The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-17


est previous rate Of increase was 3269, which
would give population Of 81, 16s, 1o2 In 1880
while the average rate Of Increase for the past
nine decades, 1896 per cent, would bring this
number up to b, 4l3,732. The commercial de-
preston has probably exercised retardlng
effect, but, making every allowance for the
influence, the census should show fully fifty
millions.
The Dalrymple wheat farm, In the valley oil
the Red River Of the North, contains $4,000
acres OF which 10000 are this year In wheat
In a single block making field of twenty
square miles. The average yield this year. 1t
Is estimated, will be from twenty-three to
twenty-five bushels per acre, and the total
wheat crop OF the farm is expected to be be-
tween four and five hundred Thousand bushels,
| the profit being over forty cents per bushel.
| The net profits Of the farm this year are ex-
pected to exceed $4,000. The Dalrymple
farm Is not titled on the exhaustive principle.
Manure is saved and clover sowed, d good
portion OF the wheat being grown on the In
verified clover sod. In this way the owner ex-
poets to keep up the fertility Of his soil for
many years, but Of course his wheat crops
will grow less and less productive
Many Western journals are pointing with
some complacency and even exultation to the
fact that cotton has been dethroned, and In
value Is no longer the king Of products In tho
outer markets. Breadstuffs under the for
eign demand have gone over S2O0,ooO,o 900, up
to the present time, while cotton Is put at
$1G5, 10000. As the Pitsburg Post will say,
there 10 something else beside aggregate
values to test the worth Of these products.
When the fabrics OF cotton are considered,
the variety Of uses to which they are put, the
myriads Of people engaged In their manufac-
ture, there is wide difference. Fifty bushels
Of wheat, II not consumed In kind. gets the
one handling, which makes It ready for food,
and that Is the only added value. A bale Of
cotton may employ 100 people and be trans
wheat s l HRasl ty y E9rth 100 bushels q
iron. Gold has the most intrinsic value, but
as commercial metal iron is worth hun
dreds OF times as much as gold and repre-
sents far greater values. Viewed In this light. |
cotton must remain the acknowledged king
OF agricultural products, az iron is the mon |
arch OF metals.
~ LlVeTpool GOst makes u series OF elab-
crate calculations, upon the basis Of the re-
turns from the different cotton manufacture
Ing districts of Great Britain, to ascertain the
exact extent of the depression In that Indus
brE and the actual consumption of cotton.
The Baltimore Sun contains an abstract OF
,he Posts article, from which we obtain some
interesting statistics: The number of spn-
lies In the United Kingdom is 40, 600. 900. their
capacity, working full time, being GO, 900 bales
! week, or 100000 bales per annum. Tho
lepression as measured by the number Of
pindles standing or working less than full
ime, is estimated at 81 per cent, which would
cave the consumption at $4,000 bales per
week. or 2340,O0O per annum. How much Of
his take is at present cotton grown lii the
United States Is an interesting question. Orr
otal exports OF cotton from September /, 1878.
Q date Is 3,42S197 bales, but 1t ID not So easy
} ascertain what percentage Of this ia ,
sed for English mills and how much IN /
rench, German, Belgian, Austrian aud Span {
III mills. La 1873 on the the basis OF a total
OF 3,335,000 bales, England took |
CD, 600 bales from the United States. 1877 600 I
ON India, $4,000 from Brazil, 300, 900 from !
gypt, and 10000 bales from sundry other
But since the depression Ia trade Z
reat Britain has bought much more largely
the best staples in the cheapest markets, =
nd has taken considerably less from the sub
diary countries which entered upon cotton
llture In consequence Of our civil war; Still. l
reat Britain has received from Bombay and :;
her ports, since January T. $4,000 bales. r
nd from Egypt no. 700 "cantars" (bales OF g8 6
)unds). The India bale does not average I
ore than 300 pounds in weight il SO much. 1
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