The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1911-02-10
GROW LONG STAPLE COTTON
Sufficient Quantity of That Variety
Not Grown to Induce Buyers to
Search for 1t.

Much has been said about the grow
ing and selling of what is known as
long staple cotton. such as that pro
duced in Red River and neighboring
counties. Indeed the superior price
paid for this cotton, from two cents to
1914 cents over that for ordinary
length staple. has during the last few
years aroused a good deal of interest
among cotton growers throughout the
entire country. The News has chron-
icled from time to time the develop
ment of the long staple cotton indus
try, and has at the same time taken
occasion to emphasize the fact that
the extraordinary prices received for
1t at Clarksville and other towns In
the long staple country were due in
great measure, If not entirely, to the
fact that so much of this variety OF
cotton was produced there it made 1t
worth while for the mills making
specially Of manufacturing goods re-
curing this cotton to send their buy
ers to secure it. thus establishing a
splendid market for it. Without mar
duction of anything, and the News
has taken occasion more than once
to call attention to this fact, for the
reason that we have had complaints
from isolated producers of long staple
cotton to the effect that the complain
ants had produced crops of 1t but
were unable to dispose OF 1t at remun-
rnt iva nrtn m foo hnt
no more and In some instances less
than for the ordinary staple. These
complaints were due to the cause
noted above--not sufficient of the
staple produced In the country ada
cent to the market place of the
grower to induce the coming Of
long staple buyers.
We wish here and now to again
emphasize the necessity of home
market for long staple cotton in or
der to receive satisfactory price
for it. In other words there has to
be a demand before there is salts
factory price for the article. 1t re-
quires not only one grower but num-
Ter Of them to produce a sufficient
amount of long Staple to constitute
a regular and remunerative market
for 1t in a given community. In this
connection 1t may be said that there
ia really limited and more or less
uncertain demand for the longest sta
pie cotton. 1t should be remarked,
too, that 1t is for this particular kind
that sensational prices are paid. There
fore there are many who evidently
have the idea that all long staple cot
ton sells for the big prices. which is
not the case The News Is informed
that there Is a great demand for sta
pie ranging from one and one-eighth
to one and three-sixteenths inches,
but that the premium for this Is only
one or two cents above the ordinary
staple except in such years as this
and 1906. From this 1t would seem
to be the part of wisdom In many
cases to grow this long staple In pref
erence as a regular crop to that of
the staple of extreme length, since
added to the facts above set forth the
longer staple does not produce so pro
ILLEGALLY as the regular staple, and
has to be picked clean and ginned by
experts. 1t Is for the purpose of ma
king known to the grower who has
never produced long staple cotton the
conditions which he is likely to meet
II he undertakes It's production in
locality remote from an established
long staple market that this is writ
ten.-Dallas News.