The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-09-23
COTTON BALES AND VALUES.

The total cotton crops Of the years
and total value, each year beginning
with Sept. l, to Sept. ! OF the next
year.
In 1ssS-99, total bales, IL, ,274, $40;
value OF this crop when marketed,
1882, ,722, 1887.
1s99-19oO: bales, 9,436, ,416; value,
1868, ,7s4, ,s2o.
1sOo-leO1 bales, 1o,3s8, ,482; value,
s4s4 ,567, $40.
19o1-1sos: bales, 10, $50, $50; value,
343S, ,O14 ,6S7.
lsO2-l9O3: bales, 1927 $50; value,
-AAa91 Aa9e1aS9ySs2! aa9 y2Ss2 pares, 1v,v1I ,o,4; value,
$617, sol ,54s.
Tho yearly consumption of cotton
by the mills of the South is about
1000, 700 bales. The mills Of the
South now operate 1S5, Ia looms and
1851 ,49S spindles. There has been
q large increase in the number Of cot
ton mills in the South in the past
ten years, and no increase in the
number of cotton mills in the North.
Evidently the mills have been com
Ing to the cotton. A further fact is
made to appear in these figures; that
10, 1t will take q twelve million bale
crop to supply the demand /;
and II the present crop should fall
Be added to the dencIsncy or the
past two years, which deficiency can,
not be supplied, even il a twelve mil
lion bale crop be gathered this year
Of which there is now no such pros
poets, according to the crop reports
Mr.. John Y. Sartor, who lives in
Houston County, Texas, In a letter to
his brother, Jas. G. Sartor, says that
the boil weevils have almost entirely
destroyed the cotton of that county
that he saw 80 acre field of cotton
that would not make more than three
h-i-- - ~nt+nr -Tha government re-
PV-O w SI'o ~[.E>.IUsoE- 0rOP cs.-
look, OF date, Sept. IL, says that rust
and shedding continue over large
part Of the cotton belt. In Texas,
cotton has improved slightly in few
northern counties, but on the whole.
very little new fruit is forming, and
tho boil weevils are puncturing near
~ all new squares In the south-wes.
torn coast, central and eastern coup.
ties, as we'll as In a number of north
ern counties. 1t will be noted that
from this and other reports, there ia
almost no August crop of cotton in
the West and Southwest, as is the
condition in Union County. We cal
culate that 1t will not be more than
two years before the weevil and boil
worm will be as numerous and de-
Istsuctive In South Carolina as now in
Tsks g1A " q the destructive insects +
veeds and grasses S.S Imported, and
n q few years we will be forced to
'oandon the growing Of our present
rops, and devote our time and lands
o the growth of other kind of crops.
We are told that there are thousands
I bushels Of Texas oats now In the
ity OF Augusta, Ga, billed for differ
Mt parts Of this State. These oats :
ave been under: orders of the agri-
ultural department of our State, pre-
ented from coming into our. State
Or fear Of bringing into this State
he Texas boil weevil. We are told
nat these oats are being shipped to
no Northwestern states, and will be
hipped back to this and others
tates, (Which have qarantined the ,
exss oat,) as Northwestern oat.
he Texas oat crop is q very large
ns and they are bound to
sold In some market, and as the
ale of Texas oats Is forbidden In this
hate, the holders of the Texas oats
ave taken this plan to deceive, and ii
this we predict the introduction u
I'd importation of the boll-weevil, as r
d the potsto-bug get to our patch. b