the excessive rains for the last 
four weeks, it is impossible to estimate the crop. If the fall should be favorable it 
will be average. Kaufman: Many fields too wet to work and 10 per cent. thrown out. 
Coryell: The plants look fine, and if the season holds out more cotton will be made in 
this county than ever before. Grimes: Much in the grass; if the rain continues we 
shall not make half a crop. No season can now make it exceed 75 per cent. Lamar: 
Retarded by the backward spring; when the young plant was struggling for exist- 
ence—just getting up after frost—several hail-storms almost destroyed the crop in 
about half our county; after which continual rains for seven weeks prevented the 
farmers from clearing it of grass. Upshur: Started fine, but the late rains have put it _ 
in the grass. No doubt a considerable quantity will have to be abandoned in order to 
save the remainder. Gonzales: Quite late,and being injured by excessive rains. Hen- 
derson: Has rained almost every day; will have to be very favorable if we make half 
a crop of cotton; can hardly see it for the grass and weeds. Medina: Improved by 
abundant rain-fall. Matagorda: Small, and a great deal injured by grass and weeds. 
Montgomery: So overrun with grass and weeds that it is considered impossible to re- 
claim it all; many have entirely abandoned their crop; the bottom-land cotton is a 
total failure. Colorado: The wet season has taken the cotton crop; with hard work 
may be half acrop. Jllis: Much of the cotton has been drowned out. Rain lasted 
thirty-seven days, during which no work was’ done, and a great deal has been aban- 
doned; cannot make a half crop. Fayette: Large, and with a favorable season from 
this time will be a large crop, provided the caterpillar does not come too soon. Gal- 
veston: All sea-island cotton in this county; crop very backward; rains excessive; 
second crop generally planted ; worm has appeared on a few plantations, but not done 
much damage yet. Karnes: Rather too much rain for cotton, and reports of the worm 
have reached us. Washington: From the 10th of May to the 20th of June excessive 
rains almost daily; cotton has suffered seriously ; in low places plants scalded, and all 
more or less injured by weeds and grass. Anderson: June exceedingly rainy, prevent- 
ing cleaning and retarding the growth of cotton. Waller: Twenty to thirty days be- 
hind last year on account of frost April 10, and continued rains through the last of 
April, and May, ahd June. Lusk: On the high-land looks well; on the bottom-land it 
turned yellow from wet and grass. The first blooms on the 2lst of June. Burnet: 
At least four weeks backward, but growing finely now. Marion: Seriously damaged 
by excessive rains; farmers not being able to keep down the grass. Cooke: Rained 
from the 24th of May to the 9th of June so constantly that everything got foul; much 
cotton abandoned to the weeds. Hunt: The acreage of cotton will necessarily be de- 
creased, many farmers having abandoned a portion of their crop-to the weeds. Hill: 
The late spring and great amount of rain since have put cotton back three weeks; the 
prospect now good, though late. Increase in acreage 23 percent. Leon: From present 
indications we will not make half a crop, it having rained almost every day from the 
10th of May to the 20th of June. While a portion is in good condition, much will have 
to be turned out from the fact that it has not had the first working. Panola: Very 
promising. 
Twenty-nine cotton reports have been received from Arkansas. 
Making allowance for Newton, which returns the extravagant condition 
of 500, but which reported no cotton for the last census, the average 
condition is about 96. Sharp returns 125; Arkansas, 120; Van Buren, 
105; 9 return 100, and 16 below that figure; the lowest being Hemp- 
stead, 50; Cross, 70; and Montgomery, 75. Hempstead, though re- 
porting a condition of 50, “‘ almost incessant rains for six weeks,” and 
that “cotton has not been worked out the first time,” predicts that it 
may “ possibly make a fair crop yet.” In Independence, notwithstand- 
ing the late planting, the plant has “attained the usual size at this 
date, and at the same time a vigor and health never surpassed in the © 
county.” In Arkansas it “never looked better;” in Craighead it is 
“‘ doing well;” in Woodruff, where it was “very dry all through June,” 
it is “not as large as usual, but clean and better cultivated ;” and in 
Fulton it was backward, but. “‘has sprung forward with extraordinary 
vigor and growth, and no drawback except a few cases of cotton-lice.” 
Monroe: About two weeks later than usual. Union: Rain almost every day since 
planting; a great deal of cotton replanted; badly in the grass; will improve soon as 
dry weather sets in; labor improving. Prairie: Excessive rains have retarded and in- 
