The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-17
THE COTTON CROP
NeiII Brothers Estimate of
Number of Bales.
OVER 10,500,0C0 SURE
AND A MILLION AND 4 HALF
MORE POSSIBLE.
AND WE'LL CARRY OVER 100000
Crop Advancing Rapidly With Adequate Rain
and Promises 10 be Earlier Than Any
Former Year With Excep-
ton of '96 '97

New York. August 1G.-1ienry Ncill,
the cotton statctician, made public to-
night the following letter, TO he publish
ed tomorrow by NELL Brothers i'll Lon
don. giving his views of the growing
cotton crop:
New Orleans, August 5, 1S9S.-Thc
following is m extract from circular
letter which l published, dated July
2Sth, 1891:
"If each State should realize Il pro-
duct per acre equal to its best previous
crop. the result, on the estimated acre
age, would give II crop or about 9.6O0,-
600 bales. and the promises today, (2Sth
of July. 1890, are equal or superior to
any previous in every State.
The result that year was equal To the
best previous crop in every State, and in
Texas a vastly greater product per acre
than any previous year and the crop
turned ont 100000 bales.
"In Il circular letter published on Au-
gust IL. 1887. | stated that the promise
for 1S97-9S was equal to any previous
year in every State but 'rexus, ana on
the then estimated acreage. even n DIV
ing that Texas should fall short of her
previous maximum product per acre by
Il million bales. the outlook was 03th
of August, 1870 for q crop of at least
a.150.O00. with 500.000 or 100000
bales moro within the range of posi-
bilitiCs. The result this year 1S91-9S,
is now known to he over S.OOO,00O out
side of Texas and over 100000 bales
in Texas. As regards the present grow
ing crop. ii is apparent that the prom
Use today is equal or superior to that of
last year Mt this date in every State and
vastly better in Texas. which State has
had weather conditions equal to those
which produced the enormous crop of
300 pounds per acre in 1S91-95, and this
product applied to the present Texas
acreage. U.150.00O acres) including the
Indian Territory. might result with
equal conditions hereafter. in a crop for
Texas and the Indian Territory of l.
100000 bales while for the other States
II crop equal to the past year would he
over eight million bales. | have, there
FORE no hesitation in saying that the
promise of today, even with somewhat
unfavorablc conditions hereafter is for
a crop of over ten and half million
bales assured, with a million and a half
more within the range of possibilities.
''In addition to this vast supply we
shall carry over, on September LIST. 1898.
visible and invisible. fully one and half
millions more than the supply, visible
and Invisible, on September LIST. 1897.
''Thc crop is advancing rapidly. with
adequate rain and promises to be earlier
than any former wear with the exception
Of 1S96-97, so that the August movement
will be large and that of September
enormous
In an interview today concerning the
weather conditions since the above let
ter was written Mr.. NELL said that
picking as well as the August movement
to the market, has been retarded by
rain which, however. is beneficial if not
too long continued to the ultimate out
turn, excepting some portion of the Al
luvial lands in the Mississippi valley
where. however, the weather has now
cleared up.