The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-20
The Cotton Crop.

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The Cotton Crop.
4. TEsNgssER,- The Mempbis Eagle has the fol
lowing extract FROM a letter-daed Z Whitehall p.
o., Fayette coanty, June 10, = written by gen
tleman who has travelled extensively through
Fayette and Shelby counties:
hecottnn in Shelby, ana thus far in Fayette,
is very small indeed, and lousy; some fields have
-been entirely deyoured Farmers will have to
SOW eAs, as It is too late to plant in corn, they
say, bat such bad cases are not very common -
However, there are few felds,not injured in some
extent. Corn; looks very well since the rains,
though small for the season of year
T, The same paper has d letter from farmer, at
Black Oak Grove, Hurdeman county, dated Odd
.lt, as falowsisls1f II .t.ts1 sff rs sst ~
u, ! scratch this off to inform you that the cotton
crop was never in "a more precarious condition
IN this section OF the country than at the present
time a friend, who has travelle dovera large
portion the surrounding counties informs me that
he saw five thousand acres of land that had been
planted in GOTTEN, and if all the plants on the five
thousand acres could have been transferred into
three hundred acres, there could not have been
good stand Of healthy plants, ! have myself, in
travelling through Hardeman county, seen two or
three hundred acres of cotton land, on which the
plant had been nearly lor entirely destroyed by
iosects; some say that 1t has been destroyed by
poisonous dew.,
MlssissirrL44Th Fort Gibson He, laid, which
believing that constant and premature prognost-
cations Of failure of the cotton crop, do more
harm than good, has waited long to speak know
lpgly on the subject, says the prospect of the
cotton crop was never so bad in Claiborne thus
late an the season as at present. Ii does not think
more than half crop can be calculated upon in
at country, and believes the state of the crops
,here to be good indication of the prospects
throughout the whole cotton region. Most well
informed writers the subject fully agree with it,
n LouIsIANA.--The Concordia lntelligencer Of the
9th states 1.-THE prospects Of the cotton crop
IN Concordia and Tensas Parishes or rather in
those portions that have not been injured by the
water, are in no way fattering. The cutworm,
we were told yesterday by an experienced planter
IN the lower part of our Parish, has made its APP
pearance, and has already done and is doing much
damage. A @ "
'sThe abundance of wet weather of late has
covered the cotton and corn fields with grass, and
entirely prevented poughing. Those whose long
experience IN cultiyating cotton and whose opn-
ion, is entitled to much respect say that under the
most favorable auspices, picking must commence
stleast, one month later than usual, and will re-
tluire season and fall in all respects similar to
1889 to insure two-thirds Of a crop.
''The water is receding in the swamp. A large
number of places which have been partly or en-
i.rely covered are now out Of water and ready for
the seed. (" tf}
All Of ourlate exchange papers, from North
Louisiana and Mississippi, and the South part of
the cotton crop far from being promising
ALABAMA.-The following is an extract from a
letter to the Editors, dated:
''BENToN, Lowndes co. (Aa.) July 6, 1850.
Gas see by your paper that you feel an inter-
est in the growing crop, and having noticed
statement relative to the crops in our section,
would it be amiss in me to give you one | live
in one Of the farest farming portions Of our State,
and have never, after residence of eleven years,
seen such a miserable, such gloomy prospect
for the farmers as the present. Our cotton crops
ire from four to SIX weeks behind. From causes
the same as those you hear everywhere, the plant
over hundreds and hundreds of acres, will not
average foot high. The first blooms | saw and
Heard of this year We're on the Goth June, and
low the worm and red rust have made their APP
pearance, and more of the worm than is usual al
This season. As late and fair fall as last year
cannot make us half the cropsi if it is the general
condition Of the crop. OF course there are a few
exceptions, but none that heard from expect
full crop"
FLoRpA.-The Tallahassee Sentinel says:
'sWe suspect there will be corn enough made
in Leon, but doubt about the counties East of u.s.
With regard TO cotton, the dry weather stunted
the growth of the plant, and produced prema-
lure development of the forms. Now the question
we are told is, whether this showery, clan,my
warm weather, will not give the plant such an
impetus in growth, so change its substance from
tibrous and shrubby to tender and herbacious,
as to cause it to shed and drop the forms. If so,
all will depend on long season and late frosts.
GEoRcA.-The Augusta Sentinel of Wednes-
day, says #,>1'.~ "t "44 ..."s
"The reports that we daily receive of the grow
ing crop confirm our former statements OF back
wardness of the growth and bad stand, and we
have not the first planter who thinks he win
make as mnch last year, and most Of them
say that half as much is more than present APP
: pearances indicate. The crop at present is two
weeks later than last year, and all that made our
crop TURN out as hvorably as it did, was the very
late fall "A killing frost was not seen until near
Christmas. Should we have afavorable season
and late fall, the prospect may improve. r
ID Drying PLANTs-Plants may be dried in