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Show GOOD COTTON CROP EXPECTED Decrease in Acreage Will Not Average Ten Per Cent Planters Did Not Use Much Fertilizer. "It looks like a pood-sizprl crop nt cotton this year." remarked II J ('as-tleman ('as-tleman of Atlanta to a Washington Post representative the other day. "Of course, no one can tell what is goiiiK to happen to the crop until later In the season, hut the prospects non-are non-are that the crop will be larce. not so big as last vear's. but better tlin .the averace. "There has been some decrease nf acreage in all tlie cotton t-invt--stntes. but not what was exi"- t"d H will certainly not averace n-i p. r cent The decrease in fe'-t-'! m be the most important fa-f" in re ducing the crop to whatever (.stent it may be reduced. "Figures show that the planters did not use nearlv so much fertilf7er as last vear principally because thev couldn't get it. The war cut off Irr. portatlons of certain components of fertilizers, and in some sections It was almost impossible to supply the demand. Tnis was not general ! ow ever, and while, as I have said, the crop will not be a large as last year. It will certainly be larger than generally expected, always providing, of course, that weather conditions do not Interfere." |