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Drew County, Jj-l: — Crop very foul, owiug to Iieavy rains, which have prevented 

 working the hmtl. 



Pulaski County, Arl: — Cotton slim aud infested with lice, in consequence of continued 

 wet aud cold ; coldest season for teu years. 



Phillips County, Jrk. — Crop about two weeks later than visual; cold raius aud hail- 

 storms killed about all planted fiom the 10th to the 20th of April ; later planted looks 

 finely. 



Union County, Arl: — Only about half as much cotton planted as last year. 



Lafayette County, ^Irk. — Crop very backward, owing to a late sjjriug aud consequeut 

 delay in planting. 



Cherokee County, Texas. — Si)riug cold and backward; cotton infested with lice. 



Lavaca County, Texas. — In bloom; acreage about the same as last year; prospect for 

 a good crop at least twenty per cent, better 



Grimes County, Texas. — Season more favorable and prospect better for cotton than last 

 year. 



Upshur County, Texas. — Not so much cotton plauted as last year ; crop very backward 

 in consequence of heavy rains. 



Kendall County, Texas. — Acreage much suuxller than usual, caused by low price last 

 year. 



Henderson County, Texas. — About seven-tenths the usual acreage planted this year ; 

 too much rain for healthy growth of the crop. 



Austin County, Texas. — About twenty-five per cent, less planted than usual; stand 

 good ; prospect for a large cro]> promising. 



Washington County, Texas. — The acreage is much less than last year, occasioned by its 

 low price and the scarcity of labor. Much cotton was lost last year li'om want of hands 

 to gather it. 



Decatur County, Tenn. — Prospect for a crop very poor. 



Giles County, Tenn. — During the cold rain in the middle of May much cotton died. 



Hickman County, Tenn. — Peanuts have taken the place of cotton. 



Lauderdale County, Tenn. — More corn planted than last year, and less cotton ; about 

 20 per cent, more corn, aud 20 per cent, less cotton. 



Lake County, Tenn. — The reduction in the acreage is attributable to the low price of 

 the product and the difficulty in obtaining labor. 



Oglethorpe County, Tenn. — Has suftered from a variety of causes. First, it failed 

 to come up well ; second, cold, wet spells have caused it to die out very seriously. It 

 is now raining, aud too cold for the season, 



SUGAR-CANE. 



We have few returns this month concerniug sugar-cane. The report 

 from Terre Bonne Parish, Louisiana, indicates a fine crop, three-tenths 

 above an average; in Saint Martin's Parish the stand, both of stubble 

 and plant cane, promises to be good, except in cases in which the stubble 

 is a little backward ; in Plaquemines, the estimate is ten per cent, 

 above. The. condition of cane in Saint Helena is reported to be not so 

 good as last year by ten per cent. 



PASTURES AlsD CLOVER. 



Pastures are not in average condition on the Atlantic coast from 

 Maine to Virginia, or in the Ohio Valley, but are in succulent growth in 

 the Carolinas, the Gulf States, Wisconsin, the States bordering on the 

 Upper Mississippi and Missouri, and Oregon. Clover warrants a simi- 

 lar statement, except that there is comparatively less reduction in the 

 Western States. The prospect for a good crop of hay is not flattering, 

 on account of dry weather. A few representative extracts are pre- 

 sented : 



Xorfolk County, Jilass. — Clover largely winter-killed ; at least two-thirds of the 

 meadows seeded last spring are failures, and in most cases have been re-seeded. Old 

 meadows were largely injured by the dry weather of last year and the open winter, so 

 that the prospect for hay is extremely dark. Farmers are trying to compensate for 

 the loss by soAving corn, millet, &c., to cut green. Spring pastures show the effects of 

 last year's drought. 



Bristol County, li. I. — Grass will probably fall short one-third from last year, on ac- 

 count of the dry weather last fall, which killed the grass. Farmers are plowing up the 



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