256 COTTON 
with its picking season soon passed, and prospects 
for fifteen or twenty bales were now brighter: Git: 
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 
ear. 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 
UniTeED SraTEs DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
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PIEle) Ss] lel 2 2/8) 2) 2] 2) Sle] s 
slelgldlelzlglsiél s|eéleiaizl & 
1905 oe ahs nen oe 
June........../87/83/78/84} 88'87/73.73'69| 73] 87] s4issigil77.¢ 
Diuilyee devant |88|82|78|82| 87/83\72.73. 72, 75} 86] 86)/83|79/77 
August........ 7880/79/82) 85,7969 66/71] 68) 80) 85)83)82)74.9 
September .... a6 76/75/77) 77,70 peat Saf 72) 81; 86/82)80/72.1 
October ....... T7/77,7476) 76 70/68 59169 72) 79] 81/80/78|71.2 
1904 | | 
JUDE: ede 82/84'81/78] 88.80/85 86!84| 84] 85} 82|93/90/83 
July ......... ./87/90/88|85) 92 85]89.90)89] 90] 89] 89/92'87|88 
August. ...... .|90/93'91/91) 94,90|9295|91) 93) 92) 90/95)91/91.6 
September..... 88 8887/86] 88 8487.87/77, 88} 88] 87\96 8984.1 
October ..... . ./82/82/81]78| 82.76.77 78.69. 77) 76] 82/85/83'75.8 
