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Fayette county, Texas ——Cotton is a special crop in our county, and our plant- 
ers are turning their attention to a small, curly prolific varicty that will mature 
a crop by the first of September, thus in a great degree escaping the ravages of 
the worms. This cotton is yielding this tyear, on upland, three-quarters to ‘a 
bale per acre, although the worms appeared in it the last week in August. The 
crop in the county will average a little over one-quarter of a bale per acre this 
ear. 
Sorghum is attracting considerable notice as acrop. It will yield, when 
properly cultivated and manufactured with the improved iron mills and evap- 
orators, at each cutting, four barrels, of 40 gallons, of sirup, 50 gallons of supe- 
rior vinegar, and 30 bushels of seed. The sirup is worth 80 cents (specie) per 
gallon ; the vinegar 50 cents per gallon; and the seed 40 cents per bushel. It 
will make two crops in a year. 
In the fruit line, peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines and pears thrive well 
and produce abundantly. The early varieties of apples will grow and produce 
some fruit. Small fruits, the blackberry, dewberry, and strawberry, thrive well. 
One of my neighbors has 14 acre in peach trees, from which he derives an 
annual profit of, say $500, besides supplying his own large family. They are 
seedlings, and it must be remembered that we have as yet no market for the 
frult in its fresh state. When railroads penetrate into the interior of our State 
we will doubtless do well in producing early peaches for a more northern lati- 
tude, and sell at high rates. 
Fannin county, Texas.—Cotton is not yielding as was expected ; much of it 
was injured by caterpillars and boll-worms. Severe frost on the 5th and 6th 
instants destroyed a large amount of bolls, that of an ordinary season would 
have matured. Late cotton is very much injured. The owner of a field of 20 
acres late cotton told me he would lose fully one-fourth, perhaps more, but there 
re not many such cases as that. The amount of cotton planted was greater 
this season than last, yet I think the crop will be lighter than most of men are 
willing to believe. 
Arkansas county, Ark.—The crop of 1867 was a very bad one, one the aver- 
age yield was less than 200 pounds of lint per acre; this year the average is 
jess. One and one-fourth bale is the average amount of cotton picked to the 
hand, up to the present time; but I fear much cotton will be lost if the 
weather should be bad, in which event the crop may fall 20 to 30 per cent. below 
my estimate, and not above that of last year. 
Ellis county, Texas —Cotton grew well until the rain set in, followed by 
unusually hot weather, causing the cotton to shed all of its squares, or so nearly 
all that in many instances the ground was covered with the fallen squares; still 
we have an average yield. 
Panola county, Miss—The worm destroyed some cotton, but less in this 
county than in any other portion of the State. 
Rutherford county, Tenn.—1 am convinced that the estimate made August 
1—16,200 bales as crop of this county will be near the mark ; the staple is bet- 
ter than last year. 
Clark county, Ark.—The drought in August materially lessened the cotton 
and corn crop, though a fair crop of each, at least double that of last year, has 
been made. 
Prairie county, Ark.—The acreage planted in cotton was about 20 per cent. 
less than last year, yet the crop exceeds that of last year by about 100 per cent. 
The product of this county will be about 7,000 bales, agaiust 3,400 last year. 
Leon county, Fla.—-Tise cotton crop is nearly gathered. J do not think there 
remain 50 bales to gather in the county. The crop was first shortened by a 
wet season, just as it got fairly to bearing, and then it was cut off earlier than 
ever before by the caterpillar. 
