Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-25
President of American Cot
ton Association Addresses
Legislators by Special
Request .

J. S. Wannamakcr, OF st. Mat
rhews, S. c.. president OF the Amer
lean Cotton association, which met
in Atlanta Wednesday and Thursday,
delivered an address, at noon ThufS-
day to the general assembly.
Mr.. W4nnamaker spoke III re-
Spouse TO an invitation sent hIIn
Wednesday. His address, which was
delivered IN the hall of the house Of
representatives, follows:
June marks the crest IN tat
growth OF cotton. ON the 2olh OF
j une in ordinary years the crop aver
ages one point better than on May
%. Then comes the decline. On the
10Th Of July the average condition
is per cent lower than June; Dy
The 25th of August it loses an aver
age OF l4.S per cent, and on Septeiu-
Der %. the average condition is 20
per cent less than on June 70. TINS
is the history of crops entering JUNE
in normal condition and making the
average improvement during the
month, as a preparation for THE sum-
mer trial. Condition on May 70, was
4.5 per cent below the ten-year aver
age. Instead of improving in june,
as it ought, it deteriorated SO points,
or rs per cent from The bad May
condition. TO make an average crop
all this loss must be made up after
the middle O. Ju!}, When the crop
usually det.,..,.i.', c,s;.4
CTOp Sa4tLH2AUy
port, which lncIc1>., the condition up
TO the 25th ot June, we have sui
fered practically a crop calamity.
The cotton plant was already In d
diseased condition, without tap root,
badly cultivated and in grass. MOI
only the growing crop in Amerlca,
will be the shortest in thirty years,
but in addition to this Russia Will
produce aetically no cotton this
he an extremely small one, so that
the world is also on the eve OF an
other recordbreaking small crop.
There is not an expert who values
his reputation who would state other
wise than we are today facing an
raw cotton; that mills before this
time next year will be running on
short time. being unable to buy raw
cotton at any price. We have just
crops of cotton for America and the
world. During these four years the
world has consumed of American
cotton three million bales more than
was actually produced, these three
million bales excess coming from the
previous surplus. In addition to this
the world has consumed each year
for the last four. years in excess Of
the amount of cotton produced IN the
entire world as follows:
Production Consumption
Year Bales Bales
1915 ...............17,60 600, 900 19,761, 900
1916 is, 095, 900 81 ,001, 900
1917 17,410,000 20,701 900
1918 exact figures on produc-
ton not get compiled. Short
age even greater than shown
above) Observation-Disclosures. 17,7O1, 900
THE shelves Of Europe are empty
of manufactured goods, and are az
most without cotton. The European
cotton situation is summedup in the
fact that six months ago there were
5000 bales of cotton in European
mills as compared with 3,175,U00 just
before the war
Enormous Demand
"As a result OF a painstaking IN
vestigation of supply and demand
aand, the growing crop our experts
find that we are facing the most
enormous demand for raw cotton that
has ever existed since cotton was
first cultivated in America; that We
are certainly facing the shortest
crop in America that has been made
in the last decade. The growing
rrop under existing conditions can
not exceed a maximum of 10000, goo
bales Adding this to the carry-over
from this years crop, we will fail
to fill tho n~eSG'ng demands of thu