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for cotton. Marion : Better stand than last year, and more forward. Colbert : As promis- 

 ing as ever known, ff'mslow : Very promising. Dallas : Good stand and favorable season. 



Mississippi. — Pike: Injured by cold nights in April and May. Marion: Backward, 

 owing to cool nights, li'ilkinson : Early planted all killed by cold ; replanted. Coahoma: 

 Recent rains have improved the condition. Noruhee : Small but in fine condition. Kemper: 

 In good growing order. De Soto : Late but good stand and growing finely. Clark : Good 

 stand and well worked. Adams: Stand good and looking very healthy. Holmes: In many 

 places dying out from the effects of cold nights and lice. Jefferson : Stand not good in early 

 planted ; in later, good and growing finejy. 



Louisiana. — East Baton L'ouge : Damaged veryseiiously by wet weather and late frosts ; 

 many plowed up and replanted. Franklin : Three to four weeks late ; looks tolerably well. 

 Richland : 'Li&ie. Union: More backward than ever known. Washington: Owing to much 

 cold weather, the stand very poor and the plants dwarfish and sickly. Madison : Stand 

 good. Hurt to some extent by lice. Concordia : Stand defective. West Feliciana : Better 

 stand than last year, but smaller. Juclson : Not so large as usual, but the condition entirely 

 satisfactory. East Feliciana: The crop cuituiled about one-fourth, and corn, oats, and 

 forage-crops planted instead. Blanco : Doing well. Barrison : Looks very fine. 



Arkansas. — Bfadley : Late ; good stand and looks well. Craighead : A few weeks later 

 than I have seen for the last seventy-five years. Hempstead : The finest prospect for years. 

 Saint Francis : Looking well, but cut-worms have injured the stand JO per cent. Prairie: 

 The cut-worm has ruined 2 per cent, of the cotton planted ; excellent stands. Jzard : Owing 

 to the cold, wet spring much seed rotted in the ground, and that standing is unusually small 

 and feeble. The cut-worms are making sad havoc. Dallas : Looks unusually healthy and 

 strong. Scott : The damage by cut-worms has been terrible ; many have planted the second 

 time, and some even the third. Sharp; Damaged very materially by cut-worms. Boone: 

 At least 50 per cent, cut down by cut-worms. Ashley : Stands not so good as last year, but 

 the condition better. ♦ 



Tennessee. — Fayette : A little late, but in good thrifty condition. Lincoln : The plant 

 very small and backward, but looks healthy. McNairy : Came up badly and is remarkably 

 small. Lauderdale : Better stand and more promising than last year. Gibson : A good 

 stand and doing well. 



Texas. — Lavaca : Two weeks late. Dallas : Owing to the late cold spring, the stands 

 very sorry ; many have had to plant over. Titus : The large increase in acreage in cotton 

 and other farm-crops, owing to the rapid settling of the county. Washington : Looks quite 

 promising. Bandera: Some fields entirely destroyed by cut-worms. Collin: Slow in coming 

 up, owing to dry weather ; a farir stand ; one-third of the farmers abandoning cotton for grain. 

 Wood: Somewhat late, but in fine condition. Wilson: Wasdoiug well until last week, when 

 the web-worm made its appearance in many places ; they have already done great damage. 

 Red River: Up well; good stands; prospect of a heavy crop. Busk: Brought forward 

 finely by favorable weather in May. Matagorda : Failuie in stands in many places ; some 

 planted over. Polk : The plant generally healthy. Montgomery : Never looked better. 

 La mat : Prospect never better. Anderson: Condition unusually good. DeWttt : Prospect 

 never better. Henderson: Bad stands owing to cold spring. Cooke: Very small, but now 

 thriving. Bexar: Two weeks late ; good stand. Angelina: A great deal better than last 

 year. Bosque: Great complaint of cut-worms, drought and cool nights. Waller: Many 

 planters used damaged seed, which gave bad stands. Shelby: Very backward, owing to 

 cold spring ; many fields replanted. Hunt : Late and not more than half a stand in the 

 larger part of the county. Gillespie: Injured by drought, but since rain growing rapidly. 

 Austin : Late, but worked clean and doing well. 



EYE. 



Tlie condition of rye is much higher than that of wheat, yet only eight 

 States reach a full average, viz : Maine, New Hampshire, Florida, Ala- 

 bama, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, and Kansas. Average for the cen- 

 tral western basin, 86 per cent. 



Rhode Island. — Kent : Suffered severely in consequence of ice. 



New York. — Orange: Damaged by winter-killing. 



New Jersey. — Mercer : Suffered from the severe winter. Many fields will not average 

 more than 5 bushels per acre. 



Pennsylvania. — Cumberland: Shorter than usual, yet appears well. Lehigh: Average 

 of plants, but retarded by the unfavorable season. Perry : The low condition owing to the 

 A])ril freeze. Warren : Early in April looked well, but much injured since by cold weather. 

 Clearfield : Very materially injured by late freezing. Lancaster : Very backward ; just 

 coming into heads. Fulton : Seriously injured by drought in May. Jefferson : Winter- 

 killed where the snow was blown off. 



Maryland. — Dorchester: Promises a full crop. Howard: Not more than two-thirds of 

 a crop. 



Virginia. — Campbell: Rj'e-culture not extensive but increasing. A quart of seed sent 



