New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-28
.AGRICULTURAL.
Crop Report Of tho Memphis Cotton Ex
CHANGE

Crop Report Of the Memphis Cotton Ex.
change.
MEMPHIS, August .27-The Cotton Ex-
change crop report for August gives the
folio wing summary of crops in the Memphis
district. composed of West Tennessee,
North Misslesippi and Arkansas, from l6O
responses. North Alabama, though not in
mittee say: .
Notwith. tandiDg the excessive wet and
cold weather which has prevailed since our
report Of June 26, the general crop pros
pects indicated by the report are OF the
most gratifying character.
The probabilities are that larger or bet.
ter corn crop was never made 10 this region
Of the country. Abundant crops of wheat,
oats and millet, and in most of this region
good crops of small grasses were made, and
all harvested and pr0tet ted save corn. The
latter has in all instances matured, and only
awaits the convt nieuce of planters to har-
vest.
One hundred and twelve report excessive
rain S, sixty -four balance Of the time cloudy,
sixty generally cold, sixty.four cold nights,
two very. dry, forty six favorable weather:
100 report cotton plant frui ing we'll, thirty
not well; 103 report plant retaining fruit,
titty-seven shedding seriously; l54 report
crops we'll cultivated, SIX not; 135 report
better crop than in 1874, twenty -four equal,
one not SO good; estimated average, twenty
eight per cent bett ir; twenty one report bot
tom grewth only good, sixty-seven bottom
and middle growth gOOd; eighty report top
t,Op very light and making too much weed.
Twenty-ODe report bottom growth rOtting
seriously. StVen report development OF
rust. Seventy-fOur report perfect crops.
Eight report picking commenced. All re-
porls are not become general until average,
Sep embes H. Much speculative spprehen
zion in regard TO. the critical condition of
The cotton crop which 10 generally claimed
to bs two OF three weeks later than usual.
ITS luxuriaLt g,o With will rsquirs an exceed
ingly late frost. and unless, dry, warm
weather succeeds, there will DO great danger
Of the bottom growth rOttiDg in low lands,
where the growth is already so dense as to
exclude 9th sun and air. In regard to the
damage by the overflow, we have been
uuaole e. arrive at any definite infor-
NATION. 10 most cases our correspond
ents in the ove1 fl ,wel districts have
MeD so over fwhelmed with their own
cares ,has they were unprepared;
some unwilling, to make definite
responses. That very great. damage on
plantations subject to the influences of
tioed by the Mississippi river has accrued
will not admit. Of o doubt. We are con-
strained to believe, from such information
Dc VIC udVOs Lu0b Vud uhuAk0 Wlbuku LUhC
portion of the cO.t 70 region allotted to this
exchange will not fall short of $4,000 bales.
One hundred and twenty seven report su.
periOf corn crops, thirty -One good, and one
inferior from lrOuth. Much damage has
occurred in river districts by overflow, and
much in the interior by wind storms: esti.
mated damage not given; lO7 report no dam
age to wheat crops by exposure; eighteen
report an average damage as to them of
mir nAnt THo in1l
125 repoI t. give twelve ana one third BUSH
els; l28 report good crops Of oats raised,
eleven inferior, twenty none raised; l30 re-
port crops we'll saved, ten not, with an
average loss to them Of about ten per cent;
1873 report good crops of millet, seventy -four
small experiment, j; liz report we'll saved,
twenty-four partly damaged by water;
nineteen report none raised; 1913 report
laborers working we'll, nine not we'll. The
depreciation in the morale of labor occurs
mostly in Mississippi; cause political in
tluences. Aggregate for North Alabama
twenty responses-seventeen report exces-
sive rains, eight. balance of time cloudy,
five generally cold, nind cola nights, three
favorable weather; seventeen report fruit
ing well, three NOT; fifteen retaining fruit.
five shedding seriously All report we'll
cultivated and better than 1874 bv an aver
age of thirty two per cent; Que bottom crop
only good, eleven bottom and middle crops
gOO1, twelve top crops making two much
weed. All report no picking will commence.
on an average, till September IA. All re-
port condition OF crop same as Memphis
district as regards early frost. No loss sus.
tanned by overflow; sixteen report superior
corn CT ops, four good, no damage reported:
eighteen report wheat crops saved without
weather damage; two report damage at
fifteen per cent; average yield per acre ten