Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
COTTON GOSSIP

NEW YORK. Jan. 22.-Riordan bought
5000 bales of May on the call PARROT
sold him $500 The selling was rather
general, while the buying was attributed
Mitchell and Hentz continued the best
buyers on and after the call.
The market looks pretty well evened
I'D, pending the Census report to-mor-
row" observed a conservative operator.
Spot brokers say $500 bales were sold
yesterday after hours. Good inquiry
this morning, promising further bust
ness. Interior points already report de-
mand at full prices
Advices from the Eastern States are
that stocks are about the same as last
year, while there is good demand for
practically ali grades at the highest
ports mat demand continues good tax
ports that demand continues good, TAX
ing in stains as we'll as the white goods.
LAGRANGE, Ga, reports state that there
is a scarcity of white cotton in that
territory.
According to reports received from the
South exporters are outbidding Ameri-
can mills for cotton. This attracted con-
siderable ie attention as it disclosed
Atlanta, Ga. wired E. F. Hutton &
! Co.: Good demand; offerings light;
| spot basis extremely high and advanc-
ing
! The cotton crop now seems to be es-
| tablished in value as next in order after
| corn says recent issue of The
! Farmers Bulletin. THE lint of this
crop in 1913, at the price of December |,
| had an estimated value of $79S, 600 600,
and this was not equaled in any former
year. 1t is 141s per cent above the av-
erage of the preceding five years. The
| estimated number of bales of 500 pounds
| gross weight in this crop is 1857 600;
| consequently this crop has been exceed
| ed in quantity by the crops of 1911 and
1912. II the estimated value of the
cotton seed is added to that of lint, the
| total farm value of this crop amounts
to $945,oOo 900, an increase of Is per
cent over the average of the previous
| nVe years. Texas usua ly produces from
| one-fourth to one-third the cotton crop
of the United States. The cotton crop
| 1901, 900 acres. it is estimated, an in
crease of per cent over 1912"
We'll Bros. have compiled data col
| lected by. them of stocks of cotton at
uncounted towns. which report a total
of 49,1SS bales, against 4S,601 bales last
| year and 60 los bales two years ago
on January the Atlantic Compress
| Company taking the actual stocks in
| congresses they control and actual
| stocks in towns at which congresses
are located and estimating the stocks
on plantations and In towns tributary
10 their compress centers, made the
| combined stocks 696, 1862 this year
against 745,124 last year. In the terri
| tory included in this report are Eufaula,
Montgomery, Opelika, Troy and Dothan,
Ala, and Americas, Athens, Atlanta,
| Augusta, Fitzgerald Macon, Millen, Sa-
vannah. Townsville. Toccoa, Albany.
Co umbus, Cordele and Dawson, Ga,
and Pensacola, Fla.
NEW ORLEANS. Jan. Hayward
IL Clark: The weather map shows fair
over the Western States, partly cloudy
to fair over the eastern half of the belt;
no precipitation, except in Florida
Mike Thomas wires from Dallas, Tex:
colonel Allison, eX-president of the
Cotton Seed Crushers Association, says
in to-days Dallas News:
The people should realize that there
Is not a supply of good cotton seed in
| by rain during the picking season,
though it can not be ascertained by in
spection which are the good seed and
which are the bad. The oil mill men
VINO have heretofore been accustomed
| to save the best seed to furnish the
| farmers for planting at normal cost
| TINS esaSon rave no good seed that they
| can recommend.
| Inc situation is to my mind a
/ grave one. so much so that have taken
| upon myself TO write Mr.. Cone State
! Commissioner of Agriculture. calling his
| attention TO it and suggesting that his
| department now has opportunity to
| do the farmers in the State a large and
| real service by ascertaining where good
| seed may be had and notifying the
| planters.
- The situation is as bad in Okla
| homa. Louisiana and Arkansas, as dam
aged seed can not produce vigorous
| plants, nor good yield of cotton"