The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-09-02
IRON TIE YAzoo WIG.
AGRICULTURAL LETTERS FROM YAZoO

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AGRICULTURAL LETTERS FROM YAZoO
SWAMP, NO. III.
In my last letter, looked over the wen known
fact Of the great disparity in prices between the
higher and lower qualities Of cotton; the compa-
rative healthtalness Of the market Of the former.
and the exceedingly glutted and depressed state
OF the latter. The consequences is, the entire un-
Prohta bleness Of making inferior OF common cot.
ton for sale. ! limited at the well known fact that
inferior cotton costs the planter more labor than
tne; and, as it lie only worth half as much per
pound, and the expenses Of getting Il to market
being the same per bale, twas double the amount
per cent. In other wOrds, if bale of fine cotton
expends Sl2 in getting to Liverpool, and is worth
$40, il viii also cost Sl2 10 get to the same mar
ket $40 worth Of inferior cotton. The utter IN.
prohtableness OF making low priced cotton in this
country too apparent TO need any further remark
Our planters must con6ne their export production
to the inner qualities But what is to be done with
the stained and trashy cotton, is the inquiry.
In the first place, plantation labor ought 10 be
so directed asthat the proportion ofnferor cotton
will be much less than il has heretofore been
/ III smaller crop OF cotton be planted, so as to
make, instead of 100 bales, half above and half
below the midway samples, let the crop BE small
or, so that the same picking labor will bes spent on
about, cay 40 bales This will enable the same
hands to handle this cotton so that so or so Of
those bales may be above the middle samples, and
in the LOT but ten, II most but fifteen or twenty
even Of d very bad season, that will range below.
And who will say that the latter lot Of 20 bales
/ is not worth more to the planter than the former
Iof 1907
Now suppose, in The one case, 81 full erOp,n a.
II Is termed, be made. Il is impossible 70 pick
land handle Il Rs 20 have any very large portion
Of thine. Il will Be least half II not two.thlTds
/ below the midway samples. And IN the other
case, 1t the whole crop be reduced thirty per cent.
seven or eight If not nine bales in every ten, may
be made hne, and leaving very small proportion
OF inferior. This will leave on third Of the pian-
taton cottOn-tield labor previous 70 the Let Of
August for other uaee than raising cotton. I will
appropriate that labor G very easy lask1 after ,
while. And suppose the inleEivT colfon--the tive
bales in ten--be made still inferior 20 any vet
made; that is, let II be picked and handled with
less laboTthan any now is so g % cost the plan-
ter as little as possible Il L Sc picked ever 90
trashy and kept dry, tho Tin will make Cotton 81 L
that can be manufactured o. easy GO any atN
moreotef.it Is IS slroat 81 any. But where IS faa
MARKET for Ii? Lam asked. be finest anQ most
accessible narketln tho world one elNeye cons
staht and ready good p geod prices 1ne lerf
Ikalea " eoa's this may seem slrauges 1QK Js
ling what have of the marx t ol tniefeot cotton,
i 4 Ia not know 81 81 people, IN Enrope cr Amer.
en- more the practiea elale q tee pflQn
nj rntton than The pcopl 81 IA Mississippi. sro
Ihnnfine over tie world, and fchine over island
- - go Io 5fsnInelS Of cotton, and Are lrpavn
resio s. anarrbl with every hody how'll not -
g. - Sll nurnoses for viii eli twill nnnwe4
r5 ,se also search ever Statein the onion nf
s5rn. 8irfant counfri os. for somefhiue
that viii answer g 5 substitute tof eQsteu tQ qa