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kFAVORABLE PROSPECTS. For Good Rice Crop and Fair Prices This Year. From reports furnished by its own correspondents all over the rice belt, the Rice Journal has the following summary of the outlook on August 1: Taking all the elements of the situation into consideration, the outlook for rice is brighter than it was a month ago and it is alto gether more favorable than it has been before for two years. The prospect for a fair crop is better than it was a month ago, the re lations between demand and sup ply are such as to insure a good price, and the crop is laden with less debt than any crop ever be fore raised in the Gulf Coast rice belt. So far as the planted acreage is concerned, it is certainly not greater than the estimate of De Lancey Evans, rice crop estimat or for the Bureau of Statistics of the United States Department of Agriculture, who places the cut at twenty-six per cent. The es timate of Mr. Evans was based on a careful personal inquiry in Texas, Louisiana and the Atlant ic coast. So far as the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama and the Mis sissippi river crop are concerned the figures of Mr. Evans may be taken without question, as it is possible to arrive at tolerably ac curate figures as to these locali ties without much trouble. This is especially true with reference to the Atlantic coast, where Mr. Evans is personally acquainted with most of the rice planters and knows conditions intimately. It is also comparatively easy to estimate accurately the Missis sippi river crop. Mr. Evans does not make an estimate of the Southwest Louisiana reduction, content himself with the gen eral statement that there is a marked reduction which cannot be satisfactorily estimated be cause of complex conditions. He puts the Texas reduction at six teen per cent. Accepting the estimate of a sixteen per cent reduction in Texas and a fifty-five per cent reduction on the Atlantic coast, the Journal is inclined to believe that the Louisiana reduction in acreage will make the total net reduction in the United States somewhat greater than twenty six per cent, as given by the De partment. East of Crowley the cut is easily fifty per cent, while the consensus of reliable opinion places the reduction in South west Louisiana in the neighbor hood of forty per cent. Based on the Department's acreage figures for 1904 the cut this year is therefore about one-third, fig uring the Southwest Louisiana reduction at not less than forty per cent. The condition of the crop at this time is only medium. The recent heavy rains have operated to the injury of both the early and the late planting. A large percentage of the rice planted after the first of June has been drowned out and very little of it is up to more than half a stand. The early planting has been in jured by excess of water,both by reason'of the straw being weak ened and on account of the rice maggot. This worm, which works entirely in water and can be removed only by exposing the ground to air and sunlight, did considerable damage in some sections last year, but its ravages were generally arrested by drainage. This year it was for several weeks impossible to se cure effective drainage of consid erable areas and the maggot got a good start. As a result in many sections of the rice belt the crop is "spotted,",yellow patches indicating where the worm has devoured the root and killed the plant. The crop this year is generally very uneven, fields pre senting a ragged appearance, as if the surface of the ground had been left uneven. Reports received from the Journal's correspondents in vari ous party of the rice belt indicate that the condition of the crop is about the same east and west of the Sabine river, crop conditions in some parts of Texas-notably in Jefferson county and in the vicinity of E Campo being prob ably above the average. It is also worthy of note that reports from. American consular agents bdi ;.. Odms$ssh raiadSh jured rice in all the Asiatic coun tries, notably in China, where a famine is anticipated on account of the failure of the fall crop. -It is generally conceded by the best posted rice men that under the most favorable growing con. ditions for the balance of the sea son and with a good harvesting season the crop of 1905 cannot exceed 4,000,000 while most esti mators are expecting it to fall nearer three millions. Remem bering that the domestic con sumption-not counting the con sumption of imported rice-is well over four millions, while the foreign markets opened during the past year will easily absorb at least another million, it be comes at once apparent that the outlook for better prices than have prevailed during the past two years is very good. The market is dull just now. Holders of rice are not anxious to sell except at top figures and buyers are naturally buying from hand to mouth. The rice is all in strong hands, being held mainly in Crowley and New Or leans, and it is realized that it is a question of only a short time when price will rise to the im portation level. There will be some rice carried into the new crop, but it will not be enough to make next year's supply large enough to supply the domestic and Porto Rican consumption. A noteworthy feature of this year's crop is the fact that the small farmer has a larger rela tive percentage of the acreage than the large land owner who in many cases was unable to get tenants. Many of the small farmers have put in a full acreage and in most cases they have planted all they could care for without employing extra help. Another hopeful feature is the fact that there is less owed on this cron by the small farmer than on any previous crop in re cent years. This is because the farmers have sought less ad vances than formerly and the mills have pursued a more con servative policy with respect to advances. There appears to be a widespread determination on the part of farmers to free them selves from the evils of the old system of advances and to live within their means, planting on their own capital and doing their own farm work. Formerly the farmer obtained from the mill in the spring advances for seed and feed. This year,instead of plant ing fancy seed at $6 and $7 a bar rel the farmer has used domestic seed at $2 and $2.50 a barrel. In stead of borrowing money to buy oats and corn to feed his stock he fed his stock on feed grown by himself: Instead of hiring an extra hand or two he has made shift to do his own work. The farmer has also cut his household expenses materially. The rice belt farmer who a cou ple of years ago bought his smok ed meat and consumed during the year vast quantities of cann ed goods, besides buying his poultry and eggs, using store butter and condensed milk, now raises his own pork and beef, keeps a few cows and raises his own potatoes and other veget ables. The net result of all this is that the farmer is now in a position to make more money this year if he raises half a crop than he has made on a full crop during the past two seasons. And since the farmer is confronted with a bright outlook, it follows that the prospect for the industry in gen eral is good. It is better than it has been since 1902. Homestead Application. I, Ozema Labove, of Vermilion Parish, State of Lonisiana, whose postoffice is Gueydan, La., desir ing to obtain a home under the homestead laws of Louisiana and having notified the Register of the Land Office at Baton Rouge, La., of my intention according to Act 64 of 1888, that my home is upon a certain strip of State land, north of the northeast quarter of section five, (5) township twelve, (12) South range two (2) West, being about five acres wide by fourteen acres long. And I here by give notice that after thirty days, I will file my Homestead Applitation, according to law, for said land. Onesm Labove. eyd IJsL AFTER WILSON'S SCALP. Cotton Growers Combine Against Secretary of Agriculture. The officers of the Southern Cotton Growers' Association are not harmonious in their opin ions as to the necessity for Secretary Wilson's retirement. Secretary Cheatham in an interview, supplemented the views expressed by President Jordan yesterday that the Secretary should retire. But Vice President E. S. Peters,who is now in Washington, stands by the Secretary,and has sent him a telegram expressing confidence in his administration of the de partment. Mr. Cheatham, who is at pres ent in Washington to aid District Attorney Morgan H. Beach in probing the intricate machinat ions that have been going on in the Statistical Bureau for some time said: "The present head of the Department of Agriculture has not been consistent in his efforts to bring about an investigation of the irregularities that have been in existence in the Bureau for the past two years, and for that reason, I understood from Mr. Jordan's statement, that the matter will be presented to the President offici'ally and Secre tary Wilson's resignation re quested. "Secretary Wilson" continued Mr. COeatham, "in his eight and and one-half years Secretary of Agriculture, has been of great help to cotton growers of the South; as throught the valuable experiments in cotton production made by his department the staple product of the South has been increased many fold.Yet'ad mitting all the good work he has done, the people want a man as Secretary of Agriculture who can and will conduct his office in the interest of the people, :and who has backbone enough to come!out flatly and declare to the public that he is running that department and not dependent upon subordinates. "The people of the South are dependent upon cotton for a living and if the Board of Trade sharks are constantly furnished with advance information as to the conditions of the cotton crops, then the people of the South are made victims of the fluctuation in the prices of their crop and are alone the ones to suffer from the grafts of the unreliable and grafting employes who have been allowed to tamper with the information furnished by the department's correspon dents." There is a faint possibility of an invesigation of the Geological Survey. A charge has been made that several employes of the Survey have taken stock in the Mining World published at Chicago, and as editors and contributors have exploited scientific theories which have been developed and nourished at the expense of the United States government. It is alleged as untair thatscient sts in the employ" of the Geologic al Survey should be permitted to use their knowledge of certain scientific facts to the advantage of the magazine in which they are said to be financially interest ed and to the disadvantage of other magazines which are not so fortunate as to have in their list of stockholders and directors the names of government scient sts. Should an investigation be made of this particular offense, it may lead to a general investigation of the charge that some employes and officials of the government in other departments are in the habit of acquiring cer tain information because of the governmental employment and selling that information to magazine or other periodical pub lications in the form or prepared articles. The contention is that this information obtained at the government's expense by men whose time is the property of the government, should be given to the government exclusively. 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