The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-05-30
TIE OUTLOOK IN ALABAM4.
Crop Report Of the Mobile Cotton EI-
change.
MOBILE, MAY 81, 1872.

MOBILE, May 81, 1872.
1t is our endeavor to furnish our frends
with monthly reports of the growing cotton
crop, ana for this purpose we send montnly
list OF questions to our correspondents IN
the country tributary to Mobile. to De an-
swerRd BY them 10 the best OF their KnoWi-
edge and ability.
Below we give you In acpndensed form their
answers to our first serles of questions, which
we beg to submit without comment. We
would remark, however, that our reports from
Tennessee and Georgia are very meagre, nav
Ing only received them from two or three
counties In each State, but we hope In our
Information from these States.
Our reports run from The Sd to the 18th OF
May; since the last date we hear OF extensive
rains in the interior, which will be more par
ticularly referred to In our next.
ALABAMA.
In most of the counties the acreage IN cot
ton is about the same, none less, ana 1u others
The percentage Is from five to fifteen per cent.
increase as compared with last year. Average
increase about five per cent.
The acreage Ia corn is about the same, some
counties reporting decrease and others an
increase of from i've to twenty per cent.
The use of fertilizers has diminished In al.
most all the counties; Butler and Autauga
being the only ones that report an Increase.
The weather reports are the same all over
the State. The early spring wet, followed oy
q drought of six weeks, which prevented
about one.fifth of The crop from coming up,
and at date Of reports all complain OF the want
of rain, out the cotton that was up is reported
to be in remarkably favorable condition.
There hso .een slight decrease In the labor,
but the General report Is, that 1t Is more EN-
ctent.
All the counties report an increase In the
acreage of cotton, varying from ten 70 thirty
per cent, the average in the whole State DE-
ing fully iIteen per cent. larger than last year.
The acreage In corn Is about the same, some
counties reporting decrease, and others an
Increase. There has been decrease IN the use
Of fertilizers this year. as compared with last,
in all the counties. The weather reports are
the same as In Alabama.
There has been an increase OF labor IN tne
rich counties and decrease In the sandy
lands, but all report that the negroes are
working better Than last year.
TENNESSEE. (THREE CoUNTIEs)
About fifteen per ceHt. Increase In acreage
of cotton as compared with last year, ana TN
per cent decrease In corn. Fertilizers put
little used, and weather reports same as In
Alabama. The labor is about the same,
negroes decreased and whites Increased.
GEORGIA 1.-TWO coUNTlEs.)
Ono county reports an increase OF twelve
ner cent. and the other decrease Of twenty
Der cent. In the acreage In cotton. The acre
ace in corn Is about the same as last year, IN
both counties, and large increase In the use
of fertilizers Is reported. The weather reports
are the same as In Alabama. The labor has
increased slightly and working better.
Very respectfully, yours.
CHARLES EGLINGER, Cotton Buyer,
F. INaATE, Cotton Buyer,
A. G. MCCA>Ts, Cotton Factor,
J.E. DUNKL1N. Cotton Factor,
T.. Z. IRWIN. Cotton Broker,
Committee on Information and Statistics.