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Hameit: Crop reduced to an averageby wet. Catawba: Increased acreage will about 
make up deficiency i in yield. Craven: Increased acreage will bring a deficient crop up: 
to average. Piit: Top crops taken by worms ; boll-worm i injurious ; crop marketed 
early through necessity. Tyrrell: Below average ; unprepitious season and caterpil- 
Jars. Beaufort: Shortened by wet and caterpillars; fields that were expected to turn 
out 1,000 pounds per acre are realizing but 500 to 600 ; caterpillars saved the top-crop: 
from the frost. Alamance: Plants hada fine stalk, but the season was too wet for their 
maturity. Zenoir: Short 10 per cent. Gaston: Satisfactory ; yield of lint fair; frost 
October 20; damage not known. Franklin: Increased acreage will bring the crop up 
to last year’ 8, Or nearly so. Davidson: Late spring frosts kept back the crop too late 
to mature well.. Greene: Low prices do not justify more than 40 cents per hundred 
for picking, a rate which does not attract laborers; yield athird below average and 25. 
per cent. below last year. Granville: Acreage three times that of last year; lint very 
good. Haywood: Did not mature well on the high table-lands. Rowan: Attacked by 
army-worms October 5 and stripped; opened unusually early. Currituck: Prospect 
good till the army-worm came. Panilico : Army-worms have reduced a crop promising 
20 per cent. increase to last year’s standard ; rain and rustalso injurious as well as the 
money panic. Northampton: Good weather has opened the crop more freely of late ; 
second picking good. Martin: Yield small; quality good. Perquimons: Half crop in 
yield, but increased acreage will carry it to 70 per cent. probably ; cotton won’t pay at 
less than 15 cents per pound. 
Sourm CaroLina.—Edgefield: Season fine for picking. JVilliamsburgh: Miserably 
poor; half of last year’s crop will not pay cost. Lexington: Below last year; ran to 
weed, and was afterward eaten by worms. Georgetown: “‘Santee grades,’ approxi- 
mating long staple or sea island, have done well. Short staples have also proved re- 
munerative. Marion: Overrun by ¢ crass in the spring and early summer; stripped by 
caterpillars on the more improved lands. Mar lborough: Injured by frosts and worms, 
but the yield probably equal to last year’s. Newberry: Better than was expected ; 
much rust in gray lands. Barnwell: Willaverage about 475 pounds of seed-cotton per 
acre. Richland: Hardly equal to last year. Laurens: Four-fifths will average mid- 
dling; very little yellow cotton. 
GrEORGIA.—Jackson: Late fall and fair weather will bring an average crop. Putnam : 
Late cotton taken by caterpillars. Twiggs: The most disastrous cotton year since 1840. 
Stewart: Shortened one-half by wet and worms. Macon: Falling price, and product 
very discouraging. Hall: Best picking season yet known. Jloyd: Injured slightly 
by late killing frosts, the top-crop having been swept by caterpillars; fine picking 
season. Fulton: Yield unexpectedly large; lint fine ; good fall season; picking will be 
finished a month earlier than usual; half the crop sold. Spalding: Quality 20 per 
eent. better than last year; fine picking season. Hart: Increased acreage will bring 
the crop to last year’s average. JWalton: Season unusually favorable tor maturing 
and gathering the crop; increased acreage will balance the decreased yield. Taylor: 
Acreage increased 10 per cent. ; worms nearly ruined the crop. Dooly: Cotton a failure, 
but the “ Peeler” has done well; it should be planted very early. Schley: Short crop ; 
will be picked by November 19. Upson: About .15 per cent. better than last year, 
yielding 125 pounds of lint per acre ; some lands reach 1,000 pounds, and others sink 
to 75. Wilkes; Remarkably good picking season ; frosts injure late cotton, but the ex- 
posed area isnot large; labor scarce and unreliable. Gwinnett: Fine season ; crop equal 
to last year, though the weed is not so large; mostly picked without rain or stain. 
Muscogee: Shortened by caterpillars. Marion: Shortened by caterpillars. Oglethorpe : 
Below last year; excessive early summer rains; shedding ; early frosts, &c. Whitfield: 
Good: nearly all picked. Richmond: Lint on strong red lands may average 250 
pounds ; on gray lands not over 100. Johnson: Cut off to some extent by caterpillars- 
Dawson: Average increased; Peeler from the Department is large, well bolled, and 
yields good lint, “put it is late. Picking season fine. Carroll: Fine picking season ; 
heavy frost October 19. Liberty: Injured by rain. Murray: Lint fine; 1} pounds lint 
to every 3 pounds seed-cotton. 
FiLoripa.—Manatee: Much injured by storm October 6. Hillsborough: A little in- 
jured by rain. Taylor: Caterpillars have nearly stopped cotton-culture. Jefferson : 
Caterpillars had stripped the leaves, permitting the late storm to blow out the lint 
badly, reducing the yield very greatly. Gadsden: Reduced by the storm of September 
19'to half an average, and one-fourth below last year. Wakulla: Ten per cent. above 
Jast year in spite of caterpillars and the September gale; a few unsuccessful experi- 
ments with Parisgreen. Madison: Reduced by storms. Jackson: One hundred pounds 
seed-cotton yield 31 of lint. Putnam: Black-seed or long-staple cotton is a money- 
crop in the western part of the county. 
ALABAMA.—Bullock: Better than usual. Perry: Below expectations. Lewiston: 
Little over a half crop; quality better than usual; pickingearly. Lawrence: Probably 
below average. Chambers: Caterpillars ruined the top-crop and did other damage. 
Crenshaw : Fair crop; 1 bale of lint to 3 acres. Choctaw: Shortened by caterpillars. 
Clinch: Cut down one-half by wet weather and caterpillars. MWorth: Shortened by 
