Clay County Cotton Crop - 1947

The Sutton News of November 6, 1947 spread the word that a farmer south of Sutton had grown a cotton crop that year.

As predicted by the reporter in his last sentence, cotton did not develop into a big money crop.

Though, wait a minute. The average climate conditions have tempered measurably and obviously even just in the last 75 years. Could it be that our local growing season has become more like, say, Oklahoma and Texas or the southeast. Could it be that we may see someone make another attempt to grow cotton in Clay County, and, what if it works?

Just sayin'