Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-11

1855 1859. 1862. 1867. 1874 1892
Cairo $3.50 1850 $3.50 5i-oo 47.4o SIS;
Memphis ...35.3O $3.50 34.45 1895 84.OO S57s
Helena......... 900 $3.50 1910 $3.50 $3.50 472C
Satchez..5SSo $40 $3.50 $50 $50 17$i
The progress and duration of the floods OF
1858 and 1889 we're as follows:
April 2s....'.s41o $500. March 81 ; $40 $40
3 Mny Il ii5i0 $3.50 M ARyli l $iSo
July II $500 3IOO May 31-.-..... 2l-OO 300
vIcKsBURG.
March 2s..,.41.7O 49,. March 1O-2S $500 1910
April g g 60 april 90 g g g
May l 80 4ssS 4 4SS 9 May 4sGS 1900
July I-1s .4S.lO As 90 July 4........411O -.
August 1-13-..4G.20 4l.30
April 5-so...49lO 51.1O July l-sl.. 81. 80 81. 90
May Isl 81 90 81 go August DC $3.50 30 90
cotton States is as follows:
Cairo, March Dc. 1897 81 81
Memphis. March 9. 1882 b rs
Helena, March 8, 1882. AZ 30
Natchez July to 81 .............52 so
Baton Rouge, March, 1862 sc 10
Louisville upper, so
Louisville QOwerl, lS32........
Forenee Ala oo January Il 1852 80 50 90
Nashville, january 81 lss2 500
Lake Providence. 40 90
Louisville upper, 1882 40
Louisville ower), lSS2......... 90
The flood Of 1862 reached its maximum in
March and April; that of 1874 about May
lst. The latter was not as high as in 1858
and 1852 its highest crest having been drawn
off in the lower valley below Helena by
numerous crevasses on both sides, but the
damage TO the cotton lands of Mississippi
and Louisiana was equally severe.
FRosTs AFTER FLOODS
1t is remarkable fact that late and dam
aging frosts have so often been coincident
with destructive overfows. The flood of
April, 1S49, was most disastrous in the
Yazoo valley and south of Red river Ga
the morning of April 10Th a slight fire. re and
killing frosts prevailed throughout the cot
ton districts, killing corn, cotton, oats and
wheat. On the mornings of April % and
3d. 1859, killing frost visited Texas, Lou
isana, Arkansas, and slight frosts in the
States east of the Mississippi. During the
last week of April, 1874, killing frost fell
in Georgia, South Carolina and North Caro-
lima, with one of less severity in Alabama
and Mississippi. The recent overflow at
Helena and above is the highest on record,
and has no doubt inflicted more damage 10
the st. Francis and y azoo yakeys than ever
before experienced, causing q heavier loss OF
stock and supplies, which planters have not
the credit to replace, as they could easily do
in 1858 and 1859, and in this respect will
have greater inhus nee on the crops of these
districts. 1t must be remembered, however,
that the present food is one month earlier
than that of 1874, and six weeks earlier than
those of 1858 and 1859. Much Of the ST.
Francis and Yszoo lands will be ready for
the pillow in "a few days, and with an average
fall and exemption from caterpillars fair
crop may be gathered. In Louisiana many
thousand acres of cane lands having had the
cane destroyed will be planted in cotton,
which will no doubt bring the yield of that
State up to a maximum.
THE NEXT COTTON CROP.
Present conditions are not as adverse to a
good cotton crop as generally believed. The
average will probably be five per cent. less,
and the ATLANTIC Sts.ss may reduce the aP-
which, with normal atmospheric conditions.
would involve decrease OF $4,000 to 400
900 bales from an average crop. If, how
ever, the area is reduced five TO eight per
cent, and the labor which made the iast
crop, with Its natural increase, is judiciously
directed to the cultivation of the crop under
consideration, a full average yield per acre
should result, as the greatest evil in cotton
culture since the advent of free labor has
been excessive planting and defective cult
walton. Labor promises 10 be as efficient
and tractable as in 1879, when hunger and
necessity we're the strong incentives to effort
when plantation discipline was easily en-
forced and large yield the result In this |
State and East Mississippi corn has been |
planted, and fair progress made with cotton. |
The weather has been favorable since March |
18th, light rains having fallen in the last |
lew days, which were needed. AS before no: |
iced, the food of 1859 was very late, and a |
severe frost prevailed over large portion |
If the cotton States late in April, yet the |
argest crop, to that date, was gathered. Co.
Incident with the Mississippi flood of April |
nd May, 1874, all the rivers of Mississippi |
md Alabama were at extreme high-water
mark the last of april; concurriDg with
which killing frost was experienced in the
Atlantic States, and one of much severity III
Alabama and Mississippi. Drouth, with ex-
RENE heat, was general in August; cater
lillar ravages were severe in Alabama and
Texas. Many authorities claim that the
cresge was five to eight per cent. less than
S73, yet the crop was only 500, 900 bales less.
With such results fresh in our experience,
ny opinion as to the result of the crop of
So is rash and worthless.
W. H. GARDNER.