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bat little fruit ; cleci'eased amount of fertilizers used ; some fields injured by hail. Bul- 

 lock : Opening too fast, and shedding leaves and fruit. Carroll: Four weeks' drought 

 caused shedding. Catoosa : Drought causing squares to fall. Clinch : Considerably 

 above average. Columbia: Unprecedented decline within a week through extreme 

 drought and beat. Be Kalb : Injured in a few localities by drought, but the most of 

 the county has had abundant rain, making the cotton Large and well fruited, though 

 rather late. Dooly : Badly injured by drought aud storms of hot wind; some promis- 

 ing fields were parched withiu half an hour. Douglas : A mouth's drought stripped 

 oft" one-fourth of the forms and small bolls. Elbert : Two weeks late, but promising. 

 Effingham: Badly rusted. Telfair: Backward. Gordon: Top forms falling. Hall: Fallen 

 1 per cent, per day for ten days. Hancock : Severe drought ; nearly all the middle aud 

 top bolls fell ; cannot make over a half crop at best. Harris : Caterpillars came August 

 5; crop later than usual; drought has caused much shedding. Heard: Severe hot 

 drought materially injured the crop. Henry : Protracted drought has caused rapid 

 shedding of forms. Liberty : Caterpillars reported, but do not cause very great alarm. 

 Mitcliell : Three weeks of drought aud extreme heat have caused cotton to shed forms 

 severely ; there will be no top crop and a very small middle crop. Muscogee : Drought 

 has injured early plantings and retarded late plantings. Pierce: Five weeks of 

 drought and severe heat cut oft" the late crop. liandolph: Injured one-fourth by. ex- 

 treme heat. Scriven : Unprecedented decline in five weeks. Stewart : Very badly in- 

 jured by protracted heat and drought ; most of the later bolls have dried up ; no rain 

 for six weeks. Sumter : Crop average; there having been no general rain, the crop is 

 too tough for the caterpillar. Taylor : Severely injured by drought aud hot winds from 

 the northwest ; top crop destroyed and middle crop greatly reduced. Terrell : Greatly 

 injured by drought. Troup : Severe damage from drought aud shedding of large bolls. 

 Walton: Badly injured by drought and extreme heat. Whitfield: Badly injured by 

 drought. Taliaferro: Hot winds have cut the crop dowu.'to nearly half average. 

 Wilkinson : No late crop can be made ; rust in spots ; bolls small ; but little over a half 

 crop can be made. Chattooga : Badly injured by drought. Fulton : Shortened 20 per 

 cent, by drought. Morgan : Early cotton shed profusely from heat, and opened pre- 

 maturely ; rain injured the open bolls; fertilized cotton shed most freely ; late crop 

 doing well. This year we used 769 tons of fertilizers and expect 7,000 bales. Baker : 

 Damaged by drought of four weeks ; blooms of three weeks past all blasted. Jackson : 

 Badly injured by drought. Lee: Serious injury from drought. 2Iacon : Shortened by 

 drought 25 per cent. Madison : Late ; poorly fruited. Marion : Shortened 25 per 

 cent, by August drought. Twiggs : Three weeks of heat aud drought, unequaled iu 

 thirty years, have done incalculable injury; not over two-thirds of a crop. Wayne: 

 Drought. Banks: Latereviviugrains. Brooks: Drought caused rust and shedding of bolls. 

 Cobb: Two weeks late; drought caused shedding of small bolls aud forms. Fayette: 

 Plenty of rain, benefiting cotton greatly. Floyd: Greatly injured by five weeks of 

 drought aud intense heat. Murray: Very injurious drought. Gwinnett: Nearly aver- 

 age ; slightly injured by two weeks' drought iu August ; shedding late forms ; acreage 

 decreased 1,000 acres. Jefferson : Badly injured by rain ; more rain fallen than for 

 twenty years; rust. Putnam: Shedding forms and bolls. JFilkes : Suftered from ex- 

 treme heat ; bolls falling badly. 



Florida. — Hamilton : Injured 10 per cent, by drought. Jackson : Sporadic boll- 

 worms and rust, but probably a larger crop than last year. Jefferson : Injured by 

 drought. Madison: Drought has caused fruit-shedding and rusfc. Wakulla: Damaged 

 by heat and drought. Columbia : Caterpillars plenty, but doing less damage than 

 usual. Leon: Boll-worm did much damage; caterpillars increasing, but slowly. 

 Levy : Injured by alternate floods aud drought ; crops on the best lands ruined, causing 

 Ijeople to desire to emigrate. Taylor : Rained in places l)y heavy rains. 



Alabama. — Henry: Severely injured by the hottest short drought — three weeks iu 

 August — ever known here ; boll- worm injurious. Lowndes : Cut down half by the un- 

 precedented heat. Bussell : Four weeks of hot, dry weather have caused cotton to shed 

 forms badly ; caterpillars cut down late cotton oue-half ; Paris-green used but little. 

 Chambers : Shed heavily under a three weeks' drought. Pike : Hopelessly gone ; not 

 over a half crop. Saint Clair : Shedding through drought ; hottest August ever known 

 here. Choctaw : Suftered from drought. Covington : Drought beneficial, keeping back 

 the caterpillars. Greene: Drought disastrous. Hale: Crop shortened on uplands by 

 six weeks' drought ; has sustained itself on rich slough and bottom land. Lee: Stand 

 late and bad, but was doiug well till the drought, commencing August 1, when it was 

 shortened one-third ; especially injuring manured fields. Macon : Shed most of the 

 squares and small bolls ; some damage by boll-worm. Montgomery : Considerably in- 

 jured by drought. Dale: Destructive drought ; uo top crop. Colbert: Little over half 

 crop; extreme heat. De Kalb : Extreme heat and high fertilization injured the crop 

 very seriously. Marion : Late and shortened bj- drought. Franklin : Drought caused 

 the bolls and squares to fall to some extent. Lawrence : Very unequal ; some crops 

 injured by drought ; others better thau last year. Limestone : Prospect blasted by 

 drought. Jf'ilcox : Shortened liy extreme heat, especially on light ujilands. Autauga : 



