The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-09-28
COTTON IN GEORGIA.
Gloomy Reports from Every Quarter
OF the State.

The Covlngtou Examiner says: I'VE are
having cold September rains, injuring the
corn and cotton, causing the corn to sprout
and the cotton to rot"
The ALBANY News says: 'It is now evident
that Southwestern Georgia will gather the
shortest crop of any previous year, and that
we are safe In announcing the crop disas-
trous failure
The Elberton Gazette says: 'Not more than
half crop will be realized this season. The
heavy rains In August cut off the bolls. 1t Is
estimated that the picking season will be over
by the end of October
The Hawkinsvile Dispatch has this: "All
hopes have vanished for anything more than
half crop of cotton In this region. There has
scarcely been day OF favorable weather tor
picking since the first Of the present month"
The Talbotton Standard says: "Weather con-
tlnues unfavorable and but little cotton or corn
being gathered. Planters feel confident OF high
prices, and being principally out OF debt, do
not intend to rush their cotton on the msrket.
Cotton gamblers In New York and Liverpool
will have to pay for this crop"
The LAGRANGE Reporter says: "We ore
having loo much rain for the good OF cotton.
The weather Is too wet to gather the staple to
advantage. Not much more than half o crop
will be made in this county this year. We
continue 10 hear great complaint about the
shortness of the cotton Yield"
The Blackshear Georgian says: "The ex-
cessive and continued wet weather has been
very damaging to the crops OF all kinds In this
section of the country. In Clinch, Charlton,
Wayne, Ware and Appling, the whole crop
will be cut off over one-halE In Clinch we
understand the whole country is under water,
and there will be comparatively nothing
made. In the other counties 1t will be only
very high places that there will be crop"
The Columbus Sun has the following {:
hol dn1op ofalka af p0tt0n gathered
from the Russell County plantation OF G.
8. Shorter, were brought to the city yesterday.
Every leaf had been stripped from the plant,
and every sign of top boil eaten away. The
caterpillar is said to be equally as bad IN
neighboring plantations, Caterplllars must
be In hurry. or they will soon be frozen OUT.
It was cold enough last night for frost"
We take the following from the Bainorldse
Argus: ''This staple has been injured to q
vast extent by the recent heavy rains and
winds. So continuous have been the rains
that they have kept the open cotton soaked,
and it is rotting in the fields. After It Is
picked, for want OF sunshine, 1t rots In the
clubhouse before 1t can be dried. Farmers Ia
this, Baker, Miller and Mitchell Counties esti-
mate the loss at fully one-thrd OF the CROP"
The Houston Home Journal has the follow
ing: Cotton bolls are rotting. and prospects
altogether are very gloomy indeed. Suca q
bad season for cotton has not been known for
thirty years-so say experienced men. One OF
the oldest and best farmers In the county said
to US: You can say In your paper that the cot
ton crop Is damnably gone up; fully one-half OF
what is now in the bolls Is rotten"
The Washington Gazette says: "This has
been a disastrous year from beginning to end
for the cotton crop In this section. The spring
was bad, the stand was bad, the grass took the
crop during the spring, while the rainy
weather prevailed, and 10 July the drought.
with intense heat came. Late IN August, al
the very time when dry weather was desired,
the rains set in and have continued, with only
short intermissions UP to the present we
sum up thus Bad stand to begin with, cold,
wet spring, grass killed out what little was
left by the cold wet spring, drought killed and
stunted what the grass left; late rains rotteo
the bolls before opening and ruined tnat wnlcn
was open, and prevented picking ana utterly
destroyed what the droaght left. So If there
ia more than half crop after all these disas
ters we will bet on Wilkes County forever
AFTER"
The Macon Telegraph says: "We saw yes
terday about dozen cotton Dolls, Wnlcn Mr
Salisbury had brought 10 from tour OF croE
observations In Southwestern Georgia during
the last week. The trip satisfied Mr. s. thai
the cotton crop of Georgia will fall short fully
ope.halI one of what it was last year, and these
cotton bolls give painful proof OF that TACT
The effects oil the continued cloudy and we
weather upon the bolls ls disastrous. They
are small, black and rottlng. Some Of then
are partially opened, but for want OF the warn
sunshine to fully develop them, they nave los
their fructlfylng properties and Vitality. II
proportion to the area Of land In cotton which
he saw during the trip, Mr.. S. says he Is sure
that poorer crop was never raised In TIT
State"
The Augusta Chronicle says: "From al
parts of the cotton growing region we nav,
accounts of serious damage to the .cottol
crop by the late heavy and continued rams
In large districts the open cotton has actual.
sprOuted in the bolls."