The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-07-11
IRE Cotton Crop.

FURTHER REPORT FROM THE SOUTHERN sTATEs.
GALVESTON, July 10.-The Cotton Ex-
change crop-report says the weather since
the 1st Of June has been very favorable In
forty-one counties and unfavorabIe in four
teen, while fifteen report excessive rains.
Compared with last year, the weather has
been the same in twelve counties, more IA
yorable in thirty-two counties, and less Ia
yorable In tWenty-six. There has. been a
small increase In planting since last report.
In four counties, due to the wheat failure,
the stands are good; in sixty-four, very
poor; in six the plant is blooming,
and 1! boiling well iE fifty-fve; while
in fifteen excessive rains have caused
too rapid growth. The present con-
dition is good in forty-three, poor in
sixteen, and very poor in two counties
same Us last year in nine counties. In
twelve counties, the report is three weeks
late, in twenty four two weeks late, and in
thirty-four} same as last year. The cater
pillars appeared, and are doing some dam
age In four counties. - ~
AUGUSTA, July 10.-The Cotton Exchange
report for June shows that forty-one replies
have been received from nineteen counties.
The weather has been favorable since the
10th OF June. THERE'S no increase in acre
d
per cent. The condition OF the crop is
about the same as last year; but.from ten to
fifteen DAYS later. There is some complaint
of lice and cutworms, but no material
change. =" .3 ~
July 10.-The June report
OF the Charleston Exchange covers thirty
ont OF thirty-tw O. counties in South Caro-
lima. The weather has been variable. ElSh-
teen counties, containing two thirds OF the
acreage OF the State, report decrease In
acreage since last report, owing to
bad Stands, &C., grain and corn belng
substituted from two and "a half to
fifteen per cent; that acreage for nine
teen counties being o. decrease OF three
per cent, equal to decrease Tor the
State of two per cent. The. stands are re-
ported fair to good by sixty-four planters,
and bad by thirty-two, in the upper and
middle counties. No blooms are reported
in the lower counties. A few blooms have
appeared in the upper counties. The con-
dillon of the crop is reported by twenty
planters as good, better than last year by
thrty-six, healthy and clear but late ten to
fifteen days, and by forty the fields grassy
and the cotton late. The condition is bad,
and not as good as last year.
MEMPHIS, July 1O-The Memphis Cotton
Exchange reports for June 154 responses;
West Tennessee, Al; North Mississippi, boil;
North Arkansas, 52-arriyed to date DULY
1st), the aggregate Of which shows that the
first week in June was warm, with very dry
weather, the remainder frequent and Excess
siye rains, with little or no replanting aver
age. ; The report shows good stand, with
an average OF nine days later. than last
year, and very grassy, with an estimated
damage of six per cent. from heavy rains,
and the general condition is not so good as
last year. Many state that with a week or
ten days of favorable weather the crop will
be entirely clear. while equally as many
state thatthe plant is growing too much to
weed, and developing but few blooms. The
corn crop, is good, with nine per cent. plant
ing in. June. Average increase Of wheat
over last year Of thirty-four per, cent, and
generally harvested. The grass. oats, and
millet are reported in splendid condition