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rust and caterpillars ; cotton-culture very unpromising. BLlount: Best crop ever pro. 
duced here ; caterpillars ate the leaves, but this only hastened the ripening of the bolls ” 
fine picking weather. Pike: Less than expected; seed injured by ravages of worms 
on the stalks. Saint Clair: Peeler cotton on good uplands produces 1,400 pounds of 
seed-cotton per acre. Coffee: Goodseason ; Jate cotton injured by caterpillars ; crop 25 
per cent. better than last year. Wilcox: Half crop. Montgomery : Unprecedented fall- 
ing off; picking time good. Conecuh : About 150 pounds lint per acre ; slow market- 
ing ; holding up for better prices. Franklin: Wiil sample better than last year. Cal- 
houn : Injured by worms, but not nearly so bad as last year. Talladega: Shortened by 
caterpillars. Dallas: Considerable acreage stripped by caterpillars. 
Mississipp1.—Lee: Shortened by drought, caterpillars, and boll-worms; very few 
acres produced a bale. Jefferson: Short through worms and panic. Hancock: Staple 
fine. Jones: Better than was expected. Pike: Curtailed by rain, grass, and army and 
boll worms. Jasper: Shortened by caterpillars; marketed promptly. Grenada: 
Greatly injured by drought, rust, and worms, together with poor culture and ineffi- 
cient labor. Claiborne: Full average. Wilkinson: Gathered very early. Tishemingos 
Freer from dirt than usual. Lowndes: A failure. Rankin: Upland Peeler, on cow- 
penned land, produced 1,600 pounds per acre of seed-cotton; no better than other cot- 
ton beside it. Bolivar: Severe frost October 28; no top crop of consequence; caused 
by shallow plowing. Clark: Good picking season; worms took the top crop; first 
killing frost October 28; next night ice was formed half an inch thick. 
LovuIsIANA.—Caddo: Fall fine; most of the crop gathered; about half average. 
Bossier: Severe frost October 28, but most of the cotton had beensaved. Yensas: Short- 
ened by worms and rot—dry or black rot. This disease is unexplained. It prevailed 
in poor, worn-out soil; new or highly fertilized land was but little affected. Hast 
Baton Rouge: Half crop; fine picking season. Morehouse : Two-thirds of a crop; fair 
picking weather. Claiborne: Boll-worms still more destructive’ than caterpillars. 
West Feliciana: Ruined by worms. Tangipahoa: Short; first killing frost October 28. 
Iberia: No cotton coming to market. fapides: Half last year’s yield; staple short 
and stunted; much rot. Franklin: Lint averages about 180 pounds per acre. Grimes : 
Low prices have caused much of the crop to be left in the field. Assumption: Injured 
by rain and worms. Corcordia: Half crop. 
Trexas.—Rusk : About 25 per cent. below average. Jllis: Increased acreage will 
bring up the yield to 50 per cent. above last year’s, if the whole crop should be gathered ; 
it will all be gathered in November. Brazoria: Spring frosts, summer rains, and 
worms have about destroyed ,the crop. Cooke: Lint good; early frosts will 
damage the crop; thermometer showed 27° on the morning of October 29. 
De Witt: Fine west of the Guadaloupe, but the scarcity of labor causes great 
difficulty in getting the cropin. A large area has produced one bale of 500 
pounds per acre. /Villiamson: Frost and ‘ice October 28, killing one-fourth of 
the cotton. Difficult to get hands to pick cotton where poisons have been used to 
kill insects, and hence a few or no efforts of that kind have been made. Montgomery: 
On some farms, with a free use of Paris green, the crop turned out as high as 1,400 or 
1,500 pounds per acre; on some pine and red-oak lands the yield was as low as 300, 
having been overrun with weeds. Coryell: Will average 300 pounds per acre; would 
have been a very large crop but for heavy rains. Red River; Opening finely in the 
nice weather. Collin: Season favorable for gathering cotton and for maturing late 
erops. Milam: Average, but below expectation. Henderson: More favorable than last 
report; three-fourths average; good picking season. Dallas: Fine; good harvest 
weather; lint of average quality. Parker: Yield 250 pounds per acre of lint; about 
the same as last year; acreage largely increased. Upshur: Short, but yields an unu- 
sual proportion of lint, 33} per cent. Caldwell: Insects less injurious than was sup- 
posed ; many crops yield over a bale per acre; lint better than for years. Kendall : 
Acreage largely increased; plants short, but bolls plentiful and remarkably clean. 
McLennan: Largest crop yet raised; reliable reports of 750 pounds of lint per acre ; 
picking behindhand. Lavaca: Excessive rains and worms ; lack of labor to gather the 
crop and storms are beating a portion of it out; present system of cropping unsatis- 
factory. Burnet: Promises well, but there is a lack of pickers. Matagorda: But little 
cotton will be saved; lack of reliable labor in gathering; Peeler sustains its high 
character. Lamar: The wet spring caused a considerable acreage to be lost after plant- 
ing. Marion: Better than was expected since the worms disappeared. Medina: Some 
damage by army-worms and rain. Austin: Crop late; where the worms were not 
destructive a heavy top-crop will require the whole month to pick. 7 
ARKANSAS.—Drew: The money panic will prevent some farmers from gathering 
their crops. Franklin: Above average in quantity, but deficient in quality of lint. 
Perry: Recent freezes severe. Baxter: Early frosts have arrested the opening of cot- 
ton. Bradley: Below average, but quality better than last year; picking weil ad- 
vanced. Prairie: Better than was expected. Arkansas: Injured by drought in tim- 
ber lands; good on bottoms. Jfonree: Yield better than was anticipated; below 
