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W3DNFSDAY, FEB. 20,1895.
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The Cotton Crop.
The National Departments
Reliable Report.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-The state?
ments famished the Department of
Agriculture by the various railway and
water transportation comp?Di"es of the j
cotton movement to ports and Northern j
and Eastern points from the beginning
of the season to January 1, 1895, I
together with returns made by the de- j
partment's county agents of the amount i
of cotton remaining on plantations and !
in interior towns on January 1, and
the amounts reported by mills as bought !
from September 1 to January 1, shows |
as follows :
Railway movement from Nonh
Carolina 227,172j
Remaining co plantations and
in interior towns 105.282 i
Bought by mills 109,993 j
Total crop 442,447 |
Railway movement from South
Carolina 488,591 j
Remaining on plantations and
in interior towns 116,874
Boaght by mills 182,343
Total crop 787,808
Railway movement from Geor?
gia 757,020|
Remaining on plantations and
in interior towns 283.498
Bought by mills 110,942
Total crop 1,151,460
Railway movement from Flor?
ida 39,771
Remaining on plantations and
in interior towns 5,866
Total crop 45,637
Railway movement from Ala?
bama 530,571
Remaining on plantations and
in interior towns 268.158
Bought by mills 27,017
Total crop 825,746
Railway movement from Mis
. sissippi 847,228
Remaining on plantations and
in interior towns 270,376
Bought by mills 9,656
Total crop 1,127,260
Railway movement from Lou?
isiana 568,405
Remaining on plantations and
in interior towns 151,334
Bought by mills 6,119
Total crop 725,858
Railway movement from Tex?
as (scale) 2,246,043
Remaining on plantations and
in interior towns 611,966
Bought by mills 3,644 ?
Total crop 2,861,653
Railway movement from Ar?
kansas 468,332 i
Remaining on plantations and
in interior towns 196,249 j
Bought by mills 636
Total crop 665,217
Railway movement from Ten?
nessee 250,389
Remaining on plantations and
in interior towns 42,342
Boaght by mills 11,183
Total crop 303,914;
Railway movemeot from Indian
Territory and Oklahoma 89,591
Remaining on plantations and
in interior towns 22,790 '
Total crop 112,381
Railway movement from Mis?
souri 20.042 I
Remaining on plantations and
iu interior towus 5,728
Total crop 25,770
Railway movement from Vir?
ginia i(J,S72
Remaiuitig on plantations and
in interior towus i!.").']
Total crop 11,120
Railway movement from Ken?
tucky 1,057
Total crop 1,057
Railway movement from Kan?
sas 44
Remaining on plantations and
in interior towns
??o
Total crop 67
Total railway movement 6,545,728
Total remaining on plantations
and in interior towns 2,080,731?
Total bought by mills 401,000
Total crop 9,088,000 j
No deduction has been made of cot?
ton remaining on plantations and in in
iirior towns on September 1, 1894.
In addition to the above mill pur
?hase? are to be added 8,388 bales
bought by Alabama, Georgia, North ?
aud South Carolina mills from Stares
io which their mills are nor located,
also 14,886bales nought by Virginia
and 8.4S5 bales bought by Kentucky
mills, all of which are included in rl,e
railway movement, making a total of
493,292 baler? reported by the Southern
mills as bought from September 1, 1894
to Jauuary 11,895.
The figure-, in the above reprrt are
subject to revision in the final April
report of the Department. The pro?
portion of the crop forwarded to
market up to February 1, and which
is therefore no longer in the hands of
oroducers or in the smaller towns, is
shown by the consolidated returns ot
correspondents to be S? 9 per cent.,
leaving 10.1 per cent, still in the hands
of producers or in those of local mer?
chants.
The per cent, by States is as follows:
North Carolina, 87;South Carolina,91
Georgia, 94; Florida, 87; Alabama, 81;
Mississippi, 88; Louisiana 89: Texas,
89; Arkansas, 90; Tennessee, 90; In?
dian Territory and Oklahoma, SS; Mis
souri, Virginia, Kentucky and Kansas,
87-average, 89.9.
Losses from insects have been small,
Mississippi, Louisiana anti Texas re?
ported loss to some extent.
The proportion of lint to seed ranges
from 29.0 to 33.9 per ceut; average
32.9.
The average date of closing picking
was December 4.
The quality of the present crop is
slightly above ao average.
Hugh Wilson's Notion.
That form cf idiocy which advocates
the cultivation of tobacco has not yet
stricken this part of the Lord's vine?
yard, '
But for fear some deluded creature
may be carried away with some idea
that he can spite the cotton mill men
by going into the tobacco business we
would suggest that any tobacco country
with which we are acquainted, bas the
looks of the most God forsaken stretches
of hills and valleys that we have ever
looked upon. The people are the
poorest, and their credit is next to
nothing. The usual amount of advan?
ces oo liens on tobacco crops, in lands
notably for tobacco, we have,-been told,
ranges from ?10 to $20. The usual
amount not exceeding ?15.
Cotton is the nicest crop that grows
in any field. The youngest child or
the oldest worker may help in gather?
ing it. It is simple . of culture. Will
wait on the seasons. Is not easily
spoiled in the field, or after ic is gath?
ered. It has a marketable cash value
every day in every year.
But tobacco culture is a more doubt?
ful experiment.
In thc first place, it is the dirtiest
and filthiest crop that human bauds
ever touched, and we do not see how
nice people can handle it without ex?
periencing in their persons and in
their clothing the filthiness and the
offensiveness of the contact.
In the second place, tobacco is a
most sensitive crop to the unfavorable
iuSueuces of the weather. It requires
more experience, skill and capital to
take care of it, even after it has been
produced, than any other crop. A
frost, heavy dews, foggy weather,
or any weather not. exactly suited for i'
is exceeding injuiijus
In the third place, it requires the
building of large and comfortable
barns. In fact, it requires better
houses than many people occupy.
And last, but not least, the mani?
pulation and sale of the crop is not
satisfactorily or easily controlled, lt
may be graded or rated in such a way
as to be ruinous io the planter.
But it is said that history repeats it?
self. A hundred years ago our
planters grew tobacco in Abbeville
County, but they abaudoued it for the
cleaner and better crop-cotiou.
Abbeville Press and Banner.
The Dundee (Scotland) Courier has j
sent two lady correspondents. Miss Ma-j
rie Imand and Miss Bessie Maxwell, on j
a tour around the world to investigate i
indifferent, countries the condition of'
.women, They expect to travel 25,000 !
miles in the course of their inquiry.
Dr Herman Weber lias presented |
?10.000 t.? the Royal College of Pby- j
sicians on condition that it is to be used j
as prizes for the discovey o? a cure for '<
consumption. The college accepted the :
gift with thanks.
Robert Buchanan's bankruptcy is as?
cribed in part io unwarranted extrava?
gance in living. No American writer
has recently be'.Mj brought into court on
account of his debts, but ii is notcwor
thy that successful authors in America
frequently adopt a scale of living tba?
seems to be a mere aping ot the ways i
of the rich Nearly every author io i
driven into a variety of avocations to '
increase his income, and, while few !
literary men earn more than ?5,000 a ?
jear by strictly literary work their
originally chosen specialty, several earn 1
three or four times as much in related
occupations.
A Louisville, Ky., man, who says j
be never drinks, tells of a farmer i
who has produced a breed of fur-bear- j
ing chickens, which sport in ice watt r
and cackle briskly in the midst cl
almost eternal snow. This was accom?
plished by skin-grafting a selected
cock and hen with rabbit skin, half an
inch at a time. The process was pain?
ful, but succeeded admirably. Eggs of
of the new breed sell rapidly ar. ?1.75
a dozen and are batched our by ordi- .
nary hens, who invariably die of fright
upon perceiving the strange appear?
ance of their offspring.
The King of the Kl?klux.
ATLANTA, GA. February 14 -Mo
Carcben. kuoivD as "King*' of r h o
Murray County White-cap*, made a
full coDfessioD to-day. He wa? brought
back yesterday from Arkansas. Mc
Cutcheo says thar be led tho bnnd
which tried to lynch Worley and a few
days i ater was a m einher of tbe crowd
which killed him. McGatcben stare*
that he fired the second shot and hit
\\ orley as he was falling to the ground,
another member of the party having
shot him first. McCntcheo states that
he was tired of trying to elude arrest
and is wi-iing to rake the consequences
It is said that Miss Gertrude Vander?
bilt, one of ibo famous family of mil?
lionaires, has drarcn about , ber a lirt'e
circle of friends and organized a club
sty-led "The Downtrodden," which is
opposed to the great aggregations of
wealth, and is pronounced socialistic io
tis doctrines.
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