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jSTashville Department.— MiVZfZ^e Tennessee: Eigliteeii counties? 

 considerable damage from frost; good weather for picking; average 

 decrease of yield estimated at 50 per cent, against the estimate of 46 

 per cent, in last report. Alabama : Ten counties ; considerable damage 

 from frost ; almost universally a good picking-season ; average decrease 

 of yield, 40 per cent. 



Norfolk Department. — North Carolina and Virginia : Thirty -six 

 counties; nine report damage from frost; in some cases, frost bene- 

 ficial ill checking weed-growth; very favorable picking-season; six 

 counties report increase from 15 to 20 per cent. ; nineteen, decrease 10 

 to 15 per cent. ; twenty, from 20 to 25 per cent. ; nineteen, 33 per cent.; 

 weather can only affect the quality of cotton unpicked. 



Memphis, December report. — One hundred and seven responses from 

 North Arkansas, West Tennessee, North Mississippi, and North Ala- 

 bama ; counties not designated ; forty-three report damage from frost, 

 averaging for the whole 3i per cent.; average decrease of acreage 1^ 

 i:)er cent. ; due exertions made to save the crop; picking will close about 

 December 7; unprecedentedly rapid marketing; entire crop will be saved 

 in better order than usual. 



The following brief extracts from remarks accompanying reports are 

 appended : 



Virginia. — Prince George: Larger yield than was anticipated. Dinwiddle: Short 

 ened 20 per cent, by frost ; no top-crop ; much stained and yellow cotton. Soiithamp 

 ton : Much injured by heavy frosts. Sussex: Shortened 25 per cent, by cool weather ' 

 quality excellent. 



North Carolina. — Bowan : Shortened by drought in August and by frost in Octo- 

 ber. IFaJce : Not over 150 pounds of lint per acre. FranlcUn : Yield better tlian was 

 expected. Wilson: Picking-season unusually fine; acreage estimated at 12,000 acres, 

 producing 7,200 bales. Alexander: Late spring and early fall frosts very injurious. 

 Manly : Favorable season for late-opening cotton. Camden : Yielding well. Chowan : 

 Short, but of good quality. Mcclclcnhurgh : Top-crop frosted; bolls opening fast. Gaston: 

 Early frost has done damage not yet appreciated. Beaufort : Fine October weather 

 has enlarged the yield; mostly picked and marketed. Folk: More cotton planted 

 than usual, but it was taken by a killing frost October 12; much of it will be yellow. 

 Columbia: Fine season. JVni/ne : The blight, rust, worms, and lice passed away with- 

 out iutlicting mnch damage. Lincoln: Injured by summer-drought and fall-frost. 

 Robeson: Yield of lint better than usual. Fasquotank: Acreage not over half of last 

 year's, but the product will be only 10 per cent. less. Anson : Late cotton has greatly 

 improved. 



South Carolina. — Orangeburf/h : First killing frost November 1. Union: Unfavor- 

 ableseason. Newberry: Fine gathering and ri])cning season. Marlborough: Not a full 

 crop, but equal to last year's. Georgetown : Injured by storm and rain. Beaufort : 

 Below last year. Colleton : Sea-shore crop superior to any since the war. Lexington : 

 Short but good. Fairfield : Maturing-season better than the growing-season. 



Georgia. — Decatur: Crop greatly improved. Madison: Sulfered from a variety of 

 •adverse influences ; half of last year's crop. Hancock: Short; will be marketed within 

 thirty days. Hart : Great falling-off in the crop ; late crop frosted. De Kalb : Some- 

 what frosted; finest gathering-season for years. Douglass: Killing frosts in Octo- 

 ber; still greater injury in quality than in quantity; very favorable harvesting- 

 weather. Walton : Late fine weather will bring the crop nearly up to last year's 

 yield. Upson : Decreased acreage, and average yield ; about a bale to five acres. 

 Taliaferro : Fall favorable to the development of lint-cottou, partly compensating the 

 loss of the ground-crop from hot winds and other unfavorable conditions. Sumter : 

 Excellent season for gathering ; more fair cotton gathered than in any previous year. 

 Glynn: No frost yet. Gwinnett: Greatly injured by October frosts; but the proportion 

 of lint unusually large, amounting to a third in weight of the seed-cotton. Clayton : 

 Picking-season tine ; crop of tine quality, but 25 per cent, short ; poor stand and drought. 

 Butts : Falling off from last year, biit quality better. Wilkes : Short crops and low 

 prices. Morgan : Ice, October 31, froze many liolls ; shipments in excess of last year ; 

 planters ginning and selling as fast as possible ; lint good and well saved, ice : Unex- 

 pectedly large proportion of lint to seed. Terrell: Drought reduced the crop a third 

 below last year's. Fleard : Good gathering-season ; fatal frost October 13. Jefferson : 

 Cattou three-fourths of a crop; quality good. Banks: Injured by frost ; much yellow 



