The daily gazette., 1881-08-29
Totals ..............l4,A4 Al .9s3

vtrsinia ............. $4,000 li,000
Kentucky .........". 1857 +4 1857
Totals ..............A,4 Al. .883 5.737. .259
While Mississippi appears as the
banner cotton State in point OF pro-
duction it ranks fourth In acreage
planted and sixth in population among
the cotton States. Its supremacy in
production ia due to the exceptionally
fertile soil that covers half it's territory
and to the fact that cotton culture is
the chief pursuit of its people. So
great is the productive capacity of this
State that Special Census Agent Hill
gard estimates that the present entire
crop of the United States, or about six
million bales, might be produced in
Mississippi alone.
Georgia stands second in production
but from widely different causes. 1t has
not the natural advantages Of Mississippi,
but has won aud holds its high rank by
superior cultivation, and use Of fertiliz.
ers and q higher degree of industry and
thrift than is found In Mississippi. 1t
has half . million more inhabitants than
Mississippi and an area of cotton culture
fifth larger, but the crop Of 1870 was
nearly hundred and fifty thousand
bales less than that of Mississippi, while
the average product per acre was only
two-thirds that of the latter State. Texas
now ranks third in production, but It's
vast ares of rich lands adapted to cotton
culture gives IL the means of taking its
place at the head of the cotton States.
The State is now but sparsely settled,
and It's cotton crop will doubtless swell
withsits future increase of population.
The most striking result shown by
the census returns Is the marked increase
in the production of cotton In recent
years. A comparison of the crop of 1879
with that OF 1869 shows that the yield
has nearly doubled In ten years. 1t has
been steadily increasing since the war
and has now reached point beyond
anything known In the days OF slavery.
The greatest crop gathered before the
war was that of 1859, which amounted
to something over four million eight
hundred thousand bales. But the crop
OF last year was nearly a million bales
larger than the great ante-war crop. The
production of this year will be consld-
erabiy larger than that Of last, and will
20 beyond six millien bales. With the
general industrial advance that Is being
made in the South, with black held
hands rapidly mutt t'plyiDg, with ca.
pacity IN the two States of Mississippi
and Texas alone for crop double that
now produced in the entire United
States, 1t Is not easy to predict what viii
be tina American cotton production II
| the future, But 1t 10 safe to say tha
within the next ten years four millior
bales will bo added to the annual yield
making the. crop. Of 1890 ten million
bales, which would be worth about five
handred million dollars raw and .hou
saut millions manufactured. This is I
glowing, but not an extravagant, picture
Of one item of 8 national wealth In tht
South of the future. q .le699sa2
| - There are those who look with con
cern, Vifdnot with alarm, upon the
rapid extension, of cotton calture il
the Southern States. They argue tha
as tho production rises the price mus
fall, until raising cotton will become
an unproAtable. industry compared
with general agriculture. In supper
Of this theory 1t Is asserted that th'
South ID vVbnying products of thu
| farm which 1t might better raise, ant
that the loss consequent upon thi
necessity must increase in proportion
as cotton culture is pushed at the ex'
pense OF agriculture. But we do no
share this alarm NOR concur in thes'
views. Cotton raising is followed In
| stead Of. agriculture because it pay
better, and when farming becomes
4 more. prod stable than cotton culture /
Will NOS be neglected for cotton cul
tnre.5 . Considering it's soil and Its sys
tenn l0fiabor there 10 good reason fo
the belief that no product can b,
| raised Ia the cotton belt that will yiele
4 so.Qood o profit as cotton. Nor car
Ftho black labor Of the old slave Statel
be Q 20 tadvantagaeasly employed OF
farms as in cotton fields. The Soutl
cannot hope to compete with the grea
Northwest in the production of cereal.
for market. The most that it can ex
j>pect 10 accomp plish' is to get from its
own soil enough lfor homo consump.
tion and 1t lie b question whetherkevel
4 for this purpose it will not, at least TO
some time TO come, find buying cheap
4 er than raising. Nature, has made tn,
Sbuth a the ~ cotton field of th,
world and id this staple lies it's creates
| source Of wealth and prosperity. Cot
ton and sugar plantations, rice and to
bscco fields, will doubtless absorb tn
i great body of black laborers, so tina
j whatever progress Is made in farninI
Unjust come, from the whites and irot
[Ismail farmers, in view Of the fact tina
as q Enla the conditions are not favora
4 sble to olarge farms. il i. 5ls..sl5 =
II .NoTiCE.4pr. Klne's Great Nery
|, kestorer ID the marvel Of the age for
= L Nerve Diseases. All Its stopped free.-
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