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of average promise. Xew Kent : Late, but the best crop since the war; well- worked 

 corn is as good as the land can make it. Orange: Keduced below average by cool, 

 dry -weather ; injured also by chinches. Fittnylvaiiia : Greatly improved by late rains. 

 Pi^incess Anne : July rains brought the crop up to a fair average; much young corn, 

 following potatoes, is not yet matured. Pulaski : Very fine corn season. Rappahannock : 

 Shortened by three or four weeks' drought. Spottsylcanla : Best crop since the war. 

 Stafford: Receut rains too late to do uuich good. Sussex: Looks well. Tazeivell : 

 Suffering for rain. JVashington : Looks well considering the drought. York : Early 

 corn much cut up by bugs; late planted escaped; plenty of rain except. early in the 

 season. Essex : I3ad stand, and late, but otherwise promising. Henrico : Still promis- 

 ing, though dry. Clarke : Half crop. Fairfax : Greatly injured by drought. Henry : 

 Kever saw so fine a crop here. Xorthampton : Improving. James City : Nominal price $6 

 per barrel, but none for sale. King and Queen : Very promising. Mecklenburg : Fair on 

 highlands and fine on bottoms; well worked. Prince George: Late corn injured by 

 drought. Southampton : Greatly improved by late rains. Charles City : Very good on 

 loam soil, though somewhat injured by bugs and worms. Chesterfield: Very good; 

 earing finely ; lute plantings injured by cool weather. Floyd: Fine but late. Loudoun: 

 Drought from May till August; rains then, but too late to save the crop. Louisa: 

 Greatly reduced by drought. Madison : Improved with late rains to about three- 

 fourths average ; highland crops indifferent. Augusta: Continues to improve. Elizabeth 

 City : Early plantings failed on account of worms. Greenville : Some crops suffering 

 from drought ; late-planted corn ears poorly. Page : Revived by late rains, especially 

 well-cultivated crops. Lunenburg: Imjiroved, but still short; late planted, poorly 

 cultivated and injured. 



NoKTii Cakolin'a. — Wayne: Good season; crop promising. Bolnnson : Will be abun- 

 dant. Pasquotank: A little below average through drought. Granville: Very good 

 where well worked. Gaston : Promising, except a small area visited by hail-storms. , 

 Franklin: Verj" good where well cultivated. Chowan: Injured by flooding raius ou 

 lowlands. Forsythe: Good. Cleveland: Abundant rains have made full crops. Beau- 

 fort: Greatly improved by late rains. Martin: Splendid. Bladen: Inferior. Cald- 

 u-cll : Good rains will probably bring the crop to an average. Hertford : Full average; 

 10 per cent, more acreage. Unsloiv : Weather unfavorable to late crops. Alexander : 

 Season fine for late crops. Currituck : Fair promise. Camden : Good. Moore : Finest 

 crop since 186.5. Perquimons : Full average. Bowan : Best crop for many years. 

 Alamance: Fair; late rains ; only half a crop planted. Caswell: Late; drought aud 

 imperfect cultivation. Greene: Good. Person: Very much injured by late rains. 

 Stanly: More plenty than the hogs to be fattened with it. Wilkes: Greatly improved 

 by late rains. 



South Carolina. — Fairfield : Very favorable corn season. Clarendon : Fully 50 per 

 cent, better than last year. Edgefield : Injured by drought. Lexington : Better than 

 for many years past. Marlborough : Best crop since the war. Georgetown : Failed on 

 thin lauds; ears small and not well filled. Newberry : Drought has cut off" late crops 

 except ou bottoms. York : Very fine. 



Gkokgia. — Bullock: Six weeks of favorable weather. Carroll: Best crop for six 

 years; season favorable to both early and late plantings. Catoosa: Inj ured by drought ; 

 late reviving raius, however, on the uplands. Clinch: Crop made; best since the war. 

 Dooly: Fine crop. Elbert: Late, but good; good rains. Gordon: Late plantings in- 

 jured. Schley : Reviving rains making fine crops. Stewart: Finest crop since the war. 

 Sumter: Crop made; full average; acreage insufficient. IVhitfield: Badly injured by 

 drought. Wilkinson: Large acreage ; promising. Chattooga: Badly inj ured by drought. 

 Fulton : Suffered from drought in some places. Jackson : Early crops abundant. Lee : 

 Crop as fine as the land will make. Madison : Never better. Cobb : Very good. Fay- 

 ette: Early crops good. Floyd: Five weeks of drought and intense heat have greatly 

 injured the crop; very late corn improved by late rains. Totcns : Improving rains. 

 Gwinnett: Good; fine rains of late. Jefferson: Doing finely. 



Florida.— JacA-so» : Yield will be ample for home consumption. Levy: Injured by 

 alternate flood and drought. 



ALABA3IA. — Limestone: Prospects blasted by drought. Wilcox: Benefited by the 

 drought. Blount : Cut oft' by drought from one-fourth to one-half in places. Calhoun : 

 Late"crops badly damaged by drought. Lowndes : Lack of rain for late plantings pre- 

 vented this year's crop from being the best for many years. Pike : Late corn a failure. 

 Saint Clair : Dried up; will leave enough for home consumption. Choctaw: Suffering 

 from drought, especially late jflantings. Covington: Injured by drought. Greene: 

 Shortened by severe droujjht ; young corn, late ydanted, is ruined. Macon : Late plant- 

 ings ruined by drought an 1 grass-worms. Montgomery : Late plantings injured by- 

 drought. Colbert: Injured by extreme heat. De Kalb : Injured by twenty days of ex- 

 treme drought. Lawrence: Very unequal; some crops better than last year; others 

 poor. Calhoun: Early crops good. Conecuh: Aff'ected by drought. Dallas: Drought. 

 Perry: Shortened by excessive heat and drought. 



Mississippi. — Lauderdale : Shortened half by drought. Covington : Shortened by 

 drought. Grenada: Aff'ected by drought and hail-storms. Pike: Late corn injured by 



