The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-30
DAMAGE ID COTTON WILL BE VERY HEAVY Weather Conditions Will Lower
 Grade Enormously
LOSS SEEMS TO BE GENERAL
Many Days of Sunshine VIII Be Nee essary In Alabama Before Picking
 Can Be Resumed-Other
 News of Montgomery.

Montgomery, September 29.-(Special)- The storm of Wednesday has done the cotton crop of those states in which 1t prevailed incalculable harm. An already small yield yill be cut down many thou sand bolls as a result of the wind and rain blowing and knocking the cotton from the bolls. It will require many days of sunshine to allow a resumption of picking.
 Local cotton men say that the reports from all over this section are that not only will thousands of bolls be knocked out and consequently ruined, but the weather conditions will lower the grade as much as half cent pound. Addi. tional damages will also result because of delay In getting back to picking. Be- cause of lack of labor. there was more open cotton In the field than is usual at this time of the year.
 Reports from sections in the state indi- cate general losses to the crop. From Uniontown csomes the following: "As about all of the cotton in the field was open and ready to drop out. the beating wind and rain has done an in- calculable damage. As the crop was all ready short in this section, this damage will be a heavy blosf to the farmers and to the merchants who are dependent upon them"
 Abbeville, Henry county, reports: Hundreds of bales of cotton are open in the fields and large quantities of 1t have been blown and beaten out by the wind and rain. In many instances trees and fences have blown down and the cane patches are leveled with the ground. The damage to the cotton crop is enormous. It will take several days of sunshine in order to give the farmers an opportunity to resuSne picking"
 Lack of Labor. Prattville. Autauga county: Severe winds have been blowing here and the damage to the cotton in the fields is ai- ready great There is considerable rain with the wind, and the want of labor to pick cotton will be felt greatly in this 1 section after the gale is over.' Troy, Pike county: Tt Is thought that the cotton in this section will be very seriously damaged, as pretty near all l of 1t was open and not more than half has l been gathered. The cotton crop in this i immediate section Is very short. being at 1 least one-third off from last year and nothing like a full crop was made last l year"
 1 Hamilton, Marion county: Rain has l continued to fall here for several days 1 The cotton being nearly all opened mas l been damaged very much | Eufanla Barbour county: Rain Tell | almost in ceaseless torrents here. A strong east wind has prevailed and farmers say cotton will be very much injured in 1 grade"
 Thinks He Has Boil WeeviI. 1 John J. Cochran, a prominent planter and treasurer of Montgomery county, was in the city today bringing with him in- sects found on his cotton on his planta- tion, which resembles the genuine Texas l boil weevil.
 MT. Cochran says the weevls or insects, were found on his plantation by John C. Rayburn who lived in the boil weevil dis l trict of Texas four years and Is familiar with the cotton destroying insect, and says there Is no doubt that 1t Is the Texas boil weevil.
 MT Rayburn brought from Texas with him one of the genuine boil weevils, which 1 MT Cochran had enclosed In bottle with the two other insects, believed to Do weeyils, and they bear striking resem- 1 blance to the genuine
 | MT Cochran brought the insects to Montgomery to be given to Commissioner | him with the view of ascertaining whether l or not the Texas boil weevil has really reached Alabama.
 Whether they are Texas boil weeviis or not, they resemble in every thing ex- cept color, the one brought from Texas, 1 and which MT. Rayburn says is the gen uine Texas weevil, which has proven so destructive to the cotton In the Lone star state.
 Capital Notes.
 The governor has offered a reward or s1O0 for the arrest and delivery to the sheriff of Houston county of Charles Me- IntIre. a negro who. on the night of Sep tember 15. shot and killed his wife. It IS described as an atrocious murder in every way. ,,
 The expense accounts of three candi- dates in the democratic primary were filed today. though they will not be accepted | as within lawful time. They are:
 w. E. sorsby, for secretary of state, | saO4 70. Holm B. Ward for commissioner of agriculture, s459. 50; John B. Knox, al ternate senator. s367l.9 l MT. Knox came over ana hleo HIS ao- count himself.