The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-08
Below last year
Average for The cotton belt.

Average for the cotton belt.....,......,..30 b
If the average of all the other states is as
erroneous as that made of Texas there can
be but one opinion, and that is, Bradstreets
is working in the interests of the cotton
rings of the north. Further on it says that
the percentage of each states crop is re-
ported still fruiting and liable to make a
top crop: North Carolina, 80 per cent;
South Carolina, 20 per cent; Georgia, %
per cent; Alabama, l6 per cent; Missis-
sippi, 20 per cent; Louisiana, Is per cent,
Texas, 10 per cent. Arkansas, % per cent.
and Tennessee 81 per cent, the average for
the entire country being 70 per cent. of the
entire crop. Here again that pa
per is just as much in error
as it is in the estimated per centagc of crops,
but it affords a loophole in the event the
crop should turn out larger than its esti-
mates. Again IL says the reports in many
instances mention that the yield of lint cot
the result of ginning shows it to be smaller
than reported last month. 1t is also noted
that the bales are very light, the cotton be-
ing dry and fluffy. II is impossible to get
full weight of cotton into the bales, as was
the case last year. On the above showing
fair estimate of the cotton crop of 1881
would he about 4 1900, 900 bales.
We only give the above that our readers
may see the errors or misrepresentation
made by that paper. Still ii admits that
there is wide difference between the high
est estimate, which is 6,505, 600 bales, and
the lowest 5,l75,0O0 bales Some of the pa
pers of the south have headed this estimate
OF Bradstreets, Ring cotton report
Professor Kelley delivered his address at
Atlanta on the cotton worm. He confined
his remarks to the cotton belt of the south,
and stated that since the war the ravages OF
the cotton worm have been far greater than
before, He said that between 1875 and 1850
the cotton worm had destroyed $4,000, 900
worth of cotton in the south In 1872 he
discovered that paris green was good rem
edy, but IL was not until 1878 that he was
enabled to investigate the subject thorough.
ly. In that year, aided by Senator Morgan,
OF Alabama, and other southern senators,
he secured an appropriation of 5000 from
congress, and since that time has devoted
himself to careful investigation through.
out the south. The cotton worm
first appeared in the form of blush
green eggs on the under side of the leaves
OF the plant. The worm is Matched out in
from two to four days, and remains for the
first few days on theunder side of the plant
making tiny, yellowish blotches on the
leaves. This is the proper time for the an.
plication of the poison. The worm should
be destroyed before II attains full growth,
when il crawls to the top of the leaves.
One grown female worm could generate 70,
OV,OOO,Oo insects in short time. Paris
green was, one remedy used, but the
safest remedy for men and stock is London
purple. Half a pound of London purple
dissolved in forty gallons Of water and
leaves during the infancy of the
worms would cllectually destroy them the
cost OF this remedy, including application,
being about 6cents per acre. lie expressed
regret ut finding u cotton field of four or
iiye acres on the exposition grounds con.
tanned cotton plants from various parts of
the world entirely defoliated by the cotton
worm, and said that II he could have
known of the presence of the worms earlier
ne could have destroyed them in two hours.
lie exhibited various machines for spraying
poison upon the worms. This theory was
! supported by the experience OF cotton
planters who spoke at the conclusion of the
address.
| The st, Louis Republican of the 9Th says
there was q good deal OF bantering on the
cotton exchange on the turn.outofthe crop al
the present year, and Jake Goldman chalked
thefollowing on blackboard: 81 900 the oron
| will not be 5,S00,000 bales; 1000 that Il
will not be 5000 bales; 81, 900 that Il will
not be 6WO,0cO bales, and 81 900 oach that
| II will not be O. 100000 or G,200,OOO balop.
As lhr as heard from neither bet was taken,
but II Is highly probable that one or two o
them will be. He Is safest on his highest
figures.
The New York Times says the foreign OK.
change market Is firm on the small amount
ofcotton going forward, and although these
shipments are simply delayed by specula-
ton, they must come sooner or latter in the
IT. y FUTURES.
The market for futures was decidedly nm.
steady Yesterday They declined In Liver.
pool one thlrty.second, and In New York