Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forecast of the cotton crop made by the Department of Agriculture on Sept. 1 showed a marked reduction from the estimate made Aug. 1. During the intervening weeks there had been excessive rainfall in eastern and southern parts of the cotton belt, equally excessive droughts in Texas and Oklahoma, renewed activity by the boll weevil and leaf worm. As a result the"percentage condition" of the coming crop as of Aug. 25 was only 54.1%-the lowest figure ever reported by the Department of Agriculture. At this rate, the average acre under cotton will yield only 134.8 pounds...
...unclassified insect appeared in Rapides Parish, La., and is damaging cotton on numerous plantations. It is neither a boll weevil nor an army worm, and the state entomologist, Prof. T. H. Jones, is investigating...
...Wages in the North are high; wages in the South low. The Department of Labor estimates that cotton-mill workers are paid 99.53% more in Massachusetts than in the South, and that other wages are at least proportional. In Georgia a Negro farm worker gets about $1.25 a day; in the Pennsylvania steel mills he is offered $4.50 a day and "all the overtime he wants...
...bring good results to the country as a whole by helping to balance economic forces. In the North a shortage of labor will be relieved. The Negroes will get better pay and gradually achieve better standards of living. In the South the departure of the Negroes will cut down cotton production somewhat. The result will be higher prices for Southern farmers, better living conditions, improved methods of farming and better conditions for the Negroes who remain in the South. As Secretary of Agriculture Wallace suggested, the problem of the wheat region of the West will probably find its ultimate solution...
...President Harding's policies and Cabinet would not be changed. The only uneasiness which the painful event created in business circles was in connection with the Republican nomination in 1924. Little important change in the wholesale markets occurred, although the downward price movement continued to some extent in cotton and sugar. Merchants and manufacturers continue more optimistic as a class regarding the business prospects of next Fall and Winter than do bankers and security buyers. This, however, is a per- fectly normal condition for the opening of a period of relative depression in industry...