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2stHUHutal Jrparttnrnt,
Commodore Maury's Plan jor a Sys->
tern of “International “Telegraphic
Meteorology and Crop Reports.''
We find in “The Plantation" of
the 13th, the resolutions drawn by
Conimodore Maury and adopted by
The Memphis Agricultural Sc Me
chanical Society, and by the Na
tional Congress of Agriculturists
which met at Nashville, Tenn., and
also a most interesting and instruct
ing speech delivered by Commo
dore Maury before the Fair ot the
Memphis Agricultural and Mechan
ical Society. We regret the lack ot
space to publish the whole of this
speech, but must content ourselves
with a few extracts. The following
is the resolution looking to the inau
guration of the system:
“ Resolved , That the President of
this Society be, and is hereby, in
structed to petition in behalf of the
farmers of Tennessee, the United
States Government, through the
State Department and the Execu
tive, in favor of the establishment,
by international co operation, of a
general and systematic plan ol Me
lerological Observations and Crop
Reports, and to request the Govern
ment,. in furtherance of this object,
to invite the other nations to meet,
in the persons of their leading Me
teorologists, at an early day in con
ference, ala that of Brussels in 1553:
Ist. For the purpose of connecting
with the plan now proposed, the
system that was then devised for the
sea ; 2d. For the purpose of arrang
ing details ; and 3d. For the pur
pose, also, of providing a general
system of Telegraphic Meteorology
and Crop Reports, to the end that
our knowledge ol the laws which
control the functions of the atmos
phere may be increased, and that
accurate and useful forecasts may
be made at Irequcnt intervals as to
weather and crops in all countries ;
and the President of this Society is
required, also, to request that the
United States Government will co
operate in this system of research,
by causing the plan that may be a
greed upon in conference to be car
tied out in this country, and to be
adopted on board of the national
cruisers.”
Commodore Maury alter speak
ing of the advantages to be derived
by the agriculturists from the sys
tem of forecasts proposed, illustrates
some of the anomalies of trude and
the disadvantages under which the
tiller of the soil labors :
Let tis illustrate this, so that we
may make it plain as we go : Some
farmers here present grow wheat.
Let us take such an one for illustra
tion, and lollow him from seed-time
to market; he lias been up early and
late ; he was worked hard ; his grain
is harvested and housed ; it is all
ready for sale; he wants a little
money, and goes to the town to in
quire the price of wheat of the men
who want to buv.
Now, in doing this, he is revers
ing the general order of business at
once. Usually, the buyer asks the
seller the price ot bis wares. But
with regard to all of the chief agri
cultural staples, the producer knows
so lit tie about the yield in competing
Slates and countries, that he is com
pelled to go and ask the buyers a
bout it, and request them to fix the
price. What would you think of
your neighbor, who, wishing to sell
a horse, should go to the man who
wants to buy, ar.d ask him to fix the
value and set the price ? Yet, this is
exactly what you do with your cot
ton and grain, sice, sugar and tobac
co, and all of your staple produc
tions. To relieve you from this, and
put you on a footing with the factor
in knowledge as to the yield of the
crop-everywhere, is exactly what
these resolutions aim to do.
The cotton crop, after it had all
gone forward and had been deliver
ed for shipment, was found to fall
below the estimate in the following
named years, as follows, viz :
The real crop of 1827 fell below
the estimated crop 25 per cent; of
IS3B, 24J per cent.; of 1840, 25 per
cent.; 0f"1843,15 per cent.; of 1840,
15? percent.; of 1540,23? percent.;
of 1856, 18 per cent.; and of 1860,
21| per-cent. Average, 21? per
cent.
These are not all the erroneous
estimates that occurred during this
period of thirty-four years. They
are only extieme cases; but they
show that, on the average, every
fourth crop is over-estimated to the
extent of more than one-fifth.
In other words—l wish you cot
ton growers to mark this fact, be
cause, through lack of what these
resolutions seek to accomplish for
y OU you lost during those thirty
four years one entire crop and
three-fourths of another—that is, you
gave it away —for in the above-nam-
Id eight years you sold each crop
on the assumption that it was one*
fifth larger than il really was, and,
therefore, you got far it on*-6ftb leo
than it really was worth.
This, 1 believe, is the jwr
genilcmeii Would, put the case. It
may not be quite the true way* but
it will answer fiw the purpose R*
lustration, and serve to show— tho*
it may give figures too Urge— that
the sum total which you lose through
erroneous forecasts, amounts annu
ally, on the average, to millions of
dollars. Illustration, with example,
will make this clear : A crop, while
coming forward is, let os suppose,
estimat'd at Tout millions of bales,
and the word is passed across the
ocean and circulated in all the cot
ton marts of the world that the Amer
ican crop is enormous, and prides
are pitched accordingly. You sell,
suppose at sixteen cents, but by the
time most of you have sold at these
figures, and before much of the crop
has gone into consumption, though
much ot ii has gone forward, it is
discovered that the crop is but three
million bales, and up goes the price
to twenty cents. Now, ii you had
had the means of correct estimates,
and if the crop had been correctly
forecast at three million, you would
have sold, perhaps, for nineteen or
twenty cents, instead of for sixteen
cents.
The fluctuations in commerce,
the loss to producers and the ex
pense entailed upon consumers, are
tar greater and more grievous than
those who have not studied this sub
ject are aware of. It extends to all
your articles of export. I, estimate
that the cotton planters alone of the
South have, from such fluctuations
during the last six years, only lost
the lion’s share ol $375,000,000.
That is, in consequence of erroneous
estimates and the lack of such accu
rate crop statistics as we now seek,
the planters have received for
their last 'six crops many millions
of dollars less titan they would
have received had they known, be
fore selling, the actual amount Ol the
crops as accurately as it was known
after they were sold.
Our total cotton production since
the war is, in round numbers, sixteen
millions of bales, and the fluctua
tions in price, owing chiefly to the
iaok of correct information as to yield
have amounted to upwards of $376,-
000,000. Supposing planters to have
sold on the average only half the
crop of each year at the lowest figure
—then, according to this way of put
ting the question, they have lost on
the crop of 1866, $96,000,000; on
the crop of 1866, $44,030,000; of
1867, $67,000,000; 0f 1868, 530,000,-
000 ; of 1869, $68,000,000 ; and on
the crop of 1870, $70,000,000 ; total,
$375,000,000, or an average of $62,«
500,000 per crop. It is useless for
me to go back to refresh your minds
upon this subject; you remember
that last Jauuary cotton went down
to twelve and thirteen cents, and at
that price many of you parted with
your crops; and that before the
present crop began to come forward,
prices ranged from nineteen to twen
ty cents; you remember that like
wise in the winter of a year or two
previous, when you w’ere parting
with your cotton, it- went down to
nine and ten cents, and then, alter it
had gotten fairly out of your hands,
it went up to twenty-seven cents,
and in some instances as high as
thirty cents per pound.
Now, I maintain, that, had this
system of observation, which 1 now
propose, and which I advocated be
fore the war, been in operation, this
system of fluctuation could not have
occurred, and farmers would have
received millions more forthat single
crop than they did. The cotton
growers of Egypt, India and Brazil
would have shared with you like
wise in these benefits.
The crops may be regarded, in one
sense, as a meteorological expression
of the weather from seed-lime to
harvest; for that there is a physical
relation between the weather and
the crops is obvious to all. Who
shall say that one of the results of
this combined system of observation
and research will not be the develop
ment of that relation and the expand
ing of it into a philosophical lasso,
which shall be a rule to the husband
man even in the casting of his crops l
Anecdote of Daoubbbb.—M.
Dumas related the following anec
dote of Daguerre. In 1825 he was
lecturing in the Theatre ofSorbonne,
on chemistry. At the close of his
lecture a lady came up to him and
said, “M. Dumas, as a man of sci
ence, I have a question of no small
moment to me to ask you. I am
the wife of Daguerre, the painter.
For some time he has let the idea
seize upon him that he can fix the
image of the camera. Do you think
it possible ? He is always at the
thought; he can’t sleep at night
for it. lam afraid he is out of his
mind. Do you, as a man of science,
think it can ever be done, or is he
mad?” ‘‘ln the present state of
knowledge,” said Dumas, ‘‘lt can
not be done; but I cannot say it
will always remain impossible, nor
set the man down as mad, who
seeks to do it.” This was twelve
years before Daguerre worked his
idea out, and fixed the image } but
many a man so haunted by a possi
bility has been tormented into a
madhouse.
Jules Favre, the French states
man, recently said to an English
diplomatist that be was sore there
would be a general European war
in Isss than twelve months.
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