New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-08

Crop Reports.

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The committee on information and stats
tics exhibited on the sixth instant the fol-
| lowing report to the New Orleans Cotton
Exchange:
MISSISSIPPI.
From this State We have received forty
eight replies from thirty four counties.
Nearly ali our correspondents agree in
stating that frost has done very little if any
damage to the crop. The yield is repre-
seuted as about eighteen per cent less than
that of last year. The weather has been
favorable tor gathering the crop, of which
about two-thirds has already been picked
LOUISIANA. r.
We have thirty-three' answers from
twenty-four parishes. Weather reported
About seventy five per cent of the crop al
ready gathered. The average report of
yield is sxty-six per cent of that of last
year; only three parishes stating an in
crease.
We have to report twenty three answers
from twenty-one counties The weather
generally reported as having been favor.
able for picking, with two thirds of the
crop already housed. Frost is reported to
have caused no damage to the crop, which
pTOLulStS W euOW III cACteh VI ten per cent
over last years, attributed by our CORE
spondents to the increased area planted.
ARKANSAS.
Thirty letters from twenty-foar counties.
nineteen of which report no frost; remain
ing five very slight; NO damage done. The
comparative yield, this and last years, is
stated to be about the same. Average re-
port of the crop picked to date is about
forty-fOur per cent
Our correspondents in this State send Us
twenty-nine letters from twenty-eight coun-
ties. The picking season is represented as
good none, but little damage having been
done by froet. The quality of the crop, OF
which about fifty six per cent has been
picked, is stated to be much better than
usual; while the yield, as compared with
last year, is represented as ten per cent
greater.
ALABAMA. ..
Twenty-three counties send in twenty
FIVE letters reporting weather favorable for
picking; no damage. or very little, having
been done by frost: the average of the
amount said to have been already picked is
put down at sixty-tive per cent. The yield,
as compared with last year. is reported
about ten per cent less; the quality of the
crop is stated as mach better.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Forty answers from thirty-six counties;
from the information gathered, no damage
from frost has been sustained so far. though
on the twenty fourth of October, the aver
age date of our answers, only about fifty
per cent of the crop had been picked.
The weather with hardly an exception
was favorable Tor picking: but some coun-
ties complain of a scarcity Of hands and
high demands for field work.
In regard to the yield, our information
points to a crop Of about two and half per
cent less than last years, which result is
obtained from larger area planted with
cotton, especially in counties having here
totore raised principally tobacco and corn.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Twenty-six answers from twenty counties;
no late cotton having been planted, no
damage from frost is feared; picking seems
to be well advanced and is expected to be
sooner completed than for years. At the
average date of ou- reports, October 1924,
fully seventy per cent Of the crop had been
housed.
The weather. with but single exception,
is stated to be favorable for picking, though
different sections OF this State compain of
insufficient labor
The percentage of li2t to the acre shows
decrease IN comparison with last season,
but the total yield promises to reach ninety
per cent of last years, on account Of ma
terially increased acreage in many counties.
I'VE notice 10 both Carolinas growing
feeling to cultivate cotton to larger ex-
tent than heretofore.)
GEORGIA.
Sixty correspondents send in answers
from fifty-one counties. The proportion of
cotton picked up to the twenty-ffth ultimo,
is estimated by them at sixtyhve per cent
of the probable crop, and the weather is
represented as exceedingly favorable, the
cotton maturing well, and the lint being
therefore clean and OF better staple than
usual
Notwithstanding the considerable in
crease in acreage and in the Use of fertil
izers. the crop in this State is not expected
to show any excess over last years figures.
Most of our letters attribute the reduction
in the yield to the destruction Of the top
crop by the cate-pillars, which, it seems,
have caused more damage than was antici-
rated by our correspondents at the time of
their last report. No damage reported from
frost.