The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-06-22
FIFTEEN-CENT COTTON.
Probabilities of an Average Crop
Have Been Reduced.

''O"a"li'iSS Oh an Average Crop
Have Been Reduced.
Farmers and cotton experts are
beginning already 10 figure on the
probable price OF cotton during 1he
new season and the best adNiCcs are
TO the effect that Is cents Will be
the prevailing figure for the sea
son on account of the prospective
shortage throughout the belt. In
TINS connection the following of in
terest appeared IN the late issue of
The manufacturers Record in the
form of special correspondence
from Galveston, Texas:
The American cotton crop will
hardly exceed 15,5OO,OO bales for
the 19l1-12 year, and 15-cent cot
ton may be figured on.
lhlS Is the opinion of Galveston
experts. In this connection il
might be stated that Galveston has
been devoting a good deal of atten-
ton to cotton facts for long num-
per OF years, and here are to be
found men who give us close and
intelligent study TO conditions and
prospects as any in the country.
In arriving at the conclusion
stated above note is taken OF the
fact that Louisiana's cotton crop
has declined from over one million
bales to about one quar-
ter through the ravages of the boil
weevil, and that the Mississippi
crop is also greatly affected by the
boil weevil. States farther east
will have the boil weevil with them
this year, and i'm the Carolina
drouth, which is very likely to de
crease the cotton totals, is now be
ing experienced. In Texas and Ok
l1lOmD tlprp sc - infiri.,,n,- - -,
In section generally comprised
west of line drawn north and
south from North Oklahoma through
Dallas to the Gulf. In this section
OF Western Texas there was y very
severe drouth during the last two
years, and while there have been
coplous rains this spring, and in
some parts of Texas cloud-bursts and
excessive moisture, yet on the whole
the section named was without soak
ing fall and winter rains For the
last week or ten days there has
been an exceedingly hot spell of
weather throughout this section.
and II will require timely and fire.
quent rains from now on to give the
cotton plant the moisture required
The banner cotton crop of Texas
was that of 1896, when off 9,O7G.-
900 acres 4,05O,O0O bales OF cot
ton We're raised. In 1910 there
were 1O,504, 200 acres in cotton.
with yield estimated at this time
or g. 1000 bales. The reports are
that the acreage this year is about
11,24O.0O0. Should the weather
conditions be ideally perfect. of
course Texas could raise 5000. 600
bales of cotton this year, but with
the lack of winter rains and abund-
ant moisture in the ground TO
draw from III case of protracted
orouth and hot weather, the eX-
pert S opinion is that the WELD in
Texas this year can hardly be ex-
pected to reach the figures of
1906
Taking the country over. it is
pointed out TO reach a 100000
pale crop. as some prophets have
Figured as a possibility, every cot
ton growing State would have to
give yield equal to the best that
State has ever produced in the
rast. With the possibilities of a
drouth in Texas and Oklahoma, with
the boil weevil active in Louisiana
and Mississippi and with drought
conditions in the CarolinaS, it is
considered here practically impossi-
bic for any of the states, even with
IHS Increased acreage winch the
South shows, to equal the record
crop as those states, which would be
necessary for any thing like 49,
100000 to be raised to be raised
this year.
Pointing out the demand for cot
ton as no reason why reduction
In price should occur in the event
OF large crop, The Record furth-
er says:
Even a 100000 of 15,OOO,OOO-
bale crop, if we should by any
probility have such an output
could easily be absorbed without
any necessity for a serious decline
in the price of the rare staple.