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Bexar: No rain for two months; cotton shedding its top crop. Hunt: Boll-worms have 
injured the crop 25 per cent. Newton: Greatly improved. 
ARKANSAS.—Jackson : Greatly injured by excessive rains; shedding fast. Drew: 
Some rust. Dallas: Injured by excessive rains. Clay: Too much weed. Saint Fran- 
cis: Generally damaged by blight; not over half a crop; light middle crop, and 
no top crop, unless the weather should be favorable for the next fifteen days. 
Prairie: The extreme heat of the last ten days of August was a great benefit to cot- 
ton; opening finely. Johnson: Planted in too close rows for a dry season, whereas it 
has been wet; plants too large, especially on bottoms; bolls and squares rotting and 
alling. Franklin: Bottom crops too rank; below average ; upland crops over average. 
Bell: Boll-worms bad in the bottoms; not seen yet on the uplands. Sevier: Shedding 
severely on the uplands; drought. Nevada: Worms have appeared. Monroe: 
Dronght and heat succeeding excessive rains have caused the plants to shed consider- 
ably: weed large but not well fruited; without further disaster, the yield will still be 
above average. Columbia: Greatly shortened by drought. Arkansas: Still growing and 
not opening fast. Independence: Has commenced opening and looks well. Lonoke : 
Doing finely. Craighead: Opening finely. Pulaski: Continued wet weather has 
ruined the bottom crop. Clark: Some damage by boll-worms. Ashley: Some rust. 
Bradley : Maturing well; picking began two weeksearlier than usual. Fulton: Weed 
rank and healthy but too large, and sparsely fruited. 
TEXNESSEE.— Wilson: Looking well. Hardeman: Prospect gloomy; half the mid- 
dle cop of fruit has fallen; rain.threatens the top crop. Gibson: Late but thrifty. 
Tipton: Very fine; yield will be large if frosts do not come very early. Maury: Im- 
mense growth of weed; with continued fine weather and late frosts a full average crop 
will bemade. Shelby: Crop will be enormous. 
The following notes are from the August returns: 
VIRGNIA.—Sussex: Cotton looks as well as I ever saw it, and promises over an ave- 
rage crop. 
Norra Carouina.—Columbus : Seriously injured by June rains; bad stand and 
small,but fruiting finely. Duplin: Very little growth made in July; smail for the 
season but may yet make an average crop. Hdgecombe: Unprecedented drought from 
July 2to 28, but light rains since. Gaston: Belated by cold and wet in May and June, 
and cosequently behindhand ; it seems to be doing well, but a drought is impending. 
Greene’ Shortened ten per cent. by drought. Jredell: Late and small in weed ; rain 
must eme soon if we are to get much over half a crop. Mecklenburgh: Good stand in a 
very god condition. Nash: Retarded, but shows no rust or disease; weed sufficiently 
large aid fruiting well. Orange: Very promising. Pitt: Shortened by local drought. 
Union: Very good. Wake: Drought; local rains have raised the average prospect to 
three-furths of a crop. Wilson: Late rains somewhat repairing the damage of former 
drouglt. Stokes: Drought of six weeks. Hertford: Good: heavily loaded with forms 
and bols; yield promises to be greater than last year. Perquimons: Season fine for 
eultivaion and growth. Junes: The prospect for a large yield of cotton was never bet- 
ter up 0 July 15; since then excessive rains have caused a destructive shedding ; pros- 
pect bdow average. 
Sourt CarnoLina.—Chester : Lost 10 per cent. by drought. Chesterfield: Two weeks 
late, btt looks well generally. Clarendon: Early wet spell caused the joints to grow 
larger and longer than usual; subsequent dry weather enabled planters to clean the 
crop growing rapidly, and may make an average. Georgetown: Small, late, and un- 
prouising ; declined within the month. Marlborough: Doing well. Newberry: Season 
favoable ; growth good, promising a fair August crop. Union: Decreased area, but 
full zerage condition; labor unusually effective, and grass well cleaned out. Horry: 
Acreze increased 25 per cent.; crop eight to ten days later than last year; recent heavy 
rainshaye injured lowland crops; those of the uplands are running too much to weed; 
the blls will blight as soon as the water gets out of the ground. Richland: Season 
favorble. Spartanburgh: Promising. Darlington: Season good. Marion: “ Honey 
dew ’and lice have appeared, probably caused by cool nights, and give apprehensions 
of rus on cotton. 
Grecra.—Baker: Very flattering condition, but August is our test month for cotton. 
Berria: July drought did some damage causing it to shed fruit, and, in some cases, to 
rust. Brooks: Doing as well as usual for the season. Carroll: Looks finely and is 
full o bolls, but even a short drought would cause it to shed; some appearance of 
rust. Clayton: Very promising; if the season continues favorable the crop will be 
large. Cobb: Looks remarkably well, but is liable to attack of grasshoppers which 
are iniring other crops. Coffee: Greatly injured by drought in July. Doole: Needs 
rain ;ruit beginning to shed. Floyd: Somewhatinjured by grasshoppers. Gwinnett: 
A litt) late; plant not very large but well fruited ; with favorable weather in August 
and Sotember the crop will be a full one. Richmond: Weed small. Telfair: Full 
averae. Thomas: Looks well; continuance of good seasons will secure a full crop. 
