Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-11-14
MEMPHIS DEPARTMENT.

District of West nnessec-Tweuty-
six responses; % report very favorable
weather; Is more favorable than ~ 1874
9 about the same, and not so good. All
report killing frosts from the llth 10
18Th; average, I4th; estimated dam
age, l41 per cent; AZ per cent.
of crop picked; estimated close
OF the picking season, December
Goth; estimated increase Of yield, Is per
cent LabOrers are generally well dis
posed TO save the crop, but have been
much retsrded by sickness. Planters
have been seriously disappointed in the
yield Of the crop. The crop was very
late, and green when frosted. Damage
by rust will not exceed per cent.
District OF North Mississippi-Thirty
reports; 2S report very favorable weather,
10 more favorable than in 1874; Il about
the same; not so coed; p report kill
ing frost from 10Th to 18th October;
average, l4th; 5 report none; estimated
damage, Il per cent IS per cent. Of the
crop picked: estimated clOse Of the pick.
ing, with fair weather, January l4th /;
estimated increase Of yield, Is per cent
LabOrers have been badly demoraliZed
by political excitement, much sickness
and considerable Indifference on account
OF low prices. Damage by rust, rot and
storms estimsted to be 90 per cent:
District Of North Arkansas
three responses; 81 report very iavoTs-
ble weather, 81 more favorable than
1874, 2 about the same, and not SO =
vorable; % report killing frost from
October OH to 18th; average l4th:
damage not over 8 per cent; AZ per
cent Of the crop picked. Estimated
close OF picking, with fair weather, jan
uAry 18th; estimated increase OF yield,
"a per cent LsOoTeTs reported IS only
moderately disposed to save the crop;
numbers have abandoned their crops 10
work for wages, and many holding Off
for extortionate wages; there is some
sickness. Estimated damage by rust, 81
per cent.
MOBILE DEPARTMENT.
misunderstanding replies from
forty counties report the weather since
the first Of Oc.obeT Is generally favor
able for gathering the cotton crop; there
have been light hosts, but 10 material
damage done there; nearly two. thirds
OF the crop has been picked, and the
planters expect TO finish batween No
vembeT l5t1 and December lst-gome
few, however, Will not have entirely fiu-
ished before the first OF January In
sixteen counties, comprising chiefly the
prairie and bottom lands, the average
increase will be 2lt per cent. over last
years yield; in fourteen counties, con-
sisting Of fair average lsnds, the yield
will be about the same as last year; in
nine counties, composed chiefly Of up
lands, and located in the eastern and
SOU hesstern portions Of the state, the
yield, compared with last year - esti-
mated az about 25 per cent. decrease; the
damage by rIst has not teen material
in thiTty-Oug counties; the average
damage has been about l44 per cent.
fromsthe August previous.
ississippi-ThiTty-fi replies from
eighteen counties. The weather since
the frst Of October has been favorable
for gathering the cotton crop. There
have been light frOsis, but no dam age
thereirom; 3 b Jut one half the crop has
been picked, and planters do not expect
TO be through before the fret 10 the IL
tenth Of December, some of whom not