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of 500 pounds each, at the very utmost. Our cottonis worth at home, at present 
prices, about eight cents per pound. We cannot make it for less than twelve 
cents per pound. I have made two good crops for the land planted and the force 
employed, (both on a small scale,) and they bring me in debt. This is algo 
the experience of others. Hence we quit, rent, or let: the land lay idle. 
Cherokee county, Texas——On account of the tax on cotton, the acreage was 
less, and that grown was greatly damaged by the worms, particularly on the 
bottom lands, and even on the uplands fields of 100 acres will not make more 
than ten bales of 500 pounds each. 
Colorado county, Texas.—Cotton, in this county, is almost an entire failure, 
from the ravages of the army worm. This has been the case in all the counties 
within 100 miles of the coast. 
Leon county, Florida.—Cotton has turned out better in this county than antici- 
pated. Planters will not get through picking before Christmas. Our crop will 
be about twenty per cent. above that of last year. 
Red River county, Texas —We have had almost a failure in the crop of cot- 
ton on account of the cotton caterpillar, and wet weather. We shall not have 
more than half a erop. 
Hunt county, Texas —Last year there were about 100 bales of cotton made 
in this county ; this year there will be at least 600 bales. The increase is from 
acreage. ‘The yield per acre will be about 266 pounds ginned cotton. Last 
year it was about 400 pounds. The ravage of the worm is the cause of the 
decline in yield per acre. 
Austin county, Texas.—The havoc committed by the cotton worm or eater- 
pillar has been greater this year than ever before, the worms in most places return- 
ing four times to the same fields, not allowing anything to grow anew. More 
than sixty acres in view cannot be picked at all. A good, medium crop would 
have brought us 2,500 bales of 500 pounds, but now it is doubtful whether we 
shall have 500 bales. 
THE EGYPTIAN COTTON. 
Bossier parish, Louisiana—Last spring I received a small package of Egypt- 
ian cotton-seed from the department. The seed was planted with great care, 
but from some cause comparatively few came up. The stalk is very large and 
high, but does not branch near the ground—say two to three feet above, as a 
general thing. The middle and top branches are very heavily bolled. Some 
of the stalks are as much as ten to twelve feet high, and very large at the ground. 
The staple is very fine and long. I am of opinion that it will do well when - 
acclimated, and I shall give it a fair trial next year. 
Baton Rouge, Louisiana—The Egyptian cotton seed received from the 
Department of Agriculture last spring, was planted upon twokinds of soil, upland 
and bottom, and fairly cultivated, and a tolerably good description of plant, but 
inferior in the yield to the “Mexican green,” and “brown Mexican,” that we 
cultivated in the general crop. We can see no inducement to replant the seed 
of the Egyptian cotton. 
THE BOUGHTON OR TAPPAHANNOCK WHEAT. 
Sparta, Wisconsin.—The Boughton or Tappahannock wheat has been suc- 
cessfully tried in this section for several years past. Abcut five years ago I 
received from the department a quart package of the seed which was placed in 
the hands of one of our best farmers, Mr. R. McMahon, whose farm was a 
mixture of clay and loam. The seed was sowed about the fifteenth of Septem- 
ber, and it grew well and matured twenty days abead of other varieties, pro- 
ducing largely. The product was sowed the second year, which likewise in- 
creased remarkably. The third year produced enough to count by acres and 
the yield was about thirty-two bushels per acre, with a large, stout stalk, well 
‘headed. ‘The crop was harvested on the 4th of July, escaping all vermin infesting 
