Show The Cotton Crop New York 15Tbe Bradstreets publish a summary of the cotton situation sit-uation with regard to both the old and the new crop Down to the close of March the port receipts and overland over-land movements for the year were 5481345 bales against 4959194 for the same time last year an excess of 522151 Estimating receipts for the rest of the season the same as las year gives a total yield for the crop Of ISSl of 0283403 bales As yet there are no indications of any sudden falling off in the receipts The stock at interior towns is not less than a year ago Port receipts the first twelve days in April were 08000 more than the same time last year Estimating a probable increase of the receipts for the remainder of the year the total yield is placed at 0422000 bales The opinion is expressed that the I present enormous consumption of cotton by the mills will still further increase Regarding the outlook of the coming crop the report I says the planting is about fif teen days later than last year and in some regions operations are fully a month late The fertilizer will be used more than heretofore notably so in the Carolinas and Georgia The present indications ire that the cotton average as com jarca wiin lascyear will snowsome increase in the Carolinas and Georgia Florida and Texas while there will probablybe no change in Alabama3IississippiLouisianaTen nessee and Arkansas Bradstreets also says the number of failures reported re-ported the past week is lOU the lowest weekly record for several months past yet the importaIice of some of the failures wris greater than usual The decrease compared with the reports of the preceding week is 17 It is plain from the decreasing creasing number of failures in the west and south that the ill effects of the long and severe winter in the west and northwest are rapidly passing > away and that the southern trade situation is improving In New England and particularly Massachusetts the increase of failures I fail-ures among manufacturers is noted at 28 failures reported in these states against 12 the preceding week The middle states have 22 a decrease of 6 In the western states there were 22 a decrease of 23 and the southern states present 20 a decrease de-crease old Canada and the prov inces had 8 a decrease of 2 |