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the seed unfit for plautiug. About oiie-tbird good, oue-third medium, aud oae-tliird 

 poor. Hall: More good cottou than we ever had ; but little .yelh)w cotton. Butts: 

 Better than usnah Putnam : Rather better than aveiage. Some litter from the cater- 

 pillar. Cherokee : Almost all of the first grade ; probably one pound of inferior to fifty 

 of good. Cohh : Said by buyers to be better than common. Some trash, caused by 

 worms, and some yellowish, caused by frost. Hart : Nearly all good middling, 

 there being little or no yellow cotton. Long dry fall, favorable to picking. Marion : 

 First picking good. Second picking injured by caterpillars, about one-third, aud third 

 picking one-half. JVilkes : Good ; probably above average. One-half to two-thirds 

 good ; remainder injured by being blown out, standing in the field too long, and stained 

 by rain and frost. Jefferson : About 90 in comparison with an average. Excessive 

 rains and caterpillars caused some injury. The late bolls nearly all lost from these 

 auses. Brooke: Quality of fiber is an average; probably above. Nearly one-half 

 damaged by storm ; gathered from the ground and full of sand, dirt, aud trash. Ma- 

 con : What we have always sold as low middling cotton has been classed this year as 

 good ordinary. Planters are inclined to think this is a result of the money panic, 

 rather than a difterence in the fiber. Tai/lor : Bottom, or first crop, average quality. 

 Middle, or second, about 871 ; top, or third, not more than 10, average. Worms dam- 

 aged middle crop, and nearly completely destroyed the value of the third. Warren: 

 Fiber perhaps an average compared with former years since we commenced the use of 

 commercial fertilizers. Floi/d : Better than average quality, but does not sample so 

 well because of the gluten or slime left by worms. Fibers unusually long aud strong; 

 not injured by the worm. Oue-half to five-eighths appears to be damaged somewhat 

 by stain, which imparts a dead, dull appearance. Fulton : Equal compared with av- 

 erage. J/»>'rrti/ ; At least 15 per cent, aliove an average. No injury. Houston : About 

 cue-tenth inferior on account of immaturity, caused by caterpillars. Muscogee: Full 

 average. Later picking deficient on account of the foliage being stripped by cater- 

 pillars, and bolls opening prematurely. Bartow : All of 5 per cent, better. More good 

 cotton this season than usual, as we have the most favorable fall for a number of years. 



Florioa. — Jefferson : Storms blew much of it out, and it was injured by trash and sand. 

 Grades, about one-half good ordinary, a little low middling, balance ordinary. Jack- 

 son : Better quality than usual ; classed in the market as " good ordinary ;" a few bales 

 reach low middling and occasionally middling. In one part of our county, on account 

 of storms aud heavy rain, the cotton is stained by the red soil. The litter occasioned 

 by the worm injures the appearance, the rust retards the growth and causes imperfect 

 development of yield, injuring appearance aud staple. Gadsden : There is a marked 

 superiority in the quality of the fiber, whether considered with reference to length, 

 strength, or finenss, over the average of the crops of former years. It is attributed to 

 favorable weather which marked the close of the growing season, bringing the bolls to 

 a fuller maturity, and consequently a more perfect development of the fiber. Columhia: 

 Ten per cent, inferior, and rain in September the cause. All of the bottom crop or 

 lower grade injured. Suwannee : About one-fourth of the crop badly injured by storm 

 of September 19 ; the remainder fully an average. Orange: Equal an average ; injury 

 was caused by storm of the 6th of October. The lint was blown out of the bolls and 

 made trashy. Much that was open was destroyed by a severe storm on November 15. 

 Wakulla : Supposed to he a little below the quality of last year. Causes, too much wet 

 weather and too little cultivation. The gale on the 19th of September danuaged one- 

 fourth of the crop. Leon : Divided into two grades — " storm cotton" and " before the 

 storm cottou" — about one-half of each ; former sandy and trashy ; latter about as usual. 

 Levy : Greater proportion of lint to seed ; staple not so fine, though strquger ; only in- 

 jury was from rust ; about four-fifths medium fair, one-fifth fine. Putnam : Better, 

 owing to planting improved seed. Deteriorated fiber, caused by inferior seed and im- 

 poverished land. ' Seed not improved will naturally deteriorate, and land impoverished 

 by continual cultivation and no manure, will cause rust, which has seriously damaged 

 the staple. Common, 80 ; fine, 20. 



Alabama.— Ox/ojtZ; Fully equal to former years, but our cotton merchants say that 

 ours is nearly all classed as low middlings, this year not more than 10 per cent, of the 

 amount below middlings. Macomb: Fiber is inferior to an average quality; cause, 

 injury done the plant by the worms. Usual proportion of difi'erent grades. Butler : The 

 cotton fiber is of average quality. Some cotton is injured by rain and being picked 

 trashy. About two-thirds of our cotton will classify as ordinary, oue-sixth as low 

 middling, aud the other sixth as inferior. Lau-rence : Strict good ordinary to low mid- 

 dling, with an occasional bale of middling. Last year (1872) it was ordinary. This is 

 the classification of oni; most intelligent merchants. Limestone: The first picking 

 much better than usual. About half the crop will be inferior, owing to the trashing of 

 the worms, and will be much stained by the excessive rains in the latter part of Octo- 

 ber, and the first of this month. Saint Clair : .The injury is caused by boll-worms and 

 caterpillars. The worm bores into the boll, and causes it to stain and rot. The cater- 

 pillars impoverished the late bolls, and prevented them from maturing, aud thereby 

 stained the cotton, and damaged the fiber. In many instances the caterpillar ate up 



