The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-10-05
SEPTEMBER REPORT
INDICATES LOW YIELD

culture basing its estimate on the
condition of the crop September 70,
which was 42.2 per cent of net
normal indicating a yield of 1ls.o
pounds per acre.
Further decline in the condition OF
cotton during September resulted IN
a reduction of 100000 bales in the
forecast of production issued today
by the Department of Agriculture
which places the total crop OF $751;
900 equivalent 500 pound bales.
The forecast of production, IN
eouizaient 500 pound bales, and the
condition of the crop on September
25, in percentage Of normal, by
states, follow:
Virginia forecast 10000 and con-
dition So.
North Carolina $4,000 and 81.
South Carolina $4,000 and 40.
Georgia 722, 900 and ss.
Florida $4,000 and so.
Cotton ginned prior to September
25 amounted to 2,so7,s5o running
bales, including s9,319 round bales,
counted as half bales, 2,376, bales
Of American-Egyptian and 22s bales
Of Sea Island, the census bureau an
nounced today.
To September Is last year gin
nings were 2,24s, sos bales, inelud-
ing 75,o2s round bales, 1886 bales
of American-Egyptian and 81 bales
of Sea Island. -,
Ginnings by states this year to
September rs follow:
Alabama 22s;s27; Florida, 1857;
Georgia ss1,75S; Mississippi 251,-
0o1: North Carolina 141,757; South
Carolina, 215,29o; Texas, 1,22o'-
2S1; Virginia 1,051.
All other states 354. ..... :.
The growing season this year has
been the most disastrous on record
the crop showing loss of 1,666,ooo
bales in prospective production dur
ing the months Of August and Sep
tenber. The end of August found
the crop in the worst condition ever
recorded while the end of September
as disclosed in today's report shows
unfavorable weather during the
month rendered the condition worse
than at the4end of August. Record
extremes Of heat and dryness have
forced unprecedented maturity OF
the crop and deficiency of fertilizer
has shortened the fiber and lessened
the yield.
Today,s condition report shows
the crop to be 1872 points below the
worst previous record. Over most .ot
the belt there will be but little mid
die rop and practically no top crop.
The swarming plague of boil wee
wis has advanced almost to the
simits Of the belt, being through the
lower third of North Carolina into
eleven; counties of Tennessee and
over most of Arkansas and Okla
hosna. Practically everywhere the
weevh' is in such numbers and doing
sucf, damage as has not been expert
enced since the period of its initial
invasion.
The army and other worms have
been present in damaging numbers
in most of the territory from the
Mississippi westward, stripping the
leaves afrom the plants over large
areas. ...
Comment in general that the crop
may be picked out by. early Novem-
Der in much of the central and cas-
ern territory if the favorable picking
weather continues. The fair and dry
September has permitted uninter-
rupted picking and with labor plen-
tiful and relatively cheap larger
proportion of the cop has probably
been picked out than ever before. In
Texas the floods and weevils have
been more or less of an offset to the
beneficial rains in the northwestern
part Of that state.
In some sections picking is COM
pleted and in much of the east gully
= territory the present picking will get
most or all of it. Farmers plan to
clear off the crop and plow early to
diminish weevl damage next year.