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Show THE COTTON CROP- ilatcrial Decline in ""prospects During the Month. Ushington, Oct. 13. The October listical returns of the department of culture report a material decline in i;in prospects, a falling of the per- tape from 85.5 to 80. The state aver-, aver-, arc as follows: Virginia 02, North oliua 91, South Carolina 83, Georgia Florida 81, Alabama 80, Mississppi Louisiana 83, Texas 77, Arkansas 80, incsscc83. lie largest deterioration has been in lessee, Mississippi, Alabama and ;isiana, iu the fertile and productive lorn lands of the Mississippi valley. ( cause is too much rain. Excess of siurc, coupled with lack of sunshine I reduced temperature, delays open-- open-- and causes immature bolls to drop 1 full grown ones to rot and induces outing of the seed. The same cause colors the ooen cotton near the mnd, and discharges the' coloring tier of tho bolls, stainings the re. The value of the crop will be iiewhat reduced by discoloration. The high expectations of the early ion were first reduced by early nights, and later more seriously by. ire or less continuous rains from nth Carolina to. Eastern Texas. In more southern districts there is ne complaint of the boll worm,' with lie mention- of the catepillar. The I'ctiveucss of insecticides, when per-lently per-lently applied, is frequently attested. |