The Grenada sentinel., 1916-11-10
THE FUTURE OF THE COTTON CROP.

With the boil weev increasing every year territory
operations with the cotton belt in other countries
being year and with the worlds greatly in
demand cotton and cotton goods and with
the multiplied seed OIL the future cotton
i problem for mathematcians
We learn from the Manchester, England, Mercury that
in 1914 India had cotton two-thds Of
what planted in this in America yet the India yield
scarcely than onehrd of what raised in the
United States and only about 80 pounds to the we'll
know that almost all the India cotton greatly inferior in quail
y that of this country but also known that this inferior
ty of poor and improper cultivation This
publication also authority for the statement that the
cotton of inch staple being raised in India amounts
nearly 0OOO bales and that this could be greatly in
creased by following the cultural methods Recently
cotton in India opened by irrigation and good
autohres state that the India could easily be made to
increase million bales annually
The world needs at the present time about 22OO0000
bales each year.
u seed be increasing greater ratio than for
cotton The mills still buying seed at fifty and sixty
dollars In this connection reproducing part
of recent communication which appeared in The Farm and
Ranch:
"The producers in debt as they
satherreasOn number one why the betting is for lower prices
The producers have organization for holding pricing
and seing-eason number why the betting for lower
Until last fall when the reserve banks announced they
would supply unlimited hold cotton there
to hold off the market wreason number three why betting
s for prices
"The public does know realv of
seed number four why the betting for lower prices
"The Crushes and spectators o cheap
sbeueason number five why betting is for lower prices"
Commenting the above correspondent of the Cotton
and Cotton Oil News says:
"Why the crushers said
profit $6 this able
$50 and more? Why Did the Public the
the value of his bproduct did the crushe getting higher
price for his products of this by-product?
"The and question box of the Dallas carried
following averaged yield
81 gallons pounds
pounds Of huls Now, would like
will bring for profit op which enables
$50 and the Nobody to
of operating oil mill without
good made in advance Cotton
No. heard of cotton
products if will realize its value.
that the the
value of the A thousand products
made from the seed which crusher
Only By-Product'"
"The farmer satisfied with andhe
should be with c after ALL but he also should learn sell his
products the seed; he should the
And then would bring the cotton back the old standard
The the SOIL
and grandfather did Why planting crop
patch absolutely
The above all shows how the world looking the cotton
situation and also shows that the experts handling both
cotton and cotton seed unable to crcumscbe cotton and
cotton seed prices The boil weev limits King Cotton guam
y but there does not to be that fix for
long at the time what the commercial world will give it.
The market to pieces in 1914 when the European
broke out mainly for the that business unsettled
there lack of confidence nobody knew what would hap
pen next.