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Qonzalea County^ Texas. — Cotton is ift average condition, and the acre- 

 age is fifty per cent, larger than usual. 



Matagorda County, Texas. — Cotton is yet small, but is in healthy con- 

 dition. 



Anderson County, Texas. — Notwithstanding an unusually mild winter, 

 the crops are full^' twenty days later than usujvl, owing to the demoral- 

 ized state of labor, but are promising in proportion to the care and 

 labor given. The cotton of this county of last year is mostly unsold as 

 yet, on account of the downward tendency of price. This decline 

 seems to have arisen from the opinion prevalent in commercial classes 

 that the crop of 18G9 wiU exceed 3,000,000 bales. 



Blanco County, Texas. — Stock raisers have sold all their stock, to be 

 driven to Kansas and California, reserving only a few for home con- 

 sumption, and have turned their attention to farming. They have put 

 into cultivation one thousand acres of new land and have planted about 

 eight hundred acres in cotton, with the prospect of an average crop. 



Galveston County, Texas. — I have seventy-five acres in Sea Island cot- 

 ton — thirty acres more than last year. Plants small and backward, 

 owing to late planting and want of rain. Stand only moderate. Crop 

 will be light unless we have rain soon. Short staj)le cotton sparsely 

 planted in this county. 



Independence County, Arlx. — Cotton was planted about twenty days 

 earlier than usual, and is now very promising. 



Arkansas County, Ark. — The cotton crop greatly iiredominates, and 

 its acreage is larger this year than it was last year. Cotton never 

 looked better than now, but it is suiieriug to some extent from scarcity 

 of hibor. 



Phillips County, Ark. — Cotton i^romising. Larger acreage than last 

 year. 



Sebastian County, Ark. — Cotton is doing well. If rain should fall 

 soon, the product will be one-third larger than in any previous year. 



Union County, Ark. — Cotton never looked better. Less cotton and 

 more corn has been planted this year than in 1869. 



Weakley County, Tenn. — The spring has been remarkably dry and 

 cool, and cotton is very late, some of the growth djing out. 



Giles County, Tenn. — There is less cotton planted than in any year 

 from the close of the war up to the present season, and the crop is being 

 better worked. 



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Essex County, Yt. — The corn crop looks well and covers double the 

 area of last year. 



Grand Isle County, Vt. — Corn is coming up badly on account of the 

 drought. 



Seneca County, N. Y. — Corn not all planted yet, and not sufficient 

 moisture in the ground to start vegetation. 



Cumberland County, N. J. — Corn generally planted in good order and 

 came up well, but there has been so much wet weather that the jjlants 

 look yellow and need sunshine. 



Franklin County, Pa. — Corn planted late, on account of rains. 



Dauphin County, Pa. — Corn is backward and overrun with weeds, 

 which it is impossible to subdue, on account of constant rain. 



Lawrence County, Pa. — Corn is growing well, although a great deal 

 has been washed out by heavy rains. 



Bradford County, Pa. — Farmers in the midst of corn planting ; the 

 weather a little cool. 



