Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-18
THE CROPS.

From all parts of Arkansas, along
Arkansas and White rivers, we learn
that the crops of corn and cotton are
excellent. The ares of land devoted
to cotton is less than last year-frOm
one-fifth to one-third-but the fields
were never of deeper green, and corn
and cotton never grew more luXuriant-
ly. Sam Marcus, a planter On Ar
kansas river, writes that in his neigh
borhOOd the cotton crop Will be the
smallest made since the war. The
rains there have been too abundant,
and the prospect is wors than since
the war. The average hight is twelve
inches, when il should be two and a
half to three feet. James III. Moore,
writing from the same region, says
the cotton crop will be forty per cent.
less than last year along the Arkan-
sas river. MI. Moore says that one
fifth to One-third Of the negro popula-
ton has left the cotton fields OF the
loWlands, and gone to job work
on railroads and about villages.
The same facts pertain to farms in
the lOwlands of the Mississippi. From
plantations in Bolivar, COahOuma,
Washington in Mississippi and the
river counties of Arkansas and along
Askansas river we have the same re-
ports. The same story is told as to the
diminution of acreage and lessened
number of laborers, but the seasons
have been favorable and the fields well
cultivated.
WESTERN TENNESSEE.
Never before were the people so
blessed in this district of the State.
From every county crops of every
description are excellent. All sorts of
mechanical devices are widely used
in the perfection of agricultur al
art. Stumps are removed from
the fields and improved ploWs and
reapers are everywhere used, and
there is growing inquiry a to the
uses and value of mari that abOu nds
along the Memphis and Charleston
road and of gypsum that is brought
from Virginia and East Tennessee. 1t
is proposed that the planters ask for
special rates to be defined by railroads
for the transportation of improved ag-
ricultural machinery and mari and
gypsum. The meeting at Macon next
Thursday will probably consider this
A1dlAClg do mOL1 d6 lLldB Vi COuuCClAiR
Memphis and Jackson, Tennessee, by
a narrOw-gauge road.
MISSISSIPPI.
South of Memphis along the
Mississippi and Tennessee road
the area of land cultivated, for
want of labOrers, is reduced from one
third to One-hfth. The yield will not
be as great on the land cultivated as
during the past year. The season has
been very unfavOrable to the growth
of cotton, though in many places an
average crop will be produced. The
people have given more than usual
attention to the production of corn,
oats aud wheat. From COrinth south
for fifty miles along the Mobile and
Ohio road the crops promise a good
harvest. But this fact pertains to the
poorer lands and to narrow farms
along the valleys. The whole prairie
country from the vicinity of Pont0tOc
for nearly or quite n hundred miles
southwark the crops are utter failures.
The fields have been badly titled, and
in many Instances, broad acres, after
being plOWed and planted, have been
given over to grass and weeds. The
richest, most productive farms and
magnificent plantations will not make
enough to pay the taxes imposed by
the new masters of the country. The
same story is told of cotton planta-
tons along the road through the
black cotton lands between Meridian
and Selma. Many rich farms have
become valueless for the year, because
of the absence of principals and count
less witnesses involved in the Ku-
kluX trials before the Federal Court.
Two or three weeks have been lost by
each farmer, and those of his neigh
bOrS involved in these trials. In
NOXubee, Monroe and LOWndes cOun-
ties, Mississippi, once the richest in
the South, the production of corn and
cotton will be two-thirds or one-half
less this year than last. These coun.
ties have been especially unfortunate
In subsection to the ravage5 of deputy
United States Marshals.
MEMPHIS.
In this immediate vicinity the
crops never promised a richer
yield; and if our railway system be
perfected as planned, and ada
cent towns rendered accessible
by cheap railways, within a few
years one million bales of cotton will
be sold in this market. With this gen.
eral prosperity of the adjacent coun-
try, the liberality OF our merchants
keeps pace. They are now advanc-
ing literally to their cotton-producing
customers, and every agricultural fact
betokens a commercial year OF unex-
ampled prosperity.