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Holmes : Tnjured by worms and wet weather. Washington: Leaves stripped by worms, 
and hence cotton opens faster than it can be picked. Yalabusha: Top crop shed, 
through drought, to a considerable extent; bottom and middle crop will mature be- 
fore frost. Lowndes: Failure of this crop will put it out of the power of many to raise 
another; what will be saved from the wreck will cost 30 cents a pound. 
LOUISIANA.— Claiborne: Crops swept by worms, especially late ones. Washington: 
Average in spite of worms; picking will be finished before November; crop equal to 
last year’s. Franklin: Promising up to September 1; stripped by worms, since, of 
everything except full-grown bolls. Morehouse: Opening very fast in the dry weather; 
boll-worms very bad. ast Baton Rouge: The dreaded cotton worm has come, and 
has reduced the prospective yield 10 per cent. since last report: nothing left for the 
frost; remains of the crop will be gathered within a month. Rapides: Weather not 
favorable for opening green bolis; cotton necessarily poor. Jest eliciana: Stripped 
by caterpillars; crop but one-third of last year’s. Tuscaloosa: From half to two-thirds 
of a crop; an early and persistent use of Paris green and arsenic secured good crops. 
Madison: Entirely stripped of leaves and small bolls; fine picking season. Caddo: 
Opening fast; half picked already. Bossier: Greatly injured by boll-worms and cater- 
pillars. Concordia: Injured by rot and worms. TYensas: Stripped by worms in the 
first week of September; this injured later cotton, while the earlier suffered from rot. 
Texas.—Navarro : Weather favorable for picking. Henderson : Shortened one-fourth 
by worms. Collin: No worms; picking progressing rapidly in the fine weather. Liber- 
ty: Better than was expected; worms unaccountably disappeared; crop quite grassy. 
Austin : Latest crops within memory of the oldest inhabitants; about half average. 
Nacogdoches : Almost entirely destroyed by caterpillars. Colwmbia : Since September 
1 caterpillars have stripped cotton foliage, and eaten a large number of young bolls. 
Cooke : Cotton stood the drought very well. Dallas : Prospect good for a yield above 
average; 300 pounds of lint per acre; the most of the crop will class as good middling. 
Fayette: River lands a half crop ; uplands a quarter crop. Fannin: Crop light ; staple 
good. Matagorda: Almost a failure; one-tenth of a bale peracre. Titus: Cut down 
20 per cent. by boll-worms. Washington: Weather fine for picking what was left by 
the worms. Marion : Materially injured by worms. Ked River : Crop light ; worms in- 
jurious. Rusk: Stripped of leaves by worms: boll-worms ate all the young bolls of 
August; Peelerseed good. Wood: Favorable for picking. JVilliamson : Will be 150 if 
frosts delay ; freedmen picking better than since the war; commands 13 and 14 cents, 
specie. Waller: Devastated by worms; yield a bale to 10 acres. Upshur : Shortened 
by late season, boll-worms, and caterpillars. Shelby: Shortened one-half by boll-worms 
and caterpillars. Medina: Damaged by floods. Lavacea: Crops injured by worms 
have come out wonderfully in the late fine weather. Cherokee : Injured by boll-worms, 
caterpillars, and different kinds of spear-worms. Zllis: Late, but will be average, if 
good weather continues. Fort Bend: Last year we shipped 7,000 bales; this year we 
will ship but 400. 
ARKANSAS.— Union : Not over 150 pounds of seed cotton per acre for laté crops; re- 
duced by worms and drought within thirty days. Sebastian: Shortened by drought 
fully a third. Independence: Something over half a crop; average quality. Yell: 
Opening well; first picking injured by rain. Crittenden: Top crop shedding; yield 
reduced below average. <drkansas: Burnt out on uplands; top crop all gone; yield 
about equal to last year’s. Montgomery: Runs to weed, and does not boli well; too 
much rain for heavy soils; will be average on sandy soils. Fulton: Many fields ruined 
by black rust. Sharp: Injured by rust. 
TENNESSEE.—Gibson: Twenty per cent. less in quantity and 20 per cent. better in 
quality than last year’s crop. Fayette: Short one-third; August bolls destroyed by 
drought ; leaves discolored and dropping off as if frost-bitten. Madison: Very short, 
through drought. Dyer: Staple clean and fine, but shortened by drought one-fourth. 
Dickson : Troubled with worms, but of good quality. Giles: Opening unusually fast. 
Clark: Injured by drought, boll-worms, and caterpillars. Obion: Prospects good. 
Hancock: Upland cotton from the Department is full of large bolls, with lint longer 
than usual, but opening a little later. Hayward: Shortened a third by drought; top 
crop a failure. 
Kansas.—Labette: Fair and promising; 400 acres planted; picking commenced 
August 25. 
TOBACCO. 
The month of September appears to have been, on the whole, favora- 
ble to the maturity of the crop in the New England, Middle, and South 
Atlantic States, all of which, except Georgia, show increased averages. 
At one or two points in New England the frost more or less injured the 
crop. The lateness of planting caused considerable apprehensions 
