256 
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 
Virginia 
North Carolina] 
[south Carolina] 
[Georgia 
Florida 
[Alabama 
[Mississippi j 
[Louisiana j 
Texas 
Arkansas 
Tennessee 
Missouri 
[Oklahoma 
| Ind'n Territory | 
Average 
1905 
June 
87 
83 
78 
84 
88 
87 
73 
73 
09 
73 
87 
84 
88 
81 
77.2 
July 
88 
82 
78 
82 
87 
83 
72 
73 
72 
75 
86 
86 
83 
79 
77 
78 
80 
79 
82 
85 
79 
69 
66 
71 
68 
80 
85 
83 
82 
74.9 
76 
70 
75 
77 
77 
70 
08 
62 
70 
72 
81 
86 
82 
80 
72.1 
77 
77 
74 
76 
76 
70 
68 
59 
09 
72 
79 
81 
80 
78 
71.2 
1904 
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 
!)() 
93 
91 
91 
94 
90 
92 
95 
91 
93 
92 
90 
95 
91 
91.6 
88 
88 
87 
86 
88 
84 
87 
87 
77 
88 
88 
87 
96 
89 
84.1 
October 
82 
82 
81 
78 
82 
76 
77 
78 
69 
77 
76 
82 
85 
83 
75.8 
