Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-03
Georgia Cotton Crop
Estimated at $4,000

The United States bureau of markets and
crop estimates and the Georgia department
of agriculture, cooperating on crop statistics
as the cooperative crop reporting service for
Georgia, gave to the press today, through
their agricultural statsttcian, John S.
Dannee, The following statement concerning
the Georgia cotton crop at the close of the
governments fourth condition period:
There is excellent reason to believe from
present indcat ions, that Georgia is on the
threshold of harvesting the shortest cotton
crop in the past thirty years. Not since
1892 has Georgia grown go snail a crop.
In tEGt year 100000 bales the output,
and the staple commanded on December l 4
farm price of S1I cents. 1t is now begin
mig TO look as if 90 cents is probable, and
who can say with certainty that 25-cent
cocton il 'cf the stuff that dreams are
made off,
Optimism is the dominant note on the
farms of Georgia today. The goal set by
the farmers last spring seems about to be
reached.
''Since the issuance of our July condition
report the crop i'll Georgia shows an alarm
ing degree Of deterioration-1S points, to be
explicit. TIE ten-year average 1911-L920l
of change July % TO August % is only 6
points.
Condition on August %, as reported by
thousands of our correspondents, many en-
gagged actively IN growing this cotton crop,
averages IL per cent of normal, COM
pared with 80 July %, 1921; IS on
August 20, 1920, and GO the average on
August % of the past ten years. Forty-one
per cent on August % pegs low
record for Georgia, the lowest since the
government has been keeping tab on the
crop in this state. Many farmers are say
inS that they expect to be done with pick
ing by October /.
ga condition of Al per cent on August %
forecasts a yield of about 10 pounds of lint
arout S27, 600 bales of 500 pounds gross
According as conditions hereafter are better
worse than the average, the final out
turn will be larger or smaller than shis
amount. Last year production WIS 1 ,414 60
bales, two years ago, 1859, 329, and the
average annual production during boil v~eevii
lrfestatiop is SOP, 900 bales. The ten-year
average Tor Georgia Q911-1920) is 2,038 900
bales.
THE weather has been decidedly unfa vor-
able for the most part--too wet and too
cool, a state of things conducive to be-.
weevil activity, and this weather has fol-
lowed protracted drought earlier in the sea-
son. Weevl are devastating from ore end
of Georgia to the other. Oftentimes as
many as one TO four are found 10 the bloom.
Excessive shedding of squares ard Dung
DOLLS is big cause of complaint In many
counties the Weevils are attacking the larger
DOLLS. No top crop is expected, the farmers
say. Some boil rot and rust mentioned
locally. The stinted application of fer. Iizer
is showing its bad results. There are many
flelds presenting fine appearance but 1T is
usually BIG WEED and NOTHING ON 1T.
Some farmers will count themselves lucky if
they get back their seed. And not few
farmers are offering their prospective crop
IN payment of their fertilizer bill. Accord
ing to farmers reports, a very large portion
of the crop quit putting on fruit after july,
Cotton is opening rapidly in the southern
and slowly in the northern portion of the
STATE. Many first bales are already re-
ported. The northern tier of counties has
the best condition. But the crop there will
go on an average not over 81 per cent. The
central counties are in bad shape, very bad
shape, across from the Chattahoochee river
to the Savannah. AND THIS IS GEOR-
GAS BEST COTTON AREA Less than
tone-third of a crop is in sight there. In
1ne southern tier of counties about a per
cent of crop is looked for
Below is shown the average of condition
Dy counties on August %, 1921, in compari-
son with normal represented by 100 per
cent as given by over 1000 reporters of the
Georgia co-operative cron renortinc serrice: