The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-17
ISSUED YESTERDAY.


The Government Cotton Report for 1895.
| Washington, March 16-The agrlcul-
tural department to-day issued the fol-
lowing bulletin on the cotton crop of
1895:
THE statements furnished the depart
ment of agriculture by al the railway
and water transportation companies
show that, from September l, 1895, to
February |, 1885, the total actual move
ment of cotton from. the states of pro-
duction to ports, northern and western
mills, Canada, Mexico and all other
destinations, amounted to 5,235,722 COM
mercial bales; reports from the Off
cials of the mills show actual purchases
during the same period amounting to
500, 766 bales, the departments town
ship and precinct agents show that on
February /, 1896, there remained on
plantations 1921 1853 bales in warehouses
S5S, TAI bales, at public gins 106, 500 bales,
at congresses 1882 bales, and at de-
! pots and yards 1882 bales; total, 9S7, 74S
bales, not including stocks held at ports.
THE crop by states is us follows:
Movements from Alabama, 4S6, 400 bales;
remaining on plantations, in ware
houses, etc, 196S7S bales; bought by
mills, 1881 bales. Total 63S, 400 bales.
From Arkansas, 365,457 bales, planta-
lions, etc, lis, 1854 bales bales; mills, L.
$40 bales. Total, 4S2,99l bales. From
Florida, 50, 712 bales; plantations, etc,
S,103 bales. Total, 35S1S bales. From
Georgia, III 632 bales; plantations, etc,
1853, 3S1 bales; mills, 1884 bales. Total,
1926 bales. From the Indian Terri
tory 52,259 bales; plantations, etc, 1883
bales Total 59,797 bales, From Louis
! lama, 39S, 1877 bales; plantations, 66,61S;
mills, 1914 bales. Total, 465, 500 bales.
From the Mississippi, 1877 1856 bales; plan
tations, 15S,111 bales; mills, II ,662 bales.
Total, $685. bales. From Missouri, TO-
056 bales; plantations. SIS bales. Total,
l1,614 bales. From North Carolina,
1866 bales; plantations $1,000 bales;
mills, ISL 1888 bales. Total, 339, f99 bales,
From Oklahoma, 1900 bales, planta-
tions, FOL bales. Total, 1868 bales.
From South Carolina, 1886 bales;
plantations, So,133 bales; mills, 214,27C
bales. Total. 7SS, 965 bales. From Ten
nessee, 122,S16 bales; plantations, 1858
bales; mills, 14,412 bales. Total, 1872
DIG bales. From Texas, 1851 ,S42 bales;
| plantations, 2200S1 bales; mills, 1904
bales. Total, 1,755,127 bales. From vir-
ginia, 7,105 bales; plantations, 1924
bales Total, $500 bales
Total crop, including 40 bales pro-
duced in Utah. 5,7SS,5o7 commercial
bales.
ITO the above mill figures should be
added for Georgia 745, Louisiana $685.
North Carolina 5e5, South Carolina 3,S0S
| Tennessee 2,052, and to Texas 2,5A7 bales
taken from ports and otherwise count
ed in the railway movement the Ken
lucky, Missouri and Virginia figures be-
ing also included in the railway move
ment.
1.-THE mill purchases by states are as
follows: Alabama 4493l, Arkansas L.
$40, Georgia 1885, Kentucky 1o,415
Louisiana 1929, Mississippi II 1862, Mis-
souri, 1888, North Carolina 191, 74S, South
Carolina 22o07S, Tennessee 1o,464, Texas
5,751, and Virginia 1904. Total, sos, 76t
bales,
mo deduction has been made Of cot
ton on plantations and at interior points
September l. 1895. The above figures are
subject to revision in departments fnal
| report"