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CuniberJand : Average; some injured by frost and heavy raius. Tsveuty-five per cent, 

 stained or yellow. JTalce : Not quite so good as last year. Caterpillars aud wet 

 weather caused some injury. Rutherford: Lint cotton is better than common, owing 

 to dry warm weather for picking. Pitt: Twenty per cent, over an average. In- 

 jured by being caught by frost before full maturity. Proportions, 90 good, 10 injured. 

 Cainioi : Poor; not more than 75 percent. Onnlow : Second grade. JVarrcn : Equal 

 to the best average. There is but a small proportion of inferior grades, as our seasons 

 were good and the frosts late. GranviUe : Above average. Too much rain in August 

 damaged the crop a little, not much. Tyrrell .-.Fiber harsh compared with other years. 

 Guilford : Good in comparison with an average. But little cotton is injured in any 

 way. 



South Cxnomsx.— Georgetown : Fiber good in the early picking. Heavy and pro- 

 tracted rains in September'damaged the remainder. Eichland : Unusually good. Cot- 

 ton did not open until well matured generally. Much is injured by yet remaining in 

 the fields. Orangehurgh : As good as usual. About one-fifth stained from rains. Mid- 

 dling three-fifths, low middling two-fifths. Edgefield : Will compare favorably with 

 an average. Much is short from eftects of rust and caterpillar. To classify, would say, 

 five-eighths good, middling, three-eighths lower grades. Greenville : Finer. Lexington : 

 About an average— not quite equal to last year. Excessive rains caused injury by rot- 

 ting the bolls and staining the fiber. Proportion, 1st grade, 60 per cent. ; 2d, 35 ; 3d, 

 5. Clarendon : Something above an average. Rain injured the first picking, but a 

 fororable change in the weather gave a much better quality. Taking the crop as a whole, 

 the quantity and quality fall below an average. Fairfield : Good as usual. Marion : Per- 

 haps four-fifths will be of superior quality. The remainder will lack maturity. Cheraiv : 

 About an average. Only two or three grades in the market ; low, middling, and ordi- 

 nary. About one-eighth will be ordinary. Barnwell : Not quite an average, in conse- 

 quence of unfavorable picking season. Middliug, one-fourth, lower middling, one- 

 fourth, ordinary, one-half. Chester : Average, one-third, low middling and above ; 

 one-third, good" ordinary ; one-third, ordinary. WiUiamshurgh : Not equal to ordi- 

 nary average. Too much wet weather injured the early picking, making it dingy 

 and trashy. October pickings injured by immature bolls, having imperfect seed. 

 The larger part of the crop is low middling, some middliug, and strict middliug, 

 the boll and ordinary. Marlborough : Quality of fiber equal to the average. New- 

 berry : Better tliis season than usual. The cause of short staple is drought. The 

 only injury to the staple this season is from stain on red lands. 



Georgia. — Spalding : An unusual proportion of good cotton. Only injury sustained 

 was stain caused by worms and one severe storm. Richmond : Below average, owing 

 to irregularity of season and loss of leaves by caterpillar; about one-fourth will aver- 

 age Liverpool middlings ; balance lower grades. Charlton : Equal to an average. In- 

 jury sustained is one-fourth to one-third of the crop, caused by the caterpillar, which 

 fell mostly on the inferior grades. Dawson: The fiber is over average. Whitfield: An 

 average. No injury and consequently no low grades. Early: Much below average. 

 Causes : Wet weather while the bolls were maturing, imperfect cultivation, poor laud, 

 storms, and worms. Staple dirty and inferior; one-fourth ordinary, one-half good 

 ordinary, one-fourth low middliug. Dooly : First picking is an average of former 

 years. Last picking corrsiderably damaged by storms, caterpillars, and frost; would 

 say 15 per cent. Columbia: Fine, perhaps above an average. No particular injury; 

 mostly damaged by wind aud rains. Clayton : Equal to an avei\age. Injured by cater- 

 pillars and storms. Effingham: Good as last year in quality. Calhoun: Is an average. 

 Low middlings one-fourth ; ordinarj', one-half; low ordinary, one fourth. Worth: An 

 average, but lighter. . Injury was done by the caterpillar cutting the leaves, and then 

 a rain on it, by which the oped bolls were badly dyed or stained. We have a new cot- 

 ton called the " Mexican." It has a leaf like the " negro-killer," and "sweet-potato 

 vine," and is called by some " Negro-killer cotton." It is a pretty good cotton and can 

 be improved. No caterpillar or insect will touch it. Very scarce, and I could only 

 obtain two dozen seeds. Oglethorpe : Fiber 10 per cent, better than last year, and above the 

 average. Gordon : Better than an average. A very small proportion stained by frost. 

 Monroe: About average. Perhaps three-fourths low middling, balance inferior. Troup: 

 Fiber much shorter than usual. Neither the seed nor fiber matured well. Schley: As 

 good, except what we call "motes," which is unmatured seed, caused by caterpillars 

 stripping the foliage and there!)y stopping the maturing of the bolls and causing pre- 

 mature opening. ".S/e(('«»-< : Twenty percent., low middling; 35 good ordinary; 

 •25 ordinary, and 20 below ordinary. Sumter: Far above an average. Very 

 little injured. Forsyth: Better than an average. But two grades this season: nine- 

 tenths first quality; not more than one-tenth injured by caterpillar aud 

 frost. Campbell: Above average. Slightly stained by frost, about ten per cent. 

 Johnson : Late picking injured »bout 25 per cent, by caterpillars. Madison : Not an 

 avei'age on account of caterpillar and early frost. Upson : Fiber extraordinarily fine of 

 the cotton that matured before caterpillars struck it. The green and unmatured bolls 

 that were stripi»ed by caterpillars were seriously injured ; the fiber short and poor, aud 



