New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-12-01
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BLACK RIVER, La, Nov. %, Isl


which certainly are the only tokens to be found in
the city press that such class Of men exist as cot
ton producers, or men who have any interest in the
crops they make and ship to the great commercial
city of New Orleans. Under these circumstances,
your correspondent takes the liberty of giving to You
some Of the views Of the class alluded to, and to
which he belongs on the subject of the present cot
ton crops, and on certain matters connected with the
cotton market. AS to the crop Of this year it may
exceed the crop of last year but in the opinion of
the writer the excess, if any, will be but trifiug
there never has been season, when, in this region
and if the writer is correctly informed throughout
the cotton growing districts, much cotton was
gathered in September when the bulk of the crop
was out Of the fields 50 early as has been the case
this fall, Here in middle Louisiana, the 10th of
October is considered the middle of the picking sea
son. BY that time this fall, many planters had gath
cred eight bales of cotton to the hand some by the
18TH had gathered ten bales to the hand full crop
in any season on any land The crop was gathered
the exceedingly dry and favorable weather Of August
and September caused the bulk of the crop to open
in the latter month, and the more cotton you have
open to the acre the more you can pick if we had
had the cotton this season. if it had held out the
last half of the season. we could have picked twenty
cotton picking has been Of that character called
"gleanng," the last bolls opened by late maturity
FROST etc, In this region good crop has been gath
ered and that by the LIST Of November. In the most
favorable seasons hitherto to get the last Of such
crop as has been gathered this season. it would take
every day until the LIST of January, OF course gin.
ming and shipping have kept pace with the gathering
of the crop and thus have in the language of the
TivprDOn cirnularS increased recnfntS Mt mprican
ports and causing, according to the said circulars,
increased decline in cotton. No greater crop has
been made than hitherto made in favorable seasons,
Or than was made last year, but it was gathered ear
ier than was ever before known The crop all opened
in September, and as has been remarked, the more
cotton you have open the more you can pick. When
cotton is just opening, asis usually the case during
the first days Of September, few bos to the stalk,
the bsst hand works all day at his task Of picking
and gets not oneourth the weight he does during the
same time when the cotton isopen at the rate Of one
thousand or twelve hundred pounds to the acre The
latter was the case this season. The cotton was ma
tured and opened by the favorable weather in the
early days OF September earlier than ever known be-
fore and by consequence was out Of the eldsearI
than ever known, This is the explanation of in
creased receipts at American ports. There is limit
to production; had our cotton fields this year pro-
duced double what cotton ever does, or produce,
we could have pickedit These facts well known
to planters and the fact also being well known to
them, that they have made no m9re than they made
last year they do not see the necessity Of accedng
any decline, which is regularly announced by steamer
from Europe nor do they see the propriey of their
cotton selling at the prices fixed according to the
views aud notions Of English buyers.
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