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locks of which I send you as a specimen of the first Egyptian cotton grown in 
this country. Mr. F. thinks that it would make 1,200 to 1,500 pounds per acre 
under favorable circumstances, and the finest lint and best staple he ever saw. 
The stalks are of good size and well limbed, many bending under the weight 
of bolls and more squares forming. He counted two hundred bolls on an ave- ° 
rage stalk; it may still further improve by cultivation when better known and 
acclimated. The planters are now convinced that, although planted so late, it 
will mature in this climate, latitude 32° 20’, and may be acelimated throughout 
the cotton region. A few stalks were topped with promising results. 
SAMPLE COTTON FROM GEORGIA. 
Mapison, Morcan County, Grorata. 
; September V, 1867. 
Dear Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith my report for September. 
I am happy to be able to make a favorable report this month. I have been in 
different parts of the county, talked with a great many practical, sensible 
planters, and it seems to be the general verdict of all that Morgan county has 
better crops of cotton and corn than has been known here in fifteen years. 
The acreage planted is no doubt much less than in former years, owing, in a 
great measure, to the scarcity of stock, laborers and capital. The boll worm 
has made its appearance in some parts of the county, but not in sufficient num- 
bers to do much damage. 
I send to the department a small bale of cotton. 
Respectfully, yours, 
B. H. TRUE. 
Hon. J. W. STOKEs, 
Acting Commissioner of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
Accompanying the above note we received a miniature bale of this year’s 
cotton, put up in the form of the large bales, weighing four pounds, and bear- 
ing the following inscription: “ Presented to the Agricultural Department, 
Washington, D. C., by B. H. True, Madisen, Ga., August 30, 1867.” The 
bale has been deposited in the museum of the department. 
THE COTTON WORM. 
We give plaee to the following letter upon a subject which is of deep in- 
terest to cotton growers at this time: 
; Pike Co., Miss., August 31, 1867. 
Dear Sir: In compliance with your request, I herein give the result of my 
observations on the cotton worm; but as they were confined to the third 
generation, it would possibly be as well to give also a brief account of the first 
appearance and progress of the two preceding generations. The first notice of 
the worms was in the latter part of June or early in July, when they appeared 
in small patches in the fields. There was considerable controversy then 
whether they were really the cotton worm or the so-called grass worm, but the 
second brood coming about the latter part of July, convinced the most skepti- 
cal of the melancholy fact that they were the genuine cotton worm. The third 
generation commenced eating on the 25th of August. if i * 
I think the last generation, coming in such numbers, eat the cotton before the 
majority arrive at maturity, but the few that do mature, finding no cotton upon 
