The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-09
Cotton.
commercial Notes.

Six or seven wagons were In tho city yes
terday, loading with corn TO be hauled TO
johnson county, forty miles distant. Thoy
lett home Wednesday morning and will got
back Saturday neighbour days time lost,
and 20 cents per bushel paid for their corn.
Reduced to money their corn will cost them
all OF 81 rs when they get It home.
The present price of cotton may once more
set the Southern people crazy on the subject,
and result in such an enormous crop that il
bankruptcy. We tried tho "all cotton and
no corn" system of farming from 1865 TO
1870, winding up with 80 per cont, of the
planters falling into the hands of the Sheriff.
A writer in tho New York Bulletin, under
date hamburg, s. O., March 26th, gives the
comparative cotton acreage in his neghbor-
hood this and last wear. His Lat comprises
eleven planters with the following result:
Four hundred and eighty three acres planted
In 1879, against seven hundred and five acres
planted this year, $780, He estimates that
in South Carolina the increased acreage this
wear will BIO 85 per cent. over that Of 1879
He adds: "Now, the same impulses that arc
making planters here increase the area In
cotton are operating with equal force
throughout the entire South; and to these
causes must DO still added tho taking In of
new lands and natural extension of cultiva-
ton In the Southwest. From these facts, it
appears that with an ordinary season, no
worse than that Of 1S70 II is not improbable
that the cotton crop of 1880 will b. very
large, and may approximate 5000, 900 bales,
against q prospective result for
1879 of 100000 bales. 1t is a
great mist Ike to suppose that the
Southern people are not making money out
oftheir cotton crops at present prices. The
expcnss of making cotton and delivering IL
at tho railway station is about $li per acre,
and the average yield of the South is l0l
pounds per acre, showing the cost of cultiva.
ton to DO about 6}c per pound. Now, the
prcies obtained by the farmers at interior
towns for last years crop have averaged fully
11lc per pound, and thus there will have re-
manned In the South clear profit of not less
than $l30, 000, 900 as the result of last years
cotton planting. This enormous profit an
nually made in cotton cultivation is Just
where the steady, rapid recuperation of the
South comes from. Cotton is the only cash
product of the United States, and its value
TO the country may DO realized when 1t is
known that the clear net profit of its cultiva-
tion amounts annuay..to more than the ag-
gregato gross Yields of all the gold and silver
mines of the West"
EDITORS HERALD:--Through the HERALD,
If you or some one else, will lot me know
something about the prospects of crops and
what is principally raised and how much per
acre, you will greatly oblige
JAS. A. e. SMITH AND OTHERS
'wER.--The condition Of the crops of
Texas was never more promising at this sea-
son Of the year. We principally raise in
North Texas cotton, corn and wheat, with
hay, oats, barley, rye, potatoes, etc, as aux
Hilary crops, and all Of which last, grow
and mature as finely as in the valleys of
Ohio and Kentucky. OF cotton we average
one and one-half bales to two acres; corn.
ninety-three bushels to one acre wheat
twenty bushels; oats, sixty bushels, In fay-
orabe seasons so per cent more. We al
ways make good cotton crop, rain or shine
All kinds Of vegetables and fruits grown on
the North American continent flourish in
Northern, and in Southern Texas ali these
and those Of the tropics besides.
We have Walter Brown & Co.'S, (Boston,
wool circular of the LIST ofApril date, and
make the following extracts: "Since the
first OF March the wool market has been fair
" active for domestic woods, the demand be-
ing almost tntirely from manufacturers. at
prices we'll sustained on all grades, and with
an advance well established on medium DUAL.
tiles, Of 8 to 8 per cent. The meagre sssort.
ment Of the domestic staple, has led consum.
ers to turn their attention TO foreign woods.
and there have entered largely into the trans
actions of the month, both from ..the lots on
hand and those TO arrive. The auction sales
which began in London on February 18th,
continued throughout the series with unabat.
cd activity and gradually hardening prices.
AZ the close an advance Of 25C93O per cent.
was manifest, over the rates of the
previous sales In December. Texas
woos'-rhs movement has been con-