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lint not so good as last year, owing to drought and rust. Covington: A large increase 

 in the quantity phmted, but ^hortoned by wluit is reported as rust, but is in reality the 

 ravages of small insects. Colbert: P'avorablo season for picking, but a large part yet 

 unpicked for want of labor. Will average about 700 pounds per acre in seed-cotton 

 and 235 in lint. Wilcox: Very favorable for picking. Barlow: Very favorable for 

 gathering; picking almost finished. Conecuh: Owing to absence of frost the jdant is 

 tloing well, and will reach a full crop. Bullock : The favoiable fall has improved the 

 yield grpatly. 



Missit^sirri. — Grenada : The increased acreage makes the aggregate 10 per cent. 

 greater than last year. Not more than half as much j)icked out as last year at the 

 same date, owing to much sickness, politics, and laziness. Pike: Nearly a full crop, 

 but the quality not very good ; being gathered and brouglit to market rapidly. War- 

 ren: Some loss by rains and winds. Lafayette: The quality greatly improved by the 

 favorable weather of the past month. Xcivton : The yield fully one-third less than 

 last year and the lint of inferior quality. Wayne : Since the 15th of August has grown 

 finely, and is maturing very well. Wanhinqion : From present appeai'auces nearly one- 

 fourth of the crop will be found in the helds on the 1st of January for want of labor ; 

 not one-third yet gathered, though the better part of the season is past. Lee : An unu- 

 sual amount open and unpicked in the field. Lowndes : Favorable weather for gather- 

 ing, l^ixlicmingo : Not as much in market at date as last year, owing to much sick- 

 ness. Jdams : Fine -weather for picking. Jefferson : Reduced by early frost, rot, and 

 rust. 



LouiSAXA — Iheria : The crop largely better than any since the war. Lafayette : Last 

 year, 50 per cent, of an average ; this year, 75. Caldwell : More favorable than antici- 

 pated in September. MoreliPad: Turning out better than w^as expected. West Feliciana : 

 The picking-season one of the most unfavorable ever known, owdng to excessive rains. 

 Caddo: Very trashy, from being beaten and blown out of the bolls by wind and rain. 

 Labor picking well, and the crop will all be gathered early. Madison : The crop being 

 saved in very good condition. Claiborne: Heavy rains and winds have greatly injured 

 the quality. There is now a crop of gi'een bolls just beginning to open, good staple, 

 and, if the present favorable weather holds on a week, the crop in this parish will be 

 increased several hundred bales. Franllin : The yield of seed-cotton per acre will equal 

 last year's, with a greater proportion of lint of superior quality. Saint Landry: Fine 

 weather for picking. Concordia : Picking retarded by sickness ; loss by storms and rot ; 

 an immense amount open and unpicked. 



Texas — Bowie: Turning out a great deal better than expected. The Eed Eiver bot- 

 toms are yielding an avernge of 500 pounds of lint per acre and the uplands 200. Dal- 

 las : Turning out finely. The crop will average 400 pounds of lint per acre, and in 

 quality will class above any crop before raised iu the county. Palo Pinto : Better than 

 for several years. Washington : Yields a little over half a bale per acre. Bed River: 

 Abundant crop ; better than for many years. Fine weather for picking, but labor 

 scarce. Ujyshur : The fall remarkablj' favorable for the maturing of the late crop ; often 

 see the cotton-bolls ripe and open from the ground to the top. Williamson: Acreage and 

 product increased over last year. Collin: Opening very fine, and very fiivorable weather 

 for picking. Cooke: Good time for picking. Falls : The fall very_ favorable for cotton. 

 Busk: The greater portion gathered. Lavaca: The top crop is maturing, and much 

 has already matured. The cotton from this county has graded higher than ever before. 

 Polk : The damage by flood and wind not as great rts at first supposed. Anderson : Fa- 

 vorable indications for a heavy top crop. Harrison : The crop nearly all gathered. 

 Lamar : Far the largest and best crop since the war ; the lint very fine and good ; classes 

 very high in market. Nacogdoches: The crop has improved. Smith: Fine weather, and 

 the crop stilfdoing well. Bosque: All late cotton damaged by drought and early frost, 

 but very fine season for picking; qualitj' good. Titus: Yield much better than ex- 

 pected ; the weather fine and the crop nearly gathered ; lint fine and staple bet- 

 ter than for many years. Fort Bend : Owing to the very favorable weather, much more 

 has been picked than was anticipated. Bastrop : Mostly saved, owing to the favorable 

 season. Matagorda : A fair indication of nearly half a bale per acre. Runt : Fine 

 weather for picking. 



AiJKAXSAs. — Arkansas: Good; great part picked; favorable weather. Boone: The 

 dry weather the last two months has caused the crop to open better than lisual. Little 

 Biver : Extraordinary yields; in four or five large crops the first picking is reported as 

 yielding 2,000 pounds per acre, and as much more iu the field. Dallas : Most favora-. 

 ble weather for housing the crop. The fiber the best I have seen for years. The labor 

 better than it has been. Fulton: So mnch superior to last year's crop that I was 

 tempted to put it at 500. Lzard : Very favorable fall for jiickiug, but much sickness 

 has caused the larger part to be left still hanging on the stalk. Marion : On very rich 

 ^oil the stalk grew too large, but on land not so rich, particulaily on sandy soil, the 

 crop was extra fine and opened well. The lint of fine quality. Saint Francis : Greatly 

 damaged by rust or blight. Yell : The season has been very favorable for opening and 

 nicking. Some farmers have nuide 450 pounds of lint per acre. Bradley : Being gath- 



