New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-13
Crops.

Crops.
Col Pitts, Of the Brookhaven journal VIA i
Jus. ao#n from Lawrence county, Migs. informs
Us mat the cotton crop all along Pearl river and
vicinity ls hoarlshing that some planters haga q
prospect Of making one bale per acre, ana tbst
the gtloLs county, on an average, will make halfa
bale to the acre.
Texas CRoP IrEMs,--Friends from .Polk eogy.v,
says the Huntsville item. contradict tile renngFsf
the cotton worm being there. Tie pr0apeets for ]
good crop are higaly astteriae.f IN our o7vn
county too, the visits ef the boHdestroyiaq FoynY
nave been very partial, and the chances are fhe
cotton viii fod the worst worm when II pefs into
the factors no. manufacturerss-h hands, ~s-iT0
taose interested We know these will be good tid-
The Central Texas Record, published at AnIer
son, GfInes county, reports the corn crop Of that
poor. -
The Henderson Times says that the cotton crop
IN Rusk county has been badly injured by dry
weather. and that the boll-Yoffn has made lis IN.
pearance on some plantations
The Palestine News, Of thes2Bd uIt., says. We
had fine, soaking rain On Tuesday rtht yrsEfel
was opportute for cotton, and places II kspond
danger, SO far as droUth il concerned. WeIearn
the rain was general north of this. Nov tsvTa
wise Providence save US from the boll.w0rm hor
cholera and pOison-toothsd radiealism.
The same paper says: We have Just had a con.
yersation with our young friend John Bishop, who
is inst in from trip to Fort Worth, nassings en
route through the coaaties Of Navarro J1llis and
| Tarrant. He reports corn crops az better than
usual this year. a large surplus over home con-
sumption will be made 4s.f -
The wheat CROP thoughnot good is better than
| was thought Immediately after harvest. In
in quantity and quality. He. Of conrse, saw hut
little cotton in those countless as they ara mot
cotton growing. He saw, however, a fields4of
fine cotton. covering some fifteen acres, in Ellis
s-E EaY4T.
for years past Farmers say that the range il
sufficient TO keep stock fat ali through the winter
The people are pursuing their own business
quietly, without much attention to politics, rail-
roads, or anything of that nature Some IN
provement going on in the towns. -4
The same paper atso has the following para
graph:
We have Just learned from our fellow towing
| man, Mr.. Richard Wren, that the boll.Worm has
entered the cotton fields f]his brother, Mf Mar
shall Wren, and is making serious rayages. May
we be spared tue rayages Of such an enemy to
| our interests.
The San Antonio Herald thus 1isconrses CON
cerning the late weather:
I This ID the country ID whichit never rains;
| however, this may be. for some cause or other
we are anticipating another food as We have al
ready been lately deluged. The prospect is that
| all the streams of Western Texas, including the
SaIado and CiboIo, will be naVigable for gum
| boats, and then lock ont for an invasion Of the
| 'tinemy but sure enough what a blessed thing
/ the 1waris .over-we forgot that-so the gunhpat
| won't come.
II has rained this time forty years more than
it ever did, ormore than it teverdid in forty years.
we don't know which, so says the Oldest inhabi-
tant Butreally it has rained very MUCH in this
section lately. 1t wouldn't hurt the country, per
I haps, to have more rain but Uncertainty doesn't
need it, Ia the city mud predonlinatss and com
4 glomerates to an alarming extent. t5f7F
4 A correspondent Of the Galveston News fur
nishes the following communication: &
HEMPsrEAD, Sept I. s6f,-The counties Of
Washington and Austin are just now in the act Of
/ being swept by the worm. Never did whiFlwind
or fire more completely perform its destined work.
| The green fields of yesterday are to-day scar and
Igray. few green hillsdes are still seen but to-
Il morrow they will be smtten like their neighbors.
i Yesterday, as passed the lanes near GhappelI
HILL the myriads Of worms that had deToured the
last leaves of the neighboring cotton-felds were
swarming across the roads IN search of otherpT0-
vender. The hot sun killed. them in thousands,
and other thousands persisted with famine on the
4 green foliage of other vegetation, for they de-
4 your nothing else but cotton. 3D. y ie5aal
4 1t is interesting to notice how completely the
stalks and bolls are stript. The naked greenboil.
VI stand outin relief upon the stalks while only the
nerves Of g-Ieaves are left, andlook like gray
: or brown spray upon the fields The wormshaye
in great numbers wound up in their chfysaIis
couch, by wrapping each leaf about him, and
fallen asleep, to awake in the syphid, or moth
i phase, of its existence. iE
His cormorant neighbofs. not yet ready to re-
Z t1ref nave aacfllElouslF attaekeu MS nler ana
J. gnawed of his winding sheet, 50 that even tha
cerements the dead have been deYouFedto Gil
. the hungry nav Of the gluttons living The chry-
sails mumnies hang stark and bleak upon the
stems. 2a
:. Alas for the cotton crop, and for human calcu
lations! It will be we'll, in future, to make cotton
"a promises as preachers give out appointments. 9
y sort of "God willingn proviso, substituting w.
~ for D. Y. in the abreviations.
or To give some definite idea Of what have seen
"a Judge that the best fields will produce twelve
y hundred pounds of seed cotton per acre. Bu
: most of it will produce only about nine hundrei
pounds.
s. The rains that have been rottening the boil
4 continue but this will not be continued mue
longer. The bolls will be well summed now.
The two generations of worms have had an in
k terval Of about four weeks and have reaehe
their climax of destructveness, in their seeou
) generation, the first week in September.
= In haste, Fs
IL The Houston Telegraph of the sth inst. says:
The boil worm has appeared on the plantation
in Liberty county. 1t is now in every portion {
IS the State where cotton is raised except west /
at the Guadalupe river. Aa yet, however, the dan
~ age done by it has not been great. It is mostly
20 be feared during this month.
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