Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-09-01
COTTON.
Crops Materially Dam
aged by Drought.
REPORTS FROM sEvENTy-rnRhcn
COUNTIES SHOW
DECREASED ACREAGE
THE DECREASE IL ESTIMATED an
TwENry-sEvEN PER CENT
UNDER LAST YEAR.
Receipt. at Houston - Prices Are
higher and Duyers'Expec,
Eurth,r Advance.
DECREASED ACREAGE

Austin, Texas, August 9i.--tSpeeial)
The department OF agriculture, IN
suranee. statistics and history this af-
ternoon announced that up 10 date
reports have been received at the de-
partment from the nssessors OF seven
ty-three counties In the state. giving
the acreage planted in cotton In their
respective counties In the year at AIR.
$40 acres. The total acreage In cotton
In the same counties In the year 1874
was 2,bOS927. The total decrease OF
acreage IN cotton In said counties Tor
1895 10 over 10 per cent These counlles
In the year 1894 produced more than
half of the entire crop OF the state.
From personal observation and from
reliable information gathered from cou-
Versatlons ana correspondence with
many farmers throughout the state the
commissioner Is convinced that the de-
crease In tho amount VIII not be less
than 27 per cent He reports that the
crop In East Texas suffered much In
the early part OF the season from too
much rain; and the crop from Bell
county southwark has been materially
cut on by the long protracted ana He-
we're druuth. The reaction In acreage,
the fact that many acres that were
planted have never been worked out,
and that many othera were worked too
late, and the loss sustained from too
much rain In one section and
absence OF rain In others,
give the commissioner. be states.
serious apprehensions that the
decrease OF the product may exceed
q por cent, and even under most ia
vorHble conditions during the balance
OF the season he cannot see how 1t
can be less.
"Hon. Hector D. Lane. commissioner
A asNf "a NNa iaI.
nee" Commissioners Rose says, that
the falling on In the cotton crop cast
OF Texas would not be less than 30 per
cent, and n correct, as II probably the
case the cotton crop OF the entire
South for 1896 viii not, perhaps, eS-
coed 5000 600 bales"
uonston, Texas. August .-(Hpoclal)
For the season ending today the
receipts Of cotton at Houston were
l,SO00 O3, against JOG 1872 bales last sea-
son. or the seasons receipts the Cen
trail road. the lnrgest feeder, brought
In G13Hl. For August OF TINS year
receipts here are 10000, against 10000
for the came month last year. Re-
ceipts for coming season are not ex-
pected TO go higher than the season OF
isg3-gi New crop receipts are from 40
to 90 per cent lesH than last year ~
all stations tributary to Houston, Far.
mers are marketing az fast as they
ness OF season IL the one reason for de-
lay. Prevailing prices TO farmers are
20 to 20 per cent higher than last year,
and buyers expect u decided advance
outward movement VIII commence
about September 10.
Georgetown, Texas August 81
(Special)-A committee OF business
men OF this city, sent out under the
auspices OF the board OF trade. has Just
returned after being out three days
crop tributary TO this place, and report
that the yield VIII be one-fourth bale
per acre " not less The worms and
rust in some sections are injuriug the
cotton very much
Washington. August 3i.-The FIRST
telegraphic transfer OF money from
the New York sub-treaHury to New
orleans with which to move the cot
ton CROP was made today. the amount
being 100000 These transfers VIII
continue for about six weeks. and II ia
expected that IN the pelghborhood OF
SO, 900 600 win be required.