Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-09-07
Report of Smallest Cotton Crop
In 33 Yeas Boosts Price.


a growing has just suffered the mos
faisastrous month in its history. The
II indicated crop will be the smalles
I'm the last 33 years, while condition
.tnow is the lowest ever recorded in
,any month in the history of the in
fdustry. Ravages of the boil weevi
Fare particularly the cause of this
fseyere decline of the crop, amounting
Ep a loss of 1,116,000 bales in pro.
Ispective production since last
months forecast. The department
lT agriculture in announcing today
Its forecast of total produc-
tion of 100000 equivalent 500
pound bales based on canvass made
lAugust 25th declared everything
Seemed to have gone wrong with the
crop.
f An acre-field of 127 pounds to the
acre is indicated for, the country as
|a whole this year Never in the last
56 years has the yield been so low
The nearest approach was 129 pounds
in 1866. Only 10 per cent of a crop
as promised in some counties of South
Earolina.
s Parts of Oklahoma will have not
more than Is per cent of a crop.
About one third of crop or less will
be produced in sections of Texas,
South Carolina and Georgia. A half
aicrop or better may be produced in
Mississippi, northern Alabama, north
ern Georgia and Northern South
Carolina. States on TIE northern
edge of the cotton belt may have
about two thirds of crop.
!: In commenting on the conditions
the department, in statement, said:
tsThe damage has been the great
est in the area from central Okla
homa to north central Texas, the
in condition amounting to from rs
to 80 points. Declines of from 10 20
20 points are shown for Southern
South Carolina, for Georgia, north
An Alabama, the delta section Of
and throughout the belt
west of the Mississippi river except |
in the northern edge where some
slight Improvement occurred.
Conditions are especially bad not
above Is per cent in southern Okla
roma, and over a third of a crop
S promised in the adjoining portion
If northern Texas. In southern and
central South Carolina the promise
:or less than a third and in some
not over ten per cent of
'rop. The central belt of Georgia and
most of east and south Texas promise
ibout a third.
Everything Wrong
Everything seems to have
zone wrong with the crop. In South
Carolina, in Georgia and Arkansas
md in some portions of other states
xcess rainfall and cool weather have
ombined to give big weed which
he boil weevil in the flush of the
arly invasion has attacked vora-
iously, destroying all squares and
oils set during August and even
the larger bolls.
From 40 to 80 per cent of the
oils are affected in southern South
'arolina and the proportions run
cry high in other states. Westward
rom Georgia through Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana to Texas
nd Oklahoma the weevil has multi
lied far beyond the usual expe-
ience. In Oklahoma not withstand
lg heat and drought it is worse
IAN ever experienced. In Texas it
the chief cause of deterioration.
"The mild winter is held respon- t
BILE for sparing an unusual num- Z
er of weevils as we'll as other in n
,cts, which have multiplied beyond Il
easure and are devastating the new il
rowth in practically all the area of a
s present range. The army worm is
resent in large n~- rs through
1T most of Arkansas, Tennessee and
orth Mississippi, but the defolia- f
on of the heavy growth is not look 7
| upon as an unmixed evil. Boil O
orms and the usual pests are pres q
1t in greater numbers than usual, k
1t their damage is small compared
ith the weevil. In North Carolina
i'd Virginia the long drought has N
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