The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-05-22
WILL BE HIGH.
Cotton May Go to Twenty Cents
Per Pound.
The Spinners in America Are Short
And Z Cotton Famine Stares Them
In the Face.

Cotton seems to be getting very
scarce and hard to get in the South.
The Florence Times says the cotton
men all tell the farmers to refrain
from selling their cotton, all admit
fifteen cents cotton and some expect
to see the staple bring as high as
twenty cents. There is no cotton IN
the country and a famine faces tne
American mills. The English mll!s
cot the best of the American mllls
this season to pay them for having
tricked them two or three .ines IN
the past and they did their American
cousins up to a brown finish.
The European spinners sent q COM
nittee over here and that committee
vent over the country in company
with the officers of the Southern
Cotton association, made a tour Of
inspection Of the cotton belt. The
American spinners took the reports
of the government and the estimate
Of Mr.. Hester Of New Orleans and
others and they looked wise and let
the European have the cotton.
Liverpool quotations stuck steadl-
" above New York in spite Of the
hammering Of the American bears
and the cotton went in a steady
stream to Europe. Now the cotton
is gone from the fields, gone from the
warehouses, gone from everywhere
and the spinners Of this country are
crying for cotton and it is not to be
had.
The planters of Louisiana have
planted four times and they say they
have no crop yet. Frost and food
have played havoc with them. The
Mississippi men have planted three
times and no crop yet, and the coun-
try under flood. Cotton seed is run
ming short. In Texas the farmers
are paying any price for planting
seed.
Cotton seed is selling in open mar
ket for S65 ton and it is mighty
scarce. The farmers all over the
country have run out Of seed and the
crushers have not the seed to sell
them back. They bought all they
could, sweeping the farmers floors
and are still thirty percent behind
last year. In Texas the boil weevll
coming earlier than ever is destroy
ing the young plants.
Cotton, if it is good staple, can be
sold today at the owners own price:
Even bad cotton will bring gooc
prices, the spinners want anything
and they confess it. They let the
cotton go in their efforts to beat the
price down below that fixed by the
association and they have lost.
The association is stronger today
than it has ever been and it's future
was never so bright. There is every
reason today why the farmer, every
farmer, should stand by the associa'
ton and win his independence in th!:
one year of grace. 1t will most like
" be done. The farmer controls the
situation and If he does not throw
away his opportunity ne just cannot
help winning.
A lot Of cotton was sold by the
very wise ones, who know better thar
the united wisdom of the whole as
sociation for nine and a fraction, fu
ture delivery this fall, and every ef'
fort is going to be made to force
these sellers to deliver that cotton.
It's going to be most interesting
situation. This, considered in con,
nection with the recent fight or
bucket shops and gambling in cottor
is going to make pretty state of at
fairs when the buyers Of the con
tracts begin to squeeze.