The average crop for the past few
years has been 12,608,555 bales,
hence the 1908 crop exceeded that
average by 978,751 bales. In the
writer’s opinion there has been pro
duced several crops as great as that
of 1908, but the exceptional weather
of the fall months of that year per
mitted all bolls to open and allowed
all bolls to be harvested. The terri
tory west of the Mississippi river fur
nished nearly one-half of the 1908
crop, or 45.9 per cent, which is in
deed most remarkable when one
takes into consideartion the vast
areas devastated by floods in Ar
kansas, Texas and Oklahoma during
the growing period and the wide
spread ravages of the boll weevil. —
The Cotton Journal.
UNCLE SAM GETTING LEFT.
Until the politician and the trusts
got hold of us we believed we were
the smartest nation on the earth, the
most progressive, the most intelligent
and the most efficient, and we had
reasons. We laid the Atlantic cable!
We did things like that as a regular
thing.
Now comes poor old Spain with
cheaper postage, a parcels post and
postal savings banks.
As the Chicago Record-Herald
says: “Parcels post and postal sav
ings banks, especially the latter, are
government facilities provided for
nearly every country in Europe, suc
cessfully managed everywhere, and
regarded as boons to the people. They
are facilities forbidden to Americans
by the leaders of our Senate, because
they would do us harm instead of
good, and because we have not suffi
cient intelligence or ability as a gov
ernment to manage them success
fully.
