Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-27
AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT

Agriculture this week 1t is preparing to
get out its annual cotton report This
year 1t is to be on the acreage and con-
| dition of cotton in the United States. and
will be issued July l.
On that day the whole bureau is lock-
ed up. telephones are disconnected and
| the bureau is cut off from communica
ton with the outside world until about =
o'clock. when the report is officially
gwen out. No one is allowed to go in or
out the bureau. The same state of af
| fairs Is to prevail July 8. when reports
on corn. wheat. oats. barley. rye. pota-
| toes, tobacco. rice. apples and hay are
| given to the country.
The interest in the cotton report is in
tense. 1t Is matter of history how
several years ago speculation on the cot
| ton market was Influenced by the schem-
Ing of a certain member of the bureau.
who. it Is alleged, on the day the cotton
i report was to be given out, stood at the
window and signaled the figures to an
accomplice out on the lawn. This latter
Individual having the valuable nforma-
ton several hours in advance of the
rest of the country, was enabled to make
a big haul in the market
The scheme of locking the bureau up
was then put into effect. The object is
to give all the people of the country an
equal chance at the valuable reports. and
| to keep them from being used by I'M
principled SPECTATORS.
Cotton is the principal crop of the
| southern states, the United States pro-
ducing three-fifths of the cotton crop of
the world. according to officials in the
bureau of statistics, where they know
| about these matters The monthly re-
ports of the Department of Agriculture
are eagerly looked forward to by the
farmers and cultivators of the entire
country. and the cotton report is espe-
cially appreciated. it is stated.
The price of cotton throughout the en-
tire world is largely governed by the
size Of the American crop, and there
fore, the bureaus estimate (Which Is
generally looked upon as being au-
| thority), of the number of acres planted
to this crop and its condition. is mat
| ter of vital concern to the southern
| farmer and to the entire south.
| So intense is this interest that it has
been the practice of the Liverpool Cot
ton Exchange, the marketing place of the
o'clock at night on the evening of July
1 to receive this information.
The extent and importance of this in
terest in distant England said one Off
cial Of the bureau of statistics. recently,
speaking of the cotton industry. rests
upon the fact that the vast populations
i of her manufacturing towns are depend
ent upon the supply Of American cotton
to keep the looms busy. An actual or
relative failure of the American cotton
Il crop would mean idle looms over many
square miles of factory space in Man
chester and other towns with the ac-
companying idle hands and hungry
mouths.
| Reports from the census bureau place
the 1918 cotton crop as the largest tho
United States has ever grown with the
exception of that of 1911.
i At the same time the estimate of the
i total value of the crop shows it was the
most valuable ever produced, 1t being
worth s., O43, 76O,OOO.
The quantity of cotton ginned from the
1 1913 crop: counting round as half bales
and excluding linters. was 1885, 81
running bales, or 14,156. 1853 bales of SOC
pounds gross weight. Cotton seed pro-
duced was 100000 tons. Of which A.
4 579, sos tons were crushed.
DIR. Frederick W. True, assistant secre-
! tary of the Smithsonian Institution. who
| died Thursday. was the brother Of DR..
Alfred Charles True, director of expert
mental stations of the Department of
| Agriculture.
DR.. Beverly 7. Galloway. assistant sec
rotary of Agriculture, who leaves the de-
| partment early next month to become
| dean Of the New York State College of
Agriculture. was rendered a farewell re-
ception Friday night by the bureau chiefs
of the department. 1t was entirely an
|
| ton Of the following committee: Henry
| 8. Graves, chief forester; c. S. Marvin,
| chief of the weather bureau and Logan
w. Page of the division of roads.
DR.. Galloway has been connected with
| the department since 1857. first as assist
ant pathologist In the section devoted to
| nnycology and later, in 1900, as first chief
| of the then new bureau of plant industry
! He held this position until his appoint
ment as assistant secretary in 1918.
The temporary appointment of Miss
Mary " George. stenographer in the
chief clerks office. was extended for
three months, it is announced.
! George K. Holmes of the bureau of sta
tistics has just moved to his summer
home in Vienna, Va.
Miss H. r. Smedes stenographer in
the bureau, is away on her annual leave
r. L. Nixon of the Office of markets re-
| turned to Washington Sunday after
ten-week trip investigating the cotton
| warehouse conditions throughout the
state Of Georgia
Miss Arab L. Mcconnell of North va
kima. Wash. reported Monday for duty
! as stenographer in the ONCE of markets
j. L. Merrill. assistant chemist. expects
| to leave Monday for Lambertsville. \.
j.. in connection with field tests in A
paper mill at that place.
Winfield Scott Cline of the division of
publications and Bristow Adams of the
forest service left THURSDAY for Denver
on business connected with the DEPART
ment.
Loring w. Beeson. field photographer
OF the division of publications. has lust
returned from an extended visit through
Indiana and Ohio taking photographs OF
the preparation of anti-hog-cholera Sc
rum and its application to the hogs He
, made about 100 fine pictures. il is stated
which will be used in connection with
lectures.
Miss Rose A. Hayes, a clerk of the di-
vision of publications. who has been Sc
riously Ill fro some time at her home in
the Hillside, is now commissioning at At
lantic City.
Miss Annie Thyer, clerk in the divi-
sion OF publications. has been on the sick
OF puol1cations are also reported i'll: Mrs
Ella ID. Moore. who is to return to her
chalr July !, after severe illness of two
months duration: Mrs. Philena NJ. Bane
who Is i'll at her home in Coal Center,
Pa. and Mrs. NJ. NJ. kammerer. who is
quite i'll at her home in this city.
The bureau of animal industry an
nounces the appointment of William H