The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-11-16
IIDUsTR|IL G0AgAFss N
REPORT on TEXAS CROPS
ssvs TWO YEARS DEBTS WILL.
usyr pErx PAM WITH ONE
YEARS CROPS.
Suggests that Unless Active DIVERSE
fcasion Campaign il Wagea
Cotton Acreage VIII Ne
Increased.

nnhlisners and commercial clubs,
from every county in the state.
based on agricultural conditions as
OF November /, has been received
aud tabulated by the Texas INDUS
trial Congress. The result shows
situation as gratifying as 1t IS
amazing.
without a market for cotton las,
year. the farmer was unable 10 pay
his debts and the 1915 cotton crop
had to be financed. Rigid retrench-
ment was necessary in all lines oil
business and In farming most OF
all. vet within twelve months az
ricultural conditions in the state
are at least as good as If 1914 ana
1915 Rad been average years.
Reports from practically all oil
the farming counties show that TINS
years cotton crop was produced on
an extension OF credit ranging from
twenty to eighty per cent, and an
average OF sixty per cent OF the
amount given in normal years.
About sixty Ave per cent of a smaii
crop OF cotton. below the average IN
quality, has been marketed al
fair price. Good crops of grain and
forage crops have been produced.
The farmers in approximately one
fourth OF the counties have paid
their Indebtedness for 1al4 and
1915 and have a general small sur
plus TO their credit in the banks
in one-half the counties they have
met their obligations for this year
and last year and are about even
In the remaining one-fourrh OF the
counties they are still somewhat De-
hind. All of the counties that haze
reported west OF a line running
from Wichita Falls To Eagle Pass,
and about dozen counties lying
south and east OF such q line, are
in the clear. The sounties that
bore the bruut OF the great storm IN
August and these in several centefs
of boll-weevil activity have not
caught up.
Most OF the counties have grown
enough feed-stuif for year, many
of them have produced enough for
two years, and few have a three
years supply The stofm-swept
counties OF the Coastal plain are
almost the only ones that Will have
to buy feed outside Of their own
borders. the amount required rang
ing from fifteen to seventy per cent
of years supply
The damage from the boll-weevil
has been generally a heavy one run
ming as high as seventy-fve per
cent in one or two counties Be-
cause Of these rayages, and late
ness in maturing, the top cotton
crop is not worth considering.
Notwithstanding the general dam
age to the corn crop from the
ehinch bug the states average is
nearly twenty-five bushels per
acre This years acreage OF wheat
and oats. which was above the nor
nal, viii be reduced. but VIII ex-
coed the yearly average. This is
due 10 dry weather which has been
unfavorable for fall planting aud
the present price OF cotton. aud viii
result in an Increased acreage OF
cotton. unless the campaign for di-
yersiiied farming is vigorously con
tinued
Sudan grass, amounting to but an
linconsiderabIe part Of the great hay
production OF this year was grown.
only III scattered patches, and the
plains counties alone report crops
| of kaffir. milo and feterita exceeding
their own requirements a great
peanut crop has been produced and
twenty per cent Of il has been
thrsshed: that which cannot be
marketed is being baled for winter
feeding
An Increased volume of the cat
tle business is shown which will be
from ten 70 twenty-five per cent
more profitable than the average
years production. Practically ali
counties report an increased hog
production, some OF them great
Increase. Hog cholera, however, is
more wide spread than heretofore
aud IN SOME places IS causing heavy
loss.
The reports indicate a slow but
steady progress in the construction
OF silos
That the farmer Of Texas have.
IN one year. with restricted credit.
discharged the debts of two years
aud provided reed Tor a year ahead
O. marked evidence 81 the success oil