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Show The Cotton Crop. No one ought to go without a ablrt his year merely because the cotton srop will be only about 13,000,000 ales. It Isn't many years since that rould have been a bumper crop, and ast two crops were very much larger ban any others ever picked. The rope of 1911-42 and 1912 13 slightly iceed 34.000,000 bales. Add 13,000.-100 13,000.-100 bales for the present "short" crop nd we have 47.000.000 bales for three ears, an average of nearly 16.000.000 iales a year. A few years ago 12,000,-00 12,000,-00 astonished ns. And the world's onsumptlon must be outrunning popo-atlon popo-atlon for prices have ruled high while reduction waa making new records. 'hlladelphla Record. |