The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-02-05
TEXAS COTTON AND MARKET.
Some Extraordinary Facts-Ginning
Already Completed.

! HiHsboro. Feb. 4-Tne great part Of
! the Texas cotton crop-it may be said.
practically al Of it-has been ginned. OF
/ this there can be no doubt. The two e.e-
ments that contributed 20 this unusually
early completion OF the work We're the
| high price and the excellent weather
which enabled planters 10 gamer IT, When
cotton first came on the market there
was feeling among farmers that the
high price then prevailing was the tenn
poTary effect of manipulation and would
not last For this reason they gathered
and marketed it as fast as they could
after it matured.
The weather in Texas has heen clear
and dry, al fa4. and all winter mp 20
the present. Last year rain began in
Texas early in Novemuer. and continued
almost necessarily until March Even
when it would let ~ for few days or
q week, the black wavy soil Of the Texas
cotton belt would be in such condition
as TO make picking impossible
when this character OF soil once gets
thoroughly soaked by continued rains. IL
takes a good while Tor IL 70 dry out
enough 10 DE walked over in the field
Y.u could better understand this II you
could have seen some # The streets iu the
little black land towns where there
IS 10 paving. Last winter I saw milk
wagon In this town drawn by four horses
who had All they could % 20 draw i
through the streets. The mud was s TO
u inches deep. In several cases iu dif-
fcrent towns located ln The same char
actcr II COUNTRY the bus iilCs had g. Do
abandoned altogether 7 simply mention
this 70 show shy il was that So much
cotton came on the market ia Texas
last spring. and why so little. relatively.
ruay come on the market rcre this y-a-
after January.
Farmers were kept out q the fields last
winter. and when spring came about
ths middle Il March. and tn weather
sertieI. they went back a1d got The cot
tor they had been cEt OF from picking
81. November ~ course. some wss beat
% by the rain and lost. bot cotton holds
very tensciouSiy % the aoll especially
III late 4 -to5 cr0pr which has rGt
opened u9 ar feHy and freely as the frs
picking that ha7c ths Rot T1mE8er z11.
ard hence you pifi find that the ginning
fro April last scar was veIJ much heavier
shan PERHAPS it ever had been before
Now 90 The contrary. We have ha6
laeaI weather ia Texas ever euce cotton
king season ope1ed uH cary last fan
AMI his w!th ne hlzh price has stripped
th GeE1s cizar. 81 yoa see o. xha1
base MY opinion ~ the early rrsarket.ne
ibis ssaE1u
To substarlsate che settlement that -he
cotton Sc practically al IA. may n-a-
5sen that farmers are now busy al ovar
The state d1inE so-zehtinx fhat uas
rs-sr done before at Isssi. not % sur
extent. and vtIehd ia fat vas EeFer
e~tu heard = generally aatn this yesr.
Trey are aoE ihrezhl1g cut TIE bis
Tbs zHoEs tsat Is so PICKED
I1 explain 81 detail shat = reart ~
trreshirE o1t the beils- Cotton g. a siarf
t..st al keep II blooming ara zak1E
--tE CHI - 81 frosg azt eol5 wsathe-.
Every faN w5@u frost oo=es - heavy
e1.olEht. x c5ts sicrt 1he eoitan la lts
r-orrsss. ana - coarse lszcss a gE~at
deal = 1rnoatlre3 c1tc8n a varlarT
.tazer % deTeIarmenf. Or1-arly fhe
farmer c-asfs ~ e.re Z z-y rro-e a-iea-
taoc - fhts qrrr sut rs ~ price aes
81 high thas year e haz1s0rae s.re-1ie-n
existed fe- so-ze ter5re rhss E7al1 csx
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