The Mena weekly star., 1921-05-19
MILLION ACRES LESS OF COTTON
.ge Reduction Indicated in Reports Received From Bankers-These Figures Larger Than Esti-
 mates Made by Others.
tbe Arkansas Gazette

n the Arkansas Gazette
 ;ttle Rock, May 15.-Figures com d from estimates made by bank |in all parts of Arkansas indicate reduction in Arkansas cotton ,age this year will amount to ap- ximately a million acres. This is pduction of 36.7 per cent.
 gbile this exceeds estimates made Bhose who are most familiar with cultural conditions in the state, it bably will prove a disappointment nerchants and bankers of the state had declared that a reduction of Der cent would be necessary if hers were to receive a profitable b for their cotton next fall.
 he miliion-acre reduction figure |obtained from estimates made by officials of banks in 59 of the H important cotton growing coun- J. Bodman, vice president of the pn and Mercantile Trust Company chairman of the Committee on aculture of the Arkansas Bankers ociation, recently sent a question n to all banks in the state. This stionnaire was intended to furnish 1mation as to the amount of cot |acreage and the probable planting feed crops in the banks county. Hes were received from PIT banks resenting the 59 leading cotton Hing counties.
 Reduction of S6.7 Per Cent. h 1920 there was planted in these counties a total of 2,723,096 <Dtton, 95 per cent of the total 8 planted to the crop in the entire B. According to the best judg- ut of the bankers in these aties, the total area that will prob- f be planted to cotton this year in ir 59 counties is l,732 ,5c0 acres, a 1ption of T9,596 acres, or SGT per Mere are nine other counties in the x in each of which cotton is regu- $ planted. These will reduce their &n paintings somewhat, making 6fling to the bankers estimates, ltal reduction in cotton planting in Hnsas this year of 100000 acres Early one-fifth of the total acre. Eplanted in Arkansas to cotton in 9 was in the counties of Jefferson, #endeE, Mississippi and Phillips, Hson county grew 169,3Te acres 3he four counties total of 460,S40 $ The bankers estimates of Hing for this year are ST, ,6S4 acres 8tton in Jefferson county and HB0 acres in the four counties, a H reduction of fl per cent.
 # C. Alexander, president of Mer- 4ts and Planters bank, Pine Bluff, zks: 'I believe the farmers in Meast Arkansas are entering the 4hng season with the lowest morale B experienced. Many com xed preparation for planting with Financial arrangements and when < tried to make them they were Xpointed and today this land is H lying out or turned over to X one without rent for the pur- pf planting peas or corn"
 noke and Lee counties in 1920 8ed a total of 166,700 acres in ID. The bankers in these coun- Estimate the cotton planting for Year to be 105,000 acres, a reduc- <=-ff <=<-f 337 per cent.
 { 1920 St. Francis county planted |sg acres and the bankers estimate b8,320 acres will be planted this
 a reduction of 25 per cent.
 Hash, Hampstead, Union and "a counties planted 259,1 ,186 acres in |*n m 1920 and the bankers esti- |H that 166,000 acres will be =zfd this year, reduction of 36 <ent. The estimated reduction is <25 per cent for Pulaski county N to 6l per cent for the others.
 l2 counties of Ashley, Conway, nbla, Chicot, Faulkner, Jackson, W Monroe, Nevada, Pope, Wood
 nd Yell each planted last year E. than 50, 900 acres of cotton and aef planted one-fourth of the cot
 reage of the state. The total in
 Tn these counties in 1920 was PD acres and the total of the . rs' estimates for these counties
 ear is 438,300 acres in cotton, a
 tlon of little over 34 per cent. kfeatest cut is in Chicot-esti-
 at DO per cent and the least in
 bla-estimated 27 per cen.
 10 counties, Cleveland, Craig
 ,rawford, Desha, Drew, Frank
 pnnson, Lawrence, Lincoln and
 lan, each planted more than 40,-
 res to cotton last year, and a
 l 63S,144 acres. The estimates
 IS year are total of 262,7 ,7e0
 reduction of nearly 36 per
 K, Cross, Howard, Independence,
 ette, Little River and Miller
 each planted last year more
 V,OOO acres in cotton and total
 ,S0O acres, and will this year
 only 143,100 acres, a reduction
 per cent.
 nsas, Cleburne, Fulton, Hot
 Montgomery, Perry, Pike,
 ad Sharp counties each planted
 Lnah l2,000 acres in cotton last
 nd a total of 138,070. It is
 nan l2,0o0 acres in cotton last
 ma a total of 138,070. It is
 Fed that 84,350 acres will be
 to this crop in these counties
 ar. a reduction of 39 per cent.
 Raising Their Own Feed
 reports of the bankers indicate
 i1n few exceptions the cotton
 m every county are undertak-
 raise all the feed they will
 This Is true of the delta coun-
 hlcot, Desha, Phillips, Monroe,
 grittenden, Cross, Mississippi,
 and Clay. It is doubtful in St.
 A large proportion of the
 have insisted that an appli-
 loan must agree to raise
 1eed to supply his needs or
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