Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-16
On CHANGE.
Wheat BuIsd Heavy and Prices sui.
fs-ed IA Material ptciiHe all Around.
Csrn was Also Liver.
Spot Cotton USchsrEs6,. EuIurss from
1hree to Fivo Points Lower-lire stoea
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EcHT EoETE, TaI,, Oct. Is. 1893.

FoBT woRTE. TaI., Oct. Is. 1885,
Q1ietress has prevailed On Fort Worth
markets today in both wholesale and
retail branches.
Wheat has not changed since the close
of last week.
Cotton rules q little lower, the best
price to-day being s9c.
Cheese Il up fraction.
Gum csDphor is up cents per pound.
TIE COTTON CROP.
The October returns of the Department.
Of Agriculture make decline IN the con-
dition CT cotton. The heavy rsips Of the
latter psrt q August have continued dur
ing ths larger PSF. of the last month,
causing spfouNng OF seed in the bolls,
rottiDg OF the lower and shedding Of the
top POLLS and foliage. R.ins snd winds
haze interfsred with picking end diecnl-
o-ed the fire snd reduced the grade.
Recently the weather has been more fay-
cradle tnd quslily has somewhat INA.
proved. Some correspondents ,epo,. s
short staple. TIE crop il everywhere
,a'e, and e!igA. iroets threaten early de-
8 r1ction OF the plsnts; yet killing fros,s
a,c Still ID the fl u.e, and the lerg,h CT
iha season therefore uncertain.
TIE average CT reported condition is
1919, a cecin6 from S3.S in September.
LJuisisns and SJutn Carolina soow the
greatest reduction, end Texss, Florida
ard North Cs-0iina the least. TIE s.sfe
estimates are 50 tO:.oWs: Virginia so,
North CsroliEs 81, South Carolina 70,
Georgia 70, Florida SO. Alabama go. Ms
sssippi 81, LGlislana 20, Tsx3s 70, Ar
ksbsas 50 Tennessee 81. Tae caterpillar
aud )oll T0Tm Eave been present N al
except the northern tier OF states, acd
have wrough: some damage. Paris green
and London I1rpie have been used less
ssschgeiy than usual, the heavy raing
sosbing of The poisonous powders -
Wsll Strees Daily News.
The New Orleans Picsyuue has this re-
gaTdirg the sugar harvest: The first new
suGar CT the crop Of 1883 las made It's a.
penrarcs on the market du-i3g the past
week. Tls aerslds tue opening Of I'D
impOrtan! peTi2d Of the sessoI'5 business
namely, the harvesting Of Loutsiana's
principle sttpie. Although but small
portion Of the state is given up to the
culture CT sugar csle, tha Sugsr crop is,
nevertheless, the most lucrative Of ell
our stsp.e products and gives employ
nent 20 the greatest number Of people.
Within the mex. feH days all OF the nine
hundred and odd sugar houses in Lou!s!-
ana will have lighted their fires snd De-
quo the manufacture Of what promises 90
be large crop.
Sugar Gaze has X oerienced many draw
backs during the past growing season,
eCdiDg with the Tremendous storms OF
August. An increased average, careful
cultivation, and the recent magnificent
weather Will prove Ell fiji :ient in ali prob>
ability to brllg tue crup up to last yesr's
figures.
With large crop N view the most i'm
portaat consideration remaining is the
question % price. Sugar has ruled high
during the last summer, out there is now
s promise OF considerable increase IL
the European beet crop, which threat
ebs to ultimately lower the existing levsl
OF prices. /; must be remembered, how
ever, that the worlds consumption has
vastly in; reased CT lale years, ard that st
present, surplus stocks everywhere have
dwindled 10 an extremely low figure,
nerce there is no danger of prices drop
ping to any serious extent. With large
crop in view, and with promise OF paying
pr.ceF, our sugar plsute7s have reason to
D. Pleased with the outlook.