The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-10-24
The C6tton Crop Of 1868.

Price, 30 Cents.
w Toney of Eufaula, Ala writes as
follows to the Macon, Ga, Telegraph:
1t is time that the cotton crop should be
correctly and accurately estimated, upon da
ia certain, true and fixed, that the great IN
terest involved may not be sacrificed This
| propose to do, upon evidence Z ow not open
to dispute and from facts and figures which
cannot be contrOverted.
Northern countiEg-house estimates, based
upon the statements Of letter-writers and
spectators interested IN deceiving and de-
pressing prices, placing the crop at $500,
600 bales, ne grossly erroneous. / shall de-
monstrate that the present crop, on the con
| trary, cannot exceed 100000 bales and,
/ therefore, that the price, to be remunerative,
! should be 30 cents, and that the producers
/ have it IN their power to get it, if they act
with only ordinary intelligence.
| The manufacturers and spectators Of Eu-
rope and the North always wage an 3. ire
pressible conflict against the planters-the
old contest Of capital against labor-depres-
sing prices until they get the crop in their
! own hands.
Let US examine each branch Of the sub
| iect separately, truthlully, and logically, and
elucidate 1t 50 clearly tlIab " he who runs can
read, and the way-larlng man, though fool,
| cannot err therein"
lsT. THE ESTIMATE, ONLY ], 100000 BALES
To establish this estimate to be correct
beyond the power Of rofutation we will
show the damage done to this crop from the
boIlworm, and more especially the ca5erpu
lar, by comparing the incoming with the crop
Of l946-which two crops correspond IN all
particulars.
1t Is necessary right here to fix the data
beyond all cayiL Every intelligent planter
knows that, then as now the caterpillar de-
vastated the cotton crop from salt water to
Columbus, Ga, and Montgomery, Alabama,
inland, all along that line Of latitude, and on
) the seaboard of the Carolinas and beyond
the Mississippi, extending up the river bot
tom to a much higher latitude. The time of
their advent IN August, 1916, their continu-
ance, the belt they covered, and the extent
/ Of their damage, was almost identical with
: that Of this year. There were great natur-
al causes, then as now, which must and have
produced like effects, and it is impossible for
it to be otherwise. This is the great truth
z founded upon Gods laws upon which the
= estimate rests.
Now we can accurately estimate the dam
age to the crop Of 1876, from the bollworm
and caterpiller by comparing it with the ay
= erage as resulting from the two proceeding
$ and two succeeding years. to-Wit
$ COMPARATIVE STATEMENT.
=, ia Is 80 9 -. $50 ,.. ... .2 II IS: s.
9,5uIs
The aggregate, or grand total. Of the fou
crops, two before and two after the caterpil
+ lar year Of 1916, being as above, 9,5l, lS(
: bales, it follows that the average fer lS4t
= should be 1892 795 bales. But that eroI
was cut short by the caterpillar almost pre-
IoTgo ba ha n
f by comparing the actual crOpof 1916 witt
J, the average Of the four years, as already
i ! shown, the damage done by the caterpilla
- to that crop will be a fixed fact in figures
and in truth
% Average-four 3g2 95 bale
A Actual Dol 90
Damage BY the caterpillar GALA bale
This, bear IN mind, then, is a result, pas
) and gone into statistical history, VIII ch ma
r. not be disputed showing the extent Of dam
; age done by the caterpillar in identical sim
a liar conditions to this year s raVdges, to
- given and known average Of four years
Il These facts and principles being true, w
!. have only to estimate what ought to be tn
,e present crop as compared with last year s
the actual damage done to it by the caterpi
ar-as based on reasons already given
- and the result viii show this years crop no
10 to exceed, but to be about 100000 bales
q To Just and clear comprehension OF thu
4 truth, no intelligent planter or gentlemen bu
= we'll knows, "other things being equal" tn
i crop of this year could not possibly excee
II that of last year. Two controlling element
10 of production place this beyond all dispute
20 First, the less extent Of land planted in CO..
ton this year and Second, the less efectiv
labor Of the freedmen. These are fact
well attested by all planters, and all tn
" statements by Department Commander;
n Bureau Agents and letter writer's to the cor
Is trary are dangerously erroneous, as time wi
q establish
~ STATEMENT.
Is67-S, total crop uade....- ..-. 2, 30S93 ba'
On hand, Northern and Southern Ports. $1,000 bale
supply lit,9s5 Dii
Is Nearly all of last years crop went f