The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1857-04-29
From the y. Y. Day Book.
THE COTTON TRADE FROM 1925
TO 1850.

TO 1850.
A southern gentleman, J. a. Turner.
Esq, n resident of the State Of Georgia
has written one of the most valuable
works on cotton culture, and the complete
history of that product Of the South
which has yet emanateI from the press.
We learn that the New York publishing
mouse Of Saxton & Co. are now sendinT
oil copies daily by mail, the. great interest
IN this cotton subject making the compi-
lalIon OF facts i'll the book very usern! 10
all interested in its growth. Its hi>to.
ry tor twenty five years, is a most inter.
eSting chapter.
The United States is now no. only the
largest producer, but he largest consumer
ol cotton. Our production has advanced
with such rapid strides that we have dis.
tanced al competitors. The cotton 200 Is
worn by our people exceed now the
amount used 10y Great Britain and all her
dependencies Ill the four quarters of the
globe and the demands Of our mauufac.
tories have increased with much greater
rapidity than those Of any ether country
in the world.
In twenty years, our average crop has
increased from $4,000 bales, to 2,35l,
900, or nearly three hundred per ccnl.-
IL the period Of twenty-five years, from
1922 to 1850, be divided into five equal
intervals, the increase for. each will be
found to be 81, 81, 80 and IL per cent.
In the same time, the production of all
other countries has only risen from $50.
QUO 20 10000 bales, having absolutely
declined, in the past five years, over lG
per cent. In the frs: period of five years.
the crop Of the United Sta,cs constituted
6e per cent Of the whole; in the second,
"a; in the third II; in the fourth 50
and IN the fifth, "a per cent Of the
whole. As our bags have increased
very much in weight, and IRE now much
larger than those Of other countries.
our advance has been still greater,
and our rank still higher than those iy.
ures indicate. In the same twenty wears
the deliveries TO our manufactures have
advanced 325 per cent, VIZ. from 1921 900
bales to $4,000, while in the same time.
the advance Of Great Britain has been
only l25 per cent, viz, from $4,000 to
l%,472,0OO.
In each one Of these periods, our rate
OF progress has been more than twice as
rapid as hers; and though the absolute
amount OF our consumption is yet far be
low that Of the English manufacturers, vet
IN TIE last five years Of the periods named
our increase has been 10000 bales.
while theirs las been only 10000. In
1850 our consumption was 81 per cent. of
ihe English, while twenty years before it
was only 10 per cent. France, during all
this period has remained station ary.--
Twenty years ago, her consumption was
$4,000 bales, nOwit is only 3O3,00o.-
In the last five years she has gone back.
ward, the decline having amounted TO
$4,000 bales. From 1925 TO 1880 the
deliveries of her manufactures were dUuL.
le those Of the UNITED States, in 1850
they were 33 per cent, less than ours. In
Spain, Belgium, Germany, Holland and
Russia, the increase has been nearly as
rapid as in the United States. In the
i've years pfior to 1850, their advance
was 40 per cent, ours 40 per cent. a..
though Great britain Requires for her
manutlctOr;es more than half Of all the
cotton worked up in Europe and America
HE amount actually used by her people,
Including all that is exported to India,
British America, Australia and all the
colonial Dependence Of Great Britain, is
less than the amount used in the United
States. This has been shown to be true
|, for the four years from 1916 to so, and
the year 1850, although il exhiLits an ap.
parent decline in our home CONSUMPTION
forms no exception to this result : the
large imports OF cotton goods into our
ssaports compensate, in part, Tor the fal.
ling of, in the requirements Of our facto-
Ties.
II we compare the PROCESS in demand
and supply it will be seen tla, during the
five years Of '45 to 80, the increased con.
sumption has been 10 per cent. while the
Increased production stands only at o
dhe average amonnt taken by tho manu-
facinrers rom 1910 TO l845, was 2.4l4,.
600 bales, and from 1915 to 1850 1850.
600 bales, showing an increase OF 4G5,
900 bales, while the supply advanced
from 2.56l,U00 bales TO 2,79l, 900. an in.
crease OF only 100000 bales. When il
IS remembered that the last period embra.
ces the year 1913, when, from the reyolu.
tlons in Europe, the consumption declined
oyer 100000 bales, and the years 1916