The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-27
NEXT cRop COTTON.
The Farmers VIII Hold for GOOD
Prices.


Galveston Tribune.
The gentleman up the State who raises
cotton or buys the stuff from the farmer
has his own IDEAS about the price cotton -
going to bring this fall A Galvsstonian
who went into the interior to buy some OF
the goods for september October delivery
discovered that his figures and those OIL
the interior people were way out OF kiiter'
The interior people told him they KNOW
there is going to be a great demand ior
cotton early next season. They are Will
ing to enter into contracts on OASIS OF
Z ga or 5 cents, but nothing less.
The interior people are wise. me pros
poets for the new crop are none too soou'
II the man in the interior acts with any
Judgment this fall he will get an excellent
price for the crop whether It's big or little.
But he will not get big price If he mar :
kets the crop in lump. Slow, graduai
marketing Of the new crop is the Keynote
OF the farmers campaign.
| Buyers will be falling over themselves
in the first ninety days of the coming sea-
son to get cotton. Let the interior man
Just be coy and patient and he VIII have
the whip hand.
The cotton growers didn't get within
| $50 900, 900 of what they should have re-
ceived for the crop OF 1S99-1900. They were
a little slow in selling, but not slow
enough. The great bulge would have come
much earlier IL the interior people mad
more patience. They did fairly well as 1t
was. but their opportunities the com. g
season ars infinitely greater than this
present season
| The trade began this season with stock
of between 8, 000, 900 and 4000, 900 bales VS.
ible and invisible. The trade will enter
the next season with the smallest supply
of cotton IN Z generation
The world will need every bale that is
raised next season even If the crop is
whopping big. If anything happens to
curtail the yield and trade is half good
there will be higher prices than this sea-
son
This is a presidential year. There never
has been big crop in presidential year
except once. The negro cuts big figure
in the making of cotton crop. In a
presidential year the negro is chock full
of his political importance and neglects
his field work.
This crop is late and has a bad start.
The best interior men who ask Z 3-4 to 8
cents for their September october cotton
know their business. They will get that
price if they can get the farmers and the
merchants to act sensibly.
American sp.nners VIII need cotton and
plenty OF it early next season. So will
the continental spinner, So will the Eng
lish spinner who will be on his marrow
bones by that time.
The professional bears have for the last
month been beating down the price of
cotton and they have reduced futures"
of the new crop to a basis that means
less than cents to the man in the in
terror. The professionals are discounting
bad trade, big crop, presidential year in
activity and everything they can con-
jure up.
The trade is nguring on getting the
bulk of the crop IN lump in the first
sixty or ninety days. If the farmers fool
the splnnsrs prices vii! go soaring
It's up to the farmer ana the merchant.
Prof. f. w. Mally, state entomologst,
told Tribune reporter yesterday'thlt he
had made a trip from Waco across to the
Guadalupe river.
Water still stands in the bottoms"
said Mr.. Mally There are many thou
sands OF acres of these bottom lands yet
to be planted in cotton. AS to the cotton
acreage It is Difficult; matter to state.
In some places it is curtailed: in others Il
is increased. l saw places where farmers
had to use moving machines to cut the
weeds in their fields before they could get
in to pillow. The season is very late in
Southwest Texas. In the uplands cotton
seems TO be doing we'll.
! "0ne thing in which there will be a
] largely increased acreage Is June corn. A
/ large amount is being planted in the dis
/ trict through which l have Just travelled