Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-12-01
From the Jefferson Independent. The Cotton Cron

The Cotton Crop.
 It Is singular fact, that while almost every paper in the south and west are teeminq with accounts ot the prospects of the cotton crnns you and your brothers of the press, in our State, are profoundly silent on this to us all-important theme. Are we Of so little importance-s our grade Tn the cotton market so low as to be un worthy passing notice in your aught-to-be- generally circulated paper? If we do not now. we certainly will soon, rank amongst the first cotton growing States of the Union. It is a generally conceded fact that the Arkansas and Red river lands are the best cotton lands in the world, especially the former; not that the land Is any better-lt IS probably not so rich as either the Mississippi or Red river bottoms-lut the climate and soil seems so peculiarly adapted 10 the growth of this, might almost say. worsbiD ped plant, or. as it has been appropriately called, the white God of Arkansaw." Lands in this valley that few years ago could almonst be had for the asking; in fact, the greater ,ortion of it was entered with swamp land scrip for twenty-five cents per acre, and paid for bv the purchaser, by huding levee along his front to protecJ him from the high water; thereby paying for his land by improvingi it. But mark, what change! Those same lands are worth fifty, seyenty-ive, and some has been sold for as much as one hundred dollars per acre- Thefe Is now almost a continual line of fence from Pine Bluff t) the mouth of the river--a great many beautiful farms-and some of them very handsomely improved Notwthsanding the overflow in the spring and the back water afterwards, every planter from the White river cutoff have splendid crops, with only two or three exceptions; some of them better than they ever had. Our cotton is free from the thou sand and one insects and diseases that distress and annoy the rest of the cotton growing world generally. The only drawback to our complete success in the culture of this plant, is the river 1t occasionally takes mad freak, and gives Us a cold bath making sad havoc on some of the farms, but if our Governor continues the active eXertions he has been using for some time past. we will soon have continuous line of sub5tan- tlal levee from the mouth up to the head of nayigation.
 lew years ago, our planters were more in- tereSted about the quantity than the quality of thelr cotton They were trying to make It. tie more money, 10 buy few more negroes, to make d little more cotton, etc, of late wears; however they are paying more attention to the science of cotton raising. Our country is swarm ng wiih agents, selling improved patents for gn stands and presses, fine cotton seed etc.
 
 been experimenting with different kinds of cot ton seed, The Boyd proliic," from its pecu- liar adaptation to the soil and climate, it's tre- mendous yield and early maturity, recommends itself as being the very best that we have.-- Some of the accounts of the yield of this cotton are almost mcred ble.
 On the plantation of Messrs Farrelly $ Moore in Arkansas county, in 1857. a small piece of land Was planted in this seed for an experiment. It produced three bales per acre. A. o. Dong lass, esq, of Arilatsas county, planted thirty | acres ot land that had been in cultivation more than thirty years, which produced O,5OO pounds more than two bales per acre. These are facts well woTthy the attention of every planter. Several of the river planters obtained 2 lev seed ltst season, and they give general satisfaction.
 Messrs. Lee & Dougl lss have their entire plantation planted thi, year in the Boyd pro- ilhc sect, and their crop will excee by at least oGe-thlrd what they org' ally anticpuei.- Persons wishing to test their virtues can .e. them by appy yingtp these gentlemen or to Mir Chadwick, below Napoien, who has printed circulars distributed for inc sale of them. would rrcommeui every one to give them a fair trial
 fl y"u will revive the railroad subject and get 1t completed, this part of Arkansas will be the garier spot 1.-the world for cotton planters. lis only tauI. now iS the inconvenience that oc- casionalIy occurs for getting our cotton out of the river and treights up. The bottom of the rtyer once in every two or three years comes too close to the surface for the convenience and | welfare of si"Hm1nats Such is the case now. ! Capt. John D Atlm, haS three frso class Ar 1 Eaasaw h'as, aG the roouta nf the siyer, N at- ns t"r lttte ~lover 70 s;trs un. l. would | ba us.i9s, flor me to ,iv, oh, or Whcgcfpre, the ra'iroI should ne built Iler' h,> o.el too muah gas expended on ir now; if ly "pc-haH | ot 1t hai n.4n ac,ull I.DNr the road would have been com i4.eI, iu acfi,e aperaJou, aai a d'y.denr nI l.ty pnr ce1t left. l. 'ae planters on the rver wruld combine their forea they could build the road jo fitiaeu dtvs Stir about | $ some Of Nour u hu .,s'' to make a ~l leoch 1 f t cln ooly be revived once m,re 1t Will be | completed.
 i This is he prediction of TITUS.