The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-12-29

P-15O. 600, 900 more than any other crop he
ever raised. That would seem to prove
that he is favored by fortune. The
crop Of next year perhaps viii bring
Ieyen much greater returns. But there
Is an end to all things, and sOoner
for later it viii be realized tina what -
now a gOdseHI may bring about dts
asJer.
The world must have cotton. If II
E~cannot get enough from the south :;
Twill get il elsewhere. Il Is true ali
efforts 70 find cotton and equa TO that
LOT the south have failed. some by rea-
Son of transportation difficulties ana
some from other causes. climatic ana
otherwise. Man IS ingenious and per
lSevEring, however. and should a cotton
famine extend over q period of ten or
more years We viii find a rival Of the
south developing in some other land.
In the interim Americas m~anufac-
turing is growing, and it is confidently
Expected that before other countries
tcan b. mao to produce cotton Ameri-
Gan mills will require practically Al
the raw material this country can pro-
Iduce under present methods
Today the American cotton makes
iup nearly So per cent. Of the cotton that
is grown Egypt grows a LONG staple
cotton that IS used in the finest OF
goods. India grows a short staple cot
ton that is used in the coarsest ot
goods. America grows the staple crop
that is the medium between the Indian
Iand the Egyptian, and is the great
commercial necessity of the textile
IWOrld. There IS a distinct relationship
between the American and the other
IL IONS Zach h. ~, q no, 49, 10000 ~.
Iother n the Egyptian and the IN
dian PAINTER share relatively in what
Ger condition affects each distinct
Igrowth.
The curtailment of the American
crop will stimulate the East Indian t.
raising all the cotton possible, but that
I~cannOt effect the situation to any ma
~terIal degree. Neither can any pOss:-
alter the situation. The hole world
depends upon the south.
We nave been quoted as predicting
that within the next four or five years
cotton would sell at p cents a pound.
THIS may seem eXtravagant to those
VINO do not realize the extent to which
the sterilization of the seel in the
south has been carried or the extent to
(which the EroH tn OF the textile udus-
try and the use + cotton his seen
developed. Nc one can accurately
measure the demand for cotton who
not Ike into consideration the
widening of it's uses and the
hundred or more industries into which .
enters in form or another. y
If there is any one who doubts that
% the seed the cuTtaiIment OF the cot
ton crop is due primarily and chiefly
[ need only ~efer him to the annual re
port Of George \. Morrison, president
Of the American Cotton oil Company,
which was published less than II
month ago. In il he says:
The decrease in surplus earnings Of
the American Cotton Oil Company is
attributed 70 extreme competition Tor
seed ana the seed proving tc
of poor quality. producing oil Of
inferior grade and less than normal
TO the ton"
So you see hat even the cotton SEED
mills are feeling the effect. When the
best of tie seed is of poor quality, IL
be said of that which is left for the
planter and for Mother Earth to bring
forth another cotton crop?