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Show 1 "-- "FIGURES ON COTTON CROP. I A WOMAN EXPERT WHO HAS AN ENVIABLE HECORd. Is a Product of ths Dureiu of Slitls- tie at Washington She Is Now Connesltd with New York Cotton Market. New York Wall street has another! 'lady statistician' Her name Is Mr Ilerthit J Hurrh, and her aiwclalty I ' cotton Hhe ha entered Into her new field after a thorough course ot train Ing In the bureau ot statistics at Wash Inaion where she was lor suvernl year the confidential secretary and I assistant of John Hyde who, whatever else may hv hl of bun Is tn-day eon aWsred the ablest statistician the bu reau ever had Wall street at first was Inclined lo make light of ' lady itnllstldin," a It saeerlngly called Ihani VHts Kale M title labored under the handlear of sea when she first began tn give out figure on the condition of Ihe cotton crop and estimates of thn sis of the yield finally It dawned on the maa eullne cotton esiierls that thvy had better look (o their own laurels, and slnte then Miss (Hies ha been permitted per-mitted lo pursue hr work undisturbed. undis-turbed. Mrs Ilurth In many respects Is the livtt trained cotton statistician who has over been connected with the New York cotton market When she resigned re-signed from Ihe bureau of statistics last year Secretary Wilson said ot her 'She la n very abl woaian and probably rapablo of Issuing as good a nport as Hyde himself" She became associated with the bureau bu-reau of statistic about ten years ago, when Henry A Hoblnson was Its chief. Shu occupied n BUbordlnala position nt Iho time, but rapidly worked ber way upward When John Hydo became chief of thn bureau Mra Ilurcli wna appointed his secretary, as sho was familiar with statistical work and was an eictllent stenographer During llio Hyde trglme Mr Ilurcli became acqualutixl with Ih methods of her Bupsrlor She learned bow the reporta were mad up and how tho replies re-plies from the different classes ot cor resK)iidut were weighed Bhe soon Issrned that It waa wis tn add a grain ol salt to the tale ot damage related by some crop killer." as well as lo H lake with allowance Ihe optimistic re- H port sent In by some correspondent ijBI who undoubtedly waa "short" ot thn UaflV market. In every department of the, 111 eclonce ot statistic she served hei Igafl apprenticeship. She alto became ao jH quttnteil with Ihe better classes nt, jH correspondents and learned thoto In 'H w hnm lo V'nce reliance Hfl Soon after the dctariura of Hyde for Kuroiio a firm of Now York broker j suit a representative in Washington j and asknl Mrs Hurrh In take charge ,J of tliolr crop reporting Tho est. mate 1 .Ha. ! t8? tfc.. I MRS. DERTHA J. DUnCH. ' (An Expert on th Cotton Crop o( i Amsrlca.) of tho ration crop mad by Mrs Hurrh Inst year atauda out clearly as the best Issued While somo "guessos" ns lo the total of Iho jleld csms somewhat nuirur the mark, they wero haphaiard shots that sometimes tusk a bulla eye Taking It stato by stats for the wholo belt, tho lady alatlatl , rlan" made the lieat balanced estimate of the thousands that wero Issued. Although o very body thought tho crop could not possibly esceed 10 300000, and many placed It below 10,000,000, Mra. Ilurch placed It at 10.970,000 Tho bureau of statistics made an estimate, of 10,107,000 The actual yield la now admittedly n little more than 11,000, 000 Bo Mrs Ilurch came elusor to tha production than her old frlonda In tho bureau of statistics |