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-dolph: More cotton raised this season than last, owing to increased acreage. The cotton- 
factories, five in number, on Deep River, which runs diagonally through this county from 
northwest to southeast, furnish a ready market for the most part of the cotton raised; and 
while the prices of the staple keep up to the prices they have been for some time, there will 
be, from year to year, an increase in its production. But I should observe that these facto- 
ries also work up cotton raised in other counties. The quality of the lint is not so good as 
last year’s, on account of early frosts and the wet season. 
Soutn CaroLina.—Chester : Too much rain in August caused too rank a weed; and our 
farmers assign as a cause of short crop, early killing frosts. Newberry: Owing to the 
drought during the fall, the cotton suffered very much. The lint is shorter than usual. 
There is a great difference in the quality of different varieties. Peeler cotton produces 
longer lint, and of a better quality. Union: We have had an unusually favorable fall for 
gathering cotton, but the season was not propitious for the development of the lint. Sam- 
ples are clean and white, but the lint is not so long or so fine as last year, and much lighter, 
as compared with theseed. Farmers differas to the cause of this. Some attribute it toa 
long dry spell, others to a long wet spell. Fairfield: Cotton has been nearly all saved in 
good order. Some late picking badly stained by frost. Barnwell: The later growth, 
which promised an additional amount in September, did not mature. There was not lini- 
cotton enough in the bolls toopen them. This was caused by drought, and accounts for the 
worse quality and lesser quantity of lint-cotton to seed-cotton, as compared with last year. 
From different samples 1 have ascertained, by careful weighing, that the lint will not aver- 
age more than 29.4 pounds. Williamsburgh: The cotton-crop here is one-third short of last 
year’s. It has been the most unfavorable year of any in an experience of twenty-three 
years. Wind, storms, floods, and drought have all combined in the disasters of the year. 
Greenville: The first picking gave about 28 pounds to the hundred, the second about 30 
pounds. ‘‘ It don’t third itself this year.” Spartanburgh; Farmers complain that the sta- 
ple is short, and that the quality is not so good. A large percentage is stained, and some of 
it very badly so. Lexington: Some lots of cotton of this year have yielded only 28 pounds 
of lint to 100 pounds of seed-cotton; but 30 pounds isa fair average in this county. Two- 
thirds of an average crop has been gathered, and this is all that can be expected. -Claren- 
don; As the early-picking season was dry and favorable, the quality of the lint is better. 
First killing frost appeared on November 17. For nearly a month we have had rain in 
abundance, and what remains of the crop is badly injured. Edgefield: Cotton will yield 
fully as much lint as usual; the year has been unusually dry. The drought has no doubt 
affected the lint; seeds are lighter. Cotton in first-rate order for ginning, (perfectly dry ;) 
will make 33 pounds lint from 100 pounds seed-cotton. Not much rain during picking-sea- 
son to stain early cotton, and but very little late cotton to be affected. The quality is much 
above an average. Marlborough; The cotton-crop is certainly one-fourth short of last year. 
In my experience of thirty years, in cotton-planting, I have never knownsuch poor lint as 
compared with the seed-cotton. The result is disastrous to all. Short crop and low prices. 
GEORGIA.—Pickens: We have been raising cotton in this county for only about three 
years. The climate is not suitable; we are compelled to use fertilizers to mature the crop. 
This season was not so favorable for cotton as last. Stewart: The quality of cotton is 
poorer than it has been for a number of years, and the yield less than was expected. The 
top crop has not opened enough to be estimated, owing to the warm, cloudy, and damp 
weather we have had for over a month. No frost as yet. Gwinnett: After paying for gin- 
ning, the yield of lint from seed is one-third. This yield is better than in former years, 
when the ratio was as 1 to4. With improved varieties, and better culture and fertiliza- 
tion, we have this result. The season for gathering was better last year than this; less wet 
weather, but the yield of lint is equally good this year. Oglethorpe: Prices being so low, 
it is extremely difficult to have the cotton picked. We have been paying 40 cents a hun- 
dred’ and two meals per day ; but stained cotton,such as the present, is hardly worth the 
picking. . Hancock: I have never heard so much talk about cotton yielding short as this 
year; 1,500 pounds seed-cotton will not make over 450 pounds of lint; last year gave 500 
pounds. Milton: Cotton was injured in quantity and in quality by the scorching sun in 
July, causing the lint to be short and light. Jackson: We have poorer cotton this year 
than last; ‘‘storm-cotton” is plentiful, Forsyth: Lint is short this year, and there is 
more stained and frosted cotton than last. Fulton: The yield is 20 per cent. below the 
general expectation of all well-informed planters, and 40 per cent. below the general esti- 
mate. Dodge: The winter has been very mild, and has caused our crops to gain at least 15 
per cent. Hall: Cotton opened well; a fine fall; farmers industrious. Crop generally 
_ gathered ; but little yellow cotton. Laurens: The quality of the crop is very much worse 
than last year. About half is stained and dirty from rains. Last year’s crop was gathered 
without injury, and was very clean. Telfuir: The lint is better than last year, but does not 
yield somuch. All disposed of last year, and generally before it is made. Decatur: Cot- 
ton-seeds are large and heavy; lint is shorter and frequently stained. All planters who 
hired laborers and boarded them will lose money. Lumpkin: Not much cotton raised in 
this county ; only 42 bales last year, though this year’s crop is much better. Dooly: Crop 
is gathered early; quality better than last year; no storms. Murray: As the fall was dry 
last year, the seed was lighter than usual, and 100 pounds of seed-cotton made about 35 
