Excerpt from Crops and Markets, Vol. 3: April 4, 1925 The demand for seeds during March was disappointing, as sales 'were below expectations, and prices broke consider ably. Cotton prices suffered rather severe declines, during the week March 23 - 28, both spots and futures closing a little over 1[ pe1 lb. Lower than the previous week On the New York Cotton Exchange May future contracts closed at 24 54[ as compared with 25. 68[ the previous week and 27. 56[ last year, and on the New Orleans Cotton Exchange they closed at 24. 5696 as compared with 25 64[ last week and 27. 73[ one year ago. On the Chicago Board of Trade _may future contracts closed at 24. 46[ as compared with 25 61[ last week. The heaviness of the market was attributed to letting up in demand, less optimistic reports from dry goods centers, together with reports of rain in Texas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.