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Georgia and Alabama took precedence. One pound to three, the old 
rule for estimating lint, appears to be substantially correct in a year of 
good yield; 32 pounds in 100 may be considered nearer an average 
figure for the best lands, and anything under 30 a poor average return. 
Last year did not quite reach this average on account of the poor crop 
in the Mississippi Valley, and the present year presents a return of 96 
per cent., as compared with last year. 
As an illustration of the range of county estimates, and to afford an 
opportunity to judge of the reliability of the State estimates, the tabu- 
lation of yield of lint of a single State, Georgia, is given: 
Lint to seed-cotton. Lint to seed-cotton. 
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GS 2 os edocs 294 31 Dna | MEOW disc mei se 30 33 9] 
Gwinnett ...... 334 334 100 || Fulton .... 2... 32 334 95 
Oglethorp....-. 28 33 85) Glynn’ i. 2.52822 20 20 100 
Tan cock. = 25. 28 33h Be) Pwigws 2. 62.52 30 33 91 
Dowplas, </f-.<! 33 32 103 | Muscogee...... 314 313 100 
Gordonpiao. osc. 31 33 QAO WL Dal bot ser ta, 30 30 100 
WiiVion Seas 3 30 334 90 || Chattooga -.... 30 334 90 
Jackson: 2222 S22 334 334 HOO!) Harris 262 2b 28 334 334 100 
Walton .. 20.2 2| 33 33 100: |WCobbe i a2 5.225- 30 31g 90 
Hall’ 25 qesess 33s 30 © 111 || Montgomery --- 334 30 111 
@hiigeh as oo 30 25 120 || McDuffie, ...... 30 33 91 
Cherokee ...-... 30 334 90) i) "Terrell 222 o'e02. 5 90 
Upsen 22 27 34 79 || Coweta......-. 100 
Manly 3 caw suis ee 30 33 OF Macon ban ee 93 
Clay: meG-s0 22-5 29 30 96 || Catoosa 95 
Laurens ....... 30 33 OW @arroll) seas 2 95 
Werkalbye feos 30 33 91 || Madison 103 
Ieiberty! i242 30 33 OL) Murray Aoki. : i 95 
Dougherty. .... 29 33 88 || Mitchell 91 
DOM. aap inns 2h 29 334 87 || Columbia f : 79 
Dadge---- 2.5 30 33 OL) Forsyth)... 5 323 92 
MEEION ecco 33 334 100 || Decatur 75 
Wileox"2c23 vs) 29 30 96 || Lineoln.--....- 90 
Phordas} iis. s2- 27 334 81 || Elbert......... 91 
Wistar: cic 28 334 84 | Lumpkin 111 
SGnley ceca ay 30 32 94.-|) Dooly...---' =. = 112 
Numer 2. ose0 30 334 90 || Johnson 100 
Worth. ee: 25 324 77 || Stewart 95 
Taliaferro ...... 334 284 117 || Dawson 94 
CETOUD) = 3 ntin gts. 334 32 104 || Colquitt 92 
Whitfield ...... 30 33 91 || Pickens 
Jefferson....--. 324 33h 97 
Warrens2:. 22: 30 33 91 || Average 94 
While a decrease in proportion of lint is the rule in the Atlantie Coast 
States, there are exceptions, astheGeorgiareturns show. In North Caro- 
lina three counties, Chatham, Guilford, and Rutherford, return the same as 
last year, and one, Alexander, gives a greater yield; the season having 
been unusually favorable, and the lint better in quantity and quality. 
In South Carolina the yield of lint was better in Richland, and as good 
as in 1874 in Edgefield. Putnam and Gadsden, in Florida, on account 
of a dry and favorable season, report the yield as good as in 1874. 
In Alabama the yield was equal to or better than that of the previous 
