Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-08-29
. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES COTTON
CROP.
Galveston News

Notwithstanding ieAas mas o"'i'" ~
Of the worst droughts in it, history, It Will
not fare - badly. in an agricultural way
Judge Ramsey q. the federal reserve bank.
speaking doubtless in the light Of adviccs
from the correspondents of that in>tltu-
ton, expressed the opinion the other day
that this wears cotton crop will be some
thing like 3.250.n00 bales. and that II will
sell fer about $3.50. 0O0. 600. This estimate
T. evidently meant to include the value "f
the seed. Judge Ramsey may he II little
sanruine IN hi~ estimate of the size of the
crop: particularly will IL he thought 81 in
those counties and sections where the Weld
Will be 80 little as hardly Ia he worth the
picking. even M The high. price of the pres
cnt. Bul If there are counties which viii
gather the smallest crop ever known to
their residents. there are other counties
though fewer Of them-whirh will make
one of the largest crops their residents
have ever known. Without having had Il
RAIN ia eight or ten months. Texas has had
far more local showers during the crop
growing season than il l. accustomed "a.
and a. a consequence the condition of the
cotton crop j. more diverse and presents
wider contrasts than has probably ever
| been known by any one whose memory does
not reach back forty or fifty wears.
But even If the crop should turn out no
more than 5000. 600 balc>-and the most
pessimistic would admit that that would he
q conservative cStimatc-it will bring u
cash return equal 10 that of = 5000. 0o0-
bale crop in ordinary times. And Texas,
of course. has never grown . 5000 .0On-
rlr r-r. anl nnIy once or twice 4 crop
t~o -th.v' fiai size. One secs. therefore.
ih- 4 Mite y drnnih. the like If which not
u,", ., ". recall. the financial con~r-
arrnre~ 81 Il viii hc nothing hike calami-
tou.. nor even very serious for the state
a. q whole.
But that phrase. "for the state a a
whole" always significant. has a much
more qualifying valuc than perhaps ever
before. In some favoring wears Texas
may b. Il ycritahlc ocean &C prosperity,
and vet one who with a strong glass sur
vcvS it, vast cNpan~e. would find il dotted
with MANY islands of adversely. These
islands are more numerous and OF larger
area this year than probably ever before.
There are sections and counties for which
this will be the> leane~t harvest in twenty
wears. and ether sections and counties f"r
which II will b. the %fattc~t. both in respect
If size and value of the crop. Indeed,
there are not i few counties in which thi~
same contrast presents itself. The lack III
uniformity was never :. pronounced r. il
j. now. From the cotton prosperity which
the state a. y whole will have. Of course
= large deduction will have Ia bc made for
theloSs Of the corn and feed crops. \ loss
more general than that of cotton and in
many sections quite II nearly total. OF
course this loss. while il will tie only a
deduction from the prosperity of those who
viii make "A good or . fair cotton crop,
will fall with irresistible weight on those
who have lost also their cotton crop. But
these are the local and individual misfor-
tunes Of the situation. II remains true
that the state n u whole viii be able III
weather one If the worst drouth~ IL ha-
ever known. because of the extraordinary
cash return which u somewhat lc~> than
ordinary cotton crop will bring.