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Walker: Drought. Baldwin: Crop ina critical stage; seasonable showers give a great 
development of weed, flowers, and bolls, but there need a continuance of fine weather 
to escape injury. Harly: Remarkably flourishing. Jefferson: Season remarkably pro- 
pitious so far. Lincoln: Doing well, though two weeks later than last year; some in- 
dications of rust. Madison: Ten days late; stands not good on low lands. Stewart: 
Season good ; cotton-flies in some localities. Terrell: Rust in some places ; caterpillars 
have appeared but as yet have done no damage. Upson: Weed below average buf 
well fruited. Walton: Crop full average; season favorable. Henry: Looks fine. 
Jackson: Tolerable; reduced acreage. Whitfield: Injured by drought. Wilkes: Late 
but doing well. Taliaferro: Never better, except in a few localities injured by hail- 
storms; they are above average size at this point of the season and are growing and 
py tel rapidly. Forsyth: Weed good and well fruited; rain excessive for the last 
ew days. 
Fiorips.—Jackson: Doing well, and bearing heavily ; full crop if no disaster befall. 
Jefferson ; Well worked, but shortened by drought; some caterpillars reported. Levy: 
Prospect remarkably favorable. Madison: Very good; wellfruited. Gadsden: Not 
. improved since last report; stands bad, and truitage defective; 25 per cent. below 
average; now suffering from dronght. 
ALABAMA.—Baldwin: Planted late, but growing fast and quite healthy; generally 
very clean. Barbour: Good; some little rust on sandy ground, but condition m ad- 
vance of last year. Calhoun: Weed large, but fruitage not entirely satisfactory. 
Clarke: Crop good, but two weeks later than last year; some caterpillars, but n¢ harm 
done yet, Coffee: Prospect better than since the war; some reports of worms. Col- 
bert: Very good. Conecuh: Doing well; clear of grass; some caterpillars reported. 
Dallas : Ten or fifteen days behind-hand ; army-worm generally present. Hal): Two 
weeks later than last year; weed large, but not well fruited; caterpillats have 
appeared, but have webbed up; the third crop will probably be destroying th« cotton 
in August. Jefferson: Crop very promising. Macon: Caterpillars have appeared, but 
no damage reported yet. Pike: Late, but promising. Bullock: Ten days late,but full 
average in condition ; caterpillars in force on black lands ; some are trying Paris green. 
Cherokee: Fine growth of weed; fruiting tolerably. Monroe: Better than lat year 
on uplands, but injured by excessive wet on bottoms; ten days late; cate’pillars 
have appeared. Morgan: Unusually good. 
MIssIssIpr1.—Adams: Worms reported in south part of the county. Amité: icreage 
reduced ; looks well. Carroll: Never more promising. Clarke: Some caterpillars, but no 
great damage yet. Coahoma: Tends to large weed ; toomuch rain. Grenada; Pronising ; 
season favorable. Lauderdale: Abundant rains; crop very promising. Neshob: Very 
fine. Perry: Late, but more promising than at this time last year. Wilkinson; Dam- 
aged by drought. De Soto: Very promising. Holmes: Benefited by late rain. Lin- 
com: Improved fast during July, but backward on account of late start in thespring. 
Lowndes: Fullaverage. Madison: Doing well. Marion; Army-worms at wok ; will 
make their grand attack about August 20; this indicates a crop 20 per cent. Iss than 
last year. Rankin: Injured by drought. Claiborne; A month late and small, but 
-well formed and bolled. Jefferson: Smaller than at this time last year and sffering 
for rain; drought for two months. Monroe: If no disaster occurs, our crop wil be the 
largest since the war; labor efficient and abundant. 
Lovutstana.—Bienville: Cotton late, but promising. Caddo: Shortened 15 pr cent. 
by drought; some worms heard of, but no damage reported. Carroll: Desrictive 
drought in July. Concordia: Where not overflowed the crops look well, exce@t on 
sandy soil, which has not had enough rain; on overflowed land very poor anid jix to 
eight weeks behind time; some worms reported ; no efforts yet made to destroy hem. 
Franklin: Smaller than usual; drought. Madison: Muchimproved during July, sea- 
sonable rains. Rapides: Small; lack of rain; condition good. West Feliciana : small 
but healthy and doing well. Bossier: Crops better than for 10 years ; labor in setter 
condition. Claiborne: Small, but healthy and growing. 
TEXxas.— Anderson : Twenty per cent. better than the average of past years jlabor 
capricious and unreliable. Austin: Has developed weed too fast ; many fields gassy ; 
beginning to open; rumors of worms. Bastrop: Promising, but needs rain; areage 
reduced. Burleson: Growing fast and beginning to open. Burnet: Still backvard ; 
retarded by drought. Caldwell: Best crep since the war. Collin: Good conction ; 
promises an extra yield; acreage slightly reduced. Dallas: Never better. Harison: 
Remarkably fine; no shedding of squares as in former years. Henderson: Ver large 
for August. Kendall: Prospects excellent. Lavaca: Crop late, but the best fomany 
years; picking has begun. Matagorda: Oldest cotton poorly bolled; late totton 
searcely any fruit yet. Medina: Drought. San Jacinto: Crop late but promisig, ex- 
cept where there has been too much rain. Somervell: Very fine; if no rainalls in 
ten days it will begin to shed. Titus: Fine prospect, though excessive rain as en- 
larged the weed too much. Upshur: Larger than last year, but the blooms re less 
numerous. Washington: Weather very propitious. Williamson: Condition fu aver- 
age; acreage slightly reduced. Hood: Large, clean and full-fruited ; some gns of 
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