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tucky, Virginia, Illinois, Kansas, Nevada, California, and other North- 
ern States. While this is by no means a complete enumeration, the 
amount is still small notwithstanding a reported increase in Missouri 
and California. 
The following table presents a statement of the census crop of 3,000,000 
bales, an estimate by States of the crop of last year, which is shown 
by the cotton movement to have been about 30 per cent. larger than 
that of 1869, and the yield indicated by the November returns of the 
present year, with the estimated area and yield per acre: 
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OF AO UTE ae rae eae | 144, 935 180, 000 176, 400 
STEMS AROUND oxo fice cicis bee ee aa joe Ah sence tee 224, 500 276, 000 253, 920 
On ELE She Sa See ee eee Ran amie sis 473, 934 595, 000 577, 150 
TEC EN CES Se Ss eae ak ae 2 39, 789 47, 000 
BAM CLI Cerne rie eee lois osc = wee eels wks Baie 429, 482 530, 000 | 486, 850 
RURISMISND Plo eeas ce eee fe cena Seeirieeese ae 564, 938 744, 000 632, 400 
MORIA 2 oer 8 ele oo hk took es eb oS Pe 350, 832 501, 000 | 400, 800 
PP MAN cate Anes dans o a mtetonc ena ms sie Tons ee 350, 626 467, 000 523, 040 
PALE MIRE S) ccs cleats soba ten Gas oAG So Scictles ees 247, 968 335, 000 | 341, 700 
PROMMIGRRGO! oom > Selb niaiaace eee sae oes aaee 181, 842 240, 000 244, 800 
meal re eos LSI eros fis. 3. 28 oS. 3, 008, 848 | 3,920,000 | 3, 682, 650 
This aggregate, with the small quantity grown outside of the limits 
of the, cotton States, will make the total estimate of the November re- 
turns, as nearly as possible, three million seven hundred thousand 
bales. As the weather and other circumstances continue to affect the 
ultimate outcome of the crop, in the more southern and larger States, 
until Christmas, the result may yet be modified by an exceptionally 
favorable season in the latter part of November and in December, on 
the one side, or by storms affecting injuriously the saving of the crop on 
the other. Low prices and Scarcity of pickers may cause a remnant of 
the crop to be left in the field, as some correspondents have already 
suggested. 
The yield per acre is much lower than usual in Alabama, Mississippi, 
and Louisiana. The average is always comparatively high in the latter 
State, the cotton acreage being almost exclusively on productive lands. 
This is also true of a large proportion of the cotton-fields of Arkansas. 
Mississippi gives a high rate of yield in the river counties, on the 
Yazoo and Big Black, and in the rotten-limestone lands of Hinds and 
Madison; but the counties of Eastern and Southern Mississippi, large 
in total area, but not in cotton acreage, make smaller yields and reduce 
the general average. In Texas the yields have always been reported 
high because cotton is generally planted on very productive soils, of 
which there is yet an abundant supply for selection. 
VIRGINIA.— Sussex : Cotton-crop will be 50 per cent. greater than last year ; a worm, 
heretofore unknown, stripped the leaves just before the cool nights of October. Sur- 
rey: Has opened well, and promises a good yield of good quality. .Greenville: Shipped 
about 4,000 bales. Dinwiddie: Increase in acreage 30 per cent.; decreased yield per 
oer 10 per cent.; rain caused dropping of forms and rust. The quality of lint is 
good. 
_ Nortu Carouina.—Rutherford : Yield and acreage 50 per cent. above average; qual- 
ity very good. Stanley: Crop has grown well, but there is a lack of labor to save it ; 
much will necessarily be left to destruction. Chowan: Shortened by rain and worms. 
