The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-10-13
COTTON CROP.
TIE Repests frem Tenaessee and North
stahamu isespeak nm average crop
With Bach wava Picking season
D~ereese in Arkansas ana Miss

With ssasl wara Picking season
Dsereese ana Arkansas ana Miss
MOBILE, October l0.-Ths following |
is the Mobile cotton exchanges rapport /
for September: Alahama-From for !
tysone counties, seyenty-four letters /
have been received The weather for |
September is reported as having been |
favorable during the first half of the
month, bat wet and stormy during the
last half, cansing shedding, rot.ing Of
hollis, damage TO quality and stimulat /
ing second growth. The damage
from these causes Is varioasIy estima-
ted. In twenty counties no percentage
is given, and in twenty-one the aver
age loss is about sixteen per cent.
Picking has progressed slowly on ac-
count OF ineienient weather. Some
COUNTIES report fair progress. The
yield per acre will average about three
hundred and hfsy pounds, seed cotton.
The yieid compared with last year is
estimated in twenty ght upland cCnn-
ties at fifteen pee ce8t. less, aud tbiT>
teen p!airies or bottom land counties
at i've per eeat mere.
mississippi From eighteen counties.
forty letters have been received.
Weather during September has been
the same SIS in Aiabains, aud has pro-
dueed the same effects, The damage be-
ing estimated at about sixteen pc;
cent on the acreage. Picking Las pro-
stormy westhar. The yield per acre
will average four hundred pounds Of
seed cotton. In sixteen Counties tss>
average yield as compared with las
year is estimatcd at seventeen per
cent. iess. In one, Estawa;nba, at If
teen per cent more, and in one, 4isho
aaiuga, at the same.
4 MEMPHIS, Tenn., October lo.--Ttie
crop report for September oi the Mem,
. phis cotton exchange, msde .Svsil fofty-
seven reports from West Tennessee,
. tifty-oae from North Mississippi and
( Hfty-foHr from Arkansas, rlrth of the
| Arkansas river. of the average date oi
October lst- The majority report mir
/ favorable weather, owing 10 r4insi
keeping tbs crop growing and resard
| ing its maturity. The average damage
! by wol iz1R, rust and rot is six per cent
/ of the general picking up TO septeiabsi
81, an. the damage tfon frost - est
mated 10 be eight per cent greater than
last year. There is no top crop, TO.
: much rain causing it 10 shed. There
. is much complaint OF excessive Weeds
6 in The crop, seriously Interfering with
/ picking,
. NASHVILLE, October 10.-0f the
thirty replies from Middle Teuresses
to the Nashville department of the
cotton exchange, twenty-six report
very favorable effect OF weather upou
tue eutton, and the bsiis opening tine
ly. Oniy live report of damage by the
worms aud three by rust. Eighteen
report picking progressing slowly and
eleven progressing fila ~. Thirteen
report from six 10 seven hundred
pounds per acre, seed cotton, and thir-
teen from four TO six hundred. Nine
teen report a better yield than last
year, seven a third more and four
dounie the yield of last year.
OF Twenty-Five replies from north
Alabama, seventeen report unfavor-
able effect of too much rain, rstardiBg
the opening of bolls. and FIVE repors
favorable. Ten report no damage. and
twelve serious damage by rust. Nine
teen report picking slowly in eorsa-
quence of the backward season. Six
teen report from three TO five hundred
pounds ofseed cotton per acre, and six
from five to six hnsdred pounds Nine
report the yield not 80 good as last
year, seven about the same, aud six
from fifteen TO twenty-five per cent
more than last year.