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son: Damaged by excessive wet. Dawson: Bottom crops injured by rain; upland 
crops, well worked, are very fine. Liberty: Injured by rain. 
FLoripa.— Hillsborough: Crop housed in good order. Taylor: Better than ever 
known; Cooley corn from the Department a success. Leon: Crop large, but affected 
with rot. Gadsden: Full average and ten per cent. above last year. Madison: Greater 
quantity but lighter weight than last year. Jackson: Average quantity and nearly 
average in quality. 
ALABAMA.—Bullock ; Reduced ten per cent. below last year by wet spring, but the 
quality is better. Lewiston: Sixty per cent. of last year’s crop. Lawrence: Varies from 
average to fifty per cent. below. Crenshaw: Equal to last year. Clinch: Better than 
hast year, but below average. Worth: Good. Slount: Full average. Pike: Less than 
was expected; unusual proportion of rotten corn. Saint Clair: Sells at fifty cents per 
bushel. Calhoun: Fine in quantity and quality. Clarke: Better than last year. 
Dallas: Half crop; excessive rains prevented cultivation. 
Mississippr1.—Lee: Light but fine. Jefferson: Quality as good as last year, but yield 
less. Hancock: Did well. Kemper: Short. Jones: Better than was anticipated. Jas- 
per: Injured by rain and grass. Grenada: Injured by spring rains, summer drought, 
and poor culture. Winslow: Pennsylvania Yellow successful; four weeks earlier than 
the ordinary varieties. Jilkinson: Rot and weevil injured the crops. Tishemingo: 
Sound. Lowndes: Short. Rankin: Much corn rotted on the stalk. 
LouIsIANa.—East Baton Rouge: Almost a failure. La Fourche: Very short. Iberia: 
Corn $1 to $1.50 per barrel. Rapides: Very short; much rotten. Franklin: Consider- 
able rot. St. Mary: A fourthofa crop and poor. dssumptien: Failed through excess- 
ive rains. 
Trxas.—Hamilion : Turned out tolerably in spite of spring frosts and grasshoppers. 
Bandera: First two plantings destroyed by frost} the third injured by rai and worms; 
heavy frost October 20. San Saba: Inferior; late planted injured by insects and rot- 
ted. Rusk: Average. Ellis: The increased acreage will about counterbalance the 
deereased yield. Cooke: Very indifferent. De Witt: Damaged by wet ; below average. 
Harris: Excessive growth of stalk and impertect growth of ears; the increased acre- 
age will bring up the yield to last year’s. Wood: Injured by rot. Coryell: Not over 
bushels per acre; less than last year. Red River: Smaller crop than was expected. 
Collin: Shortened by drought succeeding the heavy rains of May and June. Milam: 
Enough corn for home consumption. Dallas: Reduced by rains to three-fourths aver- 
age. Parker: Shortened by grasshoppers in the spring, and by droughts afterward. 
Upshur: One-fourth short of last year; muchrotten corn. Kendall: Poor. McLennan: 
Injured by May drought. Burnett: Poor yield; season unfavorable; hardly a fourth 
of the crop sound. Kaufman: Ten per cent. below last year; unfavorable season. 
Cherokee: Perhaps there will be a small surplus. Lamar: Wet spring caused the loss 
of a considerable acreage planted in corn; average yield decreased, but the total 
product equal to last year’s. Medina: Product per acre and quality below last year. 
Austin: Light, and not equal to the home demand. Inielligent cultivation has pro- 
duced good crops; prices 20 per cept. above last year’s. 
ARKANSAS.—Fulion : People scared at their short crops, but with careful feeding 
there is enough for home demand. Franklin: Short. Perry: Crop light, but sup- 
plemented by a heavy mast. Boone: Badly worm-eaten. Baxter: Shortened by 
drought. Bradley: Stands late and yield poor. Arkansas: Crop good and well se- 
eured. Cross: Below average, but better than last year. Garland: Planted largely, 
but shortened by drought. Critienden: Short acreage and product. Madison: Rotted 
by August rains. 
TENNESSEE.— Dickson : Gathers better than was expected; quality good. Jentress: 
Equal to last year in yield and quality ; where well cultivated the crop was above 
average. Hickman: Early corn good; later, shortened by drought. Haywood: Short- 
ened one-fourth by bad cultivation. Shelby: Considerable rot. Hancock: Gray 
squirrels destroyed 10,000 bushels. Obion: Damaged by wet spring. JVilson: Dam- 
aged by drought. Weakley: Lightest crop ever grown here. Dyer: One-fourth 
short, but sound and well matured. Grundy: Corn-culture surely declining through 
lack of rotation. Wilkinson: Superior to last year. Blount: Good, though injured by 
the late drought. Sumner: Shortened by drought following excessive rains. De Kalb: 
Late corn damaged 10 per cent. by frost. Lawrence: About three-fourths of a crop; 
injured by drought. Smiih: Not so good as was expected; early growing season un- 
favorable. Truesdale: Short of last year 25 per cent. Putnam: Average; quality 
below. Carter: Injured by June rains and subsequent drought; but still average, and 
of excellent quality. Bradley: Badly damaged by drought and grasshoppers. Can- 
non: Shortened by spring rains and summer drought. Jackson: Injured by summer 
rains. Monroe: Equal to last year. Robertson: Acreage the same as last year; stand 
irregular; cut-worms unusually troublesome; excessive rains; poor cultivation. 
Montgomery : Much rotten corn. 
West VirGinia.—Raleigh : Excellent. Grant: Vast quantities of eorn frosted; in 
Milbury district three-fourths ofthe fodder is ruined. Jackson ; Average; the acreage 
