Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-13
COTTON GOSSIP

NEW YORK, June 81 NJ. Ander-
son: The trading was rather active fol
| the first hour. Brokers representing the
uptown crowd and Wall Street were good
| buyers of the old and new crop which
was said to be short covering. The
selling was scattered coming mainly
| from Liverpool and the South. Specula-
tive element also sold.
Weather favora BILE, but crop news
mixed. Regardless of conditions. there
| Is steady demand for old crop which
Is the strength of the market. The
question now advanced by a great many
needed and from the way the old croI
Is being absorbed. it appears that the
worlds needs are more than many be-
lleve It to be. While there is a bearisf
bear side are timid about selling the mar
| ket short until they see further into the
sltuat ton
Look who's here. Friday IS, 1918,
II is said not a single boil weevil com
plant mas been heard of in Kingston
Ark, which is one of the worst boil
weevil territories in that State
According to information received
from Georgia. crop conditions over that
State as well as the Carolinas are gen
eraiiA favorable.
If McFadden is still short Of July, he
is NOT worrying about IT. through the
gossip in many conservative circles.
The United States Department Of Ag-
riculture is taking active measures ia
help farmers fight the boil weeyil in
Louisiana These take the form Of ad
vising them how best to get rid Of the
pest. A. a. Morrow, Of the Federal
demonstration work. calls upon the
farmers Of East Baton Rouge to take
immediate steps to eXteTminate the pest
or reduce the possibility Of injury. In a
circular addressed to the farmers Of that
parish he says, under date Of June s:
THE appearance of the boil weevil in
East Baton Rouge is no surprise and
sohuld cause no alarm. We have been
expecting IL even earlier. The farmer
that wants 10 make cotton under boil
weeVil conditions must make up his
mind to fight the weevils, first by gath
ering the WeeVll I'm the bud of the cot
ton and later by gathering forms OF
punctured squares. and destroy them by
burning. owing TO the fact that most
cotton is young and the weevil infesta-
ton heavy, owing 10 the hot days, the
pest can easily be found on top Of the
young cotton, and the work of picking II
of can be done Cheaply by children al
a small cost. Every weevil gathered
now is a saving of from so to Is squares
later With the present condition of the
crop and the good cultivation il has re-
ceived up 10 date with intense. late and
shallow cultivation, there is no reason
in the world why the farmers should
not make a better crop Of cotton TO the
acre than before the advent of the wee
vii with the old methods Of cultiva-
ton"
NEW ORLEANS. June 13.-Hayward
& Clark, The weather map Is very
favorable, showing fair and warmer
grrFH ra hsFf 9aIr do IN
South Texas. No rain except a little in
Northwest Texas. South Texas and a
few points in North Carolina. IndiCa,
tions are for cloudy in West and South
Texas. probably more there. but fair and
much warmer weather i'm East Texas,
Oklahoma. central and eastern States.
Spot revision: Strict middliug and
above sd higher. Rest unchanged
The New Orleans Times Democrat
says crop progress delaying temper
atures have revived the hullish claim.
repeatedly made throughout the plant
ing season. that the crop got a late
start. In any event. yesterdays cotton
market climbed without enCountering ef-
feCtive opposition, and the beaTish as
sertlOu that technical conditions alone
supply a basis If strength fell on unap
preCiative ears. As matter Of fact,
nobody. I'm professional circles AZ least,
believes the present cool weather has
actually damaged the cotton plant. but
there seems to he no reasonable ground
for doubt that low temperatures during
the past three or four days have caused
the crop as a whole to lose the progress
II would have made had the weather
been warm and favorable In this con
nectiOn, comparison between the weSfh-
er now and at this time in 1911 are par
tiCularly interesting. because large CROP
people are predicting a yield this year
fully as great as the monster yield of
1Q11-1gl2.
Almost without exception. yesterday
morning and the morning before the
Government central stations in the cot
ton belt reported maximum temperatures
lower than the minimum temperatures
reported on the same days in 1911
Meanwhile, the New York July position
continues TO hold the center of the stage
! The entire stock of cotton, CertiiCated
| and uncertificated, at New York is now
only 4G,70l The talent as a whole is
convinced so small a stock is entirely
INADEQUATE to protect the outstanding
short contracts in the NOrheru market
! The situation, however. Is made more
acute by the premium over New York
contracts at which actual cotton is sell
! ing i'm the South, and by the scarcity
| Of desirable grades, which fOreshadows q
keen trade demand for the early re-
ceipts. which, as a rule, are Of good
grade cotton.
Because Of this scarcity. the grades
above middling were marked up sc il
the New Orleans market Yesterday
SPOT COTTON MARKET.