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however, larger than was anticiiiated, but will not class so high as last year. Jiloant: 

 Retluced to average by caterpillars which have devoured tlie leaves; late bolls may 

 not umture, iu which case the condition will be still further reduced. Chambers : Cut 

 down to an average by caterpillars during September. Mncon : Crop nearly all open ; 

 injured by worms. Lawrence: Above a half crop. Pike: Injured by rust on uplands, 

 and bj' army-worms on lowlands, making late crops almost a failui'e. Aulauga : Defi- 

 ciency estimated variously from 40 to 75 per cent. ; cotton that did not come up till 

 late in May almost a complete failure. Ferrij : All open, and half gathered ; injury 

 from the worms ecjnal to a severe frost; late rains have injured the quality of the 

 lint. Tnscaloo:<a : (Jreatly injured by drought and wcnms ; the latter eat all the small 

 buds and forms. Clay: Worms attacked the crop September 1; acreage increiused, 

 hence the crop will be about as large as last year. The line weather greatly lavors its 

 gathering. Limestone : Injure:! by drought, caterpillars and boll-worms. 



Mississippi. — Jasper : Drought caused the cotton to shed all its forms and yonng bolls. 

 Caterpillars, though api)eariug in July, did not do much damage till towards the close 

 of August, since when they have stripped the crop of all that worms can eat ; no cot- 

 ton made since the 1st of August. Ii(inkin : Crop shortened a third by infiects; it has 

 had seasonable weather. Tiiihominfio : Bolls have dro]iped badly ; crop not over two- 

 thirds ; staple short. Hancock : Full average, with a slight improvement in the staple ; 

 August and Septiiuiber very favorable to the crop. Warren : Crop cut down 3.5 per 

 cent, by drought, boU-worin, and caterpillar ; opening premature and harvest early. 

 Grenada: Crop shortened by drought, blight, and worms; will fall short one-fourth. 

 Amite: Cotton has shed unusually ; cotton-worm has been very disastrous; drought 

 also very injurious. Jf'at/ne: A third of the early cotton and half of the later lost, 

 ■worms and drought destroying it. Smith: But little more than a half crop ; half 

 the bottom crop already ojicn and foui-tifths of the upland. The largest portion is 

 upland, all of which will be gathered by the 1st of November. Wanhington : Re- 

 duced a third below average by drought and insects. Leake: About three-fourths 

 average. Lauderdale : Twenty-live per cent, below average ; mostly open on the 

 Ist of October; staple fair but seed defective, making a stand difficult to obtain 

 next season. Lee: Greatly shortened by drought. Yalabitsha : Shortened by drought 

 fully a third. Holmes: Extensive shedding. Leflore: Seriously damaged by drought. 

 Madison : Storm knocked oft' about a tifth of the unpicked cotton, September 25 and 

 26; crop shed badly on account of drouglit. Wilkinson: Earlier-planted cotton in- 

 jured by boll-worms ; later by caterpillars ; both kinds by drought. Ifliiston : Injured 

 by excessive rains in August, and by drought and worms in September; from two- 

 thirds to three-fourths of an average crop. Hinds : Nearly all gathered ; late crops a 

 failure through drought and worms. Aitilu : Crops 40 or 50 per cent, below average ; 

 early picked and marketed. Jefferson : Ten per cent, less than last year; bulk of the 

 crop picked before October 10 ; some sections gleaning now. Kemper : Very little cot- 

 ton has matured since August 1 ; fields look as if a heavy killing frost had fallen. 

 Claiborne : Will average about as last year in (juantity and (juality. Xoxubee : Nearly 

 all open ; stripped of leaves by worms but not materially injured ; yield about equal to 

 last yeax''s; line weather for picking. ^ 



Louisiana. — Union : Crop cannot exceed three-fourths of an average; staple short; 

 absence of rain will enable the planter to market it clean ; army-worm destroying 

 trash. Iliehland: Cotton yield about the same as last year. Morehouse: Drought has 

 cut cotton short fully one-half. Tangipahoa: Drought and caterpillars have reduced 

 the crop one-half ; the last pickings will be light and silky. East Feliciana : Drought 

 and the army-worm have shortened the crop and damaged the staple. Iberia: Shed 

 half its bolls and forms on account of drought. Caddo: Mostly open; will be picked 

 early in October. Concordia : Drought and caterpillars have greatly shortened the 

 crop, but a line picking se;ison enables planters to make the best of what is left ; it 

 opens faster than it can be picked. Claiborne: Keduced by long drought and by cater- 

 pillars. Washington : Reduced a half by drought and worms. West Feliciana : All open 

 and the picking season drawing to a close; crop several weeks earlier than last year. 

 Onachila: Not over a half crop; will all be gathered by October 15. Fed River • All 

 open ; a rain would injure it still further. 



Texas. — Coryell : Almost a failure ; cro]) not over a fourth of an average. No farm in 

 the county will average more than half a bale ]»er acre. This failure is due to 

 drought. Kaufman ; Acreage doubled, but the crop will be but half average, bringing 

 up th(! aggregate to about what it was last year. Burleson : Cropshort,but very clean. 

 Cherokee: Drought, since .July 5, has cut down cotton to 65 per cent, below average; 

 many fields in the southern i)art of Ihc county will not yield a bale to ten acres. Hen- 

 derson : (ircatly improved by late favorable weather ; 15 per cent, above average. Fed 

 Fiver : Injured badly ; black-prairie will yielil 1,200 pounds per acre seed-cotton, but 

 timber land will )u)te(iual the small yield of last year. I)e Ifitt : Eaten by worms, 

 yet still of average condition. Bexar: Prospect improved somewhat. Marion: Greatly 

 shortened by drought. Fnsk ; Ojjcned early in August. UlUiamson : Cotton will aver- 

 age half a bale per acre ; nearly all picked, ami isbeing rushed into market. Upshur: 



