FACTS ABOUT THE CO1T0N
ACBEVOE
Special ti? Ureenville Now*
Multifile re, M l , April 25?
?D e li n i to judgment about
the extent of the success of the
movement for a reduction in cotton
acreage this season seems to
he at the moment impossible.
Bankets in close touch with
glowers m all parts of the cotton
belt, cotton manufacturers vitally
interested in obtaining a reason*
able cstimato as to the sizo of the
coming crop, and tho manage ment
of tho cottonseed oil mills,
also affected in like manner, have
tried to gauge tho situation and
tho impression left by expressions
of opinions by probably 2.000
persons thoroughly representative
of these classes in the South
is, that while tho reduction in
acreage may not be as great as
was contemplated three months
ago, inasmuch as por/ect organization
of a million growers is
impossible and as somewhat extensive
reduction in tho older
growing sections will ho accompanied
by some increase acreage
in new lands, there will be, not
only through lessened acreage,
but through soil and weuthei con
dition* inferior to those of tho
last crop, a considerable decrease
in tho size of tho cotton crop of
lonr, TI.Im : - *
I III III cnsi Ml IS BKCIIglO
etied by letters filling nearly nine
pages iif tho May issue of the
Southern Farm Magazine of Baltimore
from agricultural implement
dealers and manufacturers
and fertilizer interests written in
response to requests that the}'
give their views, based upon information
obtained in dealing
direct with Hie farmers, or
through their agents, as to acreage
reduction and diversification
of crops. They are summarized
by tho Southern Faim Magazine
as follows:
"The letters from fertilizer
dealers and Manufacturers conio
from Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
Mississippi,North Carolina, South
Carolina, Texas and Virginia, embracing
practically all tho cotton
belt except Arkansasa nd the Ter
ritories, besides other Southern
States, and those from prominent
manufacturers and dealers come
from practically the same Southern
territory, as well as from
Illinois, Indiana,'Iowa, Michigan,
Missouri, New .Jersey, Ohio,
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Tho
implement interests note tnat
Southern fanners are buying more
freely in their special linos, and
while few of thoso outside of the
South seem to bo in a position to
judge from their increased business
with the South whether or
not it means less cotton acreage,
and while some of them incline to
tho belief that the movement for
.?.? -
icuuc-mvi win no nampcred by
selfishness on the part of men who
expect the other follow to do the
reducing, practically all of them
ngreo as to tho fact of greater
diversification ot crops.
"Their Southern orethren closer
to the cotton fields Aenture upon
more definite statements, which
are, however, not always harmonious.
For instance, one Alabama
dealer expects that if the
acrougo is no more reduced ovor
tho whole South than it has been
in his intimate vicinity thero will
he a 12,000,000 or 14,000,000
bale crop, while one at the capital
of the Stale looks for a reduction
of from 15 to 25 per cent. A
Kansus City firm lias reports of
)eduction in Oklahoma, and a
Nashville tirni with 12 salesmen
on the roar! coveting the ontire
youth expects a reduction in
acreago of 15 to 25 per cent ,
this agreeing with the estirnato of
a Louisville (Ky.) firm, whose
100 salosmen mako reports aver.
>"V
i gii'g a *(' |K i' ti'ii!. i eduction.
Ami so the estimates vary in
North Cuiullna, Soiiih Carolina,
?"fciine?3tc. Gem gin, Florida,
Mishis?H?|>i and Louisiana
Though ii is ditlicu t for fotlili/.'r
deaLt's lo toll positively I
the 11sos to which their products
arc to tic p.it, iho general oon-?
scnstis of their opinion is that
the acreage will tic reduced, even
where intensive cultivation will
not reduce the amount of fertilizer
' ought 1 ho estimates of re*
iliictioii in acreage, not unaffected
in Mississippi, Louisiana and
Arkansas for instance by the
backwardness of the season, range
from JO to 12 per cent in Alabama
and South Carolina to 20
and 25 per cent in Georgia and
Louisiana, a balance perhaps be
ing slightly upproncbed in Georgia
hot ween an inero.tso in St a
Mund and a decrease in upland,
while in otic \ art of Texas cotton
i- almost tabooed and the local
p ipers aie ridiculing any planter
whoopenlv talks of raising cotIon.
"Both classes of correspondents
ti?d a general tendency to give
more attention to diversified
crops these crops vary in different
localities, and include sugar
cane, hav, peas, beans, corn,
wl eat, alfalfa, barley, millet, tobacco,
peanuts, melons, canlelopes,
truck of various kindf, strawberries,
sweet potatoes, oats,
Irish potatoes and rice, while
many farmers are turning their
attention to poultry and to hogs
and cattle, to forage crops and to
orchiding. This modification in
agriculture is indicated by increasing
sales of improved implements
of various kinds, of wire
fencing, pointing to o greater
number of cattle, and of higher
grades of fertilizers going into
truck raising and the growth of
other crops than cotton. And,
after all, diversification is the
key to tho whole cotton situation,
for with more heed given to tho
raising of home supplies or to
fruits and vegetables as money
crops the cotton situation will bo
largely self-adjusting, especially
with an expansion in the use of
labor-saving machinery, including
steam plows in the flat land, mechanical
cultivators, and, as
one correspondent points out, the
mechanical cottonpickor, for
which he, with many others is
looking. Diversification of crops
to be thoroughly effective for
n i i -
ooumern progress must ho preceded
by a more general use of
improved machinery and implements,
inducing better methods of
cultivation, and must, be attended
by an economic handling of the
cotton from the Held to tho factory."
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A pnl 12,1905.
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\ }>i il 20, 1905-2t.
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Drains I
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30.?Capt W. A. Raibourn? (i
Twenty- ninth infantry, United t
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Fort Douglass today, after niak- v
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William II. Point who was shot f
twice by his superior offi *er, one p
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himself, sending a bullet into his
head three inches behind the
right car. He died almost in- ?
q
stantly. p
Capt. Raibourn had been drink- 1:
ing heavily, and the tragedy was
an outgrowth of his arrest on
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Par in Kxo<09 of 1908 Crop,
Wast inghm, April 28. ? Thrt
ion Ml "I Bur* HU It nitty issued its
inn i report on the cou<iii crop
[rown in 1904. 'the crop, as ronrnrd
by llio pinners, inchuling
Intels, is 18,584,457 hales of 500
annuls ll c xcecds the 1903
rop l?v 3,491,38(1 Pahs, or 85.4
>er cent '1 lie laryost crop prior
r? 1904 was in 1898, which, ac>
online to commercial returns,
itiih 11,225,0oo Pales 1* x is I as
ield lirst rntiU as a c ?tlon State
or twenty years. In 1904 it
reduced 3,134,007 bales. Georia
was set on! with 1,900,151
ales, passing Mississippi, which
pis second in 1903 Mississippi
i third and Alabama fourth.
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J05, I will file mv llnal report as
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