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Union parish, Louisiana.—Cotton, as compared with last year, will be fully 
25 per cent. better. 
Jackson parish, Louisiana.—The cotton-worm has now finished eating all 
the cotton leaves, (the leaves were all eaten one month earlier last year.) I 
think this parish will make one-third more cotton this year than it did last. It 
will all be in market by the first of December. Freedmen have worked much 
better this year than last. 
Washington county, Texas—Cotton is cut very short by the worm. Early 
in the season the prospect was very fine. Just now it is impossible to say what 
the crop will be. If we do not have frost early there will be a very fine crop 
made. On some land planied early the yield will be one bale of 500 pounds 
per acre, while on some late there will not be 200 pounds clean cotton. All 
the early cotton will give a fine return. 
Henderson county, ‘Texas.—The worms have injured cotton but little this 
season, and though there was not as much cotton planted as last year, there will 
be about the same quantity made. 
Dallas county, Texas.—This is the first year of raising cotton in this county, 
and the yield will be about a bale to the acre; about 2,000 bales in the county ; 
condition good. 
Independence county, Arkansas.—The continued rains threaten to ruin the cot- 
ton crop; bolls rot without opening; condition exceedingly critical. 
Cross county, Arkansas.—For the last ten days we have had a good deal of 
rain, which has damaged both corn and cotton. 
Prairie county, Arkansas.—The extremely wet season has injured the cotton 
crop, and if continued the crop will be below that of last year. 
Drew county, Arkansas—The condition of the cotton crop has declined 20 
per cent. since my last report. There has been an unusual fall of rain for this 
season of the year, the rains being succeeded in almost every instance by long 
spells of cloudy weather, preventing the drying off of the open and partly opened 
bolls before they rotted. The bottom and middle crops, which are always the 
main reliance, are greatly injured from this cause. The caterpillars, too, have 
appeared and eaten the cotton foliage upon some farms, thus damaging the top 
crop. Their depredations, however, have not been very injurious, and in some 
cases they are thought to have been beneficial, as by stripping off the leaves 
they gave a fair show to the little sunshine we have had upon the bottom and 
middle crops. 
Fayette county, Tennessee —It is difficult at this particular time to give an 
approximate estimate of the cotton yield. It has been raining and misting for 
nearly three weeks without one entire day’s intermission; and when such has 
not been the case it has been cloudy and cool and cold, the most unfavorable 
conditions of weather for cotton at this period of the season, when it requires 
constant dry, warm sunshine to mature the crop. Wet or damp weather favors 
the worm in its ravages, and rots the lower bolls. The crop has been materially 
damaged up to this time. Six weeks ago it was in better condition and promised 
a better yield than any crop since the war. Should the present unfavorable 
weather continue a short while longer not more than a half crop for the acreage 
can be hoped for. Such as has been picked is so stained and damaged that it 
will materially affect its price. 
Giles county, Tennessee.—Since my last monthly report we have had almost 
incessent rains, causing the cotton bolls to rot and fall off. It is impossible to 
make over three-fourths of a crop. 
Davidson county, Tennessee.—I have just returned from a trip through 
northern Alabama and northern Mississippi, and the western and middle dis- 
tricts of this State. The indications denote a much larger yield of cotton than 
was supposed, despite the long continued rains. The bolls were opening freely, 
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