New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-24
The Crepss

The Msmphp EsgIe says that the crops IN tina
vicinity both Of corn and Cotton are suffering Tor
want OF rain.
TIE Laraea trexRs) Commercial has been in
formed by several respectable planters from the
ne,phborhood Of Petcri burgh, that the crops are
unusually good In that section this season. The
Weld OF corn ana cotton will be abundant
letter dated Augusta, Gs. Aug q, says that
tho accounts received from planters and 1Iherl rom
The up county are very unfavorabe 10 the growing
crop one planter Is nov IN, who made about oAe
hundred bales last year. aod chsrs to sell me enu'e
crop Of this year for ity baes He planted as much
land as ne old lAst year. Other planters are WIN
drawing their old crops from the market.
The Columbus Is o Telegraph says tha' mere
is 10 prospect Of fall cop either OF cora or o''''n
in that district.
A letter dated Baruwen Court House, s. c Al
gust 4th, rays:
1t has fallen to my lot, in taking the census, %
have apretty good view OF the crops o. tAis 80
In many places the dry weather hs pfevsied W
such an extent that people will not make enough
bread TO do them in others, toe crops are
and in Afew plsces they are excellent. Ine DC I,
corn crop that have seen, belongs 70 ~ -
Brown, and appears not 10 nave - M,
rain Crops IL The upper part OF tne $3.50
;. .oo3 "a those ia toe lower. A1e ~n"'o "t'S'D'
q nsyaly zed with dry weather and cia
IT, colloxing is an extract from letter 70 TOO
L.. IF the Savannah Republican. iron & mef
osntiIe firm in Macon, dated August "a;
awe notice in your paper OF the @ytu' snas 20
,;on the receipt Of the first open boil oil oo'toh'
7, 80, m corroborste what has been 80 uniformly
"a about the backwardness of the growing crop.
IN the Doth July 1919, we received Ia macon tue
6r.t bale of new cotton. This year, we suppose
ona cannot be sent in before the 10Th lns.' ana
perhaps later. We have just returned rom
sbort excursion to the west OF Macon and we think
a no
ip the season. Ii 10 q matter OF general remark
among plsnterE that there 10 bu. little irdlt upon
cotton. There is a fearful drOu,h prevailing here
and west OF Us, 70 far as heard from. Cne crops
have already sustained serious injury, and tits now
too late in the for the IN ufes to be repaired
The CoTToS CRoP.-The AIerndria La RePub
lean tays that the prospect OF tne Cotton crop
in that parish never was better t0an ltls a.
| TIE RfDubiicda saws: The excessively not
weather and drouth that have prevailed Tor about
| a month past are Just what was required by our
rich soi 10 bring out the late. and at trst, OWING
! 10 the cold wet weather in the early part oil the
season unpromising crop. The planters generally
now expect TO make es much as tney Gao pssloly
nick. always provided that the caterpillar. very
wet fall or something else don't prevent it. But
thoueh the crop 10 good here, il is not generally so
throughout the cotton growing region The long
drouth has injured the cotton Ia the upisnds, AND,
much cotton land in this State and Mississippi that
ON an average produced lOO,UUO oales, mas oeeh
oyerHowed, and will not yield 1000 bales. Hence
there cannot be large crop Of cotton made this
year under any circumstances.
The Alexandria Democrat says that the genuine
caterpillar has appeared in that vicinity.
The FarmeruilLe Union PARISH Enquirer rays,
that with fine weather and favorable fall an
average crop Of cotton may be made in that parish.
The Miaden claiborne PARISH Herald OF the esn
inst. says: From every portion ofthe surrounding
country the accounts concerning the crops are
cheering The corn crop il generally firstrate ;
and il is believed that if the continues good,
and the worm does not appear, there will be an
average cotton crop made
The Primitive Republican published at Columbus
Miss says 1.-THE weather still continues extreme
ly dry ard airy, the thermom eter ranging durlng
the sst few days from 9lo to 9s9 in the shade. Op'
pressiye as is q continuance Of such weather, we
are recopcied to it on account OF our planting
friends, whose prospects for cotton crop are much
improved by this state Of things. The crop still
promises well in this region while many OF the
planters are resorting to various expedients Tor de-
stroying the flies from which 1t is supposed that the
boil worm proceeds.
The Greensboro (Aa) Beacon says that IN con-
sequence of the hot dry weather the cottenn rapid
ly shedding it's forms and squares.