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Show CUT DOWN COTTON PLANTING Many Farmers Devoting .More Time to Potatoes, Wheat and Other Grain Outlook Is Bright. "Ten million bales will ibe the maximum maxi-mum of the cotton crop in 1916, in my opinion," said Judge Henry D. Clayton of Alabama, former member of the house, now on the federal bench, the other day. "Many farmers in the South who have grown cotton almost exclusively exclu-sively in the past have planted wheat and other small grains, and are planning plan-ning to put in potatoes and other farm crops upon which they can live. It is a sure thing that the cotton crop this year will be far less than that of 19H, which reached nearly 17,000,000 bales, and this undoubtedly will solve the so-called so-called 'cotton situation.' There h..s been a very pronounced inirrovcrnpi:i in conditions all through the S"i:tii. Cotton planters have been send.ng their cotton to market and getting a pretty good price for it. The trend is upward all along the line, l look for large shipments of cotton to Hiirnpe in the next 30 to GO days. 1'urope needs the cotton and we have it. and as Lurope has declared and our cotton men l.tive been convinct d that it is not contraband if war there will not be any timidity about sending it abroad. "1 a:ri much gratified with the out-i out-i look for 131.-. We are sure to have a ' hiclily prosperous year. Ther.- is no I country on the ej:b t!-a! has s:oa j bright prorpects. ard. above all. e are at peace with the wr-U." |