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COTTON
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Easier Liverpool
cables and unfavoiable trade reports Hom
Manchester were tiie chief influences on an
opening decline of 25 to 47 points in the
cotton market today. October contracts sold
. off to 28.20 c and December to 25.38 con the
call, but spot houses were buyers on the de
cline, while there was a good deal of scat
tered covering owing to apprehensions of a
tropical storm and more favorable reports
from the domestic goods today. Houses
with Liverpool connections sold rather freely
at the start. Otherwise pressure was lim
ited, and prices soon rallied to 28.55 c for
October and 25.65 c for December, or within
■ few points of last week's closing quota
tions. A tropical disturbance, reported im
mediately south of the Yucatan channel last
night, moving northeastward, was said to be
of considerable intensity.
Buying on the tropical storm threat was
Stimulated by the views of local map read
ers, who thought that a low barometer west
of the Mississippi might mean unsettled
conditions In the south whether the tropical
■forms reached the belt or not. New Or
leans was relatively firm and bought here,
while trade buying was accompanied by re
ports of a stiffer belt spot basis, an_d Octo
ber contracts advanced to 28.75 c, or 17 points
net higher. December sold up to 25.93 c,
making an advance of 23 points from Satur
day’s closing, but the official forecasts *for
both the wester nand eastern belts were
favorable and prices showed slight reactions
ground midday.
The middav advance extended to 29.00 for
October and’26.25 for December or 35 to 55
points net higher on the active months with
r. Wall street buying on the tropical storm
* news. There was realizing at this level but
prices held within a few points of the
best, and the market was very steady dur
ing the middle of the afternoon.
NEW YORK COTTON
The following were the ruling prices in th
exchange today:
Tone, steady; middling, 31c, quiet.
Last Prev.
Open High. Low. Sale. Close. Close.
Jan. .. 24.20 25.05 24.05 24.90 24.88 24.55
Meh. . 23.63 24.28 23.05 24.08 24 00 23.67
May .. 22.70 23.70 22.70 23.40 23.40 23 05
July .. 22.35 22.80
Sept 29.lo
Oct. .. 28 25 29 00 28.20 28.85 28.80 28.55
Dec. .. 25 50 26.42 25.38 26.14 26.12 25.70
NEW O’LEANS COTTON
NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 20.—0 n the open
ing of tre cotton market today prices were
lower ami the decline soon amounted to 28
to 33 points, selling being based on poor
cables and private reports of increased short
time among English mills. The storm
V warning for the tropical disturbance near
‘ the Yucatan channel did not have much
effect at first, but finally changed the whole
complexion of the market, causing heavy
buying, on which the initial losses were re
covered and the market sent 7 to 18 points
higher than the close of Saturday. October
fell off to 26.53 c and reacted to 27.01 c.
The hurricane in tropical waters remained
sthe dominating influence to the late trad
‘ Ing when the active months were at net
advanc-s of 56 to 79 points. October rose
to 27.62 and March to 23.64. The cotton
market closed steady, at net advances of
b 3 to 75 points.
A heavy covering movement among shorts
get in following storm bulletins indicating
that the hurricane was entering the Yucatan
channel, thus taking the course usually
taken by storms that affect the cotton
region T’>° active months late in the morn
ing were 37 to 52 points over PaGirdav s
final prices, with October at 2< .35 and
Marc hat 23.45 c.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
The following were the ruling prices la
the exchange today:
Tone, steady; middling, 28c, steady.
Last Prev.
Open High. Low. Sale. Close. Close.
Jan. .. 23.60 24.48 23.59 24.45 24.45 23.92
Meh. .. 22.95 23.64 22.78 23.61 23.61 23.08
May .. 23.30 23.02 22.30 22.95 22.95 22.55
July .. 22.06 22.35 22.00
Sept 28.33 27.58
} Oct. .. 26.70 27.67 26.53 27.58 27.58 26.88
Dec. .. 24.60 25.48 24.50 25.39 25.39 24.78
NEW ORLEANS SPOT COTTON
NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 20.—Spot cotton
quiet and unchanged.’ Sales on the spot, 111
brlese: to arrive 400. Low middling. 19.50;
middling, 28.00; good middling, 30.75. Re
ceipt! 1,529; stock 198,867.
SPOT COTTON MARKET
Atlanta, steady, 33.50 c.
j New York, quiet, 31c.
New Orleans, steady, 28c.
Philadelphia, steady, 31.25 c.
Montgomery, steady (new), 29.75 c.
Norfolk, steady, 80c.
Savannah, steady, 30.50 c.
Bt. Louis, steday. 32c.
Houston, steady, 28.50 c.
Memphis, steady. 32c.
Augusta, steady (new), 30.25 c.
Little Rock, steady, 28.50 c.
Dallas, steady, 27.15 c.
Mobile, steady, 28.50 c.
Charleston, steady, 30c.
Wilmington, steady, 28c.
. Boston, stqpdy, 31c.
V Galveston, steady, 28.75 c.
ATLANTA SPOT COTTON
Atlanta spot cotton33.soc
Receipts 171
Shipments 11l
'Stocks 11,245
AMERICAN COTTON
> AND GRAIN EXCHANGE
COTTON QUOTATIONS
The following were the opening, highest
bwest, close and previous "Ivse quota
lions on the American Cotton sod Grais
Lxcliange of New kora:
’ Prev
Open. High. ix>w. Close Clow
Jan. .... 24.15 25.05 24.09 24.85 24.55
Mar 23.10 24.33 23.10 24.05 23.57
May .... 22.75 23.70 22.70 23.42 23.0'-
Oct. .... 28.20 29.00 28.20 28.78 28.58
Dec 25.47 26.42 25.38 26.10 25.70
LIVERPOOL COTTON
Tone, quiet; . les, 4,000; good middling,
24.78 d.
. Prev.
g Open. Close. Close.
aunary .. 18.47 18.251 18.61
February 18.04 18.33
March 17.88 17.79 18.06
April 17.55 17.80
May 17.40 17.31 17.54
June • • • • • • 17.14 17.33
July 16.90 16.96 17.12
August 16.71 16.87
September 19.28 19.88
(‘Octoberl9.46 19.19 19.68
■ November 19.00 18.83 19.23
December 18.64 19.00
COTTONSEED OIL MARKET
Opening. Closing.
Inn
'ebruaryl3.Bs@ 13.90 14.00-?/. 14.16
•larch ... 13.90W14.00 14.09r«14.1S
Kuril 13.90'0 14.10 14.23 K 14.25
‘■ntember .. .. 13.0 -.*14.25 13.8<@13.99
October .. .. 13.80@14.00 14.18W14 .21
Novemberl3.Bo@l4.oo 13.98*344.00
December .. ... 13.78*3.13.80 13.93@13.9i
Tone, strong: sales. 4,300.
SHEPARD A GLUCK COTTON LETTER
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 20.—While there
cere delines on tire opening in cotton today
is tiie result of poor cables and the in-
eased short time movement among English
l.illg, the market soon’took on a strong up
. >rd trend ns the result of the storm bul
■ tins, indicating that the hurricane which
I veloped late last week was about to enter
:'ie Yucatan channel, the course usually
ken by such disturbances when they enter
>e Gulf of Mexico nnd threaten some portion
,r the cotton region. The hurricane is
J>.un*l to be a dominating bullish influence
tor the next few days.
ATLANTA TKLWEEKLI’ JOURNAL.
GRAIN
CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—Wheat prices de
clined today in sympathy with the depres
sion of the corn market. Opening quotations
ranged from 1c to 2%c lower.
Favorable weather and generous receipts
led to general selling of corn and to a sharp
setback in values. After opening 1c to 3%c
down, the market continued weak.
Wheat closed steady at the same as Sat
urday’s finish to %c lower.
Corn closed steady at the same as Satur
day’s finish ’o l%c lower.
Oats went lower with corn.
The provisions market was dull and irreg
ular.
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
The following were the ruling prices tti
the exchange today:
Prev
Open. High. Low. Close. Close
WHEAT-
Dec2.3B i 2.40% 2.37% 2.39% 2.40
Mar 2.33 2.35 % 2.33 2.34% 2.35
CORN—
Sept. ... 1.23 1.23% 1.21% 1.24% 1.25
Dec 1.07 1.08% 1.05% 1.07% 1.08
May .... 1.07 1.08% 1.05% 1.08% 1.05%
i ' ATS—
Sept 58% 59% 58% 59 60
Dec 61% 62% 61% 61% 62%
May .... 65% 65% 65% 65% 66%
PORK—
Sept 26.00 25.95
Oct. .. . 26.50 26.50 25.90 $6 25 26.00
LARD—
Sept 20.72
Oct 20.70 20.75 20.67 20.70 20.85
Dec 18.95 19.10 18.95 19.05 ....
RIBS—
Sept. • •,. 17.87
Oct 17.95 17.95 17.80 17.80 17.90
RECEIPTS IN CHICAGO
Today.
W’heat* 57 cars
Corn 217 cars
Corn 103 cars
Hogs 24.000 head
CHICAFO CASH QQUOTATIONS
CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—Cash, wheat. No. 1
red, ?2.54%@2.57%: No. 2 red, $2.53%@
2.57.
Corn. No. 2 mixed, $1.22%@1.25%; No.
3 yellow, $1.21@1.22%.
Oats, No. 2 white, 60%@61%c; t No. 3
white, 59%@60%c.
Rye, No. 2, $1.92%@1.93%.
Barley, 93c@51.01.
Timothy seede,
Clover seed, $18.00@25.00.
Pork, nominal,
laird, $20.70.
Ribs, $17.62@18.62.
ST. LOUIS QUOTATIONS
ST. LOUIS. Sept. 20.—Cash: Wheat-
No. 2 ted winter, $2.63.
Corn—No. 2 white, $1.25: No. 3. $1.23.
Oats—No. 2 white, 61%@62c; No-. 3, 60%
61%c.
Thomson & McKinnon grain letter
CHICAGO. Sept. . 20.—Wheat: There is
some interchange of cash wheat between
eastern and western holdings, probably in
the way of completion of old export sales,
as new foreign demand is reported slow.
Cash market shows considerable strength
under a demand from interior millers and
because the receipts are abnormally small.
Premiums for some grades have been ad
vanced from 1 to 3c. Undertone of this
market is strong, gathered largely from
refusal of the country to accept prevail
ing prices instead of from broad demand.
Corn: Existing weather forecast and
heavy receipts made very general bearish
feeling. Previous sellers accepted this op
portunity to take profits. The cash situa
tion is anything but strong. Current re
ceipts are being taken by elevators for
the purpose of building up a accumulations
here and probably with contemplation of
delivery on September contracts. In early
market there were no bids whatever for
corn to arrive from country. During the
day bids of 4 points under September for
five days’ shipment and 8 points over De
cember for 15 days’ shipment were made.
The market is entitled to some rally, par
ticular’ in the event of unfavorable
' V< Oats* e ’ It is constantly reported that the
country Is a very reluctant seller of oats;
nevertheless, the visible supply increases
liberally each week. Stocks in Chicago
alone are 5^00,000.. The total visible s
about same as year ago. Market resists
pressure because of its relative eheapne,s
but there is very little interest displayed
on the investment side.
Provisions: A good cash trade in prod
ucts is reported and hogs continue strong.
ATLANTA COTTONSEEL PRODUCTS
MARKETS
(Corrected by Atlanta Commercial Exchange)
i: To d 4 ° U . baSiß . Pri “ e ’ . te .“%10.75 $ll.OO
C. S. meal," 7 per cent am-
monia. 100-ton lots .. -. 51.00 53.00
C. S. meal. Ga. common
rate point. 100-ton lots .. 50.00 52.00
C °S“S K.»O 18. M
‘'‘{“."'lmw 1 ” 1 . 1 !: 10.00 12.00
Linters, firs tcut. high-grade lots, 4@6c
Linters, clean, mill run, 2@3c.
Linters. No. 3, l@l%c.
NEW YOR KPRODUCE MARKET
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Flour quiet and
stG<idy«
Pork —Firm: mess, $31.00@32.00.
L ar d—Easier; middle west spot, $21.40@
21 50.
Sugar—Raw, quiet; centrifugal, 96-tf 9 ’-
10.76; refined, quiet; granulated, $14.50
@15.00. „ „ .
Coffee —Rio No. 7, on spot, 8c; No. 4
Sanos, 13%@14%c.
Tallow—Firm; specials, 10c; city, 9c.
Hay—Quiet; No. 1, $2.40; No. 3, $2.15@
2.20; clover, $2.00@2.30.
Dressed Poultry—Quiet; chickens, 38@olc;
fowls, 26@42c; ducks, Long Island, 37c.
Live Poultry—Quiet; geese. 25c; ducks,
35@40c; fowls. 36@43c; turkeys. 40c; roost
ers, 24c; chickens, broilers, 39@42c.
Cheese —Quiet; state milk, cwunufh to spe
cials, 20@20%c; skims, common to specials,
5@12%c.
Butter, firmer; receipts, (2 days), 14,102;
creamery, extra, 59%@60e; do. special mar
ket, 60%@61c; state dairy, tubs; imitation
creamei y, firsts, 45@59c, nominal.
Egggs, steady; receipts (2 days), 22,701;
near-by white fancy, 81@82c; near-by mixed
fancy, 52@73c; fresh firsts, 56c; Pacific
coast, 58@82c.
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET
CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—Butter, creamery,
extras, 56%c; cieamery standards, 53%c;
firsts, 48@55c; seconds, 46@48c.
Eggs, ordinaries, 41@49c; firsts, 52%@
53%c.
Cheese, twins, 24%e; Young Americas,
26c.
Live poultry, fowls, 34c; ducks, 28c:
geese, 23c; springs, 33c; turkeys, 45c; roost
ers, 23c.
Potatoes. 70 cars; Wisconsin (per 100
lbs,), and Minnesota (per 100 lbs.), $2.00@
2.15; Jersey Giants, $2.25@2.30.
, METAL MARKET
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Copper easier;
electrolytic, spot, September and October.
18%@19. Iron steady; No. 1 northern, 51.00
@53.00; No. 2 northern, $50.00@51.00; No.
2 southern, $43.00 @ 44.00.
Tin steady; spot and nearby, 44.75; fu
tures, 45.50. Antimony, 7.25. Lead steady;
spot, 8.00@8.50; zinc steady; East St. Louis
delivery, spot, 7.75@7.87%. At London: Spot
copper, 98 pounds os; futures, 9S pounds ss.
Electrolytic, spot, 112 pounds; futurees 118
pounds. Tin. spot, 275 pounds ss: futurese
279 pounds las; Lead, spot, 35 pounds 10s
futures, 35 pounds 10s. Zinc, spot, 40
pounds:; futures 41 potinds ss.
NAVAL STORES
SAVANNAH, Ga., Sept. 20.—Turpentine,
firm, $1.35%f*t1.36; sales, 332; receipts, 418;
shipments, 230; stock, 13,152.
Rosin, firm; sales, 475; receipts, 1,209;
shipments, 325; stock, 44,874. Quote, B, D,
E, F, G, H, I, K, M, N window glass, water
white $11.50.
Cottonseed Crushed During August
20,317 Tons Vs. 20,058 Last Year
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Cotton seed received at mills during
August totalled 24,979 tons, compared with 27,354 tons during Au
gust 1919, the census bureau announced today.
Crushed cotton seed totalled 20,317 tons for this Angust and
20,058 tons for last August.
The following comparative figures for products manufactured
from cotton seed were given out:
Crude oil 5,009,520 pounds this August and 5,722,038 last
August.
Refined oil *10,952,139 pounds this August and 20,273,059 last
August.
Cake and meal, 8,743 tons this August and 9,664 last August.
Hulls, 6,271 tons this August and 5,222 last August.
Linters, 2,470 bales this August and 3,150 last August.
Stocks, on hand included: Seed at plants, 36,760 tons this Au
gust and 31,021 last August.
Crude oil, 13,757,055 pounds this August and 7,631,225 last
August.
Refined oil, 228,434,189 pounds this August and 109,128.947
last August.
Gainesville, Fla., and
California Censuses
Announced by Bureau
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. —Gaines-
ville, Fla., has 5.286; a decrease of
897, or 14.5 per cent, the census bu
reau announced today. State of
California, 3,426,536. increase 1,048 -
987, or 41.1 per cent. Sedalia Mis
souri 21,144, increase 3,322, or 18.6
per cent.
Counties: Jackson, Ala., 35,864;
Lauderdale, Ala., 39,556; Limestone
Ala, 31,341; Talladega, Ala., 41,005;
Sabine parish. La., 20,713; Tensas
parish, La., 11,639; Attalla, Miss.
24,831; Smith. Miss., 16,178; Yalo
busha, Miss., 18,487.
California, in the last ten years,
has outgrown Indiana and Georgia.
The state's growth is larger both
numerically and relatively than that
of any state the 1920 population of
which has been announced, and its
numerical increase exceeds the com
bined increase of Massachusetts, In
diana and Georgia.
California, which ranked as twelfth
state ten years ago, will now ru.nk:
in tenth place or above.
Liberty Bonds
NEW YORK, Spt. 20.—Liberty bondj
closed:
3%t* ..; ... ... ... *... ... ’. .$90.04
First 4s, b1d85.50
Second 4s ... 85.20
First 4%586.00
Second 4%585.41
Third 4%588.48
Fourth 4%s ... .. 85.60
Victory 3%595.56
Victory 4%b 95.54
Corn Below Dollar
KANSAS ( lix, Mo., Sept. 2j.—For the
first time since 1917 corn sold below a dol
lar a bushel here today, when December de
livery dropped to 99% cents. Increased
country offerings and continued warm weath
er to mature the big crop before frost was
given as the reason for the decline.
NEW YORK SUGAR MARKET
NEW YORK, Sept. 20. —There was no
change in the raw sugar market today, al
though a little more business was reported
there were sales of 15,000 bags of Cubas
for immediate shipment, and 1,300 bags
afloat to local refiners at 9% cents cost
and freight, equal to 10.78 for ceentrifugal.
Refined sugar was unchanged at 14.50 to
15.00 for fine granulated.
Close.
Jan9.2o© 9.30
Feb9.ls© 9.25
Meh9.ls@ 9.25
April 9.15@ 9.25
May 9.20@ 9.30
Sept. 10.00@10.01
Oct. ... ... 9.55@ 9.56
N0v9.55© 9.56
Dec. ... 9.45@ 9.55
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET
l lose.
Janß.oo@B.2o
Feb8.39@8.40
Mehß.sß@B.6i>
April 8.68@8.70
May 8.79@8.82
June ..8.85@8.87
July 8.'91@8.93
Aug 8.95@8.97
Sept .... ..7.48@7.52
0ct7.65@7.67
Nov. 7.83@7.95
Dec 8.00@8.02
COTTON MARKET OPINIONS
S. M. Weld & Co.: "We are inclined to
look for lower prices as cotton moves more
freely.”
Moyse & Holmes: "Prices are likely to
recede under tiie increasing weight of the
crop. Especially with further good weather
in the belt, such as predicted.”
George F. Jones & Son: “We continue to
feel that sales on the bulges will prove cor
rect, and with a continuation of good
weather, we look for a decline within a
short time.”
Hubbard Bros. & Co.: “The market will
be greatly Influenced by the weather next
week.”
Moss & Ferguson: "We advise purchases
on all setbacks.’’ '
LIVE STOCK BY WIRE
CHICAGO. Sept. 20.—Cattle—Receipts,
35,000; generally very slow; good and choice
steers, steady: early top, $18.25; bulk, good
and choice, $16.00@18.15; early bidding on
grassy cattle, butcher stock rangers, Stock
ers and feeders, 25c to 50c lower; calves,
50c lower; choice vealers, $17.00@18.00:
bologna bulls, $6.00@7.00; 'canners, $4.25
@4.75; steady; western supply, 12,000.
Hogs—Receipts. 22.000: slow, mostly 25c
to 35c higher; top. $18.25: bulk, light and
butchers. $17.30@18.10; bulk packing sows,
$16.10@16.75; pigs. 25c to 50c higher; bulk
desi-able kinds, $16.50@17.25.
Sheep—Receipts, 30.000: fat classes, slow
to 25c lower than Saturday’s average: top
native lambs, $13.73: bulk. $12.25@13.60;
choice Idaho. $13.95; fat ewes, largely $5.50
@6.00: feeder lambs, $13.25@13.65.
EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., Sent. 20.—Cattle:
Receipts. 7,500, including no Texans; mar
ket slow; native beef steers, $15.7"@16.50;
yearlings, steers and heifers, $12.00@16.50:
yearlings, steers and heifers, $12.00@16.50;
cows, $7 00© 8.00; stockorg and feeders,
$6.00(7710.50; calves. $12.50.
Hogs—Receipts, 7,500: market, 40*7?50c
higher; mixed and butchers, $17.60@18.25:
good nnd heavy, 516.50@17.50: roughs. $13.75
@ls 50; light. $15.10@18.25; pigs, $14.50©
17.75; bulk. $17.90@18 20.
Sheen—Receipts. 3.200; market steady:
dinned ewes, $6.00©8.00: Inmbs. $12.50@
13.00; canners nnd choppers, $2.00©6.00.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.. Sept. 20—Cattle—
Receipts 4,400, best steady, others slow.
Heavy steeers. $12.50%14.00: be“f steers,
87.50*7(12.00; heifers, $6.50@)1l .00; cows,
$4.75©10.50: feeders, $7.50@11.00; stock
era. $4.00@9.75.
Hogs—Receipts, 1.500, active. steady;
250 pounds up, $16.35; 165 to 250 pounds.
$17.75: 120 to 165 pounds, $17.25: pigs,
$11.50@10.00* throwmits, $12.75, down.
Sheep—Receipts, 1.000, steady; lambs,
$13.00; sheep. $6.00 down.
GRAIN MARKFT OPINIONS
Bartlett. Frazier & Co.: “All declines in
wheat will meet important buying, both foi
export and domestic accounts.”
Harris, Winthrop & Co.: “Anticipate per
manently lower prices In the future.”
UNFAVORABLE WEATHER
CUTS COTTON YIELD
IN GEORGIA THIS YEAR
(Continued from Page 1)
peaches, etc., so they do not depend
entirely on cotton, and this Is a for
tunate thing this year, when one con
siders that the crop this year of cot
section, and this estimate Is liberal
in view of the weather conditions.
While the boll weevil has made
ton will not he more than about 60
per cent of the average crop for this
its appearance here, yet the farmers
claim that it will not materially in
jure the cotton crop this year, .f,
indeed, it will injure it at all, but
some of them are apprehensive that
by next season it will have a good
hold, while others hold to the opinion
that the boll weevil cannot exist so
far north as Hall county.
The value Os cotton and the fu
ture price vary according to the
opinion of the men who handle cot
ton, or those who buy and sell. The
members of the American Cotto., as
sociation hold their cotton, or say
that they will hold it, fop 40 cents
a pound, asSper the agreement of the
Montgomery convention, while oth
ers say cotton will be plentiful on
the market at from 30 to 35 cents a
pound.
Picking cotton will begin about the
20th of this month. None has yet
been baled this season.
JASPER COUNTY YIELD
8,000 BALES SHORT
MONTICELLO, Ga., Sept. 18.—
Jasper county’s 1920 cotton crop is
some tiirec weeks late and the yield,
in the opinion of the farmers, bank
ers and cotton buyers in the county,
will be from 8,000 to 10.000 bales
short of what the present acreage
should yield under normal conditions.
Conservative estimates place the
year’s yield at from 15,000 to 18,000
bales, xvhile the estimates of the
yield from the same acreage under
rormal conditions are placed at 26,-
000 bales.
Conditions in the southern part of
the county are said to be far worse
than in the northern section. Here
the yield is estimated to fall short
by at least one-half, and the rent
ers are expected to make barely
enough to pay their rent.
EMANUEL’S YIELD TO BE
ABOUT SAME AS IN 1919
SWAINSBORO, Ga., Sept. 18.—The
Emanuel county cotton crop, by con
servative estimate, is conceded to
be about 50 per cent of the normal
crop, or about equal to that of the
1919 crop. The price of cotton and
seed has caused the farmers to hold
back the raw material, so that the
amount ginned Is only about 20 per
cent for this season. The boll weevil
has not made much more headway
than las. year, and had done 'ittlb
damage until the recent heavy rains.
ADVERSE CONDITIONS TO
CUT WHITFIELD’S YIELD
DALTON, Ga., Sept. 18.—That
Whitfield county’s cotton crop will
be materially shorter than last year's
crop is certain. Last year, condi
tions were ideal, and the county pro
duced by far the biggest crop in its
history—in round numbers, 11,000
bales. This year, there has been
much to contend with, and, in addi
tion, the acreage is not so large as
it was in 1919. All things consider
ed, the Whitfield county cotton farm
ers who are acquainted with condi
tions are of the opinion that they
will be lucky if 7,500 bales are pro
duced this year.
Owing to the protracted rains of
the spring, planting was, in many in
stances, fully a month later than
heretofore. • It will be October before
the picking season starts, and a kill
ing frost before November 1 would
be little short of disastrous. Cotton
is just beginning to open in this sec
tion and it is opening slowly.
But the extremely late crop Is not
all the farmers have to contend
with: the boll weevil has, for the
first time, started his ravages in
Whitfield county. Toward the close
of last season, a few weevils were
found, and up to a few weeks ago,
there was little evidence of the pest.
During the past three weeks the
iveevils in alarming numbers have
been found in many fields. In a
small patch of three acres on a farm
owned by Colonel W. C. Martin, the
crop of the weevil has been deadly.
Not more than a fourth of a crop
will be made there. C. O. Smith,
county farm agent, reports finding
the weevil in a number of sections
during the past few weeks.
Many farmers report fine stalk and
foliage, but comparatively few bolls
in their fields. This feature is hard
to account for, because the squares
didn't drop off—they didn’t form.
C. O. Smith, farm demonstration
agent, who has been into all sec
tions of the county and who knows
conditions, states that his estimate
of the crop in Whitfield county is
about 60 per cent under favorable
conditions for the remainder of the
season.
Reports reaching here from the ad
joining counties are to the effect that
the same conditions which obtain in
Whitfield county are general
throughout northwest Georgia. This
being the first year the boll weevil
has worked in this section, many of
the farmers take a pessimistic view
of this year’s crop. But, while the
weevil is prevalent in a number of
fields, in others he has not appeared.
On the other hand, there are some
who have ascertained the fact that
through the states west of Georgia,
the weevil in places as far north as
this section, has not proved so dis
astrous, and they are more optimis
tic over the outlook for the future.
In the meantime, all are working
to produce the biggest crop possible
and make the most of a situation
which is not any too bright.
MEETING OF COWETA
COTTON MEN CALLED
NEWNAN, Ga., Sept. 18.—W. L.
Kieth, chairman, and Geo. L. Wynn,
secretary, have called a meeting of
the Coweta division of the Ameri
can Cotton association, to be held
at the court house, Newnan, , Mon
day afternoon. Every white cotton
farmer, whether a member of the
association in Coweta county or not,
is asked to be present at this meet
ing, the object of which is to discuss
the marketing of the present crop of
cotton and cotton seed. Harvey
Jordan, national secretary of the
American Cotton association, will be
present and deliver an address to
the body.
A conservative estimate of the
crop in this county is thirty per
cent of a crop, due to the ravages of
the bool weevil in the past thirty
days, although it looked at one time
that Coweta might make a bumper
crop. The farmers are greatly dis
tressed over the present outlook of
the cotton crop, and it is eviden*
that they will turn their attention
Ito other crops another year, and
plans are being laid now for a large
acreage to be planted this fall to
wheat, oats, rye. and other winter
cover creeps.
CROP GREATLY DAMAGED
BY RAINS IN HART
HARTWELL, Ga., Sept. 18.—The
outlook for the cotton crop up until
about three weeks ago was the best
in the history of Hart county and
looked like the farmers would get a
full crop. Crops in Hart county
have been well cultivated and the
weed is large and healthy. Talks
with a number of leading farmers
over the county reveal that the cot
ton crop has been greatly damaged
in many sections of the county on
account of the continued rains; in
fact the damage on account of rains
is general, but in some sections not
as bad u.s in others.
In some communities the crop is
off something like fifty per cent, but
this does not exist in many localities.
The boll weevil has done consider
able damage in parts of the county,
which, with the wet weather has ma
terially decreased the yield this
year. The weevil is just getting-:, bi to:
Hart county and is here too, late.', ttt
do any great damage to the pres
ent crop.
The farmers over the county esti
mate the yield this year will be
about seventy to seventy-five per
cent. With late fall and favorable
conditions, it is possible to recoup
some of the loss sustained., r.
GATHERED RAPIDLY '
IN SUMTER COUNTY
AMERICUS, Ga., Sept. 18.—Sum
ter’s cotton crop is being gathered
rapidly this year, and already ap
proximately 5,000 bales of the esti
mated yield of 22,500 have been
gathered into Americus warehouses.
Two days this week nearly 600 bales
were received, and on numbers of
farms in the Twenty-eighth district,
just out of Americus, the picking
season is already nearly finished.
Farmers are selling their staple, too
whenever a price around thirty cents
can be obtained, according to the
best information.
George O. Marshall, county farm
demonstration agent, estimates Sum
ter county will produce this year a
total of 22,500 bales, which com
pares with approximately 30,000 bales
marketed in Americus last year, al
though the acreage this season is
somewhat larger than that of last
yea* The crop, too, hr>>-
expensive one. High prices paid la
bor throughout the growing season,
combined with the necessity of using
large quantities of calcium arsen-1
ate, has made the 1920 cotton crop'
in Sumter county cost farmers more '
than any crop produced in recent
years.
Notwithstanding all precautions I
taken, weevil have wrought heavy!
damage in Sumter’s cotton fields,'
and practically everywhere the so
called “'top crop” is a complete fail- '
ure. Farmers here, however, have!
not depended this year entirely up
on cotton as a money crop. The
hog and cattle raising Industry has
brought into Sumter county within
the past year about $200,000’ in cash,
and, in addition, adequate crops of
small grain, corn, velvet beans and
peavine hay have also been produc
ed. One of the largest acreages ever
t 0 sw eet pot'oes in this
section i.. now being harvested by
Sumter county farmers, and this is
nrnriZ ne m °ney crop. Several
gas % \i
S’ w ‘“ be
“LATE FALL’’ HOPE OF
FLOYD COUNTY PLANTERS
? ept - 18—The extent
the cotton crop in
cou pty depends almost entirely
upon weather conditions for the re
mainder of the fall. The crop is
tully three weeks later than usual.
Last year the first bale was brought
to Rome August 31, this year Sep
tember 13.
Should there be an early frost, such
t^lis section in October
of 1917, there will not be more than
naif a crop made. Should there be
a late fall,” giving the crop time
to mature, the best posted cotton men
in the county agree that there will
probably be a yield approximating 75
per cent of last year.
The boll weevil is a factor to reck
on with this year. Last year he was
just beginning to appear and had no
appreciable effect upon the crop.
While the infestation is not general,
the weevil has been reported in vari
ous parts of the county. On some
farms the weevil is at work in cer
tain ..fields and has not reached other
fields. The pest may be found on
one farm, and to date has snared
another a few miles away. Where
the weevil is at work less than half
a crop will be produced.
Cotton that was planted early
makes a fine showing and will pro
duce well. Cotton that was planted
late on account of the wet spring
will not do so well. The plants are
big and vigorous, but are not fruit
ing.
Since September 10 there has been
hot sunshine during the days and
warm nights. These conditions are
ideal for the maturing of cotton and
have helned prospects materially. The
dry weather has been unfavorable to
the boll weevil, and a con’innance of
these conditions is earnestly hoped
for bv tFe cotton grower.
CROP NEARLY MONTH
LATE IN CARROLL COUNTY
CARROLLTON, Ga., Sept. 18.—The
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1920.
COLQUITT COUNTY
FARMER MEETS
STRANGE DEATH
MOULTRIE, Ga., Sept. 20.—Great
mystery attaches to the death of Mr.
J. J. Manning, well-known Colquitt
county farmer, who was found Sun
day with two wounds in the back of
his head in a vacant tenant house
on his place about two miles from
Berlin. He died a few minutes later
without regaining consciousness.
Coroner Barber was to hold an in
quest over the body this afternoon.
Mr. Manning left home about 10
o’clock Sunday and went to the home
bf his nephew. J. Southerland, about
a mile away. He stayed there ■ ntil
noon and refused an invitation to
lunch, leaving for home. Mrs. Man
ning waited until about 1 o’clock for
her husband. Becoming alarmed, she
notified neighbors and a search for
him was instituted. He was found
in the tenant house. All of the
dcors and windows were barred from
the inside and it was necessary to
break in to reach him. That "act is
one of the mysterious features of the
case which is puzzling the officers
who are conducting the investiga
tion.
Some hold to the view that Mr.
Manning was attacked while he was
on the way home from his nephew’s
and then carried to the house where
he was found and locked in. The
house was about 200 yards off the
route Mr. Manning would have fol
-1 lowed to reach his home.
POST-CARD "WARNING
SAYS SECOND BLAST
IS DUE ON TUESDAY
(Continued from Page 1)
here,” he added, referring to the de
tectives. “That’s all I know. 1 don’t
know what sort of statement you
fellows expect me to make. I don’t
know much to say.”
At police headquarters the cigars
Fischer picked up were “examined
and found to contain nothing but to
bacco.”
Fischer stuck to his statement
that “it was a premonition” that
warned hitp in advance of the Wall
explosion, adding “more will
happen in the future. Unseen power
will have communicated through
me.”
The detectives who brought him
here from Hamilton explained that
Fischer invariably had made the
same assertions , In reply to their
questions throughout the trip, adding
that he . was a “friend of the under
dog.”
Alexander J. Brailovsky, Russian
journalist, held over Sunday in con
nection with the investigation, was
released today by the police. Brail
ovsky was picked up when it was
reported he was seen shortly after
the explosion, laughing loudly near
the corner where the bomb was set
off.
The September grand jury was don
venedt today to investigate the ex
plosion that shook the financial dis
trict last Thursday and exacted a
toll of thirty-four lives and injury to
nearly 300 others. Subpenas were Is
sued for the appearance of scores of
eye-witnesses of the b'ast.
coxTTdisturbed
AT UNFAIR ATTITUDE
OF PRESS OF WEST
(Continued from Page 1)
Harding. Evidence of a ullenness
in this state are not lacking. The
people who helped Johnson win the
primary vote for the presidential
nomination are deeply hurt that the
verdict was ignored and Governor
Cox pours oil on the troubled waters
not. only by emphasizing that Sena
tor Harding didn’t carry my pri
maries outside of his own state, but
that if Senatoi Johnson had entered
the Ohio primary he would have
captured the vote.
Northern California with its ant’
League of Nations sentiment among
the Irish as a factor of importance
seem s to be at the present moment
inclined toward the Republican
nominee. This state, however, had
everybody guessing four years ago
and shows some of the same symp
toms of uncertainty this year.
cotton crop in Carroll county this
year is from twenty-five days to one
month late, due to continuous rains
during the planting season. It is
customary for Carroll county farm
ers to plant their cotton from the
fifteenth to the twenty-fifth of April,
but on account of weather conditions
cotton planting was not started until’
May 10, and continued through until
June 1.
Following the planting season a
dry spell for several weeks aided
greatly the cotton crop, and a good
growth was noticeable; however, rain
again set in, and at the present time
a crop is figured twenty-five days
late, with about a 95 per cent normal
stand. On account of the continued
rains, cotton has taken on a very
large weed at the expense of fruit,
and authorities who are in close
touch with the cotton situation in
Carroll county, claim that of the 95
per cent normal stand only about 60
per cent will bear fruit, due to the
activities of the boll weevil. The
cotton bolls already on the stalk
are very small and a large number
of them deformed by the work of
the weevil.
Due to recent rains, which have
made it impossible for the farmer
to do the necessary amount of work
in his cotton, pick up squares, etc.,
the weevil is present and numerous,
and at the present time the weevil
is taking all of the top crop and Is
working on bolls which are half
matured.
Carroll county cotton has always
brought a premium to Carroll farmers
over the market price, and is prefer
red by eastern manufacturers. Last
year Carroll raised 34.715 bales, more
than one bale for every man, woman
and child in the county, plac.ine in
the hands of the farmers more than
$7,000,000 for the ginned cofton, and
S’.ooo nno for the cotton seed.
TOO MUCH RAIN
AROUND ADAIRSVILLE
ADAIRSVILLE, Ga., Sept. 18.—The
cotton in this section is just be
ginning to open, being about three
weeks late. The continued rains
have caused the weed to grow so
much that the fruit is shedding. In
the past two weeks considerable
boll weevils have appeared which
will do some damage.
German, in Mexico, Is
Planning Sabotage on
America, Says Letter
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 18.—The
American embassy has received a
letter from Vera Cruz declaring a
German named Janken has arrived
there by steamer with the intention
of using that city as a base for a
campaign of sabotage against the
United States. The letter, which
was signed “Louis” contained no
further details.
During the war, it was learned,
Jankin was suspected of being a
member of the German espionage
force in Mexico. He was accused
of participating in various plots
against the United States.
Embassy officials were Inclined to
believe that Janken might know
something about Thursday’s bomb
explosion In New York. have
directed an investigation in Vera
Cruz.
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