Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-28
FRANCE AND TRADE.
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MEHPHIs, July x, u11
Among the additions to the Govern
ment Bureaus and Departments, de-
velopsd since the war, there is not one
tba. is more mischievous or useless than
va that which proposes to supervise the ag-
r{cpitura1 affairs of the United States. 1t
usurps the influence Of our leading agri-
- cultural societies, interferes with their
sneci6o work, and lunders so eggregi-
ouslv in mere statistics as to mislead and
lean over to the side Of the gamblers Of
Nav York. who, utterly without soul,
speculate upon its baseiess hgures' al
vavs of course. to the disadvantage of
the producer. If anything were needed
20 prove the correctness of our position,
the last report Of this Institution IS sum
uisut. In face of the reiterated state
ments of men engaged in raising COTTON,
In face of the published oDsefEAsohs Oh
newspaper editors scattered throughout
the cotton country, this document IN
forms the world that the coming crop VIII
certainly reach 100000 bales, ana may
4,O01,0 0 that the condition OF the crop Is 50
far favorable for q good yield; that 1t WI
be fully an average in Georgia, Alabama,
Louisiana and Arkansas, and Slightly be-
low an average in the Carolinas, FLORIDA,
Mississippi, Texas and Tennessee; that
nsither the caterpillar or boll-worm has
yet appeared, and there are few draw
.-- backs which a few weeks OF favorable
~ weather cannot repair. IgnOrance can go
no farther. But is it ignorance? This re-
mort chimes in so admirably, fits in so
Leatly with the stories and misstatomenls
SAINT broadcast through the commercial
WhaH 4 - dit
6tult for US to exonerate the Agricultural
Bureau from the charge of completely
with the cotton bears. Either that or the
conductors and chiefs of the bureau must
u confess themselves utterly unequal 10 Inc
task of securing for as a falr ana impair
tisl ststemeut of the condition OF the
crops and the ultimate prospect. If the
latter OF the two alternatives we present
is accepted, then the Agricultural Bureau
should pass into more competent hands
or be abolished; il the former, then it
sbould psss into more honest hands or be
abolished. As is the case with all the de-
partmsnts of the Government, it is likely
to be abused and used as interest msy
prompt. We do not say it has in this
case, or at all; but this statement as to the
growing cotton crop and the cotton pros
DecL Is 50 t4dCllN hhAhhNA ~ NA N
dustriouslyf forced upon the attention of
the cotton world by dry goods merchants
and contractors to deliver, that we are
forced to either one of the eonclu-
sions given. Nothing can be farther from
the truth than this report of the Agricul-
tnrsl Bureau. 1t is far ahead of any ex-
perience that we have, or that w have
read Of from others. From Georgia and
- .o,.a soma Of the 1oudaaf
complaints we have published, and por-
tions of Mississippi and Arkansas have
been utterly blighted as TO cotton. Both
the caterpillar and the boll-worm have
appeared and are ravsglng the industries
of a wide extent of country; and no few
weeks Of favorable weather can at all in
any measure repair their destruction or
thSt which is equally great and that Is q
result Of too much grass and the presence
of lice. Labor, too, is unreliable, and
we msy have the rust, as destructive
an enemy of cotton as any we have yet
named. English commercial papers and
English commercial circulars confess that
it is to such reports as this of the Bureau
more, even, than TO the mischief of the
gamblers who sell TO deliver-that the
cotton planters owe q scale Of prices that
threatens En6H Will banhlhPtSJ NAN ANAAs
But even these English papers as well az
the English dealers, are better posted
than the Bureau. They begin to think it
better they should get their information
as to cotton from cotton sources and not
depend upoa the statements of s class
whose interest it is to depress cotton and
dictate the market in advance. They,
following out this Iater-day design, are
Z -
dent in the cotton belt, and begin to
believe it impossible to realize as a
result of the industry of the planters in
Is7Oa crop one bale in advance of that Of
the year 1869. But this opinion, only now
slowly finding currency among English
cotton men. may be neutralized by this
report OF the Agricultural Bureau, and
thus this document be made TO achieve
for the bears a temporary but mischiev-
Gus triumph. 1t Is to prevent this If pos
sible, to eounterset the influences Of so
pernicious a document, that we write and
write 50 strongly. We say again that II
the Agricultural Bureau can do no better
for the South than 50 far it has done, II II
can do no better than play into the hands
OF those who make it a business TO depress
Gotten, then we think it time it should
''pIsy ont" and accomplish its best work
by saving TO the people the expense of its
management and support, and saving
them from the effects of stupid or Pur-
posed estimates that facts will not war
rant. We hope we will not again be
called upon to notice so fragrant a dOeu-
cument as this report, which, If it err as
grossly in its estimate Of grain, fruits and
provisions IS it does in cotton, viii work
q mischief incsleulsble, almost irrepara-
BILE.