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well but netted badly. Manatee: Peleer cotton from the Department doing well. 
Gadsden: Where not denuded by caterpillars the plant tended to large fruitage, but 
many of the young forms were lost by excessive shedding ; caterpillars are very gen- 
eraland destructive; weed unusually small on old lands in spite of fertilizers, but rank 
on new lands; bolls here rotting for lack of sunshine. Levy: Badlyrasted. Gadsden : 
At the last meeting of our agricultural society it was the unanimous opinion of the 
members that all the commercial fertilizers used—of which there was quite a variety— 
had been a material injury to the crop, causing it to fire, and adding nothing to the 
size of the plant or to the production of fruit. 
ALABAMA.—Jackson: Cotton brought out rapidly by dry weather in July and August. 
Greene: Cotton-worms appeared July 26, but little damage as yet; crop greatly im- 
proved. Choctaw: Cotton caterpillars at work; farmers hesitate about using p-tison. 
Saint Clair: Fine. Lee: Weed fine; insome places excessiverains have caused the plants 
to shed. Hale: Crop stripped by caterpillars almost as much as last year. Barbour : 
Seriously injured by caterpillars, especially on bottom-lands, where the crop lately 
promised so well. Henry: Crop fine, but caterpillars have appeared in immense num- 
bers ; a few are using poisons, with temporary success. Clarke: Crop fine; third crop 
of caterpillars are sweeping the leaves; poison is used to some extent. Macon : Crop 
seriously injured by caterpillars; but little matured cotton as yet; boll-worm also 
doing much damage; planters generally think the crop a failure. Crenshaw: Cotton- 
worms appeared August 20; crop average with last year; cotton-seed from the Depart- 
ment doing well. Pike: Crop very promising ten days ago, but is now being eaten by 
caterpillars ; another week will finish it; large tracts will not make a bale to the 
hundred acres. Blount: Entirely healthy ; free from insect enemies and well developed. 
Coffee: Crop never better, but the caterpillars have just appeared. Geneva: Very good. 
Chambers: With a good season hereafter the crop will be large; caterpillars doing but 
little damage, as the crop is later than usual. Franklin: Prospects improved { never 
had any caterpillars here. Montgomery: Blooms swept by caterpillars to some extent. 
Butler : Crop two or three weeks later than last year in fruiting, but would have done 
finely if the army-worm had not appeared; in spite of Paris green they will probably 
strip the crop. Calhoun: Above average. Autaga: Almost ruined by worms ; esti- 
mates vary from one-fourth to one-third ofa crop; average on manured lands. Perry: 
Stripped by bugs; gloomy prospect. Marshall: Rustin cotton; no general appre- 
hension yet. Dallas: Caterpillars destroyed half the crop. In some cases an early 
application of a patented preparation of Paris green saved the crop. Marengo: 
Cotton has fallen off distressingly ; worms have eaten the leaves; the bolls dropping 
off or opening prematurely. Clark: Bottom crop good; top crop eaten by worms. 
Madison: Prospect declining; dry-rot and worms. Lauderdale: Prospect reduced by 
bad weather. 
MissIssippl.—Grenada: Shedding through dry weather; where better weather ex- 
ists the crop will be average; a large proportion of it badly cultivated; the character 
of the season imposed double labor on the crop. Warren: Caterpillars increasing; 
forms and bolls shedding on uplands. Marion: Third crop of caterpillars appearing ; 
poisons in demand, but their efficacy as yet untested. Yalabusha: Beginning to open 
and doing well. Amite: Suffered from excessive rains. Jasper: Cotton making fast; 
two weeks late, and eaten by caterpillars. Wilkinson: Rotted by rain; caterpillars 
numerous; but little damage yet; plants shedding heavily. Altala: Coming to an 
average; well worked crops are good. Tishemingo: Fine cotton weather; greatly im- 
proved. Kemper: Injured by rust on uplands and by worms on low lands. Lowndes: 
Promising till caterpillars and boll-worms appeared; great destruction of young bolls; 
nearly all the fields are stripped of leaves. Lee; Lowlands will yield a bale per acre; 
highlands about one-fifth as much. /Mashington: Two weeks late; stalk large and 
well bolled, but the worms are destroying the foliage in many cases. De Soto: Cotton 
rapidly failing. Le Flore: Peeler cotton fine. Winslow: Bottom crops about gone up 
through rain. Noxubee: Damaged 25 per cent. by leaf and boll-worms. Rankin: Im- 
_ proved 10 per cent. Caterpillar and boll-worm did but little damage ; part of the crop 
as good as ever made; the remainder almost a failure. Holmes: Shedding badly on 
account of rain. Jefferson: Shortened by worms and storms; much lying flat. Tensas: 
Greatly injured by worms, and still more by the “ blade-rot,” especially early cotton on 
sandy lands. 
LovulIstaNa.—East Baton Rouge: Crops not abandoned are now doing well; plants 
of fine size and color, but at least three weeks late; a favorable fall will make a half 
crop ; worms have appeared in isolated localities. Avoyelles: Crop backward, and now 
being eaten by caterpillars; many using Paris green; if this remedy does not succeed 
there will not be a leaf leftin the next ten days. Saint Mary’s: Too wet for cotton. Terre . 
Bonne: Unprecedented rain-fall, destructive to cotton. Franklin: Large and well bolled ; 
some boll-rot ; some worms but no damage yet; with no disaster the crop will be large. 
Cameron: Better than was expected ; worms not so injurious as they threatened to be 
amonthago. Richland: Worms have appeared but have done little damage. Caddo: 
Half destroyed by worms. Iberia: Worms spreading; not even two-thirds of a crop 
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