Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-10
With Yield 100000 Bales Under 1914, Total Value
 Goes Far Ahead.
FARMERS GET 12 CTS.
Plans Already Being Made in Lone Star State to Keep Acreage Within Reason Next Year. and Main.
 tain Value.

Austin, Tex, Oct. 9.-Many thou- | sand bales of cotton that were pur- chased by Individuals last year in l Texas as result of the buy -a-bale" movemsnt, have become marketed | recently at prices ranging around IF cents pound. Farmers are dispcs- ing of this seasons crop as fast as l it is picked and the movement to mar | ket is of greater volume than for l several years during any correspond | ing period.
 While prospects for a large "top" | or late crop are not altogether favor able good yield of this kind is al- | ready assured in the more southern l part of the state. In central and 1 northern Texas the ravages of the l boil weevil have almost precluded the possibility of much of "top" crop, ! even if q killing frost should hold off 1 fer another two or three weeks.
 It is fairly certain that the bulk of l the Texas crop will be sold at or | above 12 cents a pound, which, to- gether wi3h the great increase in the l price of cottonseed, brings. to the l farmers revenua bale that is prac- | tically double that which the received | year age. ,Cotton-seed is selling for ] $25 and $3O ton, while last year the price ranged from $15fio SIS per, ton. Crop Is. Less. @a.,ts Last year the bulk of the 4,200,000- bale crop of Texas was sols! at an average prices of about $40. d bale; including the seed, while this yer the estimated $3,50e, ,000-bale crop of! the obh 90-f q 1 bale, including the seed. 1 In other words last years crop brought a total revenue of approxi- mately $16S,000,O00, while that of this year will have brought tatal return of about $225,000,000. This leaves a gain of approximately $91,Ooo,000 in
 revenue from the crop over that which was obtained last year.
 Farmers and cotton men generally are locking fosward to a continuation of high prices for cotton and cotton l sesd for several years to come, ir- | respective of when the European war may end. The cnly thing that can prevent this, they say, is over-produc-
 ton. The campaign to hold the acre age down to what may be considered
 q proper level to meet the prospective
 demand for the staple will be revived
 in ample time to, Have an effect on
 next years crop, it is stated.
 Greater Acreage Some Places.
 It is now apparent, however, that the efforts in that direction last year fell far snort of earlier expectations.
 While in some cotton growing com munities the acreage reduction
 amounted to 10 to 15 per cent, there
 were considerable increases of acre
 age in many other localities, particul-
 arly in the western part of the state,
 where much raw ranch land had been
 placed in cultivation during the las,
 few years.
 It is thought that the boil weevil,
 which. after few years of compara-
 lively little activity, made their ap-
 paarance in destructive numbers over
 a wide area of the cotton belt few weeks ago. will deter many farmers
 from planting too largely cf cotton next season. The welevil visitation
 followed immediately the Galveston
 storm, the high wind carrying the in
 sects far into the interior of the state.