The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-08-05
COTTON CONDITION
IS 75.2 PER CENT
AMERICAN COTTON ASSOCIATION
REPORT FIGURES.
Urged Not to Sell.
Farmers Urged Not to Let Staple
Loose Below PrOduc-
tiOn Cost.

Condition report under average
date of July 25, issued Saturday by
the American cotton association,
shows that the percentage is 1872,
according to it's estimates. The re-
port also sums up labor conditions,
the demand abroad, cost of produc-
tion and manipulation.
The report in full follows:
AS a result Of one of the most
careful and painstaking investiga-
tions as to the condition of the cotton
crop and vital facts bearing thereon,
this Investigation probably being one
of the most complete and thorough
ever made, We beg to report that we
find: First: AS to the condition of
the average date of July 25, 1920,
1872 The crop is from three to four
weeks late, extremely sappy and sub
ject to serious deterioration as re-
suit of adverse weather conditions,
which are universal through August.
AS a result of recent adverse wea-
ther conditions, cotton is already
shedding badly. On account of the
lateness of the crop and the sappy
condition of the same it offers an in
viting field to insect damage; an
early frost spells the certainty of an
enormous decrease in the indicated
yield.
Labor is extremely short and ins
efficient; it requires several times the
amount of labor to harvest the crop
as it does to cultivate it. 1t will be
absolutely impossible, even with ideal
weather conditions, with the great
shortage of labor, to harvest a crop
larger than the average short crop
for the past two years.
Conditions Abroad.
AS a result of our investigations
abroad we find that we are face to
face with the fact that the world will
stand in pressing need of Is 100000
bales of cotton from America; that
we are facing an enormous increased
demand for raw cotton. There is a
pressing need, of an enormous amount
Of off grade cotton. No matter what
the carry over or surplus may be, we
are facing the absolute certainty Of
an enormous expansion in the manu-
facture of cotton, both as normal
development and on account of the
enormously increased demand for
cotton goods, worldwide, and the
great dearth of same, there being an
increased demand everywhere in the
world for cotton cloth.
The growing crop will be the most
costly ever produced. AS a result of
the importation of oriental oils, cot
ton goods are being sold for about
one-ffth of the price average for the
last two years. This will result in an
enormous increase in the cost of lint
cotton.
AS a result of the manipulation in
the market, regardless of the enor-
nous demand, cotton is being sold to-
day on the exchanges far below the
cost of production. Strenuous efforts
have been made to induce the sale Of
spot cotton for future delivery.
Condition Reports.
The first government condition re-
port of the growing crop showed the
lowest condition in the last so years.
With an enormously increased de-
mand for raw cotton and the crop
from three to four weeks late, and
subject to an enormous damage from
adverse weather conditions; the enor-
age;- the absolute certainty of an
early frost; the vital necessity of
ideal weather during the last of the
season on account of the shortage Of
labor to enable the producer to even
harvest a normal crop, all point not
only to the possibility but the strong
probability of, the last condition re-
port being a repetition of the first
report of the season, the loWst
in so years.
To sell cotton below the cost of
production under these conditions
brands one as fool unthinkable.