The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-10-26
Plant Throughout Dallas District
Is Loaded With New BOlls
About Ready to Open.
CROP ESTIMATES INCREASED.
Continuation of Present Favorable
Weather Will Insure a Yield
From 6ne-Third to One
Fourth Larger Than
Was Expected.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL
Dallas. Tex. Oct E-It begins to look
as II the average date for the last ten years
FOR "hrst front" in the Dallas territory
November ISIS 10 be realized this year
There Is no indication to'the contrary at
this time. and the general opinion among
cotton circles iuclines to-a late fan"
There wss a little furry OF Uneasiness
last Saturday. when symptoms 81 \ north
er" were in the air. The mercury was re-
ported to have dropped to nifty degrees at
Wichita. KaA. ard a cold wave vas rolling
Southward. The fear was that Il would
invade the northern and central Texas cot
ton helt. and then the top crop outlook
would be "ali on. The -nOrther. however.
got lost IL the interior Of Oklahoma.
Sunday morning vac the most critical
time OF the season. Heavy thunder and
angry-lOoklng clouds promised to deluge the
fields. The showers that fell. however.
were only vagrant IL character and scat
tered at long intervals Of distance Perfect
temperature, with an abundance OF sunshine
mas prevailed since
Of the Dallas territory II November fur
nishes an approximate duplicate Of October
weather cotton picking will last until Jan
Cary IN Northern Teas.
Dallas commercial travellers. who have
recently made Il a special duty 20 travel
INTO the cotton fields for a radius OF 100
miles around Dallas. report that In many
fields the plant Is 50 loaded down with new
uClAS inst the ANAlkS are AAIno-A Drrrhiuh-
Two OF three more weeks OF the present
kind OF weather viii GAUGE the most OF
these bolls 10 open and add to the crop from
one-fOurth 10 one-thIrd more cotton than
had been estimated in September IS the
harvest yield. No rain + wanted dry
weather Il the general desire.
A light frost. followed by sunshine. would
be a good thing. as the leaves and rank
growth would be bhghted and made to
wither and fall. thus permitting the sun
shine 10 penetrate 10 the lower bols and
assist ;he top crop and bottom crop in ma
turing.
r. S. KImbrouKh OF Mesquite avs the
crop already picked 81 his portion q Dali
las County equals the yield OF last season
Good weather Tor the next twenty 10 thirty
days. he says. VIII make an normou I'd
dition 20 the years yield.
COTTON SEED AND OIL SITUATION
The cotton seed and cotton oil -tustion
IS In far better shape for the mills than IL
was on October !. The p-ice OF SEEDS has
fallen from SIS and SIS pr ton 10 an aV-
erag- Of from Sl5 70 SIC. according 20 the
distance from the mills, Prime crude Gil.
3 cents per gallon. Prime meal, for octo-
Der delivery. sells readily al 30 20 81 per
ton. Neal for October delivery IL all sold
up at most OF the mills.
There IS practically no October surplus on
hand The mills. as q rule. have only from
hand. The cause OF this i largely that the
mills started up about ten days earlier this
year than last. The length Of time that the
mills win be run IL uncertain: all depends
IN the outcome OF the top crop OF cotton.
A small top crop would probably mean the
early In January: a heavy top crop. with a
corresponding yield OF Esed. would mean
an average milling season. with many
mills running until April.