The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-07-06
The Cotton Crop.

The latest advices with reference to
the coming. cotton crop are that the acre !.
age is smaller, though tho indications are
that the yield will be larger than last
year. The acreage in cotton for 1881
was 16,lS4,504 acres, this year it is Is.
2i4,o99, falling off Of 970,l acres, or
about 6 per cent. The reduction is great
est In Missouri, being estimated at IL per
cent. !; i'll Louisiana It is 7.6 per cent. in
Arkansas, 40 per cent. in Tennessee,
rs per cent; in Mississippi, 7.2 per
cent. i'll Texas, 2.3 per cent. in Georeia
81 per cent. in North Carolina. 6 por
cent; in South Carolina, 4.S per cent
from these reports it Is apparent that the
Hoods in the Mississippi valley did not
have so disastrous an effect upon the
cotton crop as was feared.
Where the decrease in acreage is largo
It was evidently done in order to increase
the acreage of cereal crops, like corn,
wheat and oats.
1t is probable that the reports of the
cotton crop will be better than the report
here given would seem to indicate. The
weather we have had has not in the main
been favorable, but tho few days of warm
weather We have recently had effected a
very noticeable improvement. The crop
OF last year suffered severely from the
drought, aud as tho indications this wear
are tor an abundance of rain, tho proba.
oilities are that the average yield per
acre will be larger There is also said to
DC an Improvement in labOr-.the scarcity
OF provisions In consequence Of the floods
having acted es strong gtimulus to the
negro population, and that will have it's
effect upon the yield.
The growth of the cotton industry i'm
the United States during recent years is
something marvellous. There are now
l2,oO0,000 spindles at work in this coun-
Try, little less than Onet third the num-
Der employed in British factories. 1t is
estlmated That the new factories in course
OF construction in New England and the
southern States will add 100000 spin
dies to the present number before New
Year,
Cotton mills located in the South arc
now looked upon by capitalists ne among
the safest investments to be found
Even with the present inefficient
methods of management the dividends
average % per cent. So profitable are
these investments that they are attracting
the attention of capitalists from all over
the world, and it is believed that unless
the present indications are deceptiye five
years hence will see 100000 spindles
a. work In our cotton mills, or q greater
number than Gre now employed in the
mills of Great Britain.
Nhe production of the mills of Eng.
land and the United States show this
country to possess many advantages. Of
the cotton crop of last year nearly one.
third was manufactured here. The pro-
duction of our mills for 1881, in exact
figures, was $223, ,2SO, 900, while the mills
OF Great Britain yielded $437, ,265, 600.
Ihat; is, our 100000 spindles produced
nearly half as much as the SO, ,00O, 900 of
Great Britain did. The number of one.
ratives in the American mills last wear
was lSl 900; in the mills of Great
Britain 470, 1855; while the average pro.
duction OF each British operative was
S9l2, that of the American operative was
Sl,26Sa and while the English spindles
average an annual average consumption
OF only thirty two pounds of cotton each,
ours average siAty-five pounds.
These facts indicate that in time the
American manufacturers will nearly. if
not completely, monopolize the industries
associated with cotton, and that the in
dustrial future of The South is bright
Cincinnati Times.