The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-12-31
LESS COTTON IN
GRADY PREDICTED
FOR YEAR OF 1921
Outlook for New Year Runs Toward
Wheat and Corn With Far Less
"Fleecy Staple" Says
County Agent
SLUMP IN PRICE CAUSE
OF SHORTENED ACREAGE
More Wheat and Corn; Increase in
Sorghums Seen for Next Year
Farmers With "Side
Lines" Getting BY

That the Grady county acreage in
1921 will be no more than haf the
amount of the 1920 acreage and that
the wheat and corn acreages will be
materially increased, is the belief OF
A. F. Houston, Grady county farm
agent.
The cost OF producing cotton in
this county, Mr. Houston says, is ap-
proxiuately 20 cents per pound while
cotton growers in this section of the
state have received on an average
Of u cents per pound for their cot
ton from the 1920 crop.
From 10000 acres, the 1919 acre
age in Grady county, approximately
10000 bales OF cotton We're produced
This cotton was sold at an average
of 40 cents per pound From the a0,-
coo acres in which cotton was plant
Cd in 1920, approximately 1S,000
bales were produced, according to
data compiled by the county agent.
This cotton was sold at an average
price of Is cents per pound and be
cause Of this low price, the 1921
acreage will be materially decreased,
Mr. Houston believes.
Will Plant More Wheat.
Wheat is winning a warmer place
in the hearts of the farmers of
Grady county, according to the farm
agent. Farmers who planted a large
wheat acreage Jared well during the
past year, the data shows. The 1920
acreage was estimated at 10000
acres which produced on an average
Of 20 bushels per acre. This wheat
was sold at an average price of
$1.75 per buslel, slightly lower than
the 1919 price, which averaged $1.S6
per bushel The 10000 acres in
which wheat was planted in Grady
county in 1919, produced on an aver
age of y bushels per acre.
j. w. Owens, secretary of the
Grady County Pomona Grange, esti-
mates that the 1920 acreage. Up to
date. prospects for a bumper wheat
crop in Grady county never were
better, County Agent Houston says.
Predict Big Corn Acreage.
During the past two years, little
difference in the corn acreage in
this county could be noticed. Mr..
Houston, however, has information
that the 1921 acreage will be much
larger tlan the 1920 crop OF approx
mately $4,000 acres which produced
on an average of 25 bushels per
acre. A larger acreage is predicted
in snite of the slump in the corn
markets, the extent of which is dis
played in the report that farmers in
1919 received an average price Of
$1.2O per bushel for their corn
while in 1920 the average price hae
been 43 cents per bushel.
Grain sorghums are among the
farm products due to figure in acre
age increases, Agent Houston re
ports. The grain sorghums acreage
has increased yearly during the past
several years and since it has proved
a profit producer, a much larger
acreage in future years is predicted
by many farmers
Less Broom Corn.
The broom corn acreage next year
probably win be smaller than tn
1920 acreage. despite the 50 percent
decrease in the acreage last year
Eighty dollars per ton was the aver
age price received for broom corr
here this year, while in 1919 tn,
average price is recorded as s125.Ot
per ton.
Local banks report that many ex
elusive cotton farmers now are fac
ing financial embarrassment as a re
suit of the slump in the cotton mar
let. This. County Agent Houston
rays. demonstrates the value o
naming chickens. turkeys, hogs an
milk COWS on the farms. Farmer
who own such property are findin
II possible to "get by" without aC
difional loars from the bank. tn
chickens, COWS and hogs. in man
instances, furnishing comfortable liz
ing during the winter. The banks ar