Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-07-02
Arkansas Seventh In Cotton States.

Arkansas Seventh In Cotton States.
| production, received at the Board of
Trade, from the Bureau of the Census,
| the total cotton crop of the United
| States for 1907, on a basis of 500
pound bales, was 11,375,461 against
13,595,49S in 1906, and 10,S04,556 in
1905. In this production Arkansas
was represented by 770,214 bales. This
| included running bales, counting round
as half bales, and including linters.
Arkansas ranked seventh in the cotton
producing states.
The figures for the United States, as
| finally revised for the crop of 1907,
including linters and counting round
as half bales, show total of 1925,
1872 bales, as compared with 13,395,256
bales for 1906. The 1907 crop is g.
220,037 bales, or 1853 per cent less
than 1906, and 570,905 more, or per
cent, greater than the crop of 1905.
Of the total production in 1907, the
territory west of the Mississippi river
contributed 4,769,609 bales, or AZ per
cent. The condition in 1906 was the
reverse, as 53.2 per cent of the crop
was grown west of the Mississippi
and 1873 per cent east of it. In 1905,
however, the proportions were about
the same as 1907
Texas, which has held first rank
among the states in the cotton pro
duction since 1899, showed the great
est decrease in production, reporting
falling OF of 14.9 per cent, as COM
pared with 1906, and producing only
20.S per cent of the total for the coun-
try, as compared with 31.5 per cent
in 1906.
Next to Texas the states showing
the greatest losses are Louisiana and
Arkansas. Arkansas loss was about
one-ifth.
The boil weevil appeared last sea-
son in more or less destructive num-
bers over considerable areas in Texas,
Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma
and in several counties in Mississippi,
Especially noteworthy in this con-
nection," says the bulletin, 'are the
results of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, proving that
through a more careful selection of
planting seed and better methods of
cultivation, the ravages of the insect
can be controlled until the bottom
and middle portions of the maturing
plants are out of danger. The cot
ton plant can be bred so as to throw
nearly all of it's life and force into
the lower and middle portions of the
plant and the maturity of the crop
can be fastened by the use of COM
mercial fertilizers and methods of cul-
tivation so as to develop a large per
centage of the bolls before the wee
wills have multiplied so as to damage
the crop materially"
The following table shows the total
number of bales ginned, counting
round as half bales, in Arkansas dur
ing 1907 according to counties:
Arkansas county $3.50 bales, Ash
ley 22,32S, Baxter 1929, Boone 1893,
Bradley 4,337, Calhoun 1868, Chicot
25,24O, Clark $751; Clay 9,6SS, Gle
burne 3,O11, Cleveland 6,96S, Column
bia 17,243, Crittenden 27,545, Conway
14,403. Craighead 1857. Crawford A.,
73S, Cross SPAS, Dallas 1897, Desha
1904, Drew 1885, Faulkner 1929,
Franklin II 500, Fulton, 2,494, Garland
1875, Grant, 2,439, Greene 6,416, Hemp
stead 16,03S, Hot Spring 4,443, How
ard 9255, independence 1870, lizard
1872, Jackson 1885, Jefferson 35,203,
Johnson 9,207, Lafayette 1924, Law
renee 12,90S, Lee 21,411, Lincoln 49,
3O1, Little River 1O,602, Logan $4,000
Lonoke 27,540, Marion 1851, Miller
5 1893. Mississippi 2S,057, Monroe 49,
121. Montgomery 1855, Nevada 1895,
Newton 351, Ouachita S,4S2, Perry
1852. Phillips 25,219, Pike AL, Poin-
sett 1859, Polk 2,547, Pope 1888,
Prairie 1857, Pulaski 1880, Randolph
6.O51, ST Francis 22,564, Saline 1922,
Scott 1859, Searcy 1876, Sebastian
1854, Sewer 1918, Sharp 2,706, Stone
l1.175, Union 10,137, Van Buren, 4,2S6,
White 1922, Woodruff 1861 Yell,
17,723.
This gives total of 751,951 bales
of cotton, exclusive of linters, ginn -
in Arkansas during 1907
Sixty-eight cars of strawberries were
shipped this season from Judsonia.
About Is cars of Irish potatoes have
been shipped and at least eight or ten
more cars will be shipped during the
next 10 days, Several cars of toma-
toes and blackberries were shipped
last week.
The peach crop is very good, but
small part of the crop will be shipped,
as most of the growers will can their
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