Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-18
COT TON GROWERS
TO REAP PROFITS
SMALL CROP MEANS FORTUNE
TO MANY IN DIXIE
LAND.
STATES SHOW SHORT
AGE OF 100000 BALES
TITS SAID.

| Memphis, Tenn, Aug. 12.-With a
:s.oit clop-the shortest in ten years
-aing cotton is still king south of
/ the Mason and Dixon line, and the
planters, seeming prosperity in every
breeze, look forward to a bonanza
year.
| With the west proud of its gigantic
output this year of wheat and corn,
the south, lacking bumper crop, ex-
/ poets to share just as heavily in the
prosperity of the harvest moon.
It's the price that does it. Fifteen
cent cotton is in sight for this year,
and 15-cent cotton spells gold.
| 1t used to be that the south got only
5 cents a pound for it's cotton These
were the dark days for the southern
planter-when each years crop was
mortgaged before it was planted, End
when a planter counted himself lucky
! if he broke even after a season of
bitter work and labor.
But the world was learning more
and more to use cotton. And the
United States had a practical monop-
oily on the raising of it. The demand
rose,the price rose, and a new day
set in for for the south
With 1O-cent cotton the south coun-
! try paid its mortgages, Cancelled it's
idehts, began to put money in the
bank Good times had come.
| With 15-cent cotton the south coun-
try will be swept UP to new heights
of prosperity. What matter the short
crop? That but helps the price climb.
It's the law of supply and demand
The south can raise 100000
bales at Is cents pound much more
proftably than 100000 bales at 10
cents a pound.
| The government report on July Is
showed the condition of the crop to be
71.9 per cent. as compared with the
June report of "a per cent, and the
/ July, 1908, report of SO per cent The
government gathers its statistics
| from every portion of the cotton re-
gion, and it's report is usually regard
ed as being as near the truth as it is
possible for human agencies to come.
Texas, the greatest cotton produc-
ing state in the country, usually
sends about 100000 bales to mar
ket, but long droughts have killed and
retarded the growing cotton this sum-
mer to such an extent it is estimated
that Texas will fall short of her usual
bumper crop by 100000 bales.
While drouth has been warning
against king cotton on the plains of
Texas, the Mississippi delta, the
richest spot in America, has been Wis
med at different times with excessive
rains and turbulent floods, which have
drowned the cotton lands and made
replanting necessity.
Cotton is planted early in the
spring and grows as fast as corn.
It is a hardy plant and needs only
plenty of rain and warm sun. The
only cultivation necessary is to keep
the weeds from choking out the
young cotton plants.
The frequent rains in the delta this
spring made it impossible to keep the
weeds out of the cotton, and it Is es.
timated much acreage was abandoned
on this account. Lately in this same
region planters have experienced a
lack of rain, just when the growing
plants need it most.
Cotton experts estimate this years
crop at 100000 bales unless favor
able weather during the remainder of
the summer improves the condition
of the crop far beyond expectations
This will be something like 100000
bales short of last years crop, which
amounted to nearly 100000 bales.
But there is no sorrow and wailing
in Dixie. It is predicted that the price
may go to 5 cents per pound. Last
years crop averaged between ! and
10 cents.
Should cotton go to Is cents a
pound this winter it will bring back
to- the south about sS00,000,0Oo, quite
tidy sum for thirteen states. At the
present time it is estimated that
5000, 100000 has been loaned on the
growing crop.
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