The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-09-03
Crops.

Crops. =
South Carolina The Charleston Is. ca Mer.
curry of the 2Sth ut. has been favored with the
following extracts Of letters from most rsIiable
sources, relative to the effects of the recent storm
on the cotton crops. H..
,BpIsTo IssA1D. August 8.
Never since was a.plantsr have witnessed so
great devastation ~ was effected by the gale Of
Yesterday. Up to Saturday night the cotton crops
In this neighboFh00d were extraordinarily great
now they are worse than have ever known them
excepting perhaps in the caterpillar years. II is
least one half. Ny own loss will amount 70 moro
than one hundred bales. Barring storms and cater
pillars, would not have taken for my crop two
hundred and twenty bales: now | fear shall no.
reach one hundred.
We had at this place on Saturday night, and all
Of Sunday last. the most destructive storm have
ever witnessed the cotton crops are completely
riddled, ruined by one-half at least beyond all re-
covery. write understandingy because / have
seen with my own eyes; it Is impossible for one
half Of a crop 10 be made. have never witnessed
such ruin.
JoHN's ISLAND August rs.
We have had severe gale. Cotton very much
whipped and completely Frustrated. The whole
injury cannot be known in less probably than o
week. The fields present melancholy appear
ance.
Alabams.-Ths Lafayette Tribune of August
- says:
We are informed that in neatly all this county.
a. well - Randolph and Talapoosa, cotton 10 very
poor. Indeed, as far as we can learn, the crop Of
this SECTION will be short decidedly: the cry being,
generally, that planters will not make cetton
enough-at present prices-to pay for the corn
which, m consequence of the drouth, they will be
forced 10 buy. As to corn, the middle and upper
parts Of Chambers, and all of Tallapoo.a and Kan,
doph that we know any thing about, will fail to
make bread In the lower part of Chambers, and
upper part of Russell, the crops are better. Still,
there must be considerable importations of corn
from the West.
Tsnnsssee-The Memphis tTenn.) Appeal Of
the 18th ult says:
The first wagon load Of Eve bales Of new cot
ton Of the crop Of this State was received yeser-
day BY A. o. Harris & Co., from the plantation Of
Gen. Samuel ]. Hays, in this county. In quality
it is strictly middling fair Of fne rich color, but
rather deficient in staple as must be the case with
weather has forced the cotton to premature matu.
rity, and the product Of the uplands especially,
must be not only deficient in staple, but greatly
deficient in quality We have the most reliable
and undoubted evidence from nearly the whole
country back of this that the crop turn out
more than three thousand pounds Of seed cotton to
the acre. The bottom lands, and here and there
an isolated farm where they have had an occasional
rain, will do better, but even on these favored
spots, since the late rains the forms and small bols
have fallen OF, and the yield will not be great as
il would have been if the dry weather had con-
tnued. The plant has ceased to bloom ON the bot
tom as well a. the uplands and while we have
every thing to fear from excessive rains, we have
but little to gain by the most favorable weather in
regard to the quantity produced, for the crop is
nearly matured that on many farms more than one
half Of the cotton 10 already open and while those
at distance unacquanted with the facts, are pre-
dieting large crop from its going forward 90
much eayer than vsvinl vva Win ara in the vnidaf
Of it, know that this fact argues exactly the CON.
trary, and whatever may be the effect Of the drouth
in other places, We speak BY the card when we
say that in the western district Of Tennessee and
north Mis.is,ipP the half Of an average crop can.