Cotton And Corn

-The official port oí tfce Agricultura! Bureau, jiist isf-ued shows an average increase of cott.-n acreage over last year of rte-irly twelvo per cent. The present condition of the c op B'ands as follows : Florida, two per cent. above the annual average. All the others fall below, viz ; Virginia and Alabfirna, 7 per cent.; Ñorth Carolina, 15 ; South Carolina, 12 ; Georgia and Louisiana, 6 ; Mississipi and Arkansas, 8 ; The acreage cultivatod will fall considerable below that plantod. The weather generally during the last week in M;iy was favorahle, and thcre was a hopeful prospeat that tbs cotton erop would rapidlv improvo. Tho cotton worm and caterplllara havo made an early appearance at variou5 p ints, and are cauaing coiisiderable apprphension of destructive ravages. No estímate of the erop is made. The statiscal returns of corn complete to June lst do nut include aroa and condition, for tho roason that it is too earlj', but notes of correspondenco show that the planting of corn in most sections of the country has been niuch retardad by exoessively wet and cold wmther, and that the ppsts which usually thrive in uch SPjfisons, tho cut worms, have commenced 'extensivo oporations and threaten to greatly dam&ge the erop. An exchansro says : " Some men are boin for a niche." " Yep," tays tha Boston Bulletin," but thoy don'tall come ui to the scratoh."