them to try every method of checking the
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them 10 try every method of checking the evil.

 The boH acorm is the most insidious enemy of the two. Until this year, have heard but few complaints of it in the hill. and have hitherto had no opportunity for examining into it's history, etc. This season, however, it has not only done great injury to the low. land crops, but has cut off, at very mode- rate estimate, twenty per cent of many hill crops. l have seen on single stalks, and these by no means single instances, from one 10 two dozen or more boIls, when as large as small hickory nut, completely eaten out, leaving nothing but the hull of the boil, hole being open on one side, from which the destroyer made his exil. 1 shall take as early a chance as in my power, 10 speak of this insect. And, in the meantime, would feel particularly obliged by any infor- malion on the subject of either this or the ca terpllar, addressed to me al Washington, Miss.

 Cotton picking proceeds very slowly. We have heavy shower of rain almost every day |; and the weather is so moist and rk, that very great quantity is rotting-sedom less than ten or twelve bolls 10 the stalk in my own crop, where at all rank. We have lost our best months picking. The days begin 10 get short now, and the mornings and evenings cool, when a negro's fingers lose all suppeness.

 And have more than once remarked, I should greatly regret seeing cotton go up to any inflated price. But at the same time, il is great folly for any planter to allow his present short crop 10 be sold, until he knows how great lhe deficit is likely to be. A suf. ficienl number ,oiN De compelled to sell early, as is always the case.

 THOMAS AFFLECK.