The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-06-22

Crops in Mississippi or7s-lSmau Grain
Cotton and Fr1lt-Our Manufacturing
Interests.
Jackson. June Is. 1871.

JACKSON, June 10, 1871.
EDrToRs CLARION: As 1 have recently
traversed the State from Tennessee to Louis
lana. and from the Mississippi to Alabama,
| thought would jor down some of the re-
suits of my observations.
Asregards crops, / have never seen so sad
a prospect owing to the unprecedented
amount of rain. On the hill lands, the corn
looks tolerably well, and 1 am satisfied that
with good season in July there will be
enough corn raised for home consumption.
for our people have not neglected "the
staff of life" this season as usnal-besides
the acreage Of corn, small grain and forage
crops generally, has been increased. The
oat crop in some sections is very good,
though the wet weather has almost ruined
it In others.
find that good deal of clover has been
sown, and is generally fine. think the ex-
perience of this year will remove all doubts
as to whether red clover can be grown in
Mississippi or not. / have seen as fine clo-
yer here as lever saw i'm Northern States
As to cotton there is no doubt but the acre
age In this State is at least 10 per cent. less
than last year, and the yield per acre can
hardly equal that of last year, from the fact
that the plant has been almost drowned out
on lowlands. Stand generally bad and very
little worked out; the grass predominating
in so many places so much that it is hard to
distinguish cotton from grass. AT this sea-
son of the year corn should be laid by, and
cotton all chopped and hiIled. 1 notice sim
liar reports of the cotton crop from neigh
boring States, so that we may look with Ger
tainty for a good price for the staple next
fall.
The hogs look well, better than usual as
more attention is being paid to them. So
think, with anything like a favorable sum-
mer and fall we may calculate upon an in
crease of food and diminution of cotton in
Mississippi.
must not fail to notice the successful in
auguration of a new industry, namely, the
shipment OF large quantities of fruit from
various points along our railroads. Three
carloads of peaches passed up the road last
Saturday bound to Louisville, and three
more yesterday. 1 hope the enterpvising
gentleman who have embarked in this
business will be amply rewarded, as doubt
less they W ill, and thus others be encouraged
to try it.
/ learn that gentlemen near Terry and
Crystal Springs expect to ship this season
$50 car loads of fruit. 1t does seem that the
Railroad charges are too high-$300 a car
load to Louisville.
/ also hear that it is the intention of gen.
tlemen in the business, to plant 100, 900 peach
trees next season near the above mentioned,
and other points on the N. o., J. & G. N.
Railroad.
Our factory interests are beginning to
revive, somewhat, men of capital are taking
hold of them. Many new ones are going up
and as our people become better acquainted
with the working of them and obtain good
managers and skillful operators, our facto-
ries will become favorite objects for invest
ments by capitalists who are now sending
their money out of the country to build up
foreign enterprises, and to my establishment
there are many of this class, Mssissippians,
who have made large investments not only
outside of the State but outside of the Uni
ted States, result brought about by the
dis-reconstruction under Radical scalawag-
cry.
hope, however, that our State will soon
emerge from its present valley ofhumilia-
ton and that in response to the recent
Winona resolutions all petty differences
will be ignored and every true man will
make common cause against the adventures
fair land. ScANTLING.