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Henry county, Tennessee.—F all has been favorable for farm work, and although 
labor is scarce and high (in proportion to the price of cotton) the picking of 
cotton is well advanced. A large portion of the crop of this county will be 
manufactured in the county, there being four spinning factories located within 
our county limits. 
Tippah county, Mississippi—Cotton turns out fifty per cent. better in this 
county than anticipated in my last report, the worm not doing as much injury 
as expected, and the season having been very favorable for gathering the crop. 
Union county, Georgia —Cotton is opening slowly, but with fair weather all 
the grown bolls will yet open. 
Mississippi county, Arkansas —The very favorable fall season for cotton, ma- 
turing almost every boll, has given us an increased crop over last year, both in 
quantity and quality, more than compensating for the injury in early spring 
from cold and wet and the cut-worm. Yet, under the present state of affairs, 
the planter who has produced the most cotton has accumulated the greatest 
debt, to be liquidated by future crops, or cancelled under the bankruptcy act. 
Cotton, of the grade we produce, will yield us, after payment of tax, commissions, 
and freight, about 114 cents per pound, yet it cannot be grown, at present rates 
of supplies and labor, for less than 18 cents per pound. Cotton growing in the 
Mississippi valley is a financial failure, and not a single honest planter of this 
valley will disagree with me in this view. 
Desha county, Arkansas.—I estimate the cotton crop of this county at about. 
thirty per cent. less than last year. The condition of the crop up to October 1 
was not good, but the favorable weather since has brought out the cotton aston-- 
ishingly, and all the bolls not injured by the worm will mature. 
Bossier parish, Louisiana —TVhe cotton crop in this part of the State, and I 
may say throughout the State, will fall far short of earlier estimates. The crop 
is now nearly gathered, and to show you the condition of the cotton crop, I may 
say that I have in cultivation 200 acres, and forty bales will be the outside of 
my yield. .I should have had a bale to the acre—our calculation ordinarily. © 
Union county, Arkansas.—F rom the 1st to the 15th of July the cotton crop. | 
looked promising, when the worms made their appearance, always in the centre- 
of the field, and generally on the very best cotton. By the 15th of August all 
the leaves were stripped from the stalks. 
Prairie county, Arkansas —Cotton crop diminished on account of the long 
wet spell in the spring and the succeeding drought. The staple, however, is: 
longer and better than before known. 
Fayette county, Texas.—I think cotton will average one-fourth of a bale (500: 
pounds bale) to the acre in this county. I have travelled considerably through 
the county, and find the crops various. While a few acres will yield a bale per 
acre, some acres are not worth harvesting. 
Tensas county, Texas.—Cotton planting proves a losing business here to all 
engaged in it, and will be a secondary consideration hereafter. Any other crop. 
is more profitable than cotton with the present prices and revenue tax. 
Lavacca county, Texas——The failure of the cotton crop in this county is more- 
complete than I have ever known before. Several farms of 100 acres and up-. 
wards in cotton have only made from one and a half to five bales altogether, while: 
_ a few farms of from ten to sixty acres have made one-quarter bale to the acre. 
The prospect for next year is not encouraging, for the grasshoppers are already 
by the million depositing their eggs in the western part of the county, which, 
if not destroyed by storm or severe winter, will hatch out in the spring, and do. 
a great deal of damage. 
Henderson county, Texas —The worm injured the cotton crop about 20 per 
cent. he lint will. prove to be inferior on account of the immaturity of the: 
bolls that were attacked by the worms; it is fine, but short, with little oil in it, 
and not strong. My estimate of the present crop of cotton is 2,000,000 bales. 
