The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-06-12
COTTON CROP ESTIMATED,
An Increase ofthe Worlds Crop in
Acreage of sos Per Cent

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Acreage of sos Per Cent
The New York Financial Chronicles
| estimate of the cotton acreage for the
! present year has just been published.
| an increase Of 5.U5 per cent. for the
| whole country is reported. The depart
ment Of agriculture in its statement
May 81 reported an increase Of s 3 per
cent. On the same date The Journal
OF Commerce and Commercial Bulletin
ISSUED it's special estimate of 40 per
cent. increase. Both the Chronicles
estimate and that Of The journal Of
Commerce and Commercial Bulletin
we're considerably below the trade es.
tImates, which often figured about Il 7
per cent. increase and IN some cases as
high rs 10 per cent.
The Chronicles statement i'm Dart
follows
Cotton acreage and condition figures
procured the latter part of May and
the first week in June this year are
subject TO the possibility of larger cor
II clions later in the season than usual.
This is due to two facts First, that
THIS crop is no doubt n backward one
Indeed, FOR the whole cotton section
we believe it averages among the very
latest IN terminating we have ever had
to record, and, second, the rainfall,
which has started much of the seed
hitherto lying dormant, is very recent,
ana while We may now pronounce the
results OF the rains as extremely bene-
IIclal later adviccs may require Ia III
some measure to modify that conclu-
sion.
AS to acreage our information in
clines us To t:ic oplnion that the in
crease Is not rs large as early in ,hc
81 ason was generally anticipated would
be the case. But Notwithstanding this
more moderate increase IN acreage
Cham in 1900 enough cotton has been
painted TO make an enormous crop if
all the conditions could be as favorable
as In the spring, SKINNER and autumn
OF 1897 and lS9S. Probably l3 p,rccnt.
cent. more land has been under cotton
IN the South this year III min either OF
The years mentioned, and yet The aver
age raised, as already said, in each OF
,h"sc years was about ! | 200 900 bales.
Hence, as the acreage averaged in 1897
and 1898 over $4,000, 900 acres and is
now, say 2G 900 900 acres, 1t is easy to
see that under like conditions Of de-
vclopmcnt the possibilities of This years
acreage, Roughly speaking, would be Il
yield of say l2,5O0 900 bales.
We sum up in brief the following as
the conclusions with respect to acre
age, conditions of plant, etc, to which
our Investigations have led us
The inclination ut the South this
year was quite generally in the dircr.
lion of cnlarging cotton area. Blu. we
lind no evidence of any radical ten
dcncy in that direction except in the
newer sections, hence the net pei
centagc of increase for the whole coun.
try is only about half as great as in
; 1900.
The Clcentagc of increase and the
estimated acreage for 1901 in each
State follows
Virginia (3 per cent? Sd $50 acres
North Carolina q per cent? 059 ,039 ;
south Carolina 6 per cent. y .25I ,725
Georgia Ct per cent? 3,097 ,39S Flor.
ida GO per cent y 3G0 ,G25 Alabama
C. per cent, } 3,449,7 Mississippi G.
per cent. y 3,3OG, 100 Louisiana 6 pei
ecu, y 1850, sos Texas W per cent. J
I OS3.IO2 Arkansas 6 per cent } :
G4S,O92; Tennessee (6 per cent. y ~, ;.
800 Indian Territory GA per cent. J
3S2 l5G Oklahoma GO per cent. J
232 ,20O; Missouri (4 per cent. y 7G, ,45G
total, s O5 per cent, 20 ,SGS ,G0l.
This compilation shows that with q
net increase compared with 1900 OF
s Go per cont. the total acreage reaches
25 ,SGS, ,GOl acres in 1901, against 81 ,
G25 ,044 acres in 1900.
With regard to maturity, cultivation
and condition the conclusions reached
are as follows
l. In maturity there is no doubt tha
the crop is late Onc--evcn later an,
more widely backward than that which
preceded 1t. There are complaint
f'om many States that urouih ana W,
weather. each in turn ami low lcmpcia
ourc all through il,c planting .scasol
ave hindcie! work and delayed . I
ninaiiun
: 2. Cultivation is satisfactory whrr
u the plant is far enough advanced fo
chopping out. Recent heavy rain
}, have put fields in the grass in som
g sections, hut with clearing wealth,
Il work is being vigorously prosecute,
o Fertilizers have been more extensive
d used.
Is 3. Condition is apparently below Il
l. average at this time. There is no dou
'e tina. the plant will need succession
- favoring weeks TO bring it up to