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Seriously iujured by drought iu many xjlaces; blooms aud small bolls Mling. Blount : 

 Extreme beat and scorcbing winds ruined the growing bolls and squares, reducing the 

 crop to half average. ConcciUi : Doing well till drought caused shedding. Dallas : 

 Shortened 25 per cent, by drought and intense heat; bottom crops injured by caterpil- 

 lars. Ferry : Shortened by excessive heat and drought. 



Mississirpi. — Lauderdale : Shortened half by drought. Coahoma : Crop late and 

 drought disastrous. Xoxuhee : Upland ruined by drought ; bottoms not so seriously 

 aftected. Amife : Over average promise, though suffering some from drought. Coving- 

 ton : Shortened by drought. Grenada : Suffered from drought and hail-storms. Jas- 

 j)er : Injured by drought and worms; bolls falling. Filce: Injured by drought; forms 

 and young bolls shedding badly. Warren : Crops on light lands shedding badly ; 

 weather unfavorable to worms. Hinds : Ruined by late drought. Holmes : Severe 

 drought has caused copious shedding. Panola : Euined by drought almost. Jefferson : 

 Shed very rax)idly ; rust very injurious. Atiala : Drought caused rapid shedding and 

 premature opening. Kemper: Badly injured by drought. Lincoln: Early plantings 

 promising; later ones seriously affected by drought. Smith: Half average. Yalabusha : 

 Shortened one-half by drought; shedding badly. De Soto: Greatly injured by nine 

 weeks' drought, with cool, drying winds. Madison : Seriously injured by long drought ; 

 middle croj) lost, and top crop poor. Willcinson : Some injury from caterpillars ; some 

 shedding, but the crop on the whole is a fair average. Lee : Great injury from drought. 

 Tishamingo : Long drought. Washington : But one rain since April ; cotton shedding 

 and turning yellow. Adams : Uplands shedding badly from drought ; bottoms doing 

 better. Marion : Drought. JRanXin : Decline of 30 per cent, from drought. 



Louisiana. — Bienville : Materially damaged by protracted drought. Union : Eednced 

 one-half by drought and hot, dry winds ; thermometer at 104'^ iu the shade. Caddo : 

 Shortened one-half by d3?c.ught. Bast Baton Bouge : Fine till it commenced shedding 

 two weeks ago ; prospecf reduced 5 or 10 per cent. East Feliciana : Six weeks' drought 

 very destructive. Franliin : Damaged by drought ; in some places nearly all the forms 

 have fallen ; on land recently overflowed cut- worms have swept the crops. Iberia : 

 Weather remarkably favorable for the maturing of cotton. Madison : Greatly improved 

 within thirty days. 2foorelwuse: Disastrous five weeks' drought; bolls falling to an 

 alarming extent. Bichland: Shedding forms and blooms very coiiiously. Washington : 

 Not over two-thirds of a crop at best. Carroll: Long-continued drought caused 

 copious shedding. Jackson: Drought has caused shedding and premature opening; 

 half a crop. Claiborne: Nearly dried up the top crop. Tensas: Most of the cotton be- 

 ing planted on overflowed land, the drought is very favorable ; blooming finely and 

 bolls swelling rapidly ; too dry and hot for worms. Concordia : Shedding badly on 

 sandy soils; doing well on black soils. Eajjides : Growth checked by drought; bolls 

 and leaves shedding copiously. West Feliciana: Injured by six weeks' drought ; early 

 planted shed very copiously ; late x^lanted not so bad. 



Texas. — Austin : Badly injured by drought, especially on sandy uplands ; plants have 

 stopped growing ; blooms and bolls dropping ; not over a half crop. Bandera : Shedding. 

 Shelby : Half crop on uplands ; bottoms better. Waller : Shortened by excessive heat 

 and drought ; fallen squares and forms covered the ground like a carpet. San Jacinto : 

 Drought injured upland cotton, but benefited the bottom crops; worms on hand, but 

 doing little damage. Bosque : Early cotton beyond redemption ; late reduced 50 per 

 cent, by drought. Caldwell : Eight weeks' drought. Colorado : Prospects for a heavy 

 yield cut off by drought and worms, but the yield will be greater than last year. 

 Dallas : A third of a crop. Fannin : Light on sandy soil ; on black land two-thirds of 

 a ci'op. Goliad : Suffering from drought. Kaufman : Shortened by drought ; shedding 

 badly ; not over 300 j)oands seed-cotton per acre. Kendall : Promises an unprecedented 

 yield. Liberty : Affected but slightly by drought. Marion : Not over a third of a 

 crop. Milam : Shedding badly ; reduced a third within a mouth. Palo Pinto : Half 

 crop. Parker : Not 100 pounds to the acre ; some fields will not be picked at all. Polk : 

 Far ahead of last year. Rusk : Half a crop ; shedding and drying up. Titus : Stand 

 late and poor ; damaged by drought and boll-worms. Upshur: Will be equal to last 

 year. Wood : Ruined by drought. Karnes : Drought cut down the crop to 10 per cent, 

 below last year. Matagorda: Materially injured by drought. Hunt: Half crop; no 

 rain since May 20. Lavaca : Drought of seven weeks ; worms active in spite of heat, 

 and wpuld be very destructive but for Paris-green. Anderson : Drought withering every- 

 thing ; simoon winds ; half the springs and wells and all the streams dry. Bur- 

 iiet: Extreme drought; will not get 200 pounds seed-cotton per acre. Comanche: 

 No rain since July; cut short. Cooke : Succumbing to drought ; probably a fourth of a 

 crop. Ellis: Ruined; a bale from four to six acres. Fort Bend : Shedding forms fast ; 

 half a crop. Grayson: Shortened by drought. Harris: Upper forms dropping, but 

 still the crop promises above average. Paris-green efiectively applied to the destruc- 

 tion of worms. Medina : Suffering from drought. Falls : Ruined by excessive drought 

 and heat. Hood : The early promise of a bale per acre was blasted by the severe 

 drought; no rain since July 3; iutense heat. Fayette: Shortened by the severe 

 drought. Gillespie: Destructive drought. Washington: Severe drought. Gonzales: 



