North Carolina standard., 1850-11-02
THE COTTON CROP.

We copy ffem our exchanges the following items il
relation 70 the Cotton crop in Tennessee stlabama
and South Carolina: !
ALABAMA. learn from the North Albanian o
the llth inst published at Tuscumba, that the drout
m thatqnarte has been as protraced and severe as in
the best information it can gather, will fall short OF
an averageat least one-third in the Tennessee Valley
some say one half. The late continued dry weather
has affected cotton njuriously in some portions of the
Valley by preventing the top balls from maturing.
Inc same weather. however, has enabled the planters
to gather the staple in fine order. There has been
several slight frosts during the past ten days.
letter TO the Mobile Tribune, dated Conecnh,
Oct 10. says: The cotton is now nearly all made and
opening rapidly. 1t will be an early harvest, and
planters about here begin 10 calculate with an assu-
rance OF certainty, the number of bales they will
make this season, and not of ten expects more
than twohirds of an average CROP while we are sat-
lshed from personal observation that the yield in this
section will not suffer in comparison with other parts
OF the State. Thus it proves almost to mathemati
Cal demonstration that the crop in Alabama will be
short" The weather is such as to preclude the
possibility of anything now maturing. Corn may be
IN proportion to cotton both in product and price.
TENNESSEE. The Memphis Eagle of the 9Th inst.
says: " We have seen several gentlemen from the
country, who Inform that the frosts were severe
and have done all the injury that frosts could do
the notwithstanding the small bolls, and iDjuring
more or less those not matured. The backward cot
ton In bottom lands still vigorously growing is of
course greatly injured. Had the frosts kept off two
or three weeks longer, at least per centum more
would have been made. We doubt now if but little
more than full hafcrop will be realized this season..
COTTON. A letter dated Black Oak Grove, Harde-
man county, Tennessee, October 8, says: " At diff
terent periods of the present year gave you the
dt,on and prospects of crop in this section
Of the country. being ohe best sections in this
State for the growing of cotton all tending show
the crop would be short, though when commenced
picking found, with favorable fall, should make
more cotton per than had anticipated during the
working and growing season. Since commenced
picking found wherever the rust made its appear
ance, (Which was pretty generally the cotton had ta
Ken the second growth, producing over ratio of
sap, and causing the bolls tall from the diseased
stalk, and shielding others from the sgh but after all
othlsand since the planters in this section of the
try have consoed themselves underline insuperable
msfortunes that have befallen them during the pres
ent year in regard their crop, the morning of the
9th OF this month there cold, heavy, killing
frost. which will insure onethrd shorter crops than
if it had stayed off four weeks longer.''
The END OF THE SEASON. A gentleman brought
about eight miles from the City the other side of
the Ashley. 1t completely withered from frost.
This, then, settles the question of the The
cotton plant is killed, and whatever hopes depended
on late frost killed with it. In large part of
this State and perhaps of the whole cotton region, it
will do no harm. The most had been already made
of the crop, and the plant had nothing left which
even a month of fine weather could have brought to
profit. But this was not everywhere the case. But
the frosts puts all level. We may now begin
estimates of the crop on definite and reliable ev
idence. The case is made up.
Charleston Mercury.