New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-03

Ime COttOu CTOps
Through the kindness of H. G. Hester,
ESQ.,, secretary Of the Cotton Exchange,
we have received the report of the COM
mittee on information and statistics OF the
Exchange for the month of June. The
committee say:
MISSISSIPPI.
We have received ffty-fve answers from
forty -four counties, reporting decrease in
the acreage this year, as compared with
last, of seven per cent. The weather ID
pretty generally reported as less favorable
than last year. though fair average stand
has been obtained. The plant is reported
to be about two weeks later than last
wear, but is in q fine growing con-
dition and remarkably clean, though email
and back ward. Little or no fertilizers used
in this State. Labor satisfactory in numbers
and efficiency.
LOUISIANA.
Our answers from this State are few, only
thirty-two letters from twenty six parishes.
The decrease in acreage is reported at
twenty Der cent. Weather reported nearly
universally as less favorable. The stand
is represented as an average one, and the
condition of the plant generally good and
promising, though small and backward,
being reported about three weeks later than
last wear. No complaint of labor. No fer
tilizers (commercian used.
TEXAS.
This State sends in ffty-tw answers from
forty-fve counties, dated from the twelfth
to the sixteenth, fifteen counties reporting
an increase IN the area planted of from five
to thirty per cent. Average increase fifteen
per cent. One county (Parker) reporting
100 per cent increase, sixteen counties re
port same acreage, and thirteen report de
crease of twelve per cent. The stands Of
cotton are said to be almost universally
good about two weeks later planted, but in
. fine growing condition, and very free from
grass, etc. Labor sufficient and good.
Scarcely any fertilizers used.
ARKANSAS.
Thirty-fve answers, dating from the ninth
to the fifteenth of June, received from
TWENTY-FIVE different counties in this State.
The replies from fifteen counties indica-e
q decrease in the acreage put under cultl-
walton in cotton Of from five to twenty-five
per cent compared with last year. Five
counties report nc change, and five an in
crease of five to ten per cent-an average
net decrease for the whole OF eight per
cent.
The weather, compared with last year,
has been generally less favorable, though
the stands Of cotton are, with few excep-
tiOns, regarded as superior to last season.
Labor is ample and efficient, but the crop
is nevertheless two to three weeks back.
ward. and though most reports of it's CON
ditiCD are very favorable, some sections are
; much in need OF rain. ..
No fertilizers used in this State.
TENNESSEE.
We have received twenty-six answers
| from twenty -four counties, putting the de
crease in the area planted at three and q
| half per cent. Every letter, in comparing
| the weather with same date last year, re
ports it to have been less favorable. The
stands obtained, however, are represented
| as fair, and the plant in good growing con
| dition, clean but small, having been plant
| ed on an average of fifteen days later than
| last season. Labor about the same, anC
the use of the fertilizers the same al
last year, though very little is said to b.
| used. -
| Twenty-nine answers received from TWEEN
| ty.seveD different counties; dated from
| ninth to twentieth Of june.
! Our inquiry regarding the extent of th'
| acreage under cultivation is answered al
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decrease of from Eve to thlrty-three and 1
third per cent. Two the acreage equal t.
last year, and but one an increase of tel
per cent. Net average, decrease sixteeI
per cent.
The weather, compared with the same
time last season, has been unfavorable t.
say the least, though the stands are not a
bad as might be expected.
Portions of the crop destroyed by COLI
| <hau ,1o foA ~,
die of May, and now show far better stand
than the old cotton.
Though the general opinion seems to poin
to crop from two to three weeks later
many report the young plant as rapid.
catching up.
The labor is all that can be desired, an
the probable decrease in regard to number
is made up by efficiency.
The use Of fertilizers, especially foreig
or 80 called commercial, has greatly dimr
ished, though some counties report an in
crease of home made manures.
The crop in general is cleaner of gras
and weeds than ever before, and rapid
growing. Some reports speak of the ar
pearance Of the cotton fly, lice, and Of som
cotton worms. though most answers do ne
mention any Of these drawbacks.
NORTH CAROLINA.
From this State we have received Sixty
three letters from fOrty-One counties. n
porting weather as less favorable whe
compared with same time last year. The d.
crease in the area planted in cotton is give
at nineteen per cent, and planting two t
three weeks later than last year. A fa
average stand has been secured, and til
present condition Of the young plant is goO(
The crop is clean, healthy, and CROWN
finely, though small and backward. Th
labor is said to be about the same as lat
year, both in number and efficiency. Th
use Of fertilizers has decreased forty pc
cent.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
We have received only twenty six letter
from twenty-One counties in this Stat
which give US decrease in the area plante
of seventeen per cent. Weather general
unfavorable up to about middle of Ma,
since which, it has been more favOrabf
Replantipg, pretty general; has given ia
average stand. The condition is very gel
orally represented as good; the plan
though small, being clean and GROWN
well. Labor sufficient. Decrease in the III
of fertilizers reported at thirty-three pe
cent, as compared with last year.
GEORGIA.
We have to report seventy-six letters r
ceived from sixty-nine counties, datir
from the eighth to the seventeenth of Jun
| The decrease in acrea &c is represented
ten per cent. Weather generally less favo
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