Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1903 — CENSUS REPORT ON COTTON. [ARTICLE]

CENSUS REPORT ON COTTON.

Amount Ginned Up to Nor. 14 la Compared with Last Tear. The census bureau hns Issued a report on the quantity of cotton ginned from the growth of 1903 up to and including Nov. 14, showing a total of commercial bales of 7,070,437. There were 29,506 ginneries operated. The cotton ginned in 1902 was 9,311,835 commercial bales up to Dec. 13. No estimates are given of the amouut of cotton remaining unginned. These will be given in the Department of Agriculture’s estimate of the cotton cropha The census bureau announces that it ought to he possible in the Jan. 16 report “to cover practically the entire cotton crop of 1903-4, and this will be two months earlier than we were able to do a year ago.” - The Agricultural Department at Washlngtou is trying to develop a large, juicy pineapple to sell at 10 cents. For a similar kind as high as 50 cents is being paid at present. A plague among the reindeer of northera Russia is rapidly decimaliug the herds of these useful animals and preventing fishermen from bringing their catch to market K. G rah a me, secretary of the Bank of Kngland, narrowly escaped death in London when a crazy man fired foot shots at him bat missed him.