The Nevada County picayune., 1922-09-07
CONDITION IS
 6 PER CENT
September Cotton Report For State Gives Is Points Below Figure of One
 Month Ago.

The September Cotton Crop report for Arkansas. just released ny the Co operative Crop Reporting Service. shows the condition of the cotton crop of the State on August 23th to have been 63gs of normal This is drop of K points from the July 25th report. or three times the=ten year average drop of points for the same period. The average condition figure for thiS date for len years past k roc. show ing the reporters considered hy their reports that the present crop iS | points below thc len year average ill promised yield.
 This condition of G3et forecasts lint yield per acre of 16212 pounds and total production of 969,000 bales. q decline in total production of 156.- GOO bales from the forecast of a month ago. The final outturn. of course. will be larger OF smaller than the amount indicated. according as conditions are favorable or otherwise throughout the remainder of the growing season.
 Commenting on the crop conditions and the deterioration which has Oc- cured. Mir Bouton points out that the heaviest decline throughout the country is in the Western part of the belt. though the lowest condition re ports are i'll the utheast, in South Carolina and Georgia Texas has dropped 13 points. Oklahoma 22, Tennessee 2o. and Missouri 20 The United States as whole has declined 13.S points. The heavier deterioration in the Western belt has undoubtedly been due 10 the dry weather prevail ing for practically five weeks over that section of the country. followed by the unusually hot spell of August 26th 10 2Gth. when temperatures ran in many places considerably over loo degrees.
 Numerous reports from every section of the State were practically unani- nous in placing dry weather as the largest factor in making the lowered condition, with boil weevil next. The expression dry weather and boil weeyil have caused heavy shedding" occurred with great frequency. Out side of these depressing factors, other factors which so frequently affect the crop adversely were conspicuous by their absence Less than 7ec mention ed army worms, and the infestation of these is practically confined to the Central-western. Southwestern and South-central portions of the State. Boil worms were mentioned by not over 2fo of the reporters. The same is true of rust, and wilt and red spider were only mentioned in a single report. Some reporters amplified their comments by saying that heavy rains in late June and early July, followed hy the very dry weather of later July and early August, were responsible for lowered conditions
 special inquiry relating particu- larly to the cotton acreage abandoned after June 25th shows that in the United States as a whole some 367 900 acres have been so abandoned In Arkansas the indication is that some 21 .400 acres have been so abandoned during that period
 A study of the condition figures by counties herewith given will show the greatest rate of deterioration in the North-central part of the State, where the production is light, The slump in Central Arkansas was 24 points, in Western Arkansas 23, in Northeastern 23, in Central-eastern IS, and in the Southern third of the State about II points
 Condition by counties on June 25, July 25. and August 9. 1922:
 North Central:
 Counties June July Aug. Baxter --- 92 96 64