MISSISSIPPI. 



Number of iuebie children in the But*: of Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Lou- 



Iilu' inuJea PO.oSS * .1 t m *. *i i 



White female* T^iw isiana, embraced in this Association, the abso- 



158,158 lute necessity of some united, practical plan of 

 OoStdSmSii'.'.'. '. w 589 immigration in which this Association will 



190,083 cooperate ; to be the medium through which 

 T .. parties interested may obtain information in 



NumbeHn school during the'yw ':'" ' **$*** to plantations, timber- or cane-lands for 



White males 61,828 sale or rent ; and in general, to harmonize and 



White females 48,858 concentrate for the above purposes the efforts 



Colored males 62,780 ' of all th oso engaged in the cu Iti vation and sale 



Colored females 5i',990 of cotton, as well as those engaged in the man- 



104 'TT9 ufacture of implements and machinery there- 

 Total 905,455 for, and for such other purposes as may here- 



Avera.ro monthly enrollment: after be determined." Measures have been 



while remits ::::::::" "::::::;::::::::: loS likewise taken for the formation of sub-asso- 



'" '. 82,566 ciations in every neighborhood of every county 



Colored males 48,876 an( i parish in the Mississippi Valley. 



Colored females 44.784 rmT f 11 i- t *i A j 



' 68,660 The following estimate of this great indns- 



try of the country has been made by the New 



171 - 226 York " Financial Chronicle " of a crop of about 



While m&! U .. 88,123 6,000,000 bales; all crops and land are left out 



White females. ......[. .....\['.'. ...'..".'.".'. 8i,i9Q of the question save cotton and the lands cnl- 



CoiorednuUe. ^ M ' 818 tivated in cotton : 



Colored females 86,679 A crop of 5,000,000 bales, averaging three acres to 



' produce a bale, would give 15,000.000 acres, at $8 per 



ToUl 185976 acre > $120,000,000; one mule or horse to twenty-nve 



Teachers employed during the year': ' ' ' ? cre3 . 800 > 000 mu l cs at * 90 > $72.000,000 ; implementa, 



White teachers 2,948 harness, etc., and machinery, $50,000,000; showing 



Colored teachers .'.'!.'.'!!!!!.'!!!! 1^818 permanent investment of $242 } 000,000. Averaging 



three bales per hand would requirel, 666,666 laborers, 



Total 4,761 to feed and clothe whom for a year with their depen- 



Averago number of days taught: dents would average $50 each, $82,666,667. To feed 



Inthecountry 79 team at $40 per mule, 800,000 mules, $82,000,000. 



Intheclties 154 Cost of bagging and ties at $1.40 per bale, $7,000,000. 



Average monthly salary paid teachers : Cost of marketing crop, at H cent per pound, would 



White teachers $28 02 gi ve f 25,000,000. ^Vorking capital, $146,777,777. Av- 



Colored teachers 26 92J ^age price expected forprcsent crop, 11 cents for 



Expenditures : 2,000,000,000 pounds, $220,000,000. 



Per M PP uIa ' n * ^^^a^^.-Permanent'investment of planters, 



Per capita in average daily attendance ! ." 8 42 $242,000,000 ; working capital, $145,777,777 ; total cap- 

 Total receipts for 1873. ... . . $626,253 81 J^ 1 ^ d exc . lu8 j ve ( 1 7 m cotton cultivation, this es- 



Total expenditures 692,805 18 timat 2 bein ma(i6 for slmro system and not wages, 



$888,777,777. 



The spirit of enterprise appears to be rapidly . A m . ount received for total crop, $220,000,000,which 

 increasing among the people, and measures to pi^tcrs^h^ 11 '!' 1 ^ bctw - cen mM)oTooo-^f ^ lnb rch 

 promote success are on foot in various parts deduced* forteam Sreeable' to pluter.IS8.000.. 

 of the State. At Vicksburg, the central point 000 ; half cost bagging and tics chargeable to planter, 

 of the greatest cotton-growing region of the $3,500,000 ; half marketing crop, chargeable to plant- 

 South, there has been organized the Mississippi ei \ $12,600,000 ; 20 per cent, in loss and decreased 

 Vftllpv Pntton PlAntra' Aaa>iotmF <J,w n t value of stock ' $14,500,000; 20 per cent, in loss and 

 s Association, borne of decreased value of implements and machinery, $10,- 

 its objects are : to develop all the material 000,000 ; total, $72,500,000. Repairing fences, houses, 

 interests of the landlord and laborer by the etc., at 10 per cent, on permanent in vestment, $12,000,- 

 more scientific and economic cultivation of the 000,000. Taxes on permanent investment, 8 per cent., 

 soil ; to urge on all classes interested the abso- ^^^ 



lute importance of a diversity of crops, to the total investment for cotton *loue U about 4t per cent., 



end that we may be a self-sustaining country, provided they get 11 cento for cotton, make 5,000,000 



and consequently that cotton shall become a bales, and the laborer pays his accounts in full, 



surplus instead of as now the only crop- to Laborers' share of crop, $110,000,000; amount 



encourage the introduction of all improved f^TpSltVSl irefo^^m?^. 7 4f wTl! 



and labor-saving machinery and farming im- thus be observed that the laborer receives $27,000,000 



plemeuts for the drainage of land and ban- on investment in nothing but his muscle, while the 



dling of crops, by competitive trials of the same Planter receives $18,000,000 on an investment of $888,- 



before competent committees ; to promote the ^^^Slhas reached the factorv, simply 



selection and improvement of all kinds of plant- saying that about $25,000,000 more has been added 



ing-seeds ; to foster the introduction of the best thereby to the price to bo paid by the manufacturer 



classes of live stock for breeding purposes; to emco ll landed at the seaport from the planter. The 



enter into correspondence at once with various J^ 000 ; 000 b^ 09 now ^gin to assume some importance, 



AonntriAa for thn intrrf1nrtirn r>f mlilitinn.il la r "*ey run 12,500,000 spindles, which require say 



>nal la- $1,000,600,000 in buildings, machinery, and working 



bor, and to keep prominently before the States capital, and employ nearly 800,000 operatives and em- 



