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ravages of caterpillars; yield one-third below last year. Dooly: Badly damaged by 
caterpillars and rust. Columbia: Very short; little or no August crop; injured by 
heavy rains. Hart: Possibly one-half short. Carroll: Badly damaged by drought 
and caterpillars. Sumter: Cut short by caterpillars. Marion: Cotton will not mature 
in its present condition as the leaves are all off and worms are now eating the bolls. 
Liberty : Scarcely a green cotton-leaf remains. The crop was also injured by the great 
storm, September 19. Zee: Since last report the crop has been injured at least 20 per 
cent. by worms; it has also suffered from recent heavy rains. Clinch: Caterpillars 
cut down the crop one-half. Walton: Materially injured by drought. Butts : Promises 
a full average in spite of boll-worms and caterpillars. Douglass: Bolls prematurely 
opened and spoiled by rains; the stalks being low and the bolls near the ground, the 
cotton is depreciated 1 to i4 cents per pound. Derangement in money matters will 
bring low prices, which will greatly embarrass farmers. Gwinnett: Leaves stripped by 
army-worms; late bolls injured somewhat. Peeler cotton good though a little late ; 
finer texture than common varieties, and worth a cent and a quarter more to the pound, 
Richmond: Caterpillars have destroyed the August cotton in most of the county. Schley; 
Swept by caterpillars. Twiggs: Swept by boll-worms and caterpillars. Baldwin: All 
the fruit from the blossoms of the last week of August and the first two weeks of Sep- 
tember destroyed by caterpillars and boll-worms. Calhoun: Cut down 30 per cent. by 
caterpillars and wet weather; the remnant will be greater than last year’s yield. 
Heard: Unprecedented destruction by caterpillars and boll-worms. /Vilkinson: Ruined 
by rust and caterpillars. Wilkes: Caterpillars very destructive; have stripped the 
leaves. Jackson: Not over two-thirds of a crop in spite of enormous quautities of 
guano; caterpillars destructive. Merriwether: Picking-season favorable. Whitfield: 
Good. Spalding: Excessive weed; poorly fruited ; injured by worms. Macon: Injured 
by the heavy storm of September 19; picking-season very favorable; crop probably 25 
per cent. below average. Coweta: Stripped by caterpillars; opening slowly. Decatur: 
Injured by heavy storm, September 19; crops scattered and cotton-gins demolished. 
Brooks: Great injury from the storm of September 19. Franklin: Considerably short- 
ened by worms. 
FLoripa.— Taylor : Late cotton cleaned out by the caterpillar. Leon: A fourth of 
the crop destroyed by the great storm of September 19. Wakulla: Shortened possibly 
one-half by the equinoctial gale. Swwannee: Injured by caterpillars ; Peeler upland 
the poorest ever tried here. Columbia : Much injured by rust and caterpillars. Gads- 
den: Immense destruction of cotton by the storm of September 19; cotton all open, 
and especially liable to injury. Hamilton: Seriously injured by storm and caterpil- 
lars. Orange: Excessive rains prevented a good truitage; crop small. Levy: Pros- 
pect much improved ; good picking-season; staple better than usual. The great storm 
did not reach east of township 17, range 17. 
ALABAMA.—Greene : No top crop; small middle and bottom crops; eaten by boll- 
worms and caterpillars. Chambers: Would have been average but for caterpillars. 
Montgomery : Weed late, and worms early; crop figures greatly depressed in conse- 
quence. Jackson: First crop good; later pickings not 80 good; opening too rapidly 
through drought. Bibb: At least a third destroyed by caterpillars. Clarke: Full ay- 
erage in spite of worms. Saint Clair : Peeler cotton promises 500 pounds per acre. Hale: 
Poorest crop for thirty-five years; destroyed by boll-worm and caterpillars, mainly the lat- 
ter. Geneva: All that could be reasonably desired, though both boll and leaf worms 
did some little damage. Calhoun: Badly damaged by worms; worse than last year. 
Franklin: Picking-season opened well; many say they are getting two-thirds of the 
yield at the first picking; light frost September 15, but no damage; top crop out of 
danger, but the picking is interrupted by rains; last year’s crop all of low grade. 
Winston: Opening freely, with fine picking weather; crop better than was expected. 
Conecuh : Twenty-five per cent.short of last year’s crop. Randolph: July crop good, 
but that of August and September almost a failure; worms destroyed squares and 
half-grown bolls. Morgan: Fine picking-weather; quality good. Crenshaw: Equal 
to last year. 
MIssIssipPl.—Tishemingo : Not so good as usual; good picking-season. Lee: Boll and 
leaf worms on low, rich lands reduced the general average to 60. Grenada: Most of 
the crop will be picked by November 10—a very unusual fact; yield 20 or 25 per cent. 
less than last year. Warren: Damaged 20 per cent. since September 1, by worms and 
boll-rot. Pike: Curtailed by boll-worm, rust, and caterpillar. Wilkinson: Great de- 
struction by boll-worms and other insects, as well as by rot from constant wet weather. 
Rankin: Nearly all open and the cotton falling out ; deterioration of 20 per ¢ent. in the 
last month, through drought and caterpillars. Attala: Short crop. Claiborne: Late 
cotton ruined by worms. Clarke: September favorable for picking ; worms, in many 
places, destroyed the top crop. Jasper: Worms injured the crop in the last week of 
August, causing it to open prematurely; picking late; quality poor. Leflore: Fallen 
off 20 per cent., from worms and shedding of forms and blooms. Madison : Depreci- 
ated greatly in two months, from worms, shedding, &e. Noxubee: Spotted; tolerable 
crop in some places; in others almost a failure. JVinston: Lately injured by worms. 
