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Show Short Cotton Crop Will Csus Fao-torlea Fao-torlea to Cloa Down. That a wldesproad curtailment ol production by cotton mills In tha United Unit-ed States will be found nocossary. during dur-ing the next fow month on account of the great cost of raw material I th opinion of leading mill men In Iloston, from which the policy of mnny cot ton mills In tho north Is directed. The market for finished material tins been unsatisfactory for months snd prices havo not rlnen correspondingly with those of cotton. Tbe mills In New England Eng-land employ fully 17"..n0 bands, C5.OO0 of whom bavo had their wages reduced re-duced 10 per cent this fall, snd 75.000 additional will be cut within tho noxt two weeks. |