The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-10-05

SepIemDtr. 13.4 76.8
Average four months 8O5 against 80 8
Or dlmunitiOn of "a per cent. in the
condition of the crop.
Inc revised acreage OF the bureau,
with l6,6O7 900 acres against its acreage
of last season of 16 O0OOOOis an increase
OF about per cent (against The Chron-
1cle'S per cent. incl ease Of its acreage.)
The Bureaus acreage and condition
combined give, therefore, OG more on
last years production of 6,2O0. 900 bales
for 1893 "a; but taking The Chronicles
acreage, a crop of 6,485,00O bales as a
maximum.
Another method of calculating the
maximum figure for the crop, as an ut
most possibility is the following:
Last seasons Texas crop was about
100000 bales, taking off therefrom for
the drought Is per cent or 300 600 bales,
would 'eave for this years Texas crop,
100000 bales, say. All other States
produced in both monster crops-of
100000 and S.650,OOO bales-about g.
$4,000 bales on about ii 100000 acres
of the Bureaus corrected acreage, or
about 100000 more than the present
seasons in those States, say for this de-
creased acreage at O45 of bale per
acre, which has been the production
per acre of these two monster crops;
100000 bales less for the present sea
SOD, or say 8, 100000 bales, making to-
tai possible maximum crop of 100000
bales 1893-94.
Yet, on the face of it, how very un-
likely does not seem production of
O45 of a bale per acre in those other
states, equal to that of the two monster
crops.
Bearing in mind that the condition
of the plant on the 1st of July was the
lowest on record, that the stand on the
lst OF Jnly is almost decisive for the
production of the year, I made this
other calculation Of the possible maxi
mum merely to show its absurdity.
Yet Is 1t not sufficient for all practical
purposes at this time of the season to
state that the crop may be between the
above 6,237, 600 and these 1850 600 bales.
HoWeVer,noW at the beginning OF tie
crop movement there comes to our help
the safest guide tor Judging the size
of the crop; this is tho receipts. or
course some influence is due to the
precocity Of lateness of the crops, but
none to the moral Influence, Gas keep
Ing back, etc. invented by the future
exchanges. and On the whole an intelli
gent observation of the earliest r. celpts
affords the safest guide for judging the
size OF a crop. Evidently the figures OF
the receipts of the present crop, as far
as known, do not point to a production
per acre in call the s, ates" equal to
that of the two monster crops, nor
eve1Ato the fol mer 1000 900 bale crops.
Any hope to. Il total crop pXcee ling
materially 100000 bales as Il maxi
mum, may, therefore and by the above
calculation be sateiy discarded ALREADY
now.
we must Temtmh'r, aS to TCXasthat
curing last winter the usual m0isture
has LOT been collected in its subsoiI:
mat part OF the state could not he
Plan'eo but very late Ill May;that To-,
June rails gave Othe young plant 4
s"rltee root, exposing it more than
lsua'y. to the heat AID drought Of
hummer, and that this drought has
been this season unusually long and
severe. "
We must RENE mber further, as to the
otner states, that the nights wer, cool
everywhere, not allowing proper
growth, that the plant remaired un
usually small, though described no as
vigorous, that instead Of producing as
usual strratim a bottom, middle and
top crop, it lowered aud produced
1Tuitat The same time from bottom to
top, and has done, therefore, growing
and producing very early; that an af-
fore, out of the question this season:
that aside to the Influences of # mpera-
ture, this phenomenon may be ascribed
In the phosphate using states, to the
want OF the usual manuriug by the
cotton seed; that without tn 8, the
phosphales may have driven the plant
10 100 fast towering and fruiting; that
therefore, picking in these states will
nnlsh earlier than usual, and that last
~ tht late tremendous storms in the
Calollhas must nave damaged the rip.
fen!hg coCtoh helds there to serious
extent.
may mention here that for some
time before the new crop began to
moVe,it was confidently predicted that
the financial pressure would this year
exercise an important influence for
hurrying the crop on to market, and
Tor obliging the South to sell ut the