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COTTON 



with its picking season soon passed, and prospects 

 for fifteen or twenty bales were now brighter : Octo- 

 ber soon passed and November ended the gathering 

 of the crop. Twenty-six bales had been secured. 



This illustration shows how fickle is the season 

 and its crop. While in this case better returns fol- 

 lowed than were anticipated, it is just as often true 

 that contrary results are realized. Hence, with the 

 cotton crop you can make no estimate by a hasty 

 review or a glance from the window of the railroad 

 car. You must watch the crop throughout its 

 growing season, and all the while be prepared for 

 any turn this capricious crop may take because of 

 some disease or some change in weather. 



The table following shows the estimates from 

 month to month for several years as reported by the 

 United States Department of Agriculture : 



MONTHLY COTTON REPORT 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



