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Milam : Cut short three-fourtlis by the nine weeks' drought. Bosque : Bids fair to be a 

 full average. Nacogdoches : In some localities too much rain ; some rust. Husk : Has 

 shed the squares some and started a new luxuriant growth, which may mature. Wood : 

 Greatly revived by recent rains. Cooke: Looks very fine. Galveston: Much benefited 

 by recent rains. Kaufman : Good prospect for more than average crop. Burnet : The 

 drought too severe to admit of expecting a larger crop than last year. Harrison : A 

 failure, owing to dry weather. Bexar : Copious showers have caused the crop to grow 

 finely. Caldwell: Good condition, but small yield. Crillespie : Splendid condition. 

 Grayson : Promises a better yield by half than last year Lampasas : Late rains will 

 increase the products. Lavaca: Looking' splendid. IfarioN : Much better than was ex- 

 pected a month ago. Medina : Largely injured by drought. Montgomery : With good 

 weather, heavy crop anticipated. Somervell : Present prospect of a yield of 300 per 

 cent, over that of 1874. Victoria : The growth affected by drought, but freedom from 

 insects makes the crop nearly an average. Waller : Stopped growing from the 26th of 

 May to the 25th of August ; the leaves and squares fell off. Bed River : A heavy crop 

 in prospect. Smith : Materially benefited by the August rains ; the prospect better 

 than indicated by 110. Matagorda: The best early crops much injured by drought, 

 but the stiff lands doing better. Tyler : Beginning to take the rust from wet. Bastrop : 

 Being gathered rapidly ; quality superior. Jasper : Injured badly by drought in July, 

 and made worse since by rust. Hardin : Injured by drought. 



Arkansas. — Garland : Helped by recent rains. Baxter : Looking well. Bradley : 

 Condition advanced in August by copious and timely showers. Dorsey : The unusual 

 quantity of rain in August will cause cotton to rot. Independence : The dry weather 

 for the last four weeks has been of great advantage to cotton. Arkansas : Promises a 

 heavy crop all through the county. Columbia : Eust on nearly all the croi>. Dreio : 

 Within a few days considerable complaint of rust. Jefferson : Better than for years- 

 Monroe : Prospect for more than average of crop. Ouachita : The rust has attacked, 

 and in some places ruined, the crop. Tell : Good. Crawford : Looks splendid, but is 

 about two weeks late. Saint Francis : Promises to double last year's crop. Montgomery : 

 Generally very fine ; a little rust in spots. Sevier : Eust in some localities, mostly on 

 bottoms. Boone: The yield will be above the figures 120 if the frost holds off. Hoiv- 

 ard : Eust has appeared, and threatens to be serious. Newton: The prospects flattering. 



Tennessee. — Bedford : The season rather wet for cotton. Gibson : General complaint 

 that it has run too much to weed, and bolls are scarce. Fayette: A drought of twenty 

 days has injured the crop, causing it to shed blooms and squares. Obion : Good. 



OATS. 



The general condition of the oats crop, reported July 1, was one of 

 unusual thrift, promising an extraordinary yield. In the northern and 

 southern sections of the country that promise has been fulfilled. Espe- 

 cially in Kew England, the Northwest, and the region around the Gulf, 

 crops superior in quantity and quality have been produced, and for the 

 most part secured in good condition. The higher averages in these 

 States are, Maine and Texas, 106 ; Vermont, 107; Michigan, 103; Wis- 

 consin, 105 ; Mississippi, 108; Arkansas, 114. In the Middle and IsTorth- 

 western States the quality was somewhat damaged, but not seriously, 

 by wet weather; in Vermont and in some localities in the South, it 

 was slightly affected by rust. But in the section between the thirty- 

 fourth and forty-first parallels, aud the Atlantic and the Eocky Mount- 

 ains, vast quantities of a magnificent crop were absolutely lost, and the 

 remainder greatly damaged, by continuous wet weather, with repeated 

 flooding rains, during the period of rii>ening and securing. The de- 

 struction and damage were greatest between the Alleghauies and the 

 western limits of Missouri. Between the 1st of July and the 1st of Sep- 

 tember, the averages of condition were reduced, in Kentucky, from 105 to 

 07 ; Ohio, 103 to 08 ; Indiana, 110 to 52 ; Illinois, 103 to 70 ; Iowa, 105 

 to 90 ; Missouri, 112 to 92. Eeports from all parts of this section 

 abound in such statements as, " Impossible to harvest oats, owing to 

 storms; hundreds of acres fed to the hogs;" "The storms in harvest 

 destroyed at least one-half of a magnificent crop;" "Eotted on the 

 ground ;" "But few cut, and they so badly damaged as to have no sub- 

 stance;" "iTotone acre in ten harvested;" "The larger portion of a 



