Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1884 — SOUTHERN COTTON CROP. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN COTTON CROP.

Indications of an Unusually Good Yield. [New Orleans dispatch.] The National Cotton Exchange reports July as having been favorable for the cotton crop, which improved about 10 points, bringing it up to 87, against 85 for June, and 84 for May. On the Atlantio seaboard the rainfall is somewhat excessive (particularly In South Carolina), and the betterment there is is mainly in Oeorgia. Low temperature and continued rains in the first half of July proved a disadvantage to the crop in North Carolina. In Alabama the plant suffered from rain and deficient cultivation. West Mississippi improved materially. West of the Mississippi the condition continues to advance with timely showers, but Texas, owing to the protracted drought, has not made any progress, and the situation in that State is now very critical, for, while the plant has stood the dry weather extraordinarily well, it is now losing ground and suffering for moisture.