The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-27
REPORT UNsATIsFAcroRY.
Cotton Men Do Not Believe the Figures
 Are Yet Correct. ..-. Advertiser Bureau.

Cotton Men Do Not beleve the FikuAes
 Are Yet Correct.
 Advertiser Bureau.
 1925 G. St., N. w.,
 Washington. July 26.
 Secretary Cheatham of the Southern Cotton Growers Association. who IS now in Washington. expresses the opinion that the acreage report given out today by the newly created crop estimating board will not prove satls- factory to the cotton men of the coun- try. It is not, he claims. full and comnlete report, based upon new data. Secretary Wilson. he added. had prom ised both President Jordan of the Southern Cotton Growers Association and Colonel Hester of New Orleans, the statistical expert. new and full re- port if the Department could get the funds to do the work, and for this req son today's estimates were disappoint- ing. as they are seemingly based upon the old figures which it is now known were manipulated by Holmes. the dis- charged assistant statistician.
 While no one doubts that the new report was prepared by the Depart ment in good faith. 1t is significant that the new estimates of decreased acreage are seemingly reached by add ing the June report of 11.4. now gem Gully discredfted, to that given out by
  ton of 1S43. and then dividing the product by two, making an average or 149. Colonel Peters. President of the Texas Cotton Growers Association. now here, declares that in Texas. Louisiana, Arkansas and in the Missts- sippi delta generally, rain has dam aged the crop at least per cent since May 25, while the fields that have been abandoned will. he claims. amount to about 3 per cent If this per centage of loss by abandonment be added to the new estimates 1t will bear out the claims of the Southern Cotton Crow CTS Association that the decreased acreage in cotton this year will reach nearly IS per cent.
 Colonel Peters said further that this reduction would represent close on to 5000 900 acres less in cotton planted than last year. He did not believe the crop of 1905-68 would exceed 100000 bales. This would make 1t the small est crop of cotton raised in years and he freely predicted that cotton would be cheap at 20 cents pound.
 An examination of today's crop re- port. compared with the Juggled fig ures of June 3. shows that Texas is given a quarter decrease in acreage by { per cent in the new report. A de- crease approximately as large Is given the great cotton producing States of Mississippi. Alabama and Georgia
 Some comment is heard here upon the action of the Department In taking Statistician Hydes figures as a basis for the new report, when. according to thu. statement of the crop estimat- ing board today, MT. Hyde. with MT. Holmes at his elbow prompting him, made the estimates lower than the facts There is no telling. 1t is urged here. what Holmes may have done to the reports, to suit his own ends and those of his associates. Yell County Arkansas. for instance. Is given a de- crease of 25 per cent in acreage. when. as A matter of fact. TO report is today on file with the Department showing what is the acreage of that County this year. The new report is regarded here as a sop thrown to the dfssatis- fed cotton men ir. view of the glaring inaccuracies of the government report of June 8. but if 1t is meant aa suah