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improved j^rcatly, aud iiS now doiuj;; well. Lee : Generally cleaned and of average 

 promise. Schley: Looks well in spito of drou<;lit. Wilkes: Cotton-planting late, but 

 this no disadvantage. Marion : Not injured by drought. Gwinnet : More promising 

 than for many years ; bloom 8 or 10 days early. Oglethorpe : Fertilized cotton doing 

 remarkablj' well. Lincoln : Promises a good yield. Macon : No progress in three weeks. 

 Cobb: Very iine. Clay: Promises a fair yield. Laurens: Largely failed to come up. 

 Meriwether : Prospect remarkably good. 



Florii>a. — Columbia: Looks well, though the stand is imperfect. Hillxhorotigh,: 

 Doing well. Jackson: Two weeks ahead of last year ; promising with present weather. 

 Bradford: Doing well; jirospect better than any for ten years. Alachua: Recent rains 

 have enable^l cotton to overcome the evil effects of previous drought. Gadsden : Early- 

 planted cotton in good condition; stand, however, imperfect; late cotton imperfect; 

 may make two-thirds of an average. Orange: Long drought has injured cotton. 

 , Wakulla: Promising. 



Alabama. — Conecuh: Great improvement on account of rains; first bloom June 4. 

 Colbert: Crop looks well. Pike: Rarely, if ever, better cultivated; iirospects fine. 

 Dallas: Growth fine with excellent season. Butle)-: Doing finely. Blount: Promises 

 a large crop. Montgomery: Promise above last year. Calhoun: Prospect full average. 

 Madison : Best prospect in seven years. Limestone : Crop unusually well-worked and in 

 fine condition. Clarke: Growing finely where well-worked; maybe two-thirds of a 

 crop. Autauga: Cotton backward, but in good condition. Lauderdale: In tine condi- 

 tion and growing fast; commenced blooming June 12; is in good cultivation. Tusca- 

 loosa: Crops well-worked are doing well. Franklin: Cotton late planted, but bloomed 

 June 22, about ten days earlier than usual; prospects fine, 



Mississippi. — Hancock: Cultivation decreasing. Warren: Stand aud condition im- 

 proved. Wilkinson: Much of the crop grassy and growing too fast; running to leaf 

 more than it canhold when drought sets in. Wayne: Better condition than last year, 

 though later in gaining a stand ; first blooms June 2'^. Newton : Better than for eight 

 or ten years ; acreage increased 10 per cent. ; condition improved 50 per cent, over last 

 year. Grenada : Cotton improved, but the stand very irregular. Winston ; Early- 

 planted cotton doing well ; late planted very small. Llolmes : Prospect good ; too much 

 cotton. Clark: Heavy rains give rise to tears that cotton will run to weed. Tishe- 

 viingo: Crop prospects fine. Noxubee: Early-planted cotton promising. Neshoba: 

 Doing very well. Yalabusha : Stand good ; cultivation superior ; promises more flat- 

 tering than at any time since the war; blooms earlier, though planting was later than 

 last year. 



Louisiana. — Bed Hirer : Bad condition. Richland: Best prospect in 10 years. East 

 Baton Eouge: Very promising. Moorehouse: In good condition. Cameron: Worms are 

 at work. Carroll : In better condition than for several years. Tensas : Probably the 

 largest crop since the war. Winn: Above average promise. Concordia: On good land 

 the crop is growing rapidly ; on " buck-shot" laud it is smaller. Rapides : Better than 

 in six years. Claiborne: Cotton superseding wheat and sugar-cane. 



Texas. — Fannin: Promising; will be in blossom in fifteen days. Hardin: Heavier 

 crop, probably, than since 1861; looks fine; some little show of worms. Fort Bend: 

 4,000 acres planted; 3,000 bales made last year; the stalks already average fifteen 

 grown bolls each. Victoria : Cotton-worm appeared June 6. Liberty : Cotton growing 

 well, but the worm has made its appearance in larger numbers than usual. Red River : 

 Cotton promising. Henderson : Cotton growing fast. Ellis ;. Weather fine for cotton. 

 EendaU : Acreage small, but crop promising. Williamson : Looks well. Fayette : Quite 

 promising. Milam: Best crop for many years. Smith: Unusually healthy. Johnson: 

 Looks well. Bexar : Fine. Colorado : Best crop since 1859. Upshur : Behind last 

 year's crop. Titus : Better than for several years. Rusk : Looks well ; better than last 

 year ; a single rain within ten days will carry it through July and August. Grimes : 

 Hail-storms killed the young cotton in the western part of the county. Bell : Unusually 

 promising, but the heavy rains are exciting fears of the worm. 



Arkansas. — Craighead : Crop delayed by rain. Union : Crop in the grass. Sebastian: 

 Fifty per cent, greater acreage in cotton than last year; injured by excessive June 

 rains. Crittenden: Small and late in coming up. Columbia: Crop grassy, but partly 

 cleaned, and looking well ; stand good ; crop promises to be heavy. 



Tennessee. — Decatur : Crop promising. Madison : Small ; drought after planting. 

 Wayne; Looks fine. Haywood: Two weeks later than last year; grassy; acreage in- 

 creased 10 per cent. Gibbs :~'Verj promising. Rutherford: Acreage increased 15 per 

 cent. ; stand good and plants in good condition. 



Utah. — Eane : By extra cultivation, and manuring, 200 pounds of lint have been 

 raised per acre, though the average will not be over 120 pounds. The shortness of the 

 season and the necessity of irrigation are difliculties that cannot be easily overcome 

 in cotton culture, which has almost entirely ceased in this locality. 



