The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-26
Total bales PA 4e9 I6.442 o72ais 57,57s 1855 6OI
Increase 4%5,OT
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Decrease.... 3632 $3.50
1t appears by this that the increase aggregate ex
ports foreign ports up the latest dates this year.
compared with the corresponding period last has been
equal to about thirty per cent ana the increase in
shipments to northern ports equal to about
forty-two per cent The receipts this season up to
the dates show increase of about twenty
per cent 1t will be that while the aggregate in
in exports has been but about thirty per cent
the shipments to Great Britain have been more than
fifty per cent larger this season than last.
The Southern papers filled with accounts of the
disastrous effect of the recent cold and stormy weather.
and the complaints so universal that we cannot
but believe that the damage has been very great That
it has been as extensive represented, is how
ever very doubtful. Even in the event of the young
cotton plant having been cut Off, the season is
not too far advanced for repantins and as for the
statements that there is scarcity of seed it is only
necessary to refer to the large receipts thus Of
the crop which maturcd last fall, to show the utter
falsity of such q story. We have no doubt but that
at this moment there are stacks of seed in the
vicinity Of every gin house in the cotton growing
ton of the country and that there is enough seed to
replant the crop dozen times We apprehend
very little danger from this source frem the late
ness of the season in starting crop The only
danger early frost in the fall but this would
be removed by favorable summer. We have known
good crops harvested from planting as late the mid
die of May That the crops, grain as well cotton
have been injured can doubt but that the in
jury is fatal, for moment believe, after
carefully reading all the accounts and noting the dis
crepances in the statements The reports from some
sections of the country state that the young cotton
plant has all been Off when the reports of week
previous stated that in consequence of draugat the
plant had not terminated, and tears entertained
that planting would have to be resorted to to en-
sure q crop. We disposed to believe all we
hear destruction Of crops by frost freshes
knowing well the influences brought to bear upon the
few weeks WILL doubt, change the whole COM
plexon of things in the South and the result will be
more favorable than is now generally anticipated We
have the crops of sections of country which
been completely blackened by frost, and all appear
ancee entirely destroyed, recover under the influence
of favorable weather. and turn out finely and pro-
ductive as any other. Late seasons by no means
unfortunate experience has satisfied that as
general thing they the surest, safest and most
prolific This view of the state of this aimportant
staple product doubt appears extraordinary in the
trary from the growing sections Of the country but we
feel confident that time will prove the correctness of
the position assumed.
The annexed statement exhibits the production and
consumption of sugar for the past four years
mate for present year. together with the stock on
the S1st of March, in each year The quantity is put
down in tons
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