The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-12-17
NUMBER 80.
KING COTTON.
Statistics OF She Yield OF the Great staple
in Foreign Countries.

Statistics OF the Yield OF she Great Ssaple
in Foreign Countries.
The bureau Of agriculture at Wash
/ lngton has been busy for weeks figuring
| upon the probable yield OF cotton in the
southern states for 1874. English houses
/ IN Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester
have likewise, from reports furnished
from time to time by confidential agents
at the great centers Of cotton production
/ and shipment, been engaged in elaborate
! calculations to gauge the crop and fix the
/ probable price. There is reason for the
anxiety manifested by botli buyer and
seller. The demand for cotton at home
and abroad Is so great, 50 much capital
Is invested in its manufacture, and so
many hands and mouths depend upon
it for work and sustenance that sny con-
siderable decline in production becomes
to the ulanufacturer a matter OF pounds,
shillings and pence, and to the artizan a
matter OF life and death.
The cotton crop OF India this year
exceeds the whole cotton crop of the
south, but it Is inferior, large quantities
OF It inaccessible, and, unless under the
temptation of high prices, even with
the increased facilities for locomotion
since 1861, can not be got to the sea
board. The estimate in which Il is
held, as compared with American grades,
can be seen from the prices which the
best Indian staples at last quotations
command in the Liverpool market. The
average price for American middling up-
lands last year was SD. The best In
dian grades and their prices are as fol-
lows Tinnevelly. 3 11-16d; western
Madras. AID to sgd: Coconads, 81 to
Odd; Oonrawuttee, 3 Lied; Bengal,
Al to sd. The amount received in Eng
land last year from India was 367, ,649,-
744 lbs, a decrease Of &c, 900. 900 on the
former year. From Egypt 204, 977, 116,
az increase of 2T, ZOO. 600 lbs. But the
Egyptian supply is likely TO fall short
in 1918 from two causes: first, from
an excessive supply of water in some
districts, causing a growth of too much
wood and too little fruit; second, in
other districts where the Nile has been
high for two months, the government
forbade the w0rkmeu to touch the en-
bankments as they did in former years,
when the river was at a moderate height,
and hence the supply of water has been
insufficient and the cotton crops have
suffered in consequence. F,om the
Mediterranean countries, exclusive of
Egypt, England obtained IN 1874 s.
670, ,S16 lbs, an increase of GOO, 900 lbs.
ever the former year. From Brazil r.
$50, 500. a decrease of 40. 900, 600 lbs.
From New Grenada and Venezuela g.
973 0SS lbs. which was only half that Of
the year 1928. The British West In
dies and British Guiana supplied l.
O70, 100 lbs, a decrease of $50, 600 lbs,
while Mexico, with her vast capabilities
If only turned TO proper account, sup-
piled only "a, 44S lbs. China sent her
1,016, S4S lbs, an increase of 764. .0n0
lbs, and all other countries 35, 155, SOS
lbs, an increase over the former year of
nearly 5000, 900. OF this quantity g.
949, 200 lbs. came from Peru, 5, 90, 800
lbs. from Turkey, 3, ,0S7, 700 from Aus
tralis. /, ,91S, 800 from Western Africa,
/, 1866, 600 from Chill. $40. 900 from Cane
of Good Hope, 15S, 800 from Natal, 262,-
600 from Mauritius. and 951, 400 from
Hayi and San Domingo. Thus the to-
tal import of cotton into England in
1874 was ], ,527, ,596 224 lbs.. an in
crease in the aggregate of 1I9. 100000
lbs. over the former year. But as 220,-
900, 256 lbs. were re-exported, the net
amount remaining 70 supply the mills
of Lancashire and Glasgow vas 1907
595, 96S lbs, q net increase of 172 000,-
goo over 1928. or this the United
States supplied. as will be seen from
the figures, mere than 65 per cent.
Great Britain manufactures cotton for
four-fifths of the buyers of cotton goods.
and we supply her with thirteen. twenti-
eths of the raw material Our total
exports for the fiscal year of 1874
amounted to S649, 132, ,565, of which cot
ton made up S213, 500. .OGO /; that is. raw
cotton made mp nearly 33 per cent. Of
our total export trade. The amount
manufactured for home consumption,
and which appears neither in our export
nor import trade, was enormous. The
comparative importance of this item
may be seen when placed alongside the
next most important commodity ex-
ported. The highest on the list after
cotton is Of course grain. which reached
the aggregate of $3.50, 900, 600 that is,
the vaiue of the grain exported reached
"a 6 per cent. of the whole, while cotton
stood at 33 per cent. of the whole.
We have made the civilized world our
tributaries for cotton. All the other
cotton producing countries are unable
to send as much to the English market
as the southern states of America. But
for our civil war the United States would
be to-day supplying so per cent. of the
whole. That unfortunate contest re-
duced as from II per cent. in 1851, TO
55 per cent. to-day. But we are rap
idlv reRaining our lost vantage ground.
Courier. Journal.