The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-01-12


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news statement that the Agricultural
Bureau estimated the cotton crop for
1S69as 5000, 900 bales. This caused n
traMsRd0Hsf fluttsr among the short crop
thensfefs. and, Com missioner Capron was
literally leyeEwh helmed with dispatches as
ostbssdafa pp9n which he based his cal
oplsfiel: + .Hist reply was that he had
fqEgishsedt the, IFibuna, with no such in
fSTmatiops end that, .fprthermqre, he
didApt believe last seasons crop would
exceed TOO, 900 bales. Here was ego"
assf.se lqEepileg say. THE Tribune stood
coHglcted OF % conspiracy to affect the
market, and drew. down .npon its devoted
heaasEl.ss ,npmsssuEed Indignation of
coHH3arel& contemporaries we have
atlaat, hoWeyer, the official report of the
e
gard to the matter, furnished in the
shape of, aayapeed sheets He says :
"ThetdFopGbt of the Atlantic coast was
faGleae 5plurious to cotton than, to corn.
SHRsFior cotton spills, we'll cultivated,
rarelgikgffeE fpE want of rain, Inferior,
shRllpWfanai geglaeted Soils. which pro-
duce small crops under The most favora-
btaIeiEaawatqnce are often injured, and
inGthH lEesept season have,J in many
caessaayialded .meagre Teturns for the
ittsealab9r expanded, Everywhere the
agaFege 1lsatYd 10 greater than lust year.
The Rfodnet per, acre in! the sea7coast
Stetassia paateriallY less, with very few
exceptions. The relative proportion of
iinsstRfRasd' is, fram some cause, less
thalaap paealao.Rhe use Of fertilizers has
largea5h1 1ippreaAedh 1.-The yield, OF these
States hes given. q better stand in fields
where the plant had a feeble start, and
sttmulafed it to rapid growth and early
m9tgEity. An examination of the crop
tSbHlatlons shows the estimated yield per
acTeip each State. and the comparison
with last year, expressed as per centage
OF stkhaI crop Of 1868. Product of 1868 ::
NqSthi Carolina, 95 per cent; South
Caroline, 30; Georgia, 95; Florida, 10Y;
AlRhamai LOS; Mississippi, 115; Louisi-
ana, a12; Texas, 1875; Arkansas, no.;
Tennessee, IS. Yield per acre North
6-PeaRds, ,sSouth Carolina,
1887 Georgia. $50; Florida, 152; Ala
bafAs,1 1176; sMississippi, 2Ol; Louisiana,
296; Texas, 275; Arkansas, 251; Tennes-
see. 16O. The aggregate product in ac-
cordance with the returns received to
this date is little more than ten per cent.
above the yield Of 1868, or about 2, ,70O,-
600 cdmM Mef6ihi Bales, fof fully 1900, 600
bales Of 400 pounds each"
so the Tribune was both right and
wrong as to the mere question of figures.
taken without reference to their usual
application. But the practical dishonesty
dtythatgi SDhe> entiops tosdesiUs is
apparent enohgh. A yield Of 2, ,70O,-
OOO commercial bales would certainly be
equal to at least 8, ZOO, 600 bales of fou,.
hundred poua2is" "lv9stgHt eaoh,, and it was
upon the word "bale" that the 7a.ibune's
psa5a saS a R,aySs PEnt yta sSss sana,
crop of 10000 bales, rs the brazilian
standard does not exceed 1GO pounds
each
But the Irfbune's trickery suggests the
question as to what really constitutes
baie IF eostons, sdhd Will doubtless revive
inquiries in regard to the necessity of q
comtidh Ynterhationhfssstem Of weights,
measures and capacities. In 1862 the
aaeSsgA {&gAf Tofi fhg cotton 1bdles i'm :
ported into Liverpool was rs follows:
Mobile, 594 pounds New. Orleans, 455;
Upland, 800; Sea Island. 1888; Egypt
245; RpasH, A8avrA~ Manual of Com
merce," published in 1855. gives the
we!ghtha iaf, p ha1te. pfn Gotton from 1G0 to
500 pounds, the heaviest being from
Alabama and Louisiana, the, ligb test
from Brazil. In 1870 bale of Ameri-
caAneS6t5ht was 200 podhds.. In 1924
it averages 26G pounds, and in 1886
H8a43lP. pounds, In Lowellssin 1881,
thh average bale was 361 pounds. In
these, days the bale Of American cotton
is understood to be 45O pounds, and
when the crop is stated, bales of that
Geigat sAf'ihtendcd It is 'cHaap de-
yi9Ato, affect, the, market to insist upon
official lreturns which vary tho amount so
materially as those given by the l1.i6une
How easy n matter to increase 2,7OO. 900
taf3,AQQQ POO, ppd then say that the bale
eve ihtended' was not the bate- Of which
you thought" The evil is done before
the trick is discovered, and the producers
haye TO suffer from the mercenary ma
nipalation of a corrupt press.
.51t'c NdshciUe Banner.
IA citizen in Monroe County, Missouri,
has been married three times, and has
tin rty-three children, all BOYS. He has
n brother who has been married only
twice, and has fifteen children by each
Wife milking sixty three children in two
families. I'll,