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fair and clean, bat small 5 two weeks later tliau last year. Alabama ; 

 Twenty-seven counties ; acreage decreased IG per cent. ; late-planted 

 looks better than old cotton ; crop late, but clean and growing fast. 

 North Carolina: Forty-one counties; average decrease in acreage, 19 

 per cent ; weather less favorable ; stand, fair average; crop healthy and 

 clean, but planted two or three weeks later than last year. South Caro- 

 lina : Twenty-one counties ; acreage decreased 17 per cent. ; weather un- 

 favorable ; fair average stand since replanting ; plants small, but in good 

 condition, clean and growing well. Georgia: Sixty-nine counties; de- 

 crease of acreage, 10 per cent. ; weather less favorable ; stand and con- 

 dition good; plants clean and growing finely, but small, and ten days 

 later than last year. Florida: Reports meager; acreage decreased 4 

 percent. ; stand and condition good ; plants clean and growing well; a 

 week earlier' than last year. 



The Memphis Cotton Exchange report for July, from two hundred 

 and eighty-six letters, counties represented not specified, says that one 

 hundred and eighteen report favorable weather, and the rest unfavora- 

 ble. Of the land planted, 2f per cent, had been abandoned. Of late 

 plantings, one hundred and seventy-five report stands better than last 

 year, and one hundred and five not so good ; two hundred and six report 

 cotton well formed and boiled ; sixty report the opposite ; one hundred 

 and forty state condition better than last year ; fifty-two the same ; fifty- 

 three not so good. Of late plantings, one hundred and sixty-five report 

 better standsthau last year, and one hundred not so good ; one hundred 

 and forty report cotton well formed and boiled, and one hundred and 

 thirty otherwise : one hundred and two report better condition than last 

 year ; seventy-four the same, and ninety not so good ; 42 per cent, was- 

 planted early ; 20 per cent, after May 1 ; 29 per cent, came up after June 

 1 ; cultivation better than for years ; drought since May 15 generally 

 complained of. 



The Galveston, July report embraces one hundred and thirty-nine 

 replies from sixty-one counties of Texas, dated from May 27 to July 10, but 

 does not report by counties. Of correspondents, one hundred and 

 twenty-five say that the weather, after May 27, was more favorable than 

 last year ; eight about the same ; six less favorable ; one hundred and 

 twenty-three report good stands, and sixteen poor ones ; thirty-nine say 

 the crop is earlier than last year; seventy-four later; twenty-six the 

 same; one hundred and thirty-eight report the crop in good condition ; 

 nine fair ; two poor and unpromising. 



The Mobile, July report presents the following summary: Alabama : 

 Forty-six counties ; weather since June 15 was rainy in twenty-nine ; 

 seasonable in fifteen ; dry in two ; in nineteen more favorable than last 

 year; sixteen less favorable, (the last all south and east of Mont- 

 gomery.) Of early plantings, thirty-six report poor stands, and ten fair 

 to good; in late plantings, the proportions are reversed; thirty-four 

 report cotton well formed and boiled, and twelve not so; thirty-nine 

 report fair to good condition, and in early plantings better than last 

 year ; seven poor, and worse than last year. Mississippi : Twenty 

 counties; seventeen report weather more fiivorable than last year; four 

 abandonment of plantings from 2i to 5 per cent.; in thirteen, half the 

 stands of early cotton are not 'good; in five, average; in two, good; late 

 I^lan tings from average to good ; early planting's well formed and boiled ; 

 late iDlantings have good forms, but few bolls. 



Savannah, July vepovt— Georgia : sixty -five counties; weather gen- 

 erally too wet ; few lands abandoned ; stands poor for early plantings, 

 and the reverse for late; early cotton well formed and boiled in Middle 



