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TIE CoTros Caop.-From all the information we can gather respecting coming Cotton crop, the prospects for an abundant one are pretty good. Along the Misss sppi and in parts of Louisiana and Georgn the plant is stated to be forward and healthy In South Alabama some apprehension has been expressed of the ravages of yermn and in south Carolina according the Mercury, the baukwurness of spring and the droughts have checked inc crops and will be likely 10 inhct then injury Al present. the weather is decided N Favorable and the cotton region have been generally visited by the alternate rain and sunshine which have prevailed in Mobile there is probability that, if late the plant may from the effects of the drought

 The New Orleans Bulletin publishes T well-wrtien communication this subject, signed by D. H. Payne,an extensive cotton grower, deprecang the injurious effects the interests o the planters, of giving exaggerated ac- of prolific crops. He thinks oo that the harvest of the present year will be elcien and the argument for his opinion Is brief, il follows in his own words

 -When became plauer, my enquiries satisfied my mind ha every gentleman had sut geReris, d way u guessing peculiar to hmse and no Ned principle on which to form his opinion. This induced me 10 make planting register which the time of planting-coming up-growth- -blooming--npenng. &e were all carefully noted, with observations the weather The doing of ihs has given the following results. My cotton planted the various stated abou the usua time that

 

 than day generally from the time each year. Now the result.

 "I'he crop of cotton of 1886 in bloom the 4h day of June and the crop yielded 5UOOdG bales The crop of in boom the 2sth day May, and yielded l., sO00OG The crop of les was in bloom the l4th day of June ard yielded l,350,000. The crop of 1859 in bloom the gath day of May, and yielded 220U o00. The crop Of l5iO in bloom the tth day of June and yields supposed about 600UO0. The crop of cotton of this year (s4) in bloom the 10th day Of Jnne and what it may yield time will tell.

 "It is also fact that the blooming of cotton and the coming of frost in the fall bear relation to each oh calculated strike the mud of an attentive observer and goes strongly prove that when We have abackward spring. have frost correspondently early. The con sequences that have crops shortened or ncreas ed by it. Thus for example in the year e36, had frost the 4h October In eighteen hundred and thirty seven we had frost g5h Oct. In le39, had frost the 1h of Octoher In s3s had frost the 7h of November. In 5l0 we had frost the l7h of October. speak of frost sufficient to kill the cotton plant"

 These data may be of some far they go, but they seem to altogether 100 slender foundation to build deanve opinion upon. We should prefer the present condition of the crops criterion any spec ulave argument of the kind if it the result of much longer experience.

 