The Daily Dispatch: July 24, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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The crops below.

--Our visit to Pensacola gave us a passing view of many of the plantations on the line of the railroad, and although we were prepared to see extraordinary crops of corn, we had no idea that it ever grew to such height as we now behold in this and the county of Lowndes. It seemed that the stalks were 25 to 30 feet high. The care were going too fast to enable us to see the average number of cars to the stalk, but the yield must be great. Lower down, in the counties of Butler and Conecuh, corn had not grown so tall, but upon many of the plantations cotton seemed to be as forward and as thrifty as in Montgomery and Lowndes. But cotton in all the counties through which we passed in daylight was not as forward by three weeks as we think would average with previous years upon the same qualities of lands. And there seemed to be nearly twice as much land planted in corn as in cotton.--This statement tallies with the answers we received from inquiries.--Montgomery Mail.