The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-07-21
THE GROWING COTTON
A Review of the Crop Conditions
and the Weather.
TEXAS AND GEORGIA STATES

Are the Only Ones That Promise
PrOdu@ion Equal to That of last
Year. Heavy Rains Have Done
"reat Damage Over a Large Part
OF the Cotton Belt.
DALLAS, Tex.-Cotton and Cotton
vi News says: The average reader
OF the daily papers CLEANS but a con-
fused conception of crop conditions
throughout the cotton belt. This il
natural, since want of time prevenH
classification of weather and crop ra
ports and the average reader gathers
from the dispatches a tangled array
OF local reports-some good, some
bad and others Indifferent.
With a view to presenting a CON.
densed statement of general condi-
tions as reflected in the latest and
most reliable reports from the whole
held of cotton production Cotton and
Cotton Oil News offers here a sum-
mary of the present conditions of the
crop, which summary is believed to
be conservative and reasonably ac-
curate
In the first place, the rainfall in
the past ten days has been very irreg-
u!arIy distributed, resulting in very
inherent conditions in localities and
sections even in the same state.
temperatures have been fairE
seasonable though somewhat high
yet not so severe as to work injury
TO any great extent. The precipita-
ton in Texas has been very irregu-
lar and unevenly distributed. In
some parts of the state the fall has
been excessive, especially along fha
coast in the northwestern counties
put even here it was very irregular.
Ralns, however, have visited MANY
Iocal1tles where drouth conditions
mad prevailed, and in the state as
a whole these partial rains have re-
suited in improving the conditions
ana the general outlook very ma
terially.
In Oklahoma the precipitation has
been below the general average in
other states, but the last rain, June
Z9th, was more general and was of
marked benefit.
In Louisiana, Mississippi, Alaba-
ma and in the northern counties of
Georgia and in the Carolinas contin-
uous and heavy rains have interfered
largely with cultivation while favor
ing the increase and ravages of in
sect pests.
In the southeastern portions of the
belt the seasons have been more fla
vorable and the crops are conse-
quently more advanced and more
promising. The precipitation in the
several districts the past two weeks
by daily averages is given as follows:
Galveston, 1870 inch; Oklahoma.
l.42; Little Rock, 2.52; Memphis,
2:Sl; Augusta, S.69 Atlanta, 2.26;
Charleston, 5.31; Wilmington, 3.43:
Mobile, 3.83; Montgomery, PA.
New Orleans, 1877; Vicksburg. 3.56.
Taking the whole belt in review
the central and northeastern sections
nave lost ground; the southeastern
section has made material advance
IN condition, the average for the
whole belt being decline of several
points. Where the rainfall has been
much land put in cotton
Will be abandoned, thus adding to the
decrease in acreage as reported by
the government bureau. The wealth
er from this time will determine the
yield, and it is too early yet to at
tempt any forecast of the size of the
crop.
Texas produces about 80 per cent.
OF the crop, and while conditions in
this state have greatly improved the
history of crops in Texas does not
furnish a basis for roseate hopes, for
that history teaches that good crops
rarely follow dry winters in this,
state. Winter rains seem essential
to the storage moisture in the soil to
enable the plant to resist the sum-
mer heat and drouth. However, Tex
as from present indications will like
ly make as much or more cotton than
last year.