Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-12-19

mill has closed down for want Of seed
anu VIII not work Tor month. Ihe -
company, after run OF one week. Inns
also closed as they have no seed In lilo
louse. Tue only mil now running IA
New orleans Is the - c0mpuny. and
unless they receive some seed To- keen
lnehl up they also Will have 10 close. as
Insy nave no more than three days run;
ms "a IN our city. We have die salnt
complaint 10 make from tho country
mills, Our mill In has received, 20
lar, only 100 tons OF seed, hardly enough
70 make start" Reports from points Oh
the Red river and Southern Louisiana
are OF the same tenor.
Receipts of seed In this State
up TO the end Of November have been
generally about ~ per cent Of the qunn.
wy marketed M 10 same time last Year.
Cause OF tho decrease, short cotton crop
ana low prices of seed at the beginning
OF the seuson Offering no induceneut 10
lAFnors TO sell. Alore seed being used
ior tertilizors than usual. No increase of
seel movement looked for In December.
Mllls VIII close much earlier than usual.
Seasons crush estimated ut 4O per cent
Of last year.
Tcxas-ln this State the growth Of the
oil milling Industry has In recent years
proceeded with great rapidly, Tho ng-
lirJgnte working capacity OF its mills IL
| ny lar the largest Of any Of tho cotton
| STATES, and more than O1e-third of tho
total product last year has been turned
out in this State. Seed affairs In this
state nrO therefore of paramount i'm
| portance, as affecting the general siui-
| nuOn. This season. iu common with tho
other Southern States, the drouth cut
the cotton crop very short, aud other
causes have helped to reduce tho seed
/ movement to within very narrow COM
| With tl. RNgHnfinu az ii fan
| lions in Central Texas aud certain neigh
boTloOda Of Western Texas tho reports
are uniformly bad. Receipts OF seed at
| the mills up To the end Of November do
4 not average over ~ per cent Of the guam
| uty marketed during the sane period last
| year. Short crop mainly, and then the
| low prices nj the outset of tho season
/ cut receipts down, Large herds Of cattle
\ are always fed on seed in this State, aud
| during the present season the proportion
fed las been far heavier than Ia other
! yoara. Seed was marketed with great
rapidity ~ the beginning Of the season,
and now, owing 10 the failure Of the
top crop, receipts OF seed viii bG OK
ceedingiy light in most sections, while
in others the supply Is practically. ex-
| haustrl. A large number Of mills have
even during the month Of October wOrkcL
, only every other week, and many are shut
down at present. With tho exception of
one or two mills In Western Texas there
is lie Uniform complaint Of n painfully
small supply of seed. Already On tie
first of November correspondent In
North Texas wrote usi This looks Ike
the end Of season, not the beginning
Of IT," Seed Is NOW well within sight.
The total crush of Texas for the present
season may safely be set down At not
over 40 por cent Of that of last year, as
prices OF seed which were advanced SOW
cral times IN the course OF the last two
months, do not appear TO have appreciably
affected The supply One Correspondent
writes: "Seod prices nave been high and
stimulated marketing but the seed Us not
in the country" Another writes under
date Of November 20: "llaNc been shut
down two weeks. May scrap9 enough
together to run till Christmas. Don't
think there will he any seed in January"
Reports of this tenor are the rule. Mills
win generally shut down for the season
between the 10Th Of December and LIST
Of January; some are already shut down
for tile season now Last year these
mills run 10 tho lrst of May.
The conclusion that must follow these
reports " that tho uuinr0rabe cDDdi'
tons Of oil milling are common 20 every
one Of the Southern StntoS, and that ihi
exceptions are few In number ana con
fined 10 relatively small stretches Of ter
IN tho Atlantic States, rs We have seer
from these reports. fine movement durint
The present month Is likely to De lnrEel
than during November, but all iniicn
lions, MS regards the total crush are really
"a unfnvorablc ne anywhere In the STATE
lying to the south and west; nor IL u sur
| t,rising that no substantial increase II
The total crush can be looked for " tbs
real cnlises are borne In mind. The are
t. Primarily the short crop which, win
other factors remaining the same, AlOn,
accounts TO about 81 per cent less aYail
able seed than last year.
2. The low prices for seed o. the be
ginning Of the scnson have diverted
much larger proportion than usual II
cattle feeding, in which seed finds NOR
favorable money return than the ollmilI
conld nffOrI TO pay, This applies 90
nrclnlly 10 Texas and Arkansas. Agaln
nast III the Mississippi river, especial!
IN the unlands of Alabama, Georgia
South Carolina and North Carolina NJ
unprecalcntly large proportion mas re
mi on the land MS an ecplOmlral i"r
,iIiyo-. and We learn that the relnflFtll
hifsh mice ruling for cotton has stimulated
amnnt. Tho farmers the use OF coitonSee
asn fertilizor to increase tho productive
/. ne.s Of tic cotton land for neNt season
II h also reported TINT an unusually larg
nroporfion Of the seed is being reltne
! by farmers lNE VNtfht 49, -
similar reasons. II p plain TINT see
once NM on the land az fertilizer
: "a 10 cattle or stored away for Waniin
M longer available 10 the OF mn
md no Increase Of seed prices later o
nil resurreci the large proportion Q
iced doue away with for tho above pul
poses. AZ. lam, docreos
, of The seed movement and the low pre-.
for min products, milling operations
: ,be south are ut present n1irpmtly w
. rro6tablp and restricted. We nave o
I pno side tle southern oil mills turning on
7 mall product Of oil, cake and mea
, Ia, IjttIe or no stock Of seed In re.seFFl
md The prospect Of extremely small sul
|, .nlies FOR tho rest OF the season anl ~
J ,,rnllv loath TO accept orders Ior VI
duets nj prices that DO not pay them 70
. ast On tho other hand the ,rpnsnlnin
' noom,nnnity In the Northern states an
: V,rone ms thus far received reppfta .
!. in'v etnei seed situation IN the ropl
WI Ith Indlfference and certain amount
!, ncrednlity. In consequence, matks"s ~ -
. Titan Eel products have ruled hrI
n without activity. a, A.. Sou,
,,airty foreslndows q decrease OF
inasf 40 O00.O0O TO UO,WpinDV parI'.
I ~ notton oil aud corresponding lunsl
y XII 81 rako or meal from The r'speelh
: ~ ntities prodnced last season, W.
i WA about future prices OF prYnnrl
q worn 49, ftsaif Pricff OF co