Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-09-21
THE COTTON CROP

I ALABAMA. Lie - -
We regret to learn that the worm has, within
the last ten days, been making disastrous ravages on
| the cotton Many crops which month since prom
sed fair Yield are now destroyed by this pest of
the staple The only reasonable mode to get rid of
this evil for all planters in the neighborhood to
adopt the practice Fighting fires for an hour at dusk
in the fly The efforts of few scattered plan
tiers through large district will effect nothing to
eradicate the destroyer if the of their neghbors
make no efforts Any one who has observed the eff
feet of single light stand in destroying the fly du
ring the period of its incubation, must be satisfied
of its value if generally adopted From present ap-
pearanceS we are led to the opinion that the crops
of this section will fall below that of last season.
which was under fair average
MISSISSIPPI The Salem Miss Reporter, ofthe LIST
inst, says:
We are informed that worms not only running
the cotton but they have entered into corn fields and
are committing serious injuries upon young Germ
They eat the blades of the stalk, thus leaving it
ked.4
The Macon (Niiss) Beacon of the Oath ult says :
For the four weeks past we have had to report
heavy rains. The month of August had been wet
month, which we hear from every quarter will be
most disastrous to the cotton. The worm is also We
ry destructive.
The Marion (Niss) Republican, of the 10th ult,
says:
The cotton crop in this county will be short one.
The ravages ofthe boil worm are almost beyond COM
putation squares, small boLs and boils matured and
opening are attacked by the worm without discrimi
nation. The weather is now fair, and perhaps the
ravages of the worm will be checked if we can have
a week or two Of sunshine.
The Yazoo Democrat of the 31st ult., says:
On last Saturday we had the hardest rain that
have seen for several months The weather still con-
tnues hot and showery with great deal of thunder
and lightning The cotton crop promises fair, If it
does not have too Iauch rain.
THE CROPS A very reliable planter i'll Marshall
county Miss, writes follows to the Memphis
Wing of the 31st, about the cotton crop in that
county The army worm and rust are playing great
havoc with the crop throughout this section far
I can learn"
LOUISIANA. The Shreveport Democrat, of the 25th,
speaking of the weather and crops, says:
cine weather has been dry, too dry for the last
week so. Some plantations suffering for want
of rain, but upon the whole the cotton crop is doing
finely. There is scarcely doubt but that it will be
equal to the crop of last year, taken as whole No
sign of the worm, anything else at present calcu
lated to the profits of the planter. The only
drawback of any description is, that the picking will
be three weeks later than it last year. and
this may diminish the amount to some extent
less we have an unusually favorable season for pick
ing. We have taken pains to ascertain the pros
poets the cotton crop other portions of the South
and have to the conclusion that there must be
falling offseveral hundred thousand bales this year
that the crop of this year cannot possibly reach
three millions of bales. "
The Clinton east Feliciana) Wing of the 31st
says:
"Such season the present, no one here, not
even that universally reVered oracle, the oldest in
habitant, has ever known. Since about the first of
May it has rained here nearly every day The health
of the different neghborhoodsis generally good. The
effects of much moisture have however, been dis
astrous to the cotton crop. The bottom crop will be
almost total loss 1t is computed at almost nothing
by every planter we have conversed with. If the
rains were to cease for awhile and frost
not to until late in October, the middle and top
cotton would perhaps make out two-thirds of crop
in this parish"