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jured all the crops; with favorable weather, cotton may reach au average. Jefferson: 
The continual rains for the first three weeks of June have kept cotton in the grass, in- 
juring the crop, and causing bad stand from the almost impossibility to get laborers. 
Bradley: That portion which has been well tilled is far above an average, but, owing 
to late continued rains, a considerable portion is in the grass. Dorsey: Excessively 
_ wet weather during the past two months has seriously injured the cotton-crop. Thou- 
sands of acres are so overrun with grass and weeds that it can never be cleaned out. 
Cross: Damaged by too much rain. Columbia: Looking well on all dry land, badly on 
wet, and much still in the grass. Crittenden: Too much rain, and plenty of grass. 
Drew: The excessive rain-fall since the middle of April has rendered it impossible to 
give cotton the requisite cultivation, and caused many to abandon a part of their crop. 
Yell: A little later than usual; all that has been worked since the dry weather set in 
looks better than usual, though there is a great deal in the grass yet. Sebastian: Prom- 
ising a good yield. Montgomery: In consequence of so much wet, the cotton-crop is in 
a wretched condition, overrun with grass and weeds. Many fields have been plowed 
up and planted in corn, and others given up to the grass. 
Twenty-four counties in Tennessee return an average condition of 965: 
7 at 100, 5 above, and 12 below. Wayne, 125; Wilson and Hardin, 
120; Davidson and Humphrey, 110; Bradley, 50; others from 80 up to 
average. 
Maury: Properly worked, would have been over an average. It has suffered for 
want of plowing, and is being injured by grass. Newbern: Has suffered very much in 
consequence of the continued wet weather; much of it very grassy, and will be late 
in maturing. Giles: Has been plowed up by several; that remaining can scarcely be 
seen for weeds and grass, but has.a fine color, notwithstanding the protracted and un- 
precedented rains. Obion: Suffering for the want of work; the ground has been so 
wet it is impossible to work it. Sevier: But little raised here; what is looks well. 
_ Henry: Generally suffering on account of grass and weeds; in low lands, in many in- 
stances, the crop is abandoned. MWeakley: Have had more rain during the past two and 
a half months than was perhaps ever known to fall here in the same time and season ; 
this causes the low condition of cotton. Davidson: In the weeds, and will fall short. 
Benton : Prospect gloomy. Haywood: Owing to excessive rains during June, the cot- 
ton-crop became literally smothered with grass and wéeds. 
Missouri appears to be giving increased attention to the culture of 
cotton, and with encouraging results: Fourteen counties report making 
an average condition of 105; 7 being one hundred, 6 above, and 1, Pem- 
iscot, 80. In the last named, the crop is “‘much more in the grass than 
in other years ;” in Ozark, it “looks fine;” in Cedar, where the condi- 
tion is put at 110, cotton is receiving the attention of growers, and “ has 
thus far proved a profitable crop ;” and in Stoddard, where the condition 
is also 110, the only drawback is that the lands “are at present too rich, 
for the cotton averages about four feet high, and therefore requires to 
be planted farther apart thanin most of the cotton-lands; otherwise it 
does not mature well.” The highest condition is in Dale, 130. 
Kansas is also experimenting in cotton-growing with éncouraging 
prospects. Montgomery reports considerable cotton planted this sea- 
son. Labette: “Cotton first planted in the county promises well.” 
Sumner: “Cotton doing superbly, but, as it is our first year of extensive 
experiments, we can hardly make an average condition.” Eight counties 
report making an average condition of 105. 
OATS. 
The prospective yield of oats during June declined in all the New 
England and Middle States, Maryland, Virginia, Mississippi, Ohio, 
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and 
Nebraska. The condition of the crop was enhanced in all the 
other States, especially in the South. That is, the ‘prospects have de- 
clined in those States, which produced 227,993,000 bushels of the esti- 
mated total yield of 1872, which was 271,747,000. The drought prevail- 
