Raleigh, Nov. 11—Frank Parker, State Agricultural Statistician, estimates the cotton crop of North Carolina for 1924 at 750,000 bales, with a prospect of 13 million bales for the entire belt. His forecast and review says:
“When the North Carolina cotton report for October 1 was made by farmers, conditions looked very gloomy. One month later weather conditions had been ideal for picking and ginning. Boll weevil and rotting ravages seem to have ceased after the September rains. Realization of yields to November 1st were better than most farmers expected. These conditions, together with 374,554 bales reported ginned to November 1st, and the reporters estimates of 50 per cent of the cotton ginned to date, were the basis for determining the government’s crop estimate of 770,000 bales, averaging 500 pounds each. The average condition reported was 49 per cent of a full crop."
From the front page of the New Bernian, November 12, 1924. Headline and first paragraph says crop was 750,000 bales; Second paragraph says it’s 770,000 bales.
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