The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-20
CarOndelet Street GOSSIP

l. From the above named institution comes
the following explanations relative tc
points mentioned in connection with bank
statements in yesterdays morning issue:
First item: City and State bonds S3O5,
957 stock. Banks stocks, New Orleans Gas
Light Company, Hope Insurance Company
New Orleans Insurance Company and Delta
Insurance scripts Sl09,351 65, total S3l5,-
36s IS.
The other items are not specified, but
simply set down as protested exchange,
bills receivable and judgments.
Cotton.
recent number Of the Boston Post pub
fishes series of extracts from New York
and New Orleans circulars, written 1858
and 1859, showing the remarkable similarity
Of weather during those big crop years, and
the planting season we are just entering
upon.
Here is what the Post says by ways of IL
troduction
In view of the conditions SO unfavorable to cotton
planting this a.. the excessive and longcontinued
co rams washing AM saturatng the grou and
hindering the prepa atory work and the inundatious
OF al the cotton lands along the Southern rivers
especially the NJ ssssippi aud itS tributarie- 1t is
well to recall the experience of similar in past
years In a the leading features OF the pa winter
and spring the experience If the two seasons 1858
and 1859, has been remarkably repeated. Both wee
wet seasons attended BY overlows and late planting
ct the production Of cotton in 1858 exceeded that
1857 by nearly 800 900 bales.
The spring of 1859 was still worse in every respect
yet the production OF that yelr made further in
ase of about $780, 600 bales that being the largest
crop ever produced-near,y 5000 900 bales. Uuder
the great change from the large plantation system to
that OF small farms extensively made since 1859 it
is question whe her he recuper iting action and re-
planting necessary after bad opening Of the planting
will be greater r le than it was then There
ar some genera facts attend ng these aud JACK
ward seasons which are encourage to perseverance
in replantlng.
After so many weeks of cold and rainy weather
and after the turn in May the weather is almost
always dry and very warm. The soil becomes heated
1ts long saturation leaves abundant moisture and
these conditions. heat and mois ure, are what the
cotton seed requires for ge, mination and yigor
Gus start to the paut. Usually, 100, the weather
remains generally dry through June and july in
which the plant atti its growth j h great rapidty
SO that in such it is by the first of August
much ivanced as in other seasons when much earlier
plant d. Dry weather in June and July forb.ds the
appearance and breed ng OF the worm, which is 30
destructive when those months are wet.
The extracts which follow these remarks
are at some length, the general tenor of
which, however, showing how poorly the
season opened, the damages predicted from
the overflow in the Mississippi Bottom, to-
gether with continuous heavy rains and
frost. As the season advanced, however,
more favorable reports were received and
summary at the close of the season showed,
as is well known, the largest crop on record.
The foregoing clearly indicates the wis
dom of abstaining from rash estimates,
either one way or the other, early in the
season. In some of the sections overlooked
this season we are told that the water is
subsidug rapidly, and planters have hopes
of yet being able to pnt in a fair crop. Of
course this is all speculation, but there is
sufficient in it to show the fallacy of at
tempting thus early to form correct esti
mate of the number of acres that may be
put under cultivation in cotton. The over
flow is said to have covered land which pro-
duced 100000 bales or more How much OF
this may be reclaimed remains to be SEEN