The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-10-03

the Crops.
The Selma Gala Reporter, of the 18Th inst |,
says Of the cotton crop We are informed
By intelligent planters that nearly ss III, all the
adjoining counties. will be gathered BY the last OF
October or FIRST oe November. Almost all the bolls
on the stalk are open. This fact Is sufficient to
wages Of the boil worm have reduced the crop in
the praries and canebrake at least one-haf below
what it promised to be short time age. The
crop Of cotton this year in Alabama must, from all
accounts fall considerably below that Of the last"
The editor Of the Eutaw Gala Vhg, who has
been absent for some time travelling through por-
tions Of Perry, Shelby and Talladega counties, says
in his paper Of the 18th inst, that he found gene.
corn was selling at 81 25 per busbel, in the
field, and the citizens anticipated that it
would coon be worth 81. The cotton crop
varied with the land, the cultivation and the
rains. Some portions, scattered all along the
route, were more highly favored than others, and
produced better; but generally the plants were
small, and the hollis few in number. number OF
gentlemen who had been travelling all over the
South, enc in Tennestee and North Alabama, an
other in South Carolina and Georgia, and others,
With u.s. smaller sections OF the country, united
in their belief that the cotton crop Of this season
could not equal that Of last year. gentleman
just returned from visit to many of the planta-
lions below Eutaw, in the Fork, informed the
Droerat that the cotton crop Tor the previous week
or ten days had been blooming and bearing better
to the result, there are various opinions many be-
leying that from the second growth nothing can be
expected whilst others are hoping that, With lase
frost, good top crop may be gathere1. Snoad
tainly be shorter than they have ever been before
We are happy to learn, remarks the Democrat, that
the corn crops are better than anticipated before
the fodder was pulled. go.
lave been favored with letter Of late date, from
the CT octaw Agency, from which We extract the
following -" In regard to the crops, would say
that IL Is no cxaggeration that the cotton crops,
from nemopoli, to Stalkylc, Miss (Which have
sotn,) will no. average over bali what they did last
year; from Demopolis to Warsaw, those saw on the
sandy lands will not average over 20Olbs seed cotton
Ier acre. Mr. Il told me tia. his crop would no; ave-
rage over 800 lbs, and that his crop, With but fe
exec ptops was about average one OF his section
The planters from Demorolis 70 Starkville, with
but few exceptions, VIII make, with ,lose economy,
enough to do them, and many OF those planting
prairie lards will have some TO spare. From War
saw to StsIk,ille, think the cotton crop will ave-
rage 400 TO GOO lbs. (secd) to the acre, and many
planters who cultivate fat paific and slough lands
viii make fio IN SEQ to go lbs. Per acre. In the
vicinity Of Vienna, pickers county, they arc making
neither corn nor cotton--say Of the former y or ;
bushels per acre, ard Of the latter 200 to 20 lbs to
" e learn nom tic Greensborough Miss Beacon,
OF the 20th tina, planters in that vicinity are re-
porting ore favoraby in regard TO the cotton crop,
and the im pression was becoming quite general
that the yield on most OF tae black and slough
lands will exceed that Of last year Prom the thin
fardy lands the accounts continued uniayorable.
The iegion lying south Of the ridge road leading
from Marion TO Erie, will probably make more cot,
ton than last year, whilst that lying north VIII
make less.
The WATERFOWL Cwis) Chronitis states that
| tome twenty acres in Jefferson county have been
cultivated Tor tobacco, and with the most complete
succcss, demonstrating conclusivcly that the coil
and climate Of that portion OF wisconsin are suited
| TO the growth OF this plant The average profit Of
the crop is estimated at $50 Per acre. gentleman
in Milford who has raised six acres from Cuba and
Conn ectcut seed, says that he has never seen the
plant grow more thriily in Cuba than 1t does upon
| his own plantation.