The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-07-02
Cotton Report for juno.

made from various exchanges appointed
therefor by the National Exchange, sub
nit the following for the month OF June
New Orleans, Department Of Louisiana
We have SO letters from 81 parishes
which unite in inrepOrting generally faver'
able weather; there has been no addi
tional acreage put into cotton since the
18th OF May, but there has been some re-
planting where the lands were over
flooded and to perfect the stsS71S; the
plant has been better cultivated than foI
many years and is growing und forming
WE'LL many blooms reported, stands rep
resented as very good to excellent; the
present condition Of the crop is ilutter'
ing and much better and about one week
earlier, when compared with last year.
Mississippi-l0S replies received; ay'
erage date about 10Th inst; weather nearly
universally represented as very favor.
able, stands fine, and the plant forming
well, though too early for many blooms
present condition stated as very good,
and much better when compared with
last year; no additional acreage put in
cotton; replanting has been done where
the stands were imperfect,
Arkansas-50 correspondents send in
their answers, from 22 counties; since the
LIST Of June the weather has been hot and
moist enough to promote rapid growth
and cause the plants to form and square
we'll; stands very good and no replanting
needed, except in few exceptional cases;
Bradley county reports the first bloom on
9Th inst, but II Is only exceptional, and
as u rule blooming had not begun ut the
date Of our answers. Our correspondents
are unanimous in representing the con-
dition Us exceedingly promising, and far
superior TO last year, Planters are en-
couraged by the prospect Of one Of the
finest crops ever known. Considerable at-
tentiOn and care has been devoted to the
cultivation Of cereals, and owing to the ex-
cellent harvest, a feeling Of independence
Is very noticeable in our correspondence,
Charleston, Department Of South Car.
Olina- Ninety.seVen answers received
from q counties, reporting weather since
May 10Th as generally favorable; some
com plants Of cool nights; very little
additional planting; stands very good,
Thirty.fOur answers say forming well;
30 answers, few forms; 0 answers, no
forms; all agree in stating no blooms up
10 date Of their answers; present cOndi-
ton good, the plants, though small being
clear Of grass, and in some parts compare
fayOrabIy with last year. Heavy stO rms
Of wind and hail are reported In six
counties since June 7th, doing much
local damage. Lice reported in four
counties.
Augusta Department, covering that
portion Of the State OF Georgia not In.
cluded In the Savannah repOrt.-Weath.
er favorable; no additional planting;
some little replanting; stands invariably
good; forming well, but no blooms; gen.
eral condition good, and about as far
forward as at the same date last year;
crops generally very clean; labor pIenti.
ful and good.
Savannah Department-The Savannah
Cotton Exchange covers Northern, Mid.
die and Southwestern Georgia and the
State Of Florida. Georgia-Weather dry
and generally favorable; no additional
planting OF any consequence; stands good;
plant vigorous, generally forming well,
but no blooms except In the southern
portion Of the State; condition good; crop
clean and we'll worked; plants somewhat
smaller and few days later, but better
than at the same time last year. Florida
Dry and favorable weather; clearing
the fields of grass; stands good; the plant
Is forming well and commencing to bloom;
condition good and compares iayorAbly
with last year; the plant, though small
from the dry weather and somewhat later
than lust year, promises to be well fruited
at The bottom, which Is the principal part
Of the crop.
Mobile Department Of AlAbnma-62
counties, 1876 replies; the weather has been
generally favorable; rather too dry In
some places, but not enough to injurc the
plant; there has been very little replant.
Ing or additional planting; stands are
good and plants are forming wellvery few
blossoms; condition as compared with
last year Is reported from as good to
much better; there are scarcely any I'm.
favorable circumstances relative 10
growth or condition Of crop only n few
reports Of lice and grasshoppers and com.
plants Of cold night and drought; the
crop Ia clean, in good condition and bet
ter cultivation than last year.
MisSissippi-l9 counties, SO replies;
weather has been generally favorable;
needing rain in some counties and some
complaints Of cold nights producing lice;
there has been very little replanting or
additional planting, stands good, plants
forming well; only few blossoms; the
present condition OF the crop Ia better
than last year; the only uniayorable cir.
cumstOnces are those noted above; the ia.
vorable circumstances are the crop Is
cleaner and more advanced than last
year.
Norfolk and Portsmouth Department
-55 replies from 20 counties In North
Carolina; replies from two counties in
Virginia. Forty.fve replies report the
weather dry, IA Say favorable, and only
two represent the weather "a wet and
cold; 81 answers report the stand Us good;
I replies from I counties In Eastern Caro-
lima represent the stand as below an ay-
erage; the condition Is very generally sta.
ted as good, the crop Ia we'll cultivated
and free from grass and weeds, the plants
smaller than same time last year, and
from eight to fifteen days later, Five an.
swers from counties In Eastern Carolina
report the condition bad. Correspond.
entS say the weather since May Is, Is too
cool for rapid growth, but with warm
and Seasonable weather a great improve.
nent Ia looked for in the plant.
Memphis Depattment-l45 answers re.
ceivedt rather generally represented as
favorable; no additional acreage put In
cotton since May 10; stands good and
satisfactory; plants generally forming
freely; in II answers reports Of blooms;
fields free Of grass and well cultivated;
some complaints Of cold nights, lice, &C.,
dating from the 10Th Of May 10 about the
9th Of June, mostly temedied, however,
by subsequent favorable weather. ,
Galveston, Department Of Texas-We
have received l2O replies from 90 uoun.
ties, embracing the period between May
10 and June 90; weather very generally
said to have been favorable; no addition
to the acreage In cotton since the 10th oi
May; some little replanting where the
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