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r n ,Tn.i r ai n ? ? a "n~T~ COTTON CROP REPORT The consolidated and detailed re port of the cotton crop was prepared by J. W. Jay A Co., Now York and it cover* the dates up to and includ ing August 17th. The average indicated percentage of the cotton crop was found to be <0.0, CONDITION BY STATES Per Cent. ? Virginia 66.7 North Carolina 64.9 South Carolina ?.. 61.1 Georgia ... r __ 47.1 Florida -..J... , 63.3 Alabama 63.5 Mississippi a... ... 62.1 Louisiana 61.7 Texas - 60.1 Arkansas 67.2 Tennessee - ... 67.9 Oklahoma .... 62.3 Missouri '.. 62.3 California and Lower California 93.2 Arisona and all others 2 83.5 SUMMARY BY STATES Virginia?Ten days late. Cultivi vation poor to fair. Plant normal to slightly undersire. Fruiting fair to poor. Shedding more than usual. Prospects for top crop poor. No shortage of labor. Weather unfavor able, too wet. Outlook poor to fair. North Carolina?Normal to twelve days late. Cultivation good to fair. Plant normal with many sections re ported oversise on account of exces sive moisture. Fruiting poor to fair. Shedding normal. Prospects for top crop not promising. Need clear, warm weather. Weevil active in south and southwest. Labor plenti ful. Prospects poor, except in north. South Carolina?Normal to ten days late. Cultivation good to fair. Plant norma) to slightly undersize, and in some counties above use, be cause of excessive rains. Fruiting fair to poor. Shedding more than usual. Poor prospects for top crop. Plenty of labor. Continued wet weather causing heavy weevil damage. Correspondents are not optimistic as to final yield. Outlook poor to bad. Georgia?Ten days early to two weeks late. Cultivation good to fair. Plant notmal. Fruiting fair to poor. 8hedding more than usual. No top nop expected. Labor plentiful. The continued excessive rainfall caused great destruction by the weevil. Clear warm weather will improve conditions somewhat, although planters are dis couraged as the prospects are poor to bad. Florid*?Tan days early to about ?eren days late. Cultivation fair to good. Plant normal. Fruiting fair. Normal amount of shedding. Top crop prospects poor, tio scarcity of labor. Because of the excessive rain fall weevil active and doing consid erable damage. Outlook poor. Alabama?About ten days late. Cultivation fair to good. Plant en average normal. Fruiting good to poor. Shedding normal, except on sandy land where more than usual. Very little top crop expected. Where moisture excessive wevil active, al though on the whole damage slight so far because of clear weather. Plenty of labor. Prospects poor. Mississippi?Ten. days early to ten days late. Cultivation fair to good. Plant normal. Fruiting poor to fair. Sledding more than usual. Pros pects for top crop not promising. Weevil and army worms active, and together with hot winds have caused heavy destruction. Need beneficial showers as weather too dry. No scarcity of labor. Prospects poor. Louisiana?Normal to ten days late. Cultivation good to fair. Plant normal. Fruiting fair to poor. Shed ding more than usual. No top crop expected. Entirely too much rain caused heavy weevil damage. Dry weather with occasional showers needed. Labor plentifuL Outlook poor. xexas?normal to ten day* late. Cultivation good to fair. Plant nor mal to undenixe. Fruiting good in aome countie*?fair to poor in other*. Shedding more than usual. Because of excessive high tepuperaturoe top crop prospects poor. Weevil active and destructive in localities where had rain. In other sections their activity restricted on account of dry, hot weather. Most of state in need of occasional showers. Plenty of labor. Prospects poor. Arkansas?Ten days early to one week late. Cultivation fair to good. Plant normal. Fruiting on average fair. Dry weather causing more than usual amount of shedding. Prospects for top'crop poor. Complaints of] army worms and some weevil, but in tatter case activity greatly restricted bceause of hot dry weather. . A good rainfall needed, otherwise crops will further deteriorate. Plenty of labor. Prospects poor to fair. Tennessee Ten days early to ten days Ista. Cultivation fair to good. Plant normal. Fruiting fair to poor. Shedding mors than usual. Meed geod general rainfall els weather too dry and hot. Prospects for top cr^p not promising. Outlook poor to-fife. Oklahoma?One week eerty to ton ? dan >?*?- Cultivation fair to good. Plant normal. Fruiting fair to poor. Shedding mora than uaual. Naad good general rainfall aa weather la too dry and hot. Piwapecta for top crop not promiaing. Outlook poor to fair. Miaeouri?Normal to one week early. . Cultivation good. Plant nor mal. Fruiting good to fair. Shed ding more to uaual. Proapects for top crop only "fair. No inaect com plaint. Need beneficial thowera. Noj scarcity of Abor. Outlook fair. California?Normal to one week late. Cultivation good. Plant nor mal. Fruiting excellent. Shedding less than usual. Prospects for top crop good. No insect complaints. Labor plentiful. Outlook good to excellent. Aritona?About one week late. Fruiting good. Shedding normal. Cultivation good. Plant normal. Top crop proapects good. No inaect complaints. General prospects good. RESUME The weather, since our last investi gation as of July 18th, was indeed most unfavorable. The continued ex cessive rainfall' in Georgia and the Carolines caused heavy destruction by the ball weevil. In the central part I of the belt, and west of the Missis sippi River, rapid deterioration took place, because of lack of rainfall and unseasonable -high temperatures, thereby causing heavy shedding. Unless all the states west of Geor gia except Louisiana receive benefi cial rains within the next week or two there will be a further decline in the percentage conditions. In the Atlan tic district dry weather and season able temperatures are urgently need ed. In the west the weevil have been kept in check to a great- extnt, by the hot weathar. Since our investigation as of aver age date, August 17th, weather con ditions have continued unfavorable. Using the Government acreage fig ures (allowing 1 per cent for aban donment of acreage), the percenage condition shown in the report indi cates, with norma] weather hence forth, a yield of approximately 11, 000,000 bales (linters excluded). Using Mr. Hester's figures. This season starts with a carry-over of American cotton as follows: VISIBLE SUPPLY Bales Counted interior towns 312,000 U. S. Ports ?1 460,000 European ports 1,149,000 INVISIBLE SUPPLY Uncounted towns and on plantations 964,000 MILL STOCK Southern 680,000 Northern 699,000 European ... 800,000 Carry-orer (all kinds, July 80, 1922 (lint cotton 4,672,000, linters ? 332,000 ...4,904,000 To which add the probable yield indicated in this report of 11,000,000 ? Linters 600,000 11,6000,000 Making the seasons supply 16,404,000 Against which we esti mate consumption linters included) In America 6,400,000 Foreign 6,300,000 , 12,700,000 ? ' ' ' Leaving an indicated carry over July 31, 1923 3,704,000 Of the lint cotton carried over in America the returns to Secretary Hester indicated 88 per cent tender able on future contracts, 10 .per cent not tenderable and 2 per cent very poor grade*. The large quantity of lowest grades, which accumulated during the war period, have passed out of sight and the cotton remaining is much higher in average spinning value than that carried into the sea son just closed. This fact, coupled with a greater cloth durability, must, we think, be considered in attempting a forecast of the consumption of American cot ton next season. The average price of middling cot ton for last year was 17.78 cents per pound compared with 16.08 in 1920 21, 88.21 in 191*20, and 30.36 in 1918-19. The gross weight per bale, including bagging and ties, was 508.36 pounds, compared with 614.26 pounds in 1920-21 and 510-28 in 1919-20. The average grade Was middling compared with barely mid dling, 1920-21, strict low, 1919-20, i barely middling, 1018-19, middling, 1917-18. ? Considering the consumption prob lem from all angles and anticipating no calamity in Europe other than painful reconstruction, and anticipat ing a higher average price for cotton this season by reason of the small sup ply, in our judgment the consumption will probably be, Maters included, about as follows:?la the United States 6,409,000; Japan and China 906,909; Mexico and Canada 226,000 Germany and German Austria 1,000, 000; Czechoslovak: and Poland 426, 006; Holland, Ssundinavta and Swits WEDDING OF FEEBLE MINDS COSTLY TO N. C. A feeble-minded man married a feeble-minded woman id 1MB, and since 1911 the two, together with their, six children haee coat North North Carolina in institutional care and detention in jails at total of 80,677. while Ave members of the family, at present in institutions, are running the total up at the rate of 91,600 annually. This the result of Investigations conducted by the State Board of Public Welfare into the record of Joe Frances and his Wife, Winnie Frances, both of whom have figured largely in court records in Raleigh and Wake county during the past twenty years. It does npt take into consideration two of the six children for whom no figures are available. One of them, Kelly Frances was in jail before .he was twelve years of age, served a term in the workhouse, committed burglary in 1918 and hasn't been beard from in this territory since. The other was Raymond given away by his parents in 1911 at the age of three.and at present in a foster home. All the children are feble-minded. Joe Frances head of the1 family a feeble-minded alcoholic has at inter vals served in the workhouse, the jail the county home, with more or less frequent police court appearances. In these places he has coat Wake county, in maintenance expenses, over 8622, while his commitment to the State Hospital this year creates a run ning charge of 8300 yearly on the State. Winnie Frances, who only recently was sentenced to Wake county jail, when she. was picked up out of a ditch in a drunken stupor, has been a regular jail boarder with an expense since 1911 of over 8876 for Wake county and Raleigh. The history of Irene, Myrtle, Mat tie and Floyd, whose birth dates were respective, 1898, 1899, 1902, 1905, run a close parallel beginning with the Children's Home Society and ending in institutions for the feeble-minded. Three of them Irene, Myrtle and Mat tie, are now in the Caswell Training School. Floyd is in the South Caro lina School for the Feeble-Minded. County home, jail, reformatory? those places of abode or temporary confinement run regularly through a chronological record of their lives. Irene has cost Wake county, North Carolina, Massachussetts, and South Carolina, over $2,230. Myrtle and Mattie - have coat North Carolina over $2,800 and 'Floyd has already cost $660. Each one continues to cost $300 yearly and the end is not yet. In other words, the one family with the imperfect records available, have, .since 1911, cost governmental agen cies in the State half of the annual appropriation for the State Board of Public Welfare not to mention the burden of expense on churches, Asso ciated Charities, Salvation Army, and private charity. This is just one family, and as such families go, a relatively harm less family. Out of it have come no, murders, no serious crimes against society, except, possibly, the burglary alleged against Kelly, whose record since 1913 is unknown. But Mrs. Clarence Johnson, Com missioner of Public Welfare in the State, points to the record of this family as characteristic of hundreds of like families over North Carolina, whose members are crowding jails, county homes, reformatories and State institutions. Through the com pulsory school law there is a method of getting in touch with the Joe* and the Winnies of the State. Keeping in touch with them, through the re cognising social agencies and prevent ing the multiplication of social dere licts?that's?that's another matter. It can't be done for $20,000 a year. Unless it is done the $20,000 North Carolina is spending on its public welfare work isn't a drop in the buck et to the thousands of. dollars poured out in their maintenance or confine ment, not to mention the uassessable losses ef unchecked criminal tenden cies. u ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE NORTH CAROLINA?Hertford Co. Having qualified as administrator of the estate of E. W. Waters, de ceased, this is to notify all persons having claims against aaid estate, to present them properly verified to the undersigned administrator, on or he fore the first day of September, 1023, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of any recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settle ment. * Vhis 1st day of September, 1022. A. C. WATERS, Administrator, of the Estate of E. W. Wters, PoweOsville, N. C. Craig A Pritchett, Attorneys 9-1-Ot. erland 230,00; France and Belgium 775,000; Great Britain 2,000,000; Italy and Spain 725,000; tatal 12, 900,000. -S '* ?x * '?> FIERY, ITCHY SKIN QUICKLY SOOTHED WITHSULPHUR Mentho-Sulphur, ft pUsaaat own, will soothe ud h?ftl skin that U irri tattd or broken out with ecaenm; that is oovered with ugly rash or pimplss, or Is rough or dry. Nothing subdue* fiery skin eruptions so quickly, sots ft noted akin specialist. The moment this sulphur preparation I* applied the itchiag stopa and after two or three applications, the eesema is gone and the akin is dslightfulljtelaar sad smooth. Sulphur is so precious as a skin remedy because it destroys the psrasttes thst cause the horning, itch ing or disfigurement Mentho-Sulphur si ways heals season right up. v" A smaH Jar Of Rowlaa Mrmtho-Sulphur may ha had at any good drag store. SOUR STOMACH l| - INDIGESTION TMhtft BUck-Dnngte Hifkly Grocer for Trodblss Ko> suiting fromTarptf Liver. But Wuhville, Tana.? The effic iency of Thedford's Black-Draugbt,"*be. genuine, herb, liver medicine, Is vouched, for by BIT. W. N. Parsons, a grocer of this city. "It la without doubt the beet liver medicine, and I don't believe I could get along without It I take it for aour stomach, head' ache, bad liver. Indigestion, and all other troubles that are the result of a torpid liver. , have known and need It for years, and can and do highly recommend It to every one. I wont go to bed with out It In the house. It will do all It claims to do. I cant say enough for It Many other men and women through out the country have found Black Draught Just so Mr Parsons describee ?valuable In regulating the liver to Its normal functions, and In cleansing the bowels of lm>u{ltlaa. ?Thedford's Black-Draught Uver medi etas Is the original and only genuine. Accept no imitations or substitutes, ' Always ask for Thedford's. ? ?' ? -*? 1 ' 1 "iv - ? ? BACK HOME AGAIN 1 I am back home again, after a long stay in a hospital, but owing to my health, I will be unable to call on my customers and jriends for some time. I have a large stock of Singer Sewing Ma chinee, which I will sell at reasonable prices. I also have a number of maohines of other makes, that can be bqpght at Your Price. You can find me at my office next to Phaup's Warehouse. J' Respectfully, B.S. BARNES Ahoskie, - - - N. C. vi> ? ? : j- ? HTLHSr PORTLAND CEMENT E I rTHE log-cabined, enak a-fenced. 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