Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-10-15
COTTON.
Report of the New Orleans Committee
Appointed by the National Cotton
Exchange - Review of the
Whole Field - The
Prospect.
The Total Average bat Little Better
than Last Iear-SickneSs and Pol
tiles Playing Havoc where
Nature has been Most
GenerOuS-Etc.

| NEW ORLEANS, October 1.-THE
| committee on Information and statistics. of
| the New Orleans cotton exchange, to whom
! has been intrusted the duty OF compiling a
| rational cotton crop report, made up from
! returns of the various exchanges, appointed
| therefor by the National cotton exchange of
| America, beg leave to submit the following
NEW ORLEANS DEPARTMENT,
Covering tat pat of ne State of Mississippi
not appOrlioned 10 the Memphis ard Mobile
cotton exchanges estimate OF Louisiana anu
the State of Arkansas, south OF Arkansas
river.
Louisiana-Sixty two replies from 81 par
ishes,, of the average date OF Octo-
| weather as unusually unfavOrable; heavy
Storms OF wind and rain have materially dam
aged the prospects, say % per cent, by beating
out the open cotton and interfering with
picking, which had not fully commenced
throughout the State, SepteIn bsr 1st notwith-
standing the serious damage already done,
Causing considerable encouragement, and an
unprecedented amount of sickness among Ia
horers, with favorable weather hencefOrth
the yield, es reported. will he but little less
than IaSU sea5Cn.
% counties The weather is reported by some
as windy and rainy, while others state that IL
has been quite dry. On the whole, 1t has 6een
moderately favorable. Complaints reach us
of damage by rot and rust-priuc ucipally the
latter-the extent of which 1t is difficult to
correctly estimate, but the aggregate OF which
does not exceed SglO per cent. About Septem-
Der 2Jh picking had become general, but was
not progressing as rapidly as desired, owing to
sickness in certain countIes and heavy rains
Ia others. Nearly all our correspondents sgTse
in saying that with frost at the same time as
last year Jne yield Will be much greater.
MiSSisslpDi-Seveuty-th replies have been
received from this state of the average date
of October 1st. The weather is almost uni
versally reported as cold, wet and stormy,
causing serious damage to the crop, estimated
al 20 per cent. The damage is mostly by rot
and rust. storms having Injured the quality,
while not materially lesSenlng the quantity.
Picking was general IN the first week IN sep
tember, but is progressing slowly, owing 10
wet weather and an unusual prevalence pt
sickness among labOrers. The yield as conf
pared with last year, with frost at the same
Time, according to our correspondents, will
barely reach that OF last season.
NASHVILLE DEPARTMENT.
Covering Middle Tennessee east of the Tennes-
see river and the following counties of Ala
bama-Lauderdale, Franklin, colbert, Law
renee, Morgan, Limestone, MADISON, Mar
shall, Jack sOU, Dtkalb and Cherokee In
Middle Tennessee generally The weather has
been unfavorable; rather to cool, and too
much rain. In Alabama TOO much ram, Dut
not very damaging until the great storm OF
September 10th, when the country was
drowned by a tremendous fall OF rain, sub
merging the low grounds and beating out the
opened cotton. Since then there have been
too MANY rails and much cool weather. In
Tennessee the damage has been slight in
few cases damages by rain are reported. duty
ing and staining the cotton. In Alabama
luucn damage mas D6en uOD6 By hIOIUlS ana
by rust. Our correspondents do not give us
many figure on the subject, but we estimate
from what we have that the crop has been
damaged at least 10 per cent. by the weather
since August ooh, AMI particularly by the
great storm. The damage was greatest in
lOwlands which were submerged by the rain
tall. In Tennessee picking commenced about
the 20th of September, and in Alabama about
the 10th; although in neither State did it be
gin fully before the 10Th of September. 1t is
progressing slowly everywhere, owing mainly
with a time
as last year the yield in Tennessee will be
about the same. The acreage is somewhat re-
duced, but the yield per acre is increased
this year in Alabama about 10 per cent. The
crop in both States in this department is
greatly dependent on the weather tor the next
Ave or SIX weeks. If there is fair season and
a late frost, the crop Will be above the aver
age; with an early killing frost it will fall p
per cent. below. The crop is about two weeks
later than usual, and picking has progressed
very slowly up to this date, owing TO wet
weather. while the amount OF labor in the
river counties of Alabama has been curtailed
by the great amount OF sickness, prevailing