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just come up. § Bell: Generally clean, but needs rain. Anderson: Late; sustains the 

 drought wonderfully. Uvalde. : Suffering for rain. Lavaca : Prospects favorable. Atas- 

 cosa : Hot and showery. Marion : Looks well. Medina : Early plantings killed by April 

 frosts, replaniings promise well. Nacogdoches : Bather promising. Fulls : Injured by 

 heavy spring rains, frosts, &c. Kaufman : Promises the best crop in twelve years. 



Arkansas. — Fulashi : No rain for eight weeks ; at least 20 per cent, of the cotton planted 

 on the blackland has never come up ; on the sandy ground the condition is average; bloom- 

 ing prematurely on account of drought ; 5 per cent, of the cotton-land is not in culti- 

 vation on account of bad condition of plantations. Union: Eight weeks' drought ; crops 

 clean and promising. Dnllas : Part of the crop has had no rain for eight weeks, but will 

 compare with last year's condition. Craigliead : No general rain since April 5. (Garland : 

 No rain for nine weeks ; cotton dead ; wet spring delayed or prevented planting ; what was 

 j)lanted had to be replanted in ma"ny cases ; what plants have come up failed to mature. 

 Jackson: Extremely wet up to June 1, and no rain since; cotton stands drought better 

 than any other crop. Crittenden: Floods made cotton three to four weeks late; doing as 

 well as could be expected ; boll-worms attacking the squares, but not in large numbers yet. 

 Columbia : Doing well in spite of eight weeks' drought; crop clean ; stands average. In- 

 dependence ; In one township 1,OOU acres, intended for corn and cotton, were left unculti- 

 vated on account of the drought. Hempstead : Cotton doing very well against a seven weeks' 

 drought, but cannot stand it much longer. Sebastian ; Drought enabled farmers to put the 

 crop in good condition; recent rains have been very invigorating. Fulton: Best crop 

 I ever saw. Yell : Season favorable ; crop clean and in fine condition. Marion : Gen- 

 erally smialler than last year, especially on old land ; wet spring caused the ground to bake; 

 on new land and on bottoms the crop is fine. Arkansas : Short ; wet in the early spring, 

 and dry afterwards for seven weeks ; not over a half crop. Boone: Backward but growing 

 Unely. 



Tennessee. — Madison : Bad stand and looking poorly on account of drought. Lincoln : 

 Healthy but very small; two weeks late. Bedford: Cotton stands the drought better 

 than the other crops. Giles: Well worked. Lauderdale: Stand poor. 



Missouri. — Ripley : Cotton late and a bad stand. 



California. — Fresno: Cotton squaring out, and some early cotton in bloom ; temper- 

 ature 10c° Fahr. in the shade, at 2 p. m. 



OATS. 



The average condition for the whole country is 90, the maximum 

 being, iu Nebraska, 113 ; and the miuimum, in Kentucky, 51. In general 

 the condition of the croi) is better in the higher latitudes, though Mis- 

 sissippi and Louisiana are full average or above. In New England and 

 the Middle States the crop, though iu many places backward, promised 

 favorably, except in Pennsylvania. Here, in many counties, drought at 

 the critical period shortened both straw and grain, reducing the State 

 average to 83. The same cause, together with rust, depreciated the 

 crop iu the South Atlantic coast States, and in most of the Gulf States ; 

 in Arkansas to 80 ; Tennessee, 50 ; West Virginia, 02 ; and Kentucky, 54. 

 North of the Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin are above average, and the 

 other States below. West of the Mississippi the condition ranges from 

 101 in Iowa, to 05 in Kansas. Here and in Missouri the chinch- bug 

 wasvery troublesome in many counties. In Nebraska, and on the Pacific, 

 the crop stands considerably above average. From Utah Territory come 

 complaints of cut-worms. 



Vermont. — Rutland : Backward. Franklin : Backward. Windsor : Backward. La- 

 vioille: Backward. 



Massachusetts. — Berkshire : Look finely. 



Connecticut. — New London : Excellent. ^ 



New York. — Washinaton: Growing finely. Westchester: Look very well. Livingston: 

 Need rain. Wyoming: Very promising. Sullivan: Remarkably fine. Wayne: Large and 

 heavy. 



New Jersey. — Camden : Very short ; but with good rains may fill well. Warren : A little 

 late, but making a good stand and growing well. Mercer: Drought injurious. Hudson: 

 Sown late, but with a good season they will do well. 



Pennsylvania. — Northampton : Very poor and backward. Bucks : Will be ruined 

 without rain. Perry : Injured by drought. Washington : Very short-strawed. Westmore- 

 land : Very short crop. //««(i?!0'rfon ; Almost ruined by drought. Lehigh: Short-strawed; 

 nj ured by drought. Fayette : Very short, owing to late spring-droughts. Indiana : Short 



