The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-01-15

on uoes lhe clouds on the day o.
picnic There isn't a shower ir
the South of which she doesn't keer
record. There isn't a place in any
one OF the southern states of which
she cannot tell you the amount Of rain.
iail any day, any week or any month
IN the whole cotton year. She keeps
aetalled records in regard to tempera.
lure. She Keeps track of the acreage
10 cotton in every county in the South.
land' She watches everything in the
way OF improvement in plantation
WORK just as she does the rayages Of
ene DOH Weevil and the army worm
one knows the amount OF fertilizer
tnat is purchased each spring and over.
"nat section it is distributed
She is conservative. She knows.
her correspondents are honest and
wen, lntentioned. Probably no one
IN the cotton world ever had q bettor
lot. But she knows, as eyeryona1
knows who has had anything to al
wiz
WIN agricultural correspondents, thai
the vision of the reporter is colore1
' II 515ps shse F ys sA Sis BSshso,2
She has to gauge the human element,
as well as the elements of nature in
her calculations. She takes her e.50o
reports and studies them, putting
down figures and comparing them with
others that she has already prepared.
lhen she has to consider these figures
IN the light of the acreage, the pre-
equation, the amount Of fertilizer and
the various other things that enter |
INTO the making of the cotton crop.
With all her figures and all her infor.
nation in hand she has to make her
own deductions based upon her own
special reasoning and her individual
Judgment.
Twelve times year she has to do
lnls. She sends out one report in
May, two in June, two in July two in
august two in September, one in Oc-
.ooer, one in November and one in
december. She gets out her renort
rom three to five days in advance of
mat OF the United States government
sometimes the government statisti.
'iahs nave Numbered egregiously
Mss Giles, working alone, has been
1ent more times than has the agri.
'aiturai department with all its faci,i.
les. In 1905 her reputation was es.
aoiished throughout the world BY rea.
On OF the verification Of her predic.
IONS by the outturn of the CROP She
Immediately became a market factor
'lnce then the Giles report is watched
Or with deep interest. She has IN On
0 extremes to safeguard it from being
laoe public before her subscribers re-.
eve II and before they can take
dvantage of its information.
Only Fourteen Subscribers.
she limits her subscribers n tvo,ro
ersons in the United States and two
i lno'a: One Of her foreign sub.
ORDERS is in Bombay and the other in
'ramsum. TO the foreign subscrib.
% ,he report is cabled. To her
subscribers the report is de.
Vered at 9:30 a. m. on the dav II :.
sued. All get the report at the sauna &
ihe' lneir representatives meeting at
.ss TILES Office at that hour and 70. c
''v,ns Inc sealed paper from her
mus She has a secondary service, q
nlch is sent by mail to five subscrib' j
.. 1nis IS simply her regular report
All sorts of subterfuges are resorted
oy persons who want to get Miss
les opinion regarding cotton. So II
r as possible she secludes herself, I,
~ won't find her name in the tele. ii
one directory. She had it taken ont a
cause so many men called hor nm 2
d by adroit questioning endeavored Il
get some idea from her regarding a,
crop. To her subscribers bor re, =,
fts may be of great value at times n
=, grave I'VE doubt as to the crop, if kept g,
IN the knowledge of others, " "
Mss Giles is the only woman who II
d cotton crop forecaster or stats. II.
Ian. another woman entered the "
d. Dut didn't last, She had been in 40
agricultural department and was w,
nnv II
'dway A'""~ =,
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