Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-11-20
HE COTTON CROP.
six Million Bales. According to the Charles
ton News and Courier"
nv .otagropb IN tba .Disnatch

ION News anu NOuFitfs
TBy telegraph to the Dspatoh.l
CHARLESTON. S. c.. November 19.-The
Neirs and Courier has had an exhaustive
examination made of the condition OF the
cotton crop of the South, extending over
the entire cotton belt, and to-day pub
lighed the result of its work. The reports
show that the crop is short far beyond the
calculations of all the experts who have
thus far figured on 1t. IL further shows
that the greater part of the crop has been
picked and rushed to market, and that the
late top crop will amount TO practically
nothing. From these reports, which come
from the Commissioners OF Agriculture OF
various States and from trustworthy news
papers. ii appears that the crop Will scarce
ly exceed 5000, 600 bales.
The Columbus EaqIircr-Sun says: The
cotton-felds in this and adl Joining sections
are almost entirely bare. 1t is conserva-
tive statement 70 say that fully nine tenths
of the crop has been picked and marketed.
A few of the larger and more wealthy
plapters have their cotton in diff
ferent warehouses awaiting a further
advance, which is confidently ex-
uected. Small farmers have with scarcely
an exception disposed of their crops, and
il is thought safe to say that fully seven
tenths of the crop has been sold. The
Weld IN some sections is conceded TO De
80 per cent. less tnan that of last year;
in Others about % per cent. The average
decrease in the yield may be put at - per
cent.
Walsh REYNOLDS, of the Memphis Appeal
Aralanche, telegraphs: IL 10 estimated by
| conservative men that the crop IN the
Memphis territory (West tennessee, Ar
| kansas, and Mississippi Will be fully Az
| per cent. less than that of last year. This
| showing is due not only to a large decrease
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causes, among which may be men
toned the disastrous floods which pre-
| vailed In the spring. In Arkansas
and Mississippi the foods prevented the
| farmers from putting In any cotton on
| their best lands. Very cold wet weather
| has been prevailing throughout TINS sec
| ton for the last two weeks. and complains
| are general among planters that the dam
age to cotton Is general theretrom. Inc
TON crop will prove almost q total failure,
| owing to this bad weather. as immature
\ hollis are reported TO be decaylng. lt Is
| probable that from so to 80 per cent. OF the
| crop IN tins territory has been marketed.
The Fort Worth Gazette says: The maxi
mnm estimate of the Texas cotton crop IS
/ 900 900 bales. Frost has killed nearly ali
| the top crop. Picking is progressing well,
| but a considerable portion OF the late
| nicked cotton will be inferior and trashy
/
| planters fearing continued decline. Al
| least IS per cent. of the crop has passed
ont of first hands.
The Dallas Tex Ne,cs says; Tue most
conservative estimate places the CROP, In
| Texas at /. 800 900 bales. This Is probably
an outside figure, and may exceed the
weld bv 50 600 bales. The condition is not
good in Northern Texas and the top crop
| will be nominal.
John Robinson, Commissioner OF Agri-
cultnre for North Carolina, says: The cot
TON crop OF this State will not exceed two
thirds of last years. 1t Is practically all
gathered. and three fourths OF 1t has been
marketed. A..
The Ners and Courier estimates that the
crop of South Carolina will be about two
thirds of that of last year and that u -
being sold as fast as it Is being picked
Nine tenths of the gathered crop OF the
State IS sold. ru.
Il. Craighead. correspondent at Mobile,
teleoraphs that the cotton crop of Alabama
Is placed at 650, 900 bales A leading mem
Der of the Mobile Cotton Exchange esti-
mates the crop short by 40 per cent,
and that half the crop has been SOLD.
Other reports from the cotton belt agree
that the crop is from 80 to 40 per cent
short, and that the bulk OF the crop gatn-
cred has already been marketed.