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Show I COTTON DECLINES ON GOVERNMENT REPORT WASHINGTON. Sept. 2. An increase during August of '.'l-J.OOQ bales in the pros-' pros-' peotive co:ton crop this year was shown : in tivhiv's cotton report of the depart-' depart-' meiU of arinUure. which forecast a to-. to-. t.il of II. .-'''.'Km hales. The condition of .' the crop. HI. 4 per ( '-" of a normal, showed a declinu of 5.7 points from July 25 to , August 2.", comparerl with an average decline during the last ten years of 7.7 r points. f loll weevils, bol! worms, army worms and red .-pi'lers. roml-ined with almost conti:un'':-s rains over consi1"Tahle areas of the h'-it. with dry. hot we;Uiier follow-; follow-; inir tin- heavy rains, caused the deteriora-, deteriora-, tion -of tiie crop. vj-w yorx, s.-nt. 2. A heavy brenk jDl!oved 'ublicf of the covornment's 'rop PvoVt in :k cotton markft to-'ay. Sioii diili.-rs wcR' ',;ncov.red on the break, v.'h i.'h ' .i rricd .i'-! i vc months t' j to K'O I'.'oim.- below l-Yifiay's rlnsins figures, with m :(: s'-Iiins f f from C2.1-" to 30.50 f-ent.s wit;;;n a wry fr-w m.inutes. |