The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-26
The Cotton Crop of 1873.

The Cotton Crop of 1873.
We are in receipt of advanced sheets
of the cotton crop report of the New
York Financial Chronicle, for the cot
ton crop of 1929. We learn from it
that the total crop this year to Septem-
Der l, reaches 1880, sos bales; exports
2,679, 1886 bales home consumption,
1,2O1, 1877 bales leaving stock on hand
of 0,989 bales at the close of the year,
The total receipts at the Atlantic and
gulf shipping ports this year have
been 1851, 346 bales, against g.
1872, 286 bales last year. If now we add
the shipments from Tennessee and else
where direct to manufacturers, we have
the following as the crop statement for
the two years :.
Year ending Sept. l.
1929. 1912.
Receipts at the shipping ports
Add shipments from Tennes-
see, ETC., direct to mAnufaC-
turers. ............... I41,5OO 122O65
Total. 8,792,846 2,s54, 85I
Manufactured south, not in
cluded in above....... ........ 1852 10000
Total cotton crop for the year,
bales ................ 1880, sos 1874, 851
The result of these figures is a total
of $3.50, sos bales as the crop of the
United States for the year ending Au-
gust 81, 1873. The sea island crop
this year is, as stated in the report, o.
289 bales, and with the stock at the be-
ginning of the year 351 bales, the total
supply has been, bales 26, $40.
The stock at the end Of the year, September I,
1873, was.......... 1867
Making the total distributed ....... re-. d, 973
Of which exported to foreign Il, $50
Leaving consumed in the United stares ... II, 123
We thus see that our spinners have
consumed of sea island cotton this year
10, 123 bales.
A further increase is shown this year
in the consumption by spinners north
and south. With regard to southern
consumption, the takings of the mills
north and south have been as follows ::
Total crop of United States as above oooo 20.
Stock on hand at com " 80
mencement of the year
(Sept. /, 1929
At northern psrts........ 1887
At southern ports....... 1854 54,6A
At Providence, etc,
markets :. -. 4,766- SO,
end ending P sept /, I875..... 1888,
Of this supply there has
Exported to foreign
ports during the year. 2,679986
Sent to Canada by rail
direct from west ....-...... 1900
Burnt north and sOth 1000
Stock on hand end of
year Sept. 1, 1879
At northern ports -........ Is, SS3
AT southern ports ......... %, lO6- 9O,9S9
AT Providence, ETC.,
markets. .................... 1878 2,7ss, 668
Total taken by spinners in the U. s. year
TAKEN fGa By sgnner 5' in southern states in
cluded in above total .............- 1877, 662
I,O68, 465
The foregoing statement indicates that
the mills north and south have taken
from this crop 1,2O1, 127 bales. If we
now apply to these figures, and also to
the figures of the previous three years,
the statement of increase and decrease
of stock believed to be held by the
mills, we have the following as the act
ual consumption of the mills for the
four years
Taken by north 69-TO. 7O-7I. TIP. T2-73
ern mills, bis sO6,86O 1,OOs,956 97754O 1888 465
Taken by south
mills -......-..9O,OOO 9l,24O lZO,OOO 43I, b62
Total takings
from crOp..S96,SO 1000, 1876 1,OJ1,54O POI, l27
Added to mill
stock during
year.-......- 81, I0U
Reduction of
mill stock du-
ring year .....33, 7S6 ........... 10000 .......
Total cOnsump-
ton of mills $780, 1856 l,C19, 446 1,I87 $40 POI, 1877
These totals show an increase in act
ual consumption this year of 63, 587
bales. If, however, the stocks held by
northern spinners are smaller than in
Dictated above, their consumption has
been somewhat larger.
The total gross weight of the crop
reaches ], 1874, 800, O23 pounds, and The
average weight of bales 464 pounds
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