The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-12-21
DISPUTES WILSON.
Gassengale Thinks Eixson is Very
Probably Blight.
PREDICTS HI.4EER PRICES.

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Estimates the Crops at Eleven Mil
lion Two Hundred and Fifty
Thousand Bales foc
This Year.
r. E. Massengale, prominent
Georgia farmer, writes as fellows to
the Augusta Chronicle from his home
at Norwood, Ca, on tie cotton si:ua.
tion:
Editor Augusta Chronicle:
Falsus in uno-falsus in omnibus, Is
triue maUm, as Cd as the granite
hills, and that bsing true, Mr.. Secre-
uary Wilson having acknowledged his
error in the acreage planted previous.
| ly given cut, it STANDS in reason that
be could have made e most alarming
error in the estimation OF the cotton
crop. That an erroI in the ginnerS
report has been made is no longer in
doubt, it matters not who made it,
the department Of commerce and
labor known as the bureau OF the
census" or Secretary Wilson's report
Is some claim the letter OF Mr.. Mix
son is somewhat mixed up between
the two. Paat an error has been and
could have been made, one can readily
perceive from the following: Ii Civ
ing the ginning By months 70 Ger
tain date, the question is asked:
How much have you ginned to GER
tain date IN the month";" a number
Of ginners have included tie whole
amount ginned, from the fist com.
menCement Of the season. The wri.
ter saw error OF eleven hundred and
twenty bales, made by one Of our two
ginIers here, which, however, was
corrected as soon as attention was
called to same; but, how many could
have been and were forwarded wrong?
I have no idea that the amount
claimed ginned was really giDpe3, and
yet the amount being publ shed, no
doubt Influenced the secretary OF
agriculture to make his enormous
guess, as it came out sometime before
the agricultural bureaus zerlal gues,;
and there Is no question about Mr..
Nixon receiving the ginnery blanks
from the source he claims, Is is eGi.
deGced By the same being in the
hands Of the Chronicle.
This crop is the earliest crop on
record, as to growth, opening and
the cotton on account OF improved
ginning devices, the quickest ginneG
ever knows', and the being a truism-
and pres sood-ohe earliest market
ed. It was much earlier than the
largest crop ever grown Of 1890 80,
when the crop was II, ,235, 483 bales,
and yet that years crop the amount
OF 5, 634, 3sl bales over che half Of that
bumper crop Vas in sight on Decem-
Der l, anG that being a fact, then 1t
stands to reason that over one half OF
the crop was IN sight by December l
this year. Sc I have figured from
that standpoint, and cannot figure
over eleven and a quarter million
bales. For the sake OF argument let's
take the crop Of last year, and take
the amount in sight up to December
9, which was 5,705. .450 bales. There
was at that time 56 per cent OF the
crop in, a. Per cent remaining, the
crop being 0,2l6. 0Oc, left only 4.510,.
$50 bales to c;>me, to make the
amount. We VIII ROW take present
crop and follow the same ratio. On
December 9, IN sight 6,640, ,605, Sc
per cent would indicate a crop OF
eleven and 3nree quarter million
bales, but take of 10000 bales, as
that much came n per week, and the
crop was seven Gays anyway, earlier
than last year, and we have a crop Of
ten and three quarter million bales
for this year; Throwing 10 then a
half million bales to our secretary, to
help him along, and we cannot get
ever eleven and a quarter MILTON, aad
like Peter, the apostle, who said:
Upon this rock I build my house,
and the gates OF hell shall not pre-.
vail against it" and upon this esti
mate stake my reputation, and shall
not give up until the last bale is
counted, September, 1905.
There is {. growing tendency among
the people that the government is
''agir EN-" and they will no longer
furnish evidence to injure themselves.
None Of the cereals, nor even tobacco,
are given the attention by the govern
ment that cotton receives, and from
the cradle to the grave the balance
Of the world makes was upon the
most useful articles In creation. When
the elements and the boil weevil are
still, the spectators are bonbarding
and beating doTr the pricas. So viz
tually cotton is bounded down from
the time q furrow is made until it's
out OF The hands Of tillers Of the soil.
Admitting that Secretary Wilson is in
the main correct, which In the main
I do not, over Tires -fourths OF nil
lion bales Of cotton will remain in the
hands OF farmers able to hold, until
the next crop and would not enter
into the crop OF 1904 and 1905; 50 it
would be the same as il TIE cotton
was not made. And cotton should
not go down, but remain at 10 cents,
or above, as the world needs every
bale OF cotton raised. Eng and and
the balance Of Europe have been de-
yising means in al their possessions
to successfully cultivate cotton, say
ing that the south could not rais5
enough. Now when it's reported Oh
doubtful authority that the crop is
100000 bales they stand agaast,
and say you have overdone the thing.
What's the use Ct destroying the Soll
Weevil if We can make more than the
worlds needs, with him to depredate?
II We destroy him what will become
OF us? In the long run be ray prove
our best friend. I look for an ad-
vance after the holidays.