Washington. Sept. 8.
The Department of Agriculture today forecast a cotton crop of 6,098,000 bales, the fifth largest in history. The yield per acre was estimated at 2,285 lb, the highest on record, causing the Administration considerable" worry. A nine cent loan and three per cent. subsidy was being prepared. Southern cotton leaders were apprehensive lest the Sino-Japanese hostilities would endanger shipments to the warring countries.—United Press.
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