The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-07-09
~ Comlna Cotton cor.

a.
The following letter from an old friend and quon-
dam comrade Of one Of the editors, j, we venture
to say, entitled to attention. Our friend has made
the growth Of The cotton plant his study for the last
thirteen years, and we are assured that the facts
which he furnishes may be relied upon, for they
have been arrived &C by repeated personal experi-
ments. For example, he has tested the time from
the form 10 the bloom, and from the bloom 10 the
cotton, BY attaching strips Of paper 10 the stalks
with the day Of HE month marked on them, and
watching them daily. We commend his letter to
the particular attention Of the commercial and
planting public, and we trust that in due season
shall hear from our correspondent again: lSavan-
nah Republican, June 2l
JETFERsoE COUNTY, (Ga.) June 70.
You Mr.. Editor, and !, received cur education
at a school where we We're never permitted 10 take
bars assertion proof any fact, but were taught
that certain rules governed every thing, and Gall
things being The salne] that these rules never va
riadthat as certain laws governed the revolution
Of the earth and tie planets around tile sum- 20 a
So other laws govern the growth and yield Of frnits
and plants. If this be true, Is cotton exception
If not, why do we see IN every paper we read,
published at the South, such contradictory accounts
Of the plant from The same sections Of countryl Il
is from ignorance in those Of Us who plant cotton
and because we have never examined and found
cut the laws that do govern the growth Of this
weed li these laws were properly understood,
these contradictory reports would never be seen.
Knowing certain thinge, we might reasonably cal
enlnte the unknown. There IS one fact known IN
regard cotton, and admitted by all to govern the
amount Of the crop. The fact is early blooming
and here very natural question arises, can any
thing be done 90 remove the injury done to the
plant by late blooming ssas0nl answer no
thing for the maturing Of coitonis thing Of Iime
and all the manures in ihe world will not alter IL
enc single day. assert, that from the first appear
ance Of square or form tn the bloom, twenty-six
days must eiapse, and from the bloom to matured
cotton or open bOli, that thifty-twO DAYS are me-
ff
alter this fixed time. From this you see, if your
cotton Is late ih the spring, al you do will not
make up for the time il has lost for with cotton the
Old adage is strictly true, Time once lost can nev
er he regained." Now apply what is said above
70 the present crop, and what are the facts Last
year the cotton crop was in full bloom, tmy farm
book tells me } on the 10Th of June this year cot
ton will not be in bloom before the lst Of Juv any
where 10 Middle Georgia. | say SO, because have
seen the crops Ia Washington, Warren Richmond
Hancock and Jefferson, and am honest in the as
sertion, that | have seen no Geld, the cotton in
which would average eight inches ia height to The
stock. And though 'ts nOnsensical 70 pretend at
ihs time to predict what the crop will be- all who
do not wish 10 see their names in the papers as
having had cotton bloom, will agree with me
that cotton never before at this season gave pro
mise Of so poor a yield. Yet in this State, should
the weather be favorable and frost remain off LATER
than usual, we shall make average crops Of cotton
To Alabama, where the boil worm and the cater
pillar commence on cotton about the LIST of Septem.
Der, and destroy all bos thatare not hard by that
iime. The crop can at this time be estimaied-and
the first bloom have seen mentioned in the Ala
bama papers, was the llih Of June, leaving onlv
fifty days till the boil worm commences its ravaees
land the first blooms In Mississippi and Louisiana
were seen she 9Th Of Juae, leaving only fifty Eve
days before the worm makes its visit 10 those
States. The blooming season is very late for those
States, the average usual time being Oh the both
Of June. From these statements, agree with
your correspondent Of Beair, Fa., that the crop
Of 1851 will prove as great failure as has been
known for several years past" JEFFERSON