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cold aad wet. Gloucester : B:iJly injured by bud worms. Henrico : Large crop planted; 

 short through drought. Halifax : Late, and suffering from drought and chinches. Bu- 

 chanan : Late planted. Bath : Looks well, but badly needs rain. 



North Carolina. — Edgecombe : Stand good ; plants small. Person : Injured by drought. 

 Rowan: Promising, though small for the season. Casicell : Late, but looking well, Gas- 

 ton: Season favors both cultivation and growth. Greene: Injured by cut-worms. Chowan: 

 Unusually late; small plants. Moore: Backward; injured by bud-worms. Alamance : 

 Poor. Haywood: Injured by drought. Madison: Late, but promising. Wayne: About 

 28,000 acres planted in the county. Nelson: Large acreage but bad stand. Newberry: 

 Promising. Fairfield: Crop promises to equal that of 1873. Spartanburgh : Uneven. 

 Burke : Two or three weeks late. 



South Carolina. — IFilliamsburgh : Plants look finely, but stand inferior. Marlborough : 

 Unusually fine. Marion : A little under size, but prc^mising. Darlington : Better than for 

 many years. Clarendon: Stand injured by bud-wonns ; crop late, but looking well. Union: 

 Two weeks or a month late. Edgefield : Another good rain within ten days will make the 

 upland crop. Lexington : Low in the stalk, having been injured by April frosts. Laurens : 

 Good, but small. 



Georgia. — C«/«miia ; Season very favorable. Harris: Looks well. Upson: Stalks small 

 but growing finely. Gordon: Late, but looking well. Mitchell: Crop about made. Mus- 

 cogee : Much cotton acreage plowed up for corn. Clinch : Crop will be made in two weeks, 

 and will be ample for home-consirmption. Randolph : Fine. Wilkinson : Promises a large 

 yield. Gwinett : Late and small, but otherwise promising. Wayne : Rain becoming exces- 

 sive ; injured by cut-worms and then by another worm cutting the stalk off at the ground. 

 Hancock: Suffering for rain. Dougherty: Rainy weather favorable. Baker: Very fine. 

 Cobb : Very good. Dooly : Backward through early rains and late drought. Liberty : Fine. 

 Milton: Growing fast; promises more corn than ever before. Richmond: Early corn in- 

 jured 1.5 per cent, by drought. Heard: Fine prospect of grain-crops. Morgan: Not rain 

 enough to bring up late plantings. 



Florida. — Columbia: Much improved by recent rains. Leon: Crop made; good where 

 cultivated. Jackson : The late rains have rescued the corn-crop ; sufficient for home-con- 

 sumption, but none to spare. Jefferson : Very satisfactory. Gadsden : Acreage increased 

 10 per cent. ; crop about made, and a full average yield ; a surplus of old corn selling at 75 

 cents per bushel. 



Alabama. — Looking very fine ; excellent season. Dale : Low, but well-eared. D& 

 Kalb : Late, but promising. Chambers : Looks well. Montgomery : Promising. Macon : 

 Grassy through excessive rain. Conecuh : Bad stands on account of the ravages of cut- 

 worms and bud-worms. Clarke : Suffered first from excessive rain and then partial drought, 

 but is doing finely. Franklin : Not promising ; planting delayed by drought. Lauderdale: 

 Very backward ; stand poorest on the bottoms and upland flats ; too wet. Pike : Damaged 

 by drought, but fine rains lately. Dallas : Promising. Perry : Excessive rains. Marshall : 

 Floods have prevented planting the best corn-lands. Bullock: Excellent where the land is 

 not too wet. Clay : Small and poor. Baldwin : Excessive rains benefited upland crops, but 

 almost destroyed bottom crops. 



Mississippi. — Amite: Too much rain, with hail, yet the crop is of average promise. Co- 

 piah : Small, but clean and promising. Newton: Looks finely. Warren: Grows rapidly 

 on recently overflowed laud. Jaspi^r: A month late. Grenada: Promising. Wayne: 

 Excessive rains prevented good, stands, but subsequent drought enabled plauters to work 

 it clean. Tunica: Great destruction by cut-worms. De Soto: Not large, but healthy 

 and fine. Lowndes: Stands irregular. Kemper: Promising. Wilkinson: Damaged by 

 rain- in some places, and by drought in others. Lauderdale: Great improvement lately. 

 Hinds : Well worked. Holmes : Backward. 



Louisiana. — Morehouse: Corn six weeks late and quite irregular, though generally 

 looking well. East Baton Rouge : Suffered from drought following excessive rains. 

 Union: Suffered from drought ; too late for great improvement. Eapides : Mxichimpvored, 

 but too late to make more than the three-fourths of a crop. Franklin : Early corn inferior 

 in quality; late corn mostly promising. Cameron: Promising. Caddo: Half crop ; suf- 

 fered from drought. Tensas : Planting retarded by the overflow ; rain wanted. fVashing- 

 ton : Injured by drought. Richland : Early corn in some places plowed up ; late corn looks 

 well._ 



Texas. — Hood: Prospect finer than ever known. Austin: Reduced below average by 

 drought. Bosque: Good, but late. Red River: Great difficulty in getting stands. 

 Upshur : Good. Bee : Only late crops benefited by the late rains. Bandera : Early corn 

 killed by April fro.sts. Grimes: Shortened by drought. Harrison: Lack of rain will re- 

 duce the crop one-half. Houston : Reduced by excessive drought. Lamar : Very prom- 

 ising. Milam : Recent rains too late to overcome the two months' preceding drought. 

 Robertson : Looks well where well cultivated, but needs rain. Washington : Early drought 

 enabled the farmers to work the crop thoroughly, and later rains have insured a good crop. 

 Cherokee : Retarded by wet, cold spring and late frosts ; fine growing weather succeeding 

 drought; Pennsylvania white corn, from the Department, is the best in the neighborhood. 

 Matagorda : Very fine ; improving rains will greatly benefit the crop. Bell : Generally clean, 



