The Washington times., 1902-07-27
Yankee Product Supplies
Almost the Entire
World.
FAR AHEAD OF ALL RIVALS
Agricultural Department Issues Bulletin
Showing Amount of Article Worn in
Different Parts Of o.. W.uid-Less
Flax Used Now.

THE Future Demand for American
Cotton" bulletin issued by the Agri-
cultural Department, contains a strong
argument for cotton clothing and sets
forth the amount of the article worn in
the different parts of the world.
According to the bulletin, it is esti-
mated that of the worlds population OF
l. 800, ,OOO. coo about 100000. 900 regularly
wear clothes. About $50, 1000 600 are
partly clad, and 250,000.000 habitually &c
naked, or almost so, so that to clothe
the entire population Of the world 1t
would require the production of 42.Oo0,'
900 bales of 500 pounds each. 1t there
fore seems more than likely. says the
department bulletin. that the cotton in
dustry will continue to expand until all
the inhabitants Of the earth are clothed
with the products Of the looms. This Is
not regarded as an unreasonable con-
clusion when it is considered that cot
ton is the cheapest material for cloth
ing known to man.
Cotton as Wool's Rival.
In a general history of the cotton in
dustry. shown: its great growth and
future possibilities, the bulletin adds:
TT was not until the planters of the
United States began supplying an abun-
dance of raw material much cheaper
than wool or fax that European nations
recognized its merits and its possibil-
tiles in textile manufacture. II we go
back just few years beyond 1893, the
date of the invention OF the saw gin, we
find shat in Great Britain, which then
led the world in textile manufactures.
wool held the first -lace in the value
of such industries, linen the second, and
cotton the third.
Less Flax Used Now.
"a complete revolution has taken
place in the consumption OF textile fab
rics since 1900. More fax was then used
than either wool or cotton, but it has
now dropped - the third rank. and the
amount consumed is barely double that
of 100 years ago. Wool has increased
nearly five times. while cotton has in
creased nearly th!rty-nine times. and
there is now more than three times as
much cotton used as wool. and more
than seven times as much fax"
In referring TO the increase in the
consum ution OF cotton the bulletin says:
Since 1870 the increased consump-
ton cn the Continent, in the
ut in II haC
enorl1oys It has also been very large
in Gr., Britain. though much less than
in the United States and Germany. In
deed, the United States is now the
largest cotton consuming country in
the world, having in 1883 taken the lead
from Great Britain. which mad held the
IN the cotton industry for
over a century.
Continually Increasing Crops.
Undoubtedly this expansion could
never had taken place. outside OF India,
except for the continually increasing
crops OF the Southern States. We are
the world with more than 50
per cent of the cotton ii manufactures
into clothing. an authority declared
some years ago, when our crops were
very much smaller than now. that the
cotton crops of the United States pro-
vide the raw material for more than
half the calico used by the entire hl-
man race. from which he inferred that
there was a great deal more nakedness
in the world prior to the development
Of the cotton industry in the South than
there Is at the present time.
All Countries Consumed More.
Without single exception every
foreign country has increased its con-
OF American cotton, and some
Of them to astonishing proportions.
This is true particularly of Germany,
France, Belgium, and Spain. But the
most astonishing development of our
trade has occurred in the Far East. In
1870 we did not ship pound OF cotton
10 tina; part OF the world, but since then
cotton manufacturing has taken such
progress IN Japan that in 1900 her spin
lers took 500 .202 bales OF American cot
ton. East India and China are also be-
to appreciate the merits OF our
cotton, and within the past six years
shipments have been made to both Of