The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-19
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NELL PREDICTS GREAT
COTTON CROP
CorTOS STATIS,lCIAN NJ AESS lNTEE.
EStIS2 ES>RSCA>r
Expect Over r~o Milton Ral,s-Au Can-
dttl"ns 1ndicat~ On~ of inc e., sstr.i
Crops In u. r"n' E.ars-Mss ENce,d
thr Estimate.

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New Orleans, August l6 ---Hcnry
Neill the cotton statistician, made
public tonight the following letter
to be issued tomorrow by Nrill
Brothers in London. giving his views
Of the growing cotton crop:
New Orleans, August 3, 1898.
The following is an extract from
circular letter whioh l published,
dated July 2S, lS"t:
"If each State should realiz, a
product per acre equal to its best
previous crop, the result, on the rs.
tlmated acreage. would give crop
of about H,GUO,OOO bales and the
promise today, (2Sth July. l>9U, is
equal or superior to an. previous in
every State"
The result that year was q crop
to the best previous crop in every
State, and in Texas vastly greutcr
product per acre than any previous
ycar, and the crop turned out 1900,
600 bales.
In Il circular letter published on
August Is, 1897, | stutrd that tho
promise for 1897 9S was equal 10
any previous ycnr in every State
but Texas, and that, on the then rs
timateh acreage, even allowing that
Texas should fall short of her pre-
vious maximum product por aero by
million bales, tho outlook WAS,
l3th August, IS00, for II crop Of
Mt least 0,70O,0OO, with 100000 or
l,OOO,0OC bales moro within the
range of possibilities. Tho result
this year, (lS07.oS), is now known
to be over 5000, 600 outside nf Texas
and over 3.000,00O bales in Texas.
-ts regnrds the prescut growing
CROP, it is apparent that the promise
today is equal or superior to that
of last year at this dato in every
State, ard vastly better in Texas,
which State has had weather condi.
tlons equal to those which produced
the enormous crop Of 300 pounds
per acre in 1894 .05, and this pro.
duct applied to tho present Texas
acreage (G,750,000 acrcs) including
the Indian Territory might result,
with equal conditions hereafter, in a
crop for Texas and tho Indian Ter
ritory Of ovor 100000 bales, while
for the other States a crop equal to
the past year would be over 5000,
O0O bales. | have, therefore, no
hesitation in saying that tho promise
OF today, even with somewhat un-
favorable conditions hereafter is fo,
Il crop OF over ton and q half million
bales assured, with u million and Il
half more within the range of posi-
bilities.
In addition to this vast supply we
shall carry over, on September l.
1873, visible and invisible, fully one
and half millions more than the
supply, visible and invisible on Sep
sember |, 1897.
The crop is advancing rapidly
with adequate heat and rain, ant
promises to be earlier than an,
former year with tho exception OF
lo00,07, SO that tho August move
mont will bo largo and that of Sep
tember enormous
In an interview today concerning
the weather conditions since th,
above letter was written, Mr. Neil
said that picking as well az tn,
August movement to tho market I'm,
been retarded by rain which, how
over, is beneficial if not too lone
continued to the ultimate out turn
excepting somo portion of the
alluvial lands in tho Mississippi val
Icy, whore, however, the weathc,
has now cleared up.