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drouglit. TVarrcn : Late-planted corn irreparably injured by drought. Holmes : In- 

 jured by extreme drought. Panola : Unusually good. Jefferson : Fine ; very improv- 

 ing rains in good time for late plantings. Attala ; Late corn iujurod severely by drought. 

 Kemper : Badly injured by drought. Lincoln : Bad stand and injuredsince by drought. 

 Smith : Late crops dried up ; early crops good. Yalabasha : Shortened by drought, 

 grasshoppers, and worms. De Soto : Acreage increased and condition good. Lee : Acre- 

 age increased 20 per cent. ; great injury from drought. IFinston: Greatly injured by 

 drought and hail-storms. Rankin: Greatly varied in character. 



Louisiana. — East Feliciana: Short. Franliin : Late corn severely injured by cut- 

 worms and drought. Madison : Greatly improved within ten days. Moorehouse : Dis- 

 astrous five weeks' drought. Richland : Late corn mostly ai\xilure through drought ; 

 heat almost unparalleled. Carroll: Late corn nothing ; early not much. Assumption: 

 Suft'ered from early rain, but has wonderfully recovered Jackson : Late plantings in- 

 jured by drought. Claiborne: A failure. Concordia: A failure. La Fourche : Short. 

 Rapides : About average. 



Texas. — Shelby: Shortened by drought. Waller: Severely injured by drought. San 

 Jacinto : Better than for several years. Bosque : Shortened by drought 30 per cent. 

 Dallas : Prospects for an extra crop cut off by drought ; temperature over 100"^ Fah. 

 in the shade for thirty days ; yield will be sufficient for home consumption. Fannin: 

 Light on sandy soil ; fair on black land. Goliad : Shortened by drought on uplands ; 

 fall average on botton\s. Kendall: Yield very large. Liberty: Good. Marion: Corn 

 made before the drought is very heavy ; freedmen's crops will not average a bushel per 

 acre. Palo Pinto: Half crop. Parker: A little better than last year. Titus: Some full 

 crops, but the general average short. Upshur : Better than last year, though injured 

 by drought. Williamson : One-third of the crops full average ; the rest half average. 

 Il'ood : Somewhat shortened by drought, but sound. Hunt: No rain since May 20; 

 half crop. Comanche: Cut short; no rain since July 1. Cooke: Ruined by drought ; 

 half a crop. Ellis : Not so good as was anticipated. Grayson : No rain in eight weeks ; 

 early corn will make thirty bushels per acre ; late corn scarcely any. Harris : Supply 

 abundant ; selling at 50 cents per barrel in the husk. Medina : Dried n^ ; late plant- 

 ings failed. Chci-okee : Drought ruined late corn ; Pennsylvania White harvested a 

 good crop. Hood: Enough for home consumption. Fayette: Drought. Gonzales: 

 Crop made before the drought. Houston : Euined by drought ; no rain from May 1. 



Arkansas. — Baxter : Cut down to a fourth of a crop by extreme drought. Cross : 

 Drought. Franklin : Drought. Craighead : Drought. Dallas : Terrible drought ; no 

 corn or mast ; many will sufter for food. Garland : Many farmers have not raised a 

 single ear of corn, most having to cut down the green fodder for feed. Hempstead : 

 Fields vary from full average to two bushels per acre. Last general rains May 12. 

 Randolph: Destructive drought. Crittenden: Drought. Independence: Early planting 

 will make from ten to forty bushels per acre, but three-fourths of the crop was late 

 planted and will not average five bushels. Izard : Half crop ; drought. Jackson : 

 Drought for two and a half months ; many farmers will suffer for food themselves as well 

 as their stock. Jefferson: Ruined by drought. Monroe: Disastrous drought. Crawford: 

 Tolerable in hollows; almost ruined by drought on some uplands. La Fayette : Half 

 crop ; drought. Scott : Drought. Washington : Upland crops failed entirely ; lowlands, 

 half a crop. Ashley: Terrible drought. Arkansas: Many fields burnt up. Benton: 

 Exceedingly dry. Pulaski: Total failure on uplands ; lowlands, a half crop. Carroll: 

 Short. Fulton : Withering drought and hot winds. Prairie : Devastating drought ; 

 many will not raise their own bread. Woodruff: Half crop. Sharp): Cooked by hot 

 winds. 



Tennessee. — Bledsoe: Late corn will be full average in spite of drought. Bradley: 

 Badly damaged by drought and grasshoppers. Carter: Injured by drought. Greene: 

 Promising. Hardin : Suflered greatly from drought, but late corn bids fair ; some 

 early jylantinga will not bring a bushel per acre. Warren : Badly injured by a thunder- 

 storm August 29. Washington : Very late, but much improved by recent rains. Camp- 

 bell : Late plantings injured by grasshoppers. Lawrence : Unprecedented drought. 

 Cheatham : Materially affected by drought ; late plantings badly affected by army- 

 worms. Coffee : Will come nearer an average than any county in Middle Tennessee. 

 Decatur: Short from drought. Dyer: Shortened two-thirds by drought. Lincoln: In 

 many places almost a total failure. Madison : No rain to wet the ground from April 

 25 to August 22 ; no feed for hogs. Rhea: Injured by grasshoppers and high winds; 

 late corn doing well. Macon: Late rains brought out the corn considerably. Grain- 

 ger : Mostly late planted and caught by the drought, but has greatly improved with 

 late rains. McMinn : Improved by late rains, but still light. Williamson : Will aver- 

 age two and a half barrels per acre. Dickson : Very little rain since corn i^lanting. 

 Gibson : Late crops destroyed except on bottom lands. Monroe : Cut ott" by drought ; 

 fine rains benefiting late plantings. Sullivan : Greatly improved ; abundant rains. 

 Giles : Cut down half by drought ; good only on clover lands. Putnam : Rescued by 

 late rains and doing finely. Sevier : Improved wonderfully since the drought ; a full 

 average. 



West Virginia. — Braxton : Above average in quantity and quality. Mercer : 



