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ter-killod and the laud put iu other crops ; spring promises a heavy yield, but not so 

 much sown, partly owing to the scarcity of seed. 



Calikoknia.— /'/acer : Harvest has comuienced, and a bountiful crop will bo saved, 

 of excellent quality; the acreage is largely iu excess of former years. Contra Costa: 

 Excellent on sandy soils where early sown, and only slightly below an average on. 

 heavy soils sown Lite; the cool weather has been favorable. Alameda: Neither yield 

 nor quality so good as was expected, owing to drought iu some sections and rust in 

 others. I have seen 7,000 acres of wheat iu one field, the property of Due man, which. 

 will average 20 bushels per acre, and upon an adjoining ranch they were cutting, 

 thrashing, and sacking for market 05 acres per day. Nevada : Rather light. Lake : 

 Nearly a failure ; poorest crop since 1859. Mendocino : Better thaii was expected a 

 month ago. Amador : An average crop. Stanislaus : The yield is better than was ex- 

 pected, and will he about 14 bushels per acre. A large iucrease iu acreage will make 

 the total product greater than any previous crop. 



Oregon. — Linn : Fall and winter-sown wheat rather above average, but the recent 

 drought and hot northerly winds injured spring-wheat. Douglas : Winter-wheat short 

 and thin from the wet winter, and cold, dry spring. 



The TEituiTOitiES. — Morgan, Utah : Fifty per cent, of spring-grain destroyed by the 

 grasshoppers. Santa Fe, New Mexico : Both winter and spring doing well. Lewis and 

 Clarke, Montana : Finer than usual. 



COTTOiS^. 



The past mouth has beeu generally favorable to cotton. Limited 

 areas have beeu affected by drought, but rains were quite general during 

 the latter part of June. On tlie Atlantic coast showers have been so 

 frequent and heavy, siuce June 20, as to delay cultivation and promote 

 the growth of weeds and grass. Before that date a season of compara- 

 tive drought of seven or eight weeks had been suffered in a portion of 

 this district, while other counties represent the weather as ha^^ng been 

 uniformly favorable. • • 



The variation in rainfall during the past month has been considerable 

 in the Atlantic States, ranging as follows at the stations reported : 

 from 1.2 inches to 4.95 in Virginia; from 1.75 to 5.49 in North Carolina ; 

 from 1.4 to 3.95 iu South Carolina ; from 1.25 to 4.96 in Georgia; from 

 .4 to 6 in Florida ; and from 1.55 to 4.89 in Alabama. In the States of 

 the Mississippi the rainfall has been abundant, the lowest records in the 

 several States being from 2 to 4 inches, and the highest from 4.5 to 11. 

 Jn Tennessee the range is from 2.64 inches to 10.63 ; in Louisiana, from 

 4.35 to 11 ; in Texas, from 2.2 to 0.9 ; iu Arkansas, from 4.3 to 8.2. 



The States making averages lower than 100, the standard of good 

 condition, are Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, in which 

 the average rainfall in May and June was light, and Arkansas, where 

 injury has resulted from heavy and unseasonable rains. In all the other 

 States the averages are above 100. The averages are as follows : Vir- 

 ginia, 96 ; North Carolina, 94 ; South Carolina, 97 ; Georgia, 101 ; Flor- 

 ida, 102; Alabama, 106; Mississippi, 109 ; Louisiana, 103 ; Texas, 105; 

 Arkansas, 95 ; Tennessee, 104. Taking into consideration the relative 

 importance of the States, in production, the general average of condi- 

 tion would be 103. As a whole, the July returns of the present year 

 present a higher average of condition than those of any previous reports 

 except those of 1868. 



Of the 55 counties reporting cotton in Georgia, in 19 condition is be- 

 low 100, in 21 above, while 15 return 100. Decatur, first in cotton-pro- 

 duction, producing 48,000 bales in 1869, or one-tenth of the crop of the 

 State, is placed at 100, Bibb and Warren 110, aud less important coun- 

 ties 120 and 125. 



The first cotton couuty in Alabama, Montgomery, stands at 100; Dal- 

 las, 110; and Wilcox, 100 — three counties which produce one-sixth of 

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