The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-01

/. bureau says:
4 The yield of cotton has varied in different 10.
calities in the Same county and even on the
same farm This season. Until the middle oi
September there was an excess of rain Tor this
crop, WHICH requires less moisture than any
Other Cotton is less injured by excessive rain
fall on clay tnan on sandy soils, and the outrast
In the yield this year on the two classes of soil
even when lying i'll the same or adjacent fields,
was very striking wing TO this contrast in
very limited areas correspondents have expert
eneed more than ORDINARY difficulty ia esLimat-
Ing tue yield or com lHrlng II with thato pre-
vious years. Antiel atng the Citiculty, how
ever, questions looking TO the same ultimate re.
suit were asked ia different forms, leading the
correspondents TO estimates of the same THU 4
from different starting points. Taking, there
fore, the resultant OF the different esIima,es,
an approximately correct statement Of
the yield Of The crop has been reached. They
have reported the yie.d compared to an ave
rage crop the yield compared to the crop OF
last year. the average yield per acre, and the
average number of bales produced 10 each
pillow used in It's cultivation. All of these esu-
mates, using the actual srea and produchon us
reported by the census of 1880 as an auxiliary
basis of calculation, point to production Of
94i, S66 bales as the crop of Georgia In 1857 The
yie.d compared to that of last year is reported,
In north Georgia, 49, in middle Z orRia, l0l: in
southwest Georgia, l0i; In east Get gin, o. and
In southeast Georgia, los The average yield
= of the whole state compared to that of last
+ year, is reported ut l02, figure which is lower
, than the estimates reached from other stand
points while the estimate Of an average pro-
duction per acre of 100 pounds lint COTTON Is 10
doubt excessive.
| The quality of the lint compared to that pro-
duced last year, is reported III north &c ,rgia
106, in middle Georgia ll3, in southwest Georgia
los, in east Georgia los, iu northeast Georgia
{, 10l; the average quality Of the whole state l0S,
The average yield in lint cotton per acre In
north Georgia this year Is orted 22l pounds
In middle Georgia ls6 Hds, in southwest
3 Georgia lt7 pounds, In Gu, .eorcia l95 pounds
In southeast Georgia l7v pounds, and in the
whole STATE 100 pounds.
4 The average price per pound December LIST
Fwas, in north Georgia &C., in middle Georgia
70 Sc, in southwest Georgia De-, in east Georgia
DC in southeast Georgia Q &c. The average price
x over the whole state at shat date was DC. per
pound.
81 The Nashville American says: "rhe true pol
icy of the south is to quit sending cotton out Of
T. the country 10 be manufactured, but to manufac
turc The raw material at home and thus become
rich auu prosperous With soil capable of rails
Ing suppl, fo many times the present popua-
ton, nith climate adapted both TO agriculture
ard manufacturing with the raw materiul-Cot-
ton. coai, iron at hand with both water and
rail sportation, nothing stands in the way to
prevent the south from progressing rapidly If
she devotos her energies 10 manu- acture
A southern paper says the advice is good, but
II is hardly possible that all the raw material can
be manutacured lat home ia the pre- sent geue-
ration here is something else to b. accom-
plished in that section of the country beside S
making such an attempt The economical
conditions Of tho C0uOn producing sec.
tons of the country are not yet adapted
to realizing II monopoly of the bust
ness, and competition is too sharp aud pr, fits
too small TO allow any section of the country,
with Ordinary facilities, to possess any special
or exclusive advantages, even where the raw
naltr rial is hight at the door OF the factory The
efforts of our southern friends In this direction,
= however, are commendabls and deserve encour.
agement, n.,o,.
& III this connection recent official statistics
4 show he considerable INCREASE of cotton manu-
tactur,s in the south in the past four months,
the mills In shat section having taken lSo, W