Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-12-10
OUR GREAT STAPLE.
NOVEMBER COTTON STATEMENT.
Full Returns from Jhe Belt The
Crop More than Half Marketed
Picking all but Completed-The
Estimated Yield.

New ORLEANS, December 9.-The follow
ing is the Cotton Exchange report for No
vember:
LoUIsIANA.-seventy-two replies from
thirty-two parishes, of an average date of
November 30th. The weather during the
month has been very favorable, and, COM
pared with last year, decidedly more favor
able. There is no top crop Picking is
generally finished. The yield is one per
cent. less than last year. There has been
no damage from frost. Seventy FIVE per
cent. of the crop has been marketed.
MISSISSIPPI. hundred and twenty
seven replies from thirty-three coun-
ties of an averaged date of No
ember so. The weather has been
generally favorable, much more than last
year, when 1t was very wet and unfavorahle.
The fair prospect for a top crop was de-
stroyed by frost and worms. With few ex-
by December 1st. The yield is twenty six
per cent less than last year, which indi-
Gates a decrease of eight per cent. since the
report of last month. Sixty-eight per cent.
of the crop has been marketed.
ARKANsAs.-One hundred and eleven re-
plies from thfrty-one counties south of the
Kansas river averaged at November 3d.
The weather during the month res been
generally favorable, and compared wIsh last
year more favorable. Some counties report
a small top crop, but 1t has been destroyed
by frost and worms. Picking is finished
The Weld is 30 per cent. less than last year
65 per cent. of the crop has been marketed.
MEMPHIS, December 9. - The regular
monthly cotton report of the Memphis Cot
ton Exchange for the month of November,
including the districts of North Mississippi,
Alb IT,. H..
braces seventy-six responses. Fifty eight
report the weather from the 9Th of Novem-
Der favorable for picking and eigh-
teen unfavorable. Compared with 1880,
sixty-eight report the weather more
favorable ond eight about the same. Sixty
two report no top crop. Fourteen report
top crop, but 1t did not mature. Fifty eight
report that picking is completed, aud
eighteen that it will be finished from De-
cember 5.h to 18TH The estimated Weld,
compared with that of last year, is 40 per
cent. less. All report frost, but no damage
has been done. Theresponses indicate that
20 per cent. of the crop has been marketed.
MOBILE, December 9-The following is
the Cotton Exchange report for the month
OF November:
ALABAMA-Flfty-six letters have been
received from thirty nine counties in this
State. The weather during November was
favorable for gathering the crop in thirty
counties and unfavorable in nine. But It
was generally more favorable than during
the same period last year in all of
the counties In eleven counties q small
top crop has been made. All the
other counties report none. Picking has
been finished in twenty eight counties, and
will be completed in the remaining eleven
about the middle of December The total
yield as compared with last year is reported
as the same in three, and as 25per cent. less
in sixteen of the more productive counties
and In twenty of the less productive couu-
ties as 27 per cent. less. Little or no dam
age was done by frost. In nineteen of the
more productive counties 67 per cent. of
the crop is reported as having been mar
keted, and In twenty of the less productive
counties 76 per cent.
MISSISSIPPI Twenty letters have
been received from nineteen counties. The
weather has been generally favorable for
gathering the crop--more go than last year.
A small top crop is reported in Wayne
county, but none in the others. Picking is
about finished In all the counties except
Itawamba, and will be completed there
about December 10th. The total yield, as
compared with last year, is estimated at %
per cent. less. Little or no damage has
been done by frost. About 20 per cent. of
the crop is reported as having been mar
keted.
NORFOLK, December 9-The special re-
port of the Cotton Exchange, based upon
fifty eight replies from thirty-two counties
OF North Carolina and Virginia, of an aver
age date of November 80, is as follows:
Thirty three replies show the weather to
have been generally warm and dry, twenty
five wet and dry, thirty seven report the
weather more favorable and twenty one less
favorable than last year. FortY-hve show
no top crop, and thirteen q small top crop
Twenty seven report picking finished from
the l0lh to the 10th of November. Twenty
eight report increased help. The top crop is
small and Insignificant in consequence of
Its being too late to mature. Picking is re-
ported finished in seven cen counties.