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Before the appearance of the boll weevil, the American cotton crop had reached 16,000,000 bales in one season. The demand for cotton has been good for the past two years, but so serious have been the inroads upon the cotton plant by the insect pest, that including the present year, there have been short crops for three years running. Slack demand and low prices can account in part for the small 8,000,000-bale crop of 1921; and to a much lesser extent for the 9,000,000-bale crop of 1922. During the past year, however...
Just how critical the cotton shortage will prove, will depend upon consumption as well as production. Consumption for 1923 is estimated as 630,000 bales less than in 1922. Actually, we have so far this year exported 283,499 bales more than we had last year at this time, and consumption for 1923 may exceed the 12,000,000 bales estimated. On the other hand, the high retail price of cotton goods has already caused a partial buyers' strike, which of course cuts down consumption by spinners of the raw bale cotton. While mills will continue to buy even...
...fall in the percentage condition from 71% on May 25 to 69.0% on June 25, to 67.2% on July 25 and finally to 54.1% on Aug. 25 has naturally reduced in proportion the estimate of the size of the coming crop. This estimate now stands at 10,788,000 bales, compared with an estimate of 11,516,000 bales made a month earlier, and with the single exception of 1921 is the lowest for August in the past nine years. The pessimistic tone of the Government forecast was a complete surprise to the trade, and resulted in a sharp advance...
...other hand, have been scored against only by the Newton High School team, which took four points of their contest to the Freshmen's five. In the encounters with Exeter, Worcester, and the first-year men of M. I. T. Dartmouth, and Tufts, moreover, the Freshman team was bale each time to completely shut out its opponents...
...water was so rough in the lower half of the Basin that all three crews were forced to pull up on shore and bale out before starting back to the boat-house...