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ffrowth of weeil. Even Avitliout the assistance of these scourges the early aud late 

 cotton both suffered severely from unusual shedding of bolls, and from extremes of 

 hot and dry Aveather. Calhoun : lujured a third by wet weather aud caterpillars. 

 Colmnhia: Crop shortened by overgrowth and casting of fruit. Lee: Caterpillar has 

 entirely stripped some fields and threatens to sweep the whole ; crop probal^ly 75 per 

 cent, below average. Floyd : Caterpillars have just made their appearance, otherwise 

 the crop is very promising. Twiggs : Within twenty days a fine prospect of cotton has 

 been reduced 20 per cent, below average. Fulton: Best crop ever known, opening 

 finely. Coweta ; Suffering from caterpillars and blight, besides rust ; iirospect very 

 gloomy. Spalding : Worm and rust doing great damage. Schleij : Caterpillars sweep- 

 ing whole fields in forty-eight hours. Baldwin : Badly damaged by drought and cater- 

 pillars ; September cotton will be cut off. 



Flop.ida. — Suicanncc : Caterpillars appeared .July 1.5, and ate up some fields clean by 

 August 15 ; September 15 the crop will probably be swept ; long and short staple cot- 

 ton will be cut short at least one-half. Leon : Caterpillars appeared in force August 18 

 and by the 25th had stripped cotton of all the leaves, and exposed the fact that there 

 was little or no young fruit, forms, or bolls on the staliis ; crop probably not over a 

 third of average. Jefferson : Caterpillars aud rot have done serious injury to the crop, 

 which probably will not be over half average. Madison : The best crop, by far, since 

 the war ; caterpillars have not done much damage in this county, as yet. Gadsden : 

 Eains heavy aud continuous since the last report, making cotton to shed its forms and 

 young bolls, besides causing a great increase of rust, and " black " or " boll" rot. Cat- 

 erpillars have also done great damage. Late planted cotton will be a failure. Taylor : 

 Excessive rains have made the cotton shed its fruit ; caterpillars stripped the leaves. 

 Not over a half crop at best ; top cotton all lost. Egyptian cotton very fine ; but little 

 injured by the caterpillar. 



Alabama. — Crenshaw : Prospects very unfavorable ; entire fields denuded of leaves 

 by army-worm, boll-worm, and rust. Montgomery : Crop very fine and opening rapidly, 

 but caterpillars are very destructive. FranJclin: Seriously injured by drought ; will 

 probably be not over half crop ; half green bolls have fallen off. Colbert : Injured by 

 dry hot weather ; very few bolls from August growth. Clarke: Within ten days the 

 caterpillar has been very destructive ; early cotton a lialf crop ; of late cotton many 

 fields usually averaging a bale to the acre will not make over a bale to 10 acres. 

 Conecuh : Within ten days the worm has destroyed almost the whole crop. Bussell : 

 Forward cotton injured by rust ; late cotton taken by caterpillars. Calhoun: Army- 

 wonn within five days has reduced the prospect from average to 25 per cent, below. 

 Chamhers: Worms doing same mischief. Butler: Army- worm doing great mischief; 

 every field bare of leaves. Macon: Crops cut short by drought, rust, and worms. 

 Perry: Nearly half destroyed by caterpillars. Dallas: Caterpillars reduced the crop 

 to nearly 50 per cent, below average. Pilce: Within ten days army- worms 'have 

 swept tlie crop, especially the late planted. Wilcox : Freshets and worms have cut 

 down the crops one half. Tuscaloosa : Crop greatly reduced by drought and cater- 

 pillars. Limestone : Cut short a fourth by rust and worms. 



Mississippi. — J ttala : Fine prospects of the crop existing two weeks ago are seriously 

 compromised by drought and worms. Pike: Shortened by drought and army-worm ; 

 squares falling. Lauderdale : Fine prospects up to August 10, when the drought cut 

 the crop short. Crops of last year 4,000 bales ; this year not over 3,000. Jasper : Cot- 

 ton-worm at work. Newton: Crop doing well. Xoxuhee: Crop a failure, especially 

 late cotton. Wayne: Alarm about caterpillars subsiding; these worms will shorten 

 the crop very considerably. Coahoma: Drought has cut down the crop 25 per cent. 

 Hinds : Crop half cut off by drought and worms. Lee : Eeduced 50 per cent, by drought. 

 Madison: Prospect reduced a third within a month. Clark: Unprecedented falling 

 oft' of the crop since July 25 through drought and caterpillars; there will be no 

 top crop ; the greater portion of the crop will be open in September. Xeshoia : 

 Yield lighter than last year; drought aud worms have seriously shortened it. Tala- 

 Tyusha: Has failed rapidly of late through drought, blight, and worms; not over 

 a half crop. Marion : Worms have swept the crop ; yield not over 65 i)er cent., at 

 most. 



Louisiana. — Morehouse : Half crop ; injured by long drought ; quality of staple 

 above average. Caddo : Drought has reduced the crop 50 per centum below average. 

 Franklin : Euined. Madison : Fine. East Feliciana : Crop decreased a third by 

 drought and worms in August. Lberia ; Bolls and forms shedding freely through 

 drought. Claiborne : Blasted by drought. Tangipahoa : Fearfully injured by drought ; 

 caterpillar taking what is left; perhaps half a crop will be gathered. Saint Landry: 

 Probably reduced to a half crop by long drought and army-worms.. Pcd Biver : 

 Shortened 10 per centum during August by drought and army-worms. Eichland : 

 Reduced to a half crop by drought. Bossier : Shortened a half by drought. Concordia : 

 Caterpillars have swept many plantations ; in many fields not a leaf has been left ; 

 damage worse along the river than in the interior. Bapidcs : Stripped of all foliage 

 between 15th and 20th August ; cannot yield over one-third of an average. 



