The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-09-21
SHORT COTTON CROP
sULLY SAYS IT IS THE WORST
IN FORTY YEARS.
He Thinks the Production Will B.


Requirements.
"The condition of the cotton crop
over the entire South is very bad,
1 think the worst that it has been in
the past twenty-three years, and 1
might further state in the past for
ty years, yet with two or three years
of bad cotton crops and high prices,
the farmers will be In the best con-
dition that they have ever been, r"
said Dan ]. Sully, the Cotton King, "
in an interview given out in Colum-
bia on Friday.
The Columbia correspondent Of
The News and Courier says Mr.. Sui
ly went to Columbia FOR the pur-
pose Of comforting with Commissioner
Watson concerning the more intel
ligent marketing Of the cotton crop.
Data and, statistics were secured from
the commissioner in reference to
European grading, questions involved
in expectation and baling.
A further conference will be held
on September 2S in Washington,
when John Hays Hammond and
other prominent men will be present.
When seen, Mr.. Sully talked very
freely, discussing the general con-
ditions of the cotton in the South and
the work that his agents were ac-
complishing toward the materializ-
alton of a plan for more intelligent
way of marketing the South's great
est product.
When asked what the price of cot
ton would be, he said: ooh, that
depends on certain conditions, but it
will be very high, for the consumer
will want about thirteen million bales
of cotton, and the yield will be only
about eleven million bales, produced
on about thirty-two million acres Of
land"
He stated that he had a number
Of agents at work in the West, and
that the crop was very poor there
on account of the excessive heat and
lack of rains.
II notice in travelling through
Georgia and South Carolina" said
Mr.. Sully, that the farmers are
planting more corn than ever, and
out of Augusta I saw some corn that
would rival picture I saw in one
of the magazines the other day of
some two-story corn from Kansas,
and in my opinion the corn crop
will bring good prices this year"
"Mr. Sully," said one of the news
paper men, do you not believe that
with a short cotton crop, the farm
ers will be in better condition than
at the PRESENT." 'Why, Of course, .
replied the Cotton King, "prices are
bound to go up and should the farm
ers of the South get fifteen and six
teen cents for their cotton for the
next two or three years, they would
be kings among us.
A very high compliment was paid
to Commissioner Watson. A ques-
tion concerning the cotton crop in
South Carolina was asked the COM
missioner by one of the reporters,
and Mr.. Sully, placing his hand on
the commissioners arm, said: "This
mans work is being recognized all
over the world"
Mr.. L. A. Green, of Greenville, the
inventor of the new cotton grader,
was a visitor with Mr.. Sully. Mr..
Green gave very interesting ac-
count Of what prompted him to in
vent the grader. He stated that
about fifteen years ago he was en-
gagged in the cotton buying business
at Greer, one of the best known cot
ton markets in the Piedmont Sec
tion of the State, and that the house
for which he worked frequently call
ed him down on account of his grad
ing. He stated that these occur
RANGES put him to thinking, and he
decided that there was better way
of grading cotton, so he set to work
to invent an instrument for the pur-