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Baltimore county, Maryland—The corn crop is magnificent ; a full average 
can be stated. 
Queen Anne county, Maryland—Our corn is generally very light; but on 
some high, dry, and improved land there are good crops. Public opinion esti- 
mates the crop at only half an average, but I have placed it at a seven-tenths. 
Morris county, New Jersey—Corn crop is better than for many years. 
Indiana county, Pennsylvania.—The corn and buckwheat in this county will 
not, on an average, make more than six-tenths of a crop; this is on account of 
the dry season. Buckwheat was somewhat shorter by the untimely frost. 
Amelia county, Virginia—Upon more careful inquiry we have been led to 
change our figures for the corn crop. It is better than last year so far as con- 
cerns ripeness and size; but the horned worm has been more numerous than 
for any year since the war, and our labor being insufficient, we have been unable 
to get them caught as of old, and whole fields have been eaten almost entire. 
Norfolk county, Massachusetts ——There was a heavy frost about the middle 
of September which injured considerable corn; at least half the fields have not 
been topped; much of the corn fodder is worthless. 
COTTON. 
Sampson county, North Carolina.—Cotton very much injured by rust and 
army worm; the latter began its ravages much earlier than in previous years, 
say 1st of September this year, and the 15th heretofore. 
Gaston county, North Carolina—KExcessive rains will shorten the cotton 
crop at least 10 per cent. 
Bertie county, North Carolina—Cotton has been very much damaged by a 
damp, cool spell, which came about the 10th of September, causing it to shed 
all the forms and many young bolls, at least all that came in September. Since 
that time the rust and caterpillar are doing much damage, making it open 
before it is grown. 
Franklin county, North Carolina—-The cotton crop was injured by wet 
weather in August and September. The yield will not be as great as it was in 
1867, though the profit to the farm will be greater, less having been paid for 
guano and otber fertilizers. 
Newberry district, South Carolina —TVhe caterpillar has made its appearance 
for the first time this season; whole fields are entirely stripped of leaves, and 
in many cases the young bolls have been cut off. Neither blossoms nor young 
bolls mature after the worms make their appearance. ‘The crop must be short- 
ened fully one-third. 
Abbeville district, South Carolina.—Since my last report the army and boll- 
worm have attacked the cotton and damaged it severely. The cotton, in con- 
sequence of an unfavorable spring, was late, and therefore more exposed than 
last year to the ravages of the worm. 
Spartansburg district, South Carolina.—Cotton has improved since my last 
report, but the worms are eating all the small bolls, 
Butts county, Georgia —The caterpillar worms made their appearance in this 
county about the middle of September, and in two weeks had destroyed the 
leaves on most of the cotton stalks. Such a visitation of these worms never 
oceurred here before. We estimate six-tenths of a crop, as compared with last 
year. 
: Emanuel county, Georgia —The rust and army worm have laid waste our 
cotton fields since my last report. Not satisfied with the total destruction of 
leaves, they have attacked the young bolls with equal success. Our fields look 
as if a fire had swept over them. 
Columbia county, Georgia.—Since my last report the worm and caterpillar 
