AMERICAN COTTON CROP
LOWEST FOR TEN YEARS.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.^ (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) WASHINGTON, Ist October. The Journal of Commerce," America's leading commercial newspaper basing its estimates on the reports of 1600 special correspondents in American cotton-growing districts, states that he crop percentage this year will probably be only 49 per cent., the lowest lor the past 10 years. This percentage, on the basis of the official acreage figures, indicates that 10,950,000 balls might bo produced in the .event of reasonably favourable weather conditions being encountered during the remainder of the season. Estimates more optimistic place the yield at 11.400,000 bales. ■ ."
Ihe present season has been lamentably unpropitious, the picking being deayed by persistent rains, and boll rot being considerable owing to the exces sivo moisture. Weevil activity continues unabated, and the top crop is almost a failure. Pickers are scarce. Good weather is urgently needed to save the remainder of the crop.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 81, 3 October 1923, Page 5
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154AMERICAN COTTON CROP Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 81, 3 October 1923, Page 5
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