Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-07-26
CONDITIONS IN TEXAS.
Rain Needed. Cotton Gives
Promise of Good Yield. Sat-
isfactory Prices Expect
ed in Texas.

Dear Advertiser: I will write to
let some of my friends know what
has become of me. Uncle Iv seems
to thinka I have either run
away or crawled into an alligator
hole. 1 am like ne is. ] am getting
too old to run and to find an alliga-
tor hole l would have to go too
near the Mexicans. So I will stay
where l am and if it comes to a
fight or run I believe I could put
up better fight than race. I have
seen the time when it was necessary
l could make as good a run as the
best of them. Uncle Iv says he was
seventy-two years old the tenth of
June. was seventy two years old
the seventh of last December, but
the description he gave of himself
l am not as, old as be is. 1 see as
well as I ever did after an object
gets three or four feet from me. I
can see the stand pipe at the water
works at Hubbard city with nv
naked eyes and that is twenty miles.
That may be hard to believe but
when any of you see ]. G. Morgan
of Parksville ask him if it is not
so. When he was out here I carried
him to Milford and from Brandon
/ showed him the standpipe at
Hubbard 20 miles, the stand pipe
at Frost 10 miles and the Female
college at Milford all from one
point and it was not from a high
hill either. A fellow can see all
around him here and is not hemmed
by trees.
will try and answer Mr.. White.
He wanted me to tell about the
crops. Well, we are beginning to
need rain, the last we had was about
the fifteenth of June. The corn will
not be as heavy as it would have
been if we could have had rain two
weeks ago but I think it averages
forty-fve or fifty bushels to the acre
and some of it may make little
more. The cotton is doing very
well .yetjbut4it Willenossbe very longs
before it will begin to bloom up
near the top. The ground in the
middles is cracking open now. But
to tell the the truth about the cot
ton you can never tell what it is
going to do. 1t may look like it
will make bale to the acre and you
may not get more than fourth and
then it may look like it will not
make that much and you may make
from three. fourths to bale it all
depends on the seasons from now
on. One year the boil worms cut
everything off of the stalk and on
the fifteenth of September it would
not average more than two or three
bolls to the stalk and it made three
quarters of bale by the last of Oc-
tober.
The talk out here about the price
of cotton this fall is that it may
go to fifteen or twenty cents pound
and cotton seed will be worth from
fifty to sixty dollars per ton. Some
were trying some time ago to aver
age cotton at thirteen cents and
seed at fifty dollars. If cotton and
seed get that high from the outlook
now nearly everybody will be riding
in automobiles.
There are now sixteen hundred
and ninety two autos and. motor
cycles in this county and they ex-
pect another car load in Hillsboro
this week.
There will be two gins in Bran
/ don, one of them burned down
in February. They are going to re.
build and put in four eighty saw
stand or five seventy. The other gin
mas ten seventy land when the sea-
son opens up and the weather is
good they gin from eighty to one
hundred bales day. Both gins will
be run by electricity and all the lat
est improved machinery.
w. j. Rochelle,
brandon. Texas,