The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-17
\ Practically Complete
Resume of This Years
Effort in Cotton Grow
ing in North Carolina.
Figures Show a Short
age of - Bales as Com
pared With Last Years
Crop.

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Inmates that have been made and pub
lished by statisticians, both in this coun-
try and abroad, the News and Observer
has thought it a part of it's public duty
to use every effort in its power to get
as near the facts as possible, so far as
North Carolina is concerned, and give to
the cotton world the figures made up by
trustworthy and reliable gentlemen, rep
resenting every department OF cotton pro-
duction and cotton trade. 1t presents
herewith the information obtained from
cotton planters, cotton buyers, cotton ex-
porters, and cotton manufacturers in
every section of the North Carolina cot
ton belt. -
On Wednesday, the 18th of Novem-
Der, this paper mailed to large number
of cotton planters, buyers, manufacturers
and others in every county in the cotton
belt letters of inquiry and it takes pleas
ure in printing for the information of the
public the following prompt replies upon
which it bases it's estimate of the North
Based upon this informa tion the News
and Observer estimates that the cotton
crop of North Carolina this season will be
............ bales.
These figures are not News and o.
server figures. They came direct within
the last twenty-four hours from the homes
of the cotton planters, from the cotton
gin, from the counting rooms of the cot
ton buyers and cotton manufacturers
from every section of the North Carolina
cotton belt.
The following are the questions asked
in our letters of inquiry to the planters,
buyers and others:
Raleigh N c., Nov. 49, 1901.
Dear Sir:-Please answer the ques-
lions on attached card, according to your
best judgment, as to the cotton crop in
your section and mail to us at once, and
cblige
Yours very truly,
JOSEPHUS DANIELS,
Editor News and Observer.
THE QUESTIONS ASKED.
l. What, in your opinion will be the
percentage of cotton grown and gathered
in your section this year, as compared
with last years crop?
g What percentage Of the crop remains
in the fields?
g. When will picking and ginning be
completed?
A. How much lint cotton vii be gathered
per acre (average)
Mr.. Chas. E. Johnson, of the firm of
johnson & Thompson, cotton merchants,
Raleigh, N. c., says:
l. Wake county, so per cent and owing
to increased acreage it may possibly ex-
coed 80 per cent of last years crop in
bales, but not in yield per acre.
2 Very difficult to determine. Some
sections all picked out, others about %
per cent remains
5. Picking completed probably by the
first week in December
t. Yield per acre decidedly less than
last year.
Mr.. p. T. Wyatt, secretary of the Cot
ton and Grocers Exchange, of Raleigh,
N. c., says:
l. 40 per cent.
g Not over 20 per cent.
8. BY December 18th.
l. About 100 pounds.
Mr. e. B. Barbee, of the firm of Bar
bee & Co, cotton merchants, Raleigh
n. c., says:
l. so per cent.
2 Not over per cent
3. Picking by first of December
4. From 100 to 125 pounds.
Mr. Ed III. Lee, of the firm of Lee &
I.atta, cotton merchants Raleigh, N. c.,
says:
i. so per cent.
2. Not over 10 per cent.
3. BY December 1st.
4. About 100 pounds.