The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-09-07

Tie committee on statistics of the New
! Orleans Cotton Exchange print the following
kilograms from their correspondents giving thu
latest intelligence regarding the coming cot
ton crop:
JAcKsoSi MISS, August 81.
Reports from sixty counties IN the state
Falling off In cotton crop one-third. ALI re-
port CROP not equal to1S71. Drought, rust
boil worm and cotton caterpillar have ruined
the prospects OF the cotton crop.
COLUMBUS, MISS, August 80.
Damage to cotton bas been rapid and nn.
precedented. Failing of one.third. In last
three weeks the weed is 30 dried. formB:and
leaves so much fallen of, but that little cotton
will be made. I estimate crop three and q
quarter millions. ~
NATCHE, Mss, August 80.
The army worm is stripping the cotton fields
| In all directions from this point, as far as heard
FROM. Damage to the crop here cannot be
less than one-lhird or one. fourth Of what
otherwise would have heen made.
YAzoo CITY, Miss August 30.
In the last fifteen days prospects of cotton
crop in this section have fallen of fully one
fourth. Many planters aay they will not make
as much as they did laht year. From all the
| Information we can gather we think in this
section the crop will bb about equal to Last
years, If no further disaster occurs.
CLtNTpN,l La, August ~.
Has continued dry weather. Cotton crops
still further damaged. All made that will be.
Our estimate half 10 two4hIrds average crop.
SHREVEPORT, La ,Auguati30.
Since last report weather dry and hot, and
less favorable than last Year. Army, worm Ia
force on many plantations, stripping clean as
they go. Picking, both bottom and uplands,
commenced twenty days since. Yield early
cotton per acre, twenty i've per cent. less thar
less than twenty-five per dent.gftanters gloomy
and reckon damage madagascar. o.
GALVESTON, Texas, August 80.
Eighteen counties heard from. Hall crop is
the estimate, and will apply to all the State
aome western counties making q fourth
Drought ia causing 1t to open all ut once. Rain
would do much damage. July estimates for
four hundred thousand at this port have been
reduced 10 Two fifty. IT,.
LITTLE ROCK, ARK, August 30.
Cotton on average cut 4hort fully one-third.
Weather hot and dry. Picking about ten days
- ANN HELENA, ARK. August go.
Cotton opening fast; reduced o%ne.fourth;
will not make over half . crop In this and ad-
Joining counties II drought. continues.
CAMDEN, ARK, August 80.
With the most favorable weather for pick
Ing, there can't be more than half a crop, and
ha!f of 1t is now open.
SELMA, ALA, August 80.
Worms general; destruction complete; Au-
gust fruit all destroyed In the cotton belt;
worms are now appearing very general in the
upper tier of counties. Picking now equal to
October. Crop In cotton belt will be q half
one.
MONTGOMERY, ALA, August so.
Early cotton no longer making; late totally
destroyed. Damage from worms equals kill
ing frost. This will apply to three .fourths OF
the State. Crop cannot exceed the last.
COLUMBUS, Ga, August 80.
The cotton crop Immediately around Co
lnmbus has been materially cut OF by the cat
erpillar aud rust, say full one-third, from the
best Information we get from planters.
Should the rsyages continue, we look for "a
further reduction In estimates.
T., AUGUSTA, Ga, Aug 80.
Worms and rust Increased, former very fast.
Prospect fully fifteen per cent. poorer. Dam
age by worms where they are, one-third to
o1e-halE. No crop except bottom crop, where
wUrmo and rust are, Cotton opening very
MEMpnIs, September 2.
Uplands cut of an average OF twenty-five
per cent, from prospect of three weeks ago.
Walden, MISS, September 2.
Worms general; top crop Of old cotton
ruined;r June cotton worthless.
The Crops In the State.
The Camden Journal announces that the
caterpillars have become general on the
western side of the Wateree.
The Anderson Intelllgencer saye: ''The C OF
ton caterpillar has appeared in several nelds
in this vicinity, and Is doing considerable dam
age to the growing CROP"
Passengers travelling over the country
above Columbia report Ilnequalled provision
crops, but that in nearly all, except the req
lands, O damage by rust to the cotton crop Oh
about one-fOurth.
The Worm In Georgia, Florida End
Alabama.
"a Factor writes TO the Savannah Repub-
llcan: As many persons seem to be ircredulous
as 10 the actual damage to the cotton cron
from caterpillars, we have hastily written OIL
q few extracts from our recent letters upon
the subject. The extracts are taken OF ran
dom from many letters-all OF which were
written without an idea OF their getting Into
print: ~
C~aterpillars are In every nelShborhood In
Southern Georgia and Florida.
CAIRO, Ca, August II.
Caterpillars plentiful.
Worms Increasing; rust also In cotton.
MoRRIsoNs MILLS, FLA, August II.
Rust and caterplllars have both come.
fLEhlNGlONy rIh., AuSuob y
Caterpillars have already swept some helds,
and probability of q clean sweep by septem-
Der /.
MADISON COUNTY, FLA, August 10.
Rust and caterplIlars have cut short the
yield. =. %
We have rain and caterpillars In plenty.
CUTHBERT, Ga, August 23.
Rust and caterpillar iDjuring cotton.
CAMBRIDGE, GA, August "a.
Caterpillars have made rapid progress.
EUFAULA, ALA, August "a.
Caterpillars are again appearing, and Will
the crop this %
MICcosUKIE, Fla, August &c.
CaterpIllars nave eaten up the crop here.
WILLIAMSON County, Ga, August %.
The rnsl, has damaged our crops about one
third. All pine lands have suffered about the
FORT GAINES, Ga. August 27.
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