Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-12-15
THE COTTON CROP.

The following is the New Orleans Cotton
Exchange report for the month of November,
based upon replies received up to the 9th in
stant:
Louisiano.-seventy two replies from 80
parishes on average date of November 80.
The weather during the month has been very
favorable, and compared with last year deci-
dedly more favorable. There is no top crop.
Picking is generally finished. The yield is l
per cent. less than last years. There has been
no damage from frost. IS per cent of the
crop has been marketed
| Mississippi. hundred and twenty-seven
replies from 30 counties, average date of No
vember 30. The weather has been generally
| favorable, much more so than last year, when
pect for top crop was destroyed by frost and
worms with few exceptions. Picking will be
generally finished by December 1st. The yield
| is 26 per cent less than last year, which indi-
Gates decrease of per cent since the report
last month. IS per cent of the crop has been
marketed.
| Arkausas-One hundred and eleven replies
| from 81 counties south of the Arkansas river,
of the average date of November 30. The
weather during the month has been generally
| favorable, and compared with last year more
| favorable. Some counties report small top
crop, but it has been destroyed by frost and
worms. Picking is finished. The yield is so
per cent. less than last year; Is per cent. of the
crop has been marketed.
Mobile-The following is the Cotton Ex-
| change report for the month of November
| Fifty-six letters have been received from 80
counties in this State. The weather during
November was favorable for gathering the
crop in 30 counties and unfavorable in 8,
but it.was generally more favorable than du-
ring the same period last year in all the coun-
ties. In II counties small top crop has been
made. All the other counties report none.
Picking had been finished in % counties and
will be completed in the remaining IL about
the middle of December. The total yield as
compared with last year is reported as the
same in and as 25 per cent. less in 1G of the
more productive counties and in 20 less pro-
ductive counties as 81 per cent. less. Little
or no damage was done by frost. In 10 of the
productive counties 81 per cent. of the crop is
reported as having been marketed and in 20
less productive counties rs per cent.
Memphis. regular monthly cotton re-
port of the Memphis Cotton Exchange for the
month of November, including the districts of
North Mississippi, North Arkansas and Wes-
tern Tennessee, embraces rs responses. Fifty
eight report the weather for the month OF No
vember favorable for picking, and Is unfavor-
able. Compared with 1880, 6S report more
favorable and about the same. SiXty-two
report no top crop, IA report top crop, but it
did not mature. Ffty-eight report that pick
ing is completed, and Is report that it will be
finished from December 5th to 18th. The es-
timated yield compared with that Of last year
is 40 per cent. less. All report frost, but no
damage has been done. Responses indicate
that 70 per cent. of the crop has been marketed.
Charleston. s. C.-The report OF the Char
lesion Cotton Exchange for November is based
upon 81 replies received from q counties OF
an average date November 3O All except II
report the weather during November as favor
able, and, in comparison with last year, more
favorable for gathering the crop. Forty-three
state that the top crop has been made, but
some of them say that it matured only par
TALLY. Picking is expected to be finished
on December 10Th by II, while 30 report the
picking as near finished and IL as entirely
completed. The total yield as compared with
last year is estimated as the same by 2, as
seven-eghts by 3, three-fourths by IA, two
thirds by 2S and one-half by 10. The frost
came too late to do any damage except to kill
some immaterial top crop. The proportion of
quarter, by 6 one-half, by twO-thirds, by 81
three-quarters, and by IL seVen-eights, show
ing that an average of about three-fourths of
the yield has been marketed.
Galreston-The Cotton Exchange report is
as follows 104 replies have been received from
II counties, of an average date of November
80. Forty-four counties report the weather
during November us favorable and 33 as wet
and unfavorable. The weather has been more
favorable for gathering the crop than at the
same time last year in 81 counties, and less
favorable in 25 Fourteen counties report
top crop, 21 some and AZ none. Picking is
over in 81 counties and will be finished in % by
the 18th of December. The total yield as
compared with last year, it is estimated, will
average 40 per cent. less. Thirty-four coun-
ties report damage by frost and 43 report no
damage. Seventy-six per cent. of the crop
has been marketed.