Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-06-04
POOR OUTLOOK FOR COTTON.
President z. D. Smith Gives Out 9
Written Statement.

President E. D. Smith, Of the cot
ton association on last Saturday gave
out an interesting synopsis Of reports
of state presidents. The Texas report
is delightfully."- discouraging. Mr..
Smiths statement follows:
Having written to the state presi-
dents as to the condition Of the crop
and the outlook, l want to give to the
public a few replies that have come
to me from men whose standing In
their community attests their integr-
ty; therefore, what they say may be
relied upon.
Sorry Outlook In Texas.
From, Henderson, Texas, J. G.
Hickey president of the First Nation
al bank, writes under date Of May
9th, as follows: The outlook In
Texas is sorry indeed for cotton. East
Texas has reduced her acreage fully
forty per cent, and many farmers are
still blowing up cotton and planting
peas and corn; many have planted
three times and still have sorry
stand. The boil weevil Is here In great
numbers, and many farmers have no
hopes of making any cotton at all.
So you can see why they are re-plant-
ing in something else. Middle Texas
the black land district-has nearly
be necessarily late. / talked with
some farmers from Ellis county last
Thursday and they told me they had
to plant the second time, and are not
done planting yet. Further west, In
Mitchell, Coleman, Taylor and Tom
Green, and that whole section, have
had no rain since December, and con-
sequently could not plant corn nor
cotton. II they make any in that sec
ton 1t is yet to be planted. South
Texas was forced to replant, and as
a consequence, the crop Is late with
much complaint Of boil weevil. In
my section they-the boil weevil-are
puncturing the squares on all early
cotton. Farmers told me Saturday
that on early planting they find three
outlook in Texas Is really bad.
May Raise Half Crops.
"T. c. Long, from Jackson, Tenn,
under date Of May 28th, writes in part
as follows: The outlook for cotton
crop in Texas Is extremely bad. The
entire crop was planted over, and 1t is
not yet up. Under very favorable
conditions we may raise half crop.
This morning mercury down to 40 de-
grees, and frost visible. You can draw
your own conclusions
These two letters are in keeping
with those from Mississippi, Arkan-
sas, Louisiana and Alabama South
Carolina, North Carolina and a por-
ton of Georgia seem to be the best
off, while the outlook in these states
Is certainly below anything like an
average crop. The public will bear In
mind that this is the 1st OF June.
And since the writing Of these letters
quoted torrential rains have covered
the entire cotton belt. We have been
struggling for three years to get the
situation in our hands. 1t seems as II
Providence has given US the opportu-
nifty to realize our hope. From the
present outlook and from the princi-
ples involved, 1t does seem as II the
farmers and merchants would refrain
from selling cotton for fall delivery at
a. price which neither the outlook Of
a crop nor the present price OF the
goods warrants. So far
as the Southern Cotton association in
its relation to the cotton Of the world
is concerned the majority Of us do not
propose to take advantage Of a cotton
famine and the disastrous scarcity of
cotton to force the price to unwarrant-
able heights; no more than we pro-
pose when seasons are propitious and
the supply overabundant to allow the
price to be disastrously depressed. AS
| have often said before, l want this
to be a square deal. I want our share
OF the profits that we are entitled to
in being the source Of supply for the
worlds fibre.
oranseburg In Line.
Yesterday l was at st. Matthews,
and found that their warehouse Is