Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-10
OUR GREAT STAPLE.
JULY REPORT ON THE GROWING
COTTON CROP.
The Outlook In Virginia, the Caro-.
Iinass Alabama. missIssiPpI, Ar
kansas and Tennessee.

CHARLESTON, August 9.-The July report
OF the Charleston Exchange is based on
htty-three replies from twenty-seven coun-
ties. The condition OF the crop for the
month Of July is generally reported un-
favorable on account of the continued dry
and excessively hot weather causing rust
and shedding in various sections. One reply
reports more favorable, four the same as
last year, forty-eight from unfavorable
to very unfavorable. No lands are reported
as abandoned. The crop is seriously injured
by the drought. The plant is small and
boiling badly. Two counties report injury
from lice. The average estimate as to the
outturn Of the crop is from one-fourth to
one-third less than last year. Picking will
be general from the Goth OF August till the
| lst Of September.
NORFOLK. August 9.-The Cotton Ex-
change makes the following report of the
condition Of the crop, based on seventy
replies from thirty-six counties in North
Carolina and Virginia, of the average date
/ Of July 30. Thirty-fve replies show favor
able weather. Thirty five unfavorable.
| Twelve show more favorable weather than
last year. Fourteen the same as last year,
/ and fOrtY-four less favorable than last year.
E1fty-nine replies show that the plant is
/ forming, blooming and blossOming well,
aud eleven not well. Forty FIVE replies
show the condition OF the crop good, and
| twenty-five poor. Thirty nine replies show
/ the condition OF the crop not so good as
| last year. Twenty the same as last year,
| aud eleven better than last YeGr.
| The average of the replies show the
| condition Of the crop 35 3 100 per cent lower
| than last year. Some few replies indicate
| that picking will begin by August 25th. An
| average Of the reports shows that picking
will have begun by September 10th to 18th.
| The tenor OF the reports indicates that the
/ plant is SMALL caused by the drought, which
was general and severe up to July 25th.
| Since that tina rains have been abundant.
| They further show that much of the damage
/ can be corrected by favorable season in
August. Accounts of lice are more fre
! quent, and are reported from eleven cOun-
| ties. Labor in some sections is so scarce as
| to retard the cultivation of the crops.
MOBILE, August 9.-The following is the
Mobile Cotton Exchange report for July:
| ALABAMA-Thirty-fve counties, sixty-two
replies. The weather for July is reported
as favorable for the growth and develop
ment Of the crop in seventeen counties
aud unfayorable in twenty counties,
and as compared with last year from
| in nineteen counties. The plant is re-
| ported as forming, blooming and boiling
| well in twenty-eight counties and not well
! in nine counties. The present condition of
| the crop is reported fair to good in twenty
eight counties and poor in nine coun-
ties, and as compared with last year
from good to better in the most productive
counties and not so good IN the small up
land counties on account of the drought.
Picking will be general from August 18th
to September 1st, according to location OF
counties. Worms in small numbers are re-
ported in most of the low land counties, but
| there are no damages therefrom as yet.
MIssIssIPPI.-Nineteen counties, twenty
| nine replies. The weather during July is
reported as having been favorable In ten,
aud as compared with last year equally as
| favorable to more favorable in eleven cOun-
| ties and less fsvorabei in eight counties. The
| plant is forming, blooming and boiling well,
| there being only one report to the contrary.
| The present condition of the crop is fair to
! good. The plant, however, is small in the
! hill countirs, and, as compared with last
| year, is from as good to much better in
twelve counties, and not as good in sew
en- counties. Picking will become general
| from August Is to september l. The CON-
mittee begs to report that the most general
| complaint from correspondents in both
| States has been the drought, but since the
1 UdLe OF Lnelr letters 8OOU rams nave Iall60
| over nearly the whole of our district, doing
much good.
MEMPHIS, August 9.-The crop report to
the Memphis Cotton Exchange, comprising
| the districts Of North Mississippi, North Ar
/ kansas and West Tennessee for the month
/ of July embraces eightytwo responses.
| Seveni cen report the weather as favorable
/ and sixty five unfsvorable on account of
I the excessive drought. As compared with
| 1880, sixteen report the weather more favor
| able and sixty six less favorable, Five re-
| port the plant forming, blooming and
blossoming well, and thirty-twO not well.
! No report from others on this feature was
received. Twenty. five report the crop
! in cd condition, nineteen moderately
| good and thirty-eight poor. Thirteen re
! port it in better condition than last year,
| ten about the same, and fifty-nine not so
! good. Picking will become general from
August 10 to September Is; the average
date will be September l. There is general
complaint of the long continued drought
that has prevailed throughout this district
during the month Of July, which has retard-
ed the growth of the plant and caused its
fruit to mature too rapidly. Eleven report
the plant shedding slightly, and thirty re-
! port it shedding seriously. Five, four in
/ Mississippi and one in Arkansas, report the
! appearance of worms, but no dagger has
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