The Phoenix herald., 1880-12-03
COTTON CULTURE .
What if Costs to Raise #
 in Mississippi.
A Few Facts fir our Farmers
 to PeFGse.

The South, a journal devoted t
 Iouthern interests, has the following Ah relation to cotton culture that vii prove interest ting to the farmers 0 this valley:
 Our able and alert contemporary the Wilmington Star, makes noi' and remark upon some extraordi nary figures by our enterprising neighbo-, 'Co,,on,' concerning th' cost Of raising the great staple ir South Carolina. 4Ir. A. P. Ford, O.
 Bamburg, writes, that prior to 165l the average yield of cotton 10 'ht acre in that S'ate was 145 pounds lint, while now il is 2OO pounds; and the cost of procuclion, wbich was formerly eight ard one-haii cents per pound, has been reduced to five and three fourth cents per pounds "
 Can these figures be trusted: asks the Star, adding, i've would be glad to know that our sister State had i'm proved so much m her farming in- terests. Customary readers of The South will remember that we havs more than once demonstrated that cotton could be successfully raised for less than eight cents How much less now, and at all times, in fact, depends upon the cultivation and cost of getting it to market, aEd The improvements iii it's manufacture. Cotton manufactured in Inc cotton fields, that is, in the South, where it is raised, does away with most Of the cost eff getting to market, adds al least hundred fold 10 the profits of the crop, and thus, practically, goes far 10 chcapen the cost of producing the raw material The future king ship of cotton will depend as much upon the conditions of its manufac- ture as upon Ihe modes of it's pro ductIon. and finally, upon the elim- inaiion of more than half the expense Of its Transportation to market from the cost of its production.
 or cotton contemporary says, furthe-. thai some of the Southern papers have expressed sur. rise at the estimate made by a correspondent of Bradstreet's that it costs S40, 600, ,000 to pick the cotton crop; but, as that estimate is made On the basis of fifty cents per 100 pounds for picking, and -as fully eighty cents is tie prevailing rae in Texas, --. iIi..c as lsi=ia-s.s l.s95 has been paid ll.is year. il is prob able that S5O,OOo,O00 would better lrepre=ent the cost of picking out tie 'cotIon crop of the United States Of Ehis amount probably $50,0co,c00 is paid to colored men.
 The Boston Commercial Bulletin publishes an interesting table, show Ing the cost of producing cotton crop, winch was prepared by Mr. " Is. Lowell, the figures referring to his Palmyra plantation in Warren ccuD ry, Miss, and the season being tha. of Is79-SO In the expense is in- cluded rent of land al S4.50 an acre, but no account is taken of seed. No fertilizers were used. The aggregate 1 yield on 250 acres was 2e4 bales, weighing 15s,OO pounds, and the cost per pound was six and seven teen-twentie,hs cents, while the cot ton sold for nine and threc-quarter cents net Of course the season of I579-eO was ap exceptionally favora- ble one. and it would hardly be fair to calculle upon Q steady increase of acreage from year to year, based l upon these figures alone.
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