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top crop; the whole will be about half an average. Chambers: Fine growing season. — 
Blount: Very fine condition ; weed well developed and full of bolls. Marengo: Com- 
pletely stripped by caterpillars. Lauderdale; Weed large, but lightly bolled; worms 
numerous. Colbert: With a late fall the crop will be large. Pike : Worms all over 
the county; cotton-fields filled with specters ; shortened 15 to 20 per cent. 
Mississipri.—Rankin: Some injury from floods and rust; worms have appeared. 
Lee: Excessive rains produced rust and shedding; boll-worms also destructive. Kem- 
per: A failure; not possibly over a half-crop; caterpillars have stripped the stalks 
‘clean within ten days. Claiborne: Improved during August. Lincoln: Too muchrain 
in August caused the young bolls to fall off; reduced 10 per cent. Adams: Shortened 
some by drought, but seasonable weather promises its improvement; caterpillars have 
appeared, but their operations do not indicate any serious damage. Tishomingo: Growth 
good; season favorable. La Fayette: Injured by drenching rains in the first half of 
August. De Soto: Injured 10 per cent. by cool, dry weather for the last ten days. 
Choctaw: Looks well to date. Lowndes : Caterpillars stripping the foliage completely ; 
crop cut down 33 or 50 per cent. below average. Covington: Injured by excessive rains 
producing rust; also by worms tosome extent. Coahoma: Excessiverains have caused 
early plantings to shed; both late and early have grown so large that much will be 
lost from rot; this will bring the yield down to about what was realized last year. 
Winston : Injured by excessive rains. Jasper: Rain for the last twenty days; rust and 
worms doing great injury. Yalabusha: Poor, especially on bottoms; losing forms rap- 
idly. Wayne: Good; no worms yet. Grenada: Injured by heavy rain-storms and wet 
weather. Amite: Acreage diminished. Lauderdale : Equal to the best crop during the 
last ten years. Clarke; Top crop destroyed by excessive rains and caterpillars; most 
of the crop open. Jefferson: Worms; shortened 25 per cent. compared with last year ; 
opening fast. 
LoursiaNa.—Caddo : Drought and worms; not over three-fourths of acrop. Frank- 
lin: Two or three weeks late; small. Morehouse: Two-thirds of a crop; drought. 
Washington: Heavy rains caused shedding. Rapides: Drought and worms; the latter 
not very formidable. La Fayette: Improved by late dry weather. Richland: Crops on 
high lands have ceased to make, and are opening rapidly ; late plantings on low lands 
are making and opening fast, but cannot make a full crop. Concordia: Injured by 
recent rains, especially on low lands. ast Baton Rouge: Improved by recent rains. 
Claiborne: Reduced by drought of August. Jackson: Opening finely; fields white; 
excellent picking-weather; yield will be 20 per cent. greater than last year. 
Texas.—Smith : Unverified reports of boll-worm cut down the probable condition to 
average; otherwise it would be about 40 or 50 per cent. above. Nacogdoches: Drought and 
boll-worms have caused considerable shedding. Medina: Drought caused the bolls to 
fall and the aftergrowth to cease. Marion: Best crop in five years. Dallas: Greatly 
injured by drought for three weeks. Yravis: Two months of drought haye caused 
serious shedding of late formsand blooms. Rusk: Cotton is opening well, but the boll- 
worm is injuring small bolls. Polk: Injured by wet weather and worms, but the lat- 
ter have not yet done much harm; their third crop is expected to eat up the cotton ; 
early cotton out of danger. Burnet: Forms and leaves falling; drought for six weeks. 
Williamson: Decreased acreage; drought injurious. Waller: Worms destructive, 
taking even the leaves of the grown bolls. Matagorda: Early plantings injured by 
rain; later taken by caterpillars; the best cotton cannot make over half a crop. 
Lamar : Boll-worms more alarming than destructive. Brazoria: Crop promising. Bell: 
Upland cotton 25 per cent. short from drought; sandy bottoms not much better; stiff 
soils but slightly injured. Washington: Caterpillars in the southern part of the 
county ; too late for most of the crop. Red River: A few boll-worms. Kaufman: In 
excellent condition ; opening fast. dustin: Too much weed under the rains of June 
and July; subsequent intense heat caused great shedding, especially on sandy uplands; 
worms have made a clean sweep. Panola: Some early cotton injured by the drought ; 
boll-worms somewhat injurious. Hamilion: Early plantings injured by drought, but 
recent rains have brought out later plantings ; older cotton shed its squares to a great 
extent. Bosque: Badlyneedsrain. Bastrop: Drought through July and August, with 
intense heat, cut down the crop at least one-third; afew worms. Titus; Crop looks 
fine, but plants are too large and do not show the damage of the boll-worm; yield 25 
per cent. below average. Lavaca: Injured by drought and late plantings by cater- 
pillars. Harrison: Looks well; season remarkably favorabie to growth and fruitage. 
Coryell: Not possible to make over a half crop. Caldwell: Drought and extreme heat 
cut down the crop one half. Bowie: Uplands will yield as good a crop as the low- 
lands; crop of better quality than usual. Kerr: Suffering from drought, which will 
shorten the crop. Navarro: Drought has cut down the crop from 100 to 50; a great 
deal is now dead, and the best of weather cannot start the remainder to any great 
action. Somerwell: Drought has greatly shortened the crop; small bolls and squares 
have mostly dropped off, and those left will not grow as large as usual. Victoria: 
Worms have stripped the stalks an@ leaves, bat have appeared later than last year ; 
the plant having a fine growth will yield as largely as last year and a finer staple. 
