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many of the later forms to fall off. Alamance: Plants large; crop promising. Bla- 
den: Falling on account of excessive rains of late. Edgecombe: Willbeinjured by the 
heavy rains; top crop shedding; boll-worm and rot reported. Harnett: Looks very 
fine where well cultivated. Cumberland: Rain prevented the last working of the erop, 
which is now shedding squares and rotting ; loss variously estimated from 25 to 50 per 
cent. Granville: Slightly rusted by rain; crop good. Pitt: Excessive rains causing 
cotton to shed and rust. Martin: Injured in fruiting at least 30 per cent. by rains. 
Rowan: Considerably injured by rain. Newberry: Rain caused cotton to shed. Frank- 
lin: Rather too wet for cotton. Bertie: Rain caused shedding; growth the finest in 
many years: somerust. Tyrrell: Rains, August 10, damaged the crop, causing it to 
shed greatly. Camden: Shed badly from rain, and beginning to rust. Beaufort: A 
promising crop, injured by late rains. Greene: Rain shortened the season fifteen or 
twenty days, causing the late forms to drop, and producing rust. Onslow: Failed on 
account of rains. Perquimons : Crop abandoned on account of wet, cold, and lice. An- 
son: Badly rusted. Stanly: One of the finest crops ever known here. Polk: Rust has 
appeared in several localities. 
SouTH CaRroLina.—Orangeburgh: Rusted; the rain threatens to reduce the yield; 
caterpillars at work, but the crop is too far advanced for much injury from them. 
Clarendon : Injured by excessive rain; rust and casting of fruit very general. Fair- 
field: Increased acreage lost by lack of working; much upland cotton has taken a 
new growth and will be too late for fruiting. Chesterfield: Reduced 10 per cent. by 
excessive rain, causing an extensive shedding of bolls. Jarion : Too wet for cotton ; 
rusted on thin Jands; on highly-mavured lands the bolls rot as they mature. Lexing- 
ton: Excessive rain causes too much weed and shedding of young bolls; seed from 
the Department show a marked superiority. Richland: Caterpillars all over the 
county; damage not yet developed. JVilliamsburgh: Much injured by rains; forms 
falling; caterpillars destructive. York: Excessive August rains caused much cast- 
ing of fruit; crop declining from its first high condition. Marlborough: Heavy rains 
have brought rust and shedding of forms in sandy Jands; worms destructive on bot- 
tom-lands. Zaurens: Opened three weeks late; large growth tending to shed ; worms 
and rot developed. Union: Acreage somewhat increased; more commercial fertilizers 
than usual; short of labor. Edgefield: Injured 10 per cent. byrust; due to guano. 
GrEORGIA.—Lincoln: Prospect never better; weed sufficiently large and well- 
fruited. TZaylor: Rusting on sandy lands; little frnit and too much weed. Richmond : 
Injured by drought, but has grown rapidly since August; since then the frequent rains 
have caused the fruit to drop on bottom-lands; ou gray and damp lands the crop is 
rusting badly. Liberty: Caterpillars reported, but have done but little damage. 
Worth: Too much rain for cotton ; caterpillars successfully treated with poison; pretty 
good crop. Carroll: Shed forms badly; rusted to some extent. Gordon: Beginning 
to open; promises a large yield. Schley: Blooms falling: caterpillar injurious in 
some places. Gwinnett: Ten days later than last year; “ Peeler” cotton from the De- 
partment is large, well-bolled, and promising, but it seems to be a late variety. 
Dooly: Ruined by rainand rust. Upson: Complaints of boll-worms on wet lands where 
the cotton-weed is heavy; crops average better than for several years. Clinch : Crop 
will be fine if the weather continues favorable. Muscogee: Weed of good size but too 
late in fruiting; some complaint of rust and caterpillar. Zarly: Greatly denuded of 
foliage by caterpillars, yet the crop will be a third greater than last year. Wilkinson : 
Caterpiliars destroying late cotton. Macon: Weed above average size; fruitage good, 
with proper cultivation; only 10 per cent. worked into good condition on account of 
rain. Calhoun: Half the crop eaten by caterpillars. Coweta: Severely injured by 
drought, boll-worms, and caterpillars. Glynn: But little injured by either rains or 
caterpillars. Baldwin: Worms in a few fields. Brooks: Damaged 10 per cent. by cat- 
erpillars, rust, and shedding. Twiggs: Cropslate, poorly fruited, and infested to some 
extent with caterpillars and boll-worms, besides some rust. Wilkes: Hot weather, 
causing cotton to fail rapidly. Marion: Boll-worm and caterpillar are ravaging the 
crop, especially in the fresh low lands. Walton: Drought telling heavily on the crop. - 
Lee: Caterpillar destroyed only a few crops, but dry weather is shortening all. Jack- 
son: Looks well; would yield heavily but for the grass in it; many acres abandoned 
on account of rain and grass. Decatur: Further growth arrested by caterpillars. 
Jefferson: Too wet season; rust and worms destructive. Heard: Best prospect for a 
crop since the war. Stewart: A third short through excessive rains, boll-worims, and 
caterpillars. Whitfield: Good. Franklin: Prospect reduced. Madison: Fertilizers 
reely used. Chattooga: Some rust. : 
FLorma.—Liberty: Injured by caterpillars; Paris green fails to meet the case; 
some say it kills the cotton as well as the insect. Wadison: Seriously damaged by 
excessive rains and by insects; some say the cost of exterminators is greater than the 
ravages of insects. Jefferson: Greatly injured by caterpillars. Taylor: Rain caused 
cotton toshed. Hillsborough: Better than ever; average increased. Leon: Suttered from 
rain and caterpillars; half the crop eaten up. Columbia: Caterpillars have done but 
little mischief except in a few localities. The sea-island seed from Charleston fruited 
