The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-08
M|D-NOVEMBER
G|NNERS' REPORT
Bales Ginned to That
Time 7.O70.437..
OF THE CROP OF 1903
No Estimates are Made by the Census
Bureau OF the Amount of Cotton
Remaining Unginned. Two
Reports 10
Come.
(By the Associated Press.)

10Y the associated PreSS.b
Washington, D. q. Dec. 2.-The Census
Bureau today issued a report on The
quantity OF cotton ginned from the growth
OF 1903 up to and including November
IA, showing total commercial bales OF
7,070,437.
OF these 6,519. 332 were square bales and
5lo,555 sea island crop bales. There were
2s,5o6 ginneries operated this season up
to and including November Il.
The cotton ginned in 1902. as reported
by the Census Bureau, was 1925, S72 CON
merclal bales up to October IS and 9,311.-
$50 commercial bales up % December T..
Counting round bales, the number this
year IS 6,815,162. In this report no ac-
count has been taken of the quantity of
llnte1s obtained by the cotton seed oil
mills from re-ginnIng cotton seed of thu
years growth, but statistics OF such cot.
ton viii be included in the final report
for this season.
This report will be followed by two
others, showing the quantity of cotton
ginned from the growth of this year 10
December IS, 1903, and to January Is.
1904.
NO ina are given Of the amount
or cotton remaining u%nginned. The
census agents We're asked TO submit these
estimates, but the Census Bureau has not
even computed them as returned, turning
them over to the Bureau Of Statistics OF
the Department of Agriculture to aid that
office in the annual estimate of the crop
cotton to be issued tomorrow. The rea
son Tor this, as announced by the Census
Bureau, IS that when the anal reports
We're received a year ago, 1T appeared
that the estimates of the agents made IN
October, were six and fOur-tenths per-
cent short OF the actual crop grown. A
margin of error so large as that Is equal
to the difference between a short crop
and a normal crop; and under the pecu-
liar conditions existing In the cotton mar
ket today, the Census Bureau does not
feel warranted in publishing any figures
IN which so large an element of error
may exist again. The policy of co-opera-
ton between the Census and the Agricul-
tLraI Departments is adopted on the rec
concentration of Secretary Cortelyou, Of
to avoid conflicting reports as far as
possible.
THE Census Bureau announces that it
ought to be possible in the January 16
report to cover practically the entire
cotton crop OF 1903-1904, and this will be
two months earlier than we were able
to do a year ago. 1t is to be regretted III
view of the cotton situation, that no
canvass corresponding to the one now re-
ported, was made by the Census office
a year Ago."
AS to the call for estimates of cotton
unginned in the several counties, although
it was not intended to use them IN this
report, the bureau says:
I'VE desired to ascertain by a practical
testimony whether it is possible for the
special agents to make such estimates,
at different periods during the progress
Of the harvest, which can be relied upon
as sufficiently accurate to be of value to
the public. 1t is possible that with their in
~creasing experience these agents can come
nearer to the fact than in 1902. We can
definitely ascertain the fact, when the
full returns of this season are received
and the results compared with their es-
innate"
The statistics of the cotton ginned to
November IA. follow by States.
Alabama TAB, 53S, total commercial bales,
embracing 691 ,153 square bales and 52,385
round bales, active ginneries 3,797;
Arkansas 400, 1893, total commercial bales,
embracing 37S,663 square bales and 27,73O
round bales, active ginnerles 2,468
Florida 39, IA commercial bales, embracing
%, 379 square bales and 1876 sea island
crop bales. active ginneries 264; Georgia
1872, 653, total commercial bales, embracing
93S, 535 square bales, 4,633 round bales and
19, 4S5 sea island crop bales, active gin
neries 4,913; indian Territory, 1878
total commercial bales, embracing 1872, 594
! square bales and 40,199 round bales. &C
tive ginneries 485; Kansas, no returns;
Kentucky. total commercial bales 308, all
square bales, active ginneries 2; Louisiana,
total commercial bales SO, 494. including
462, AT square bales, and 48.G17 round, &C
tive ginneries 2,098; Mississippi, totaI
commercial bales 929, 800, including 888, 545
square bales. and Al 1916 round, active gin
neries 4,107; Missouri, total commercial
bales %, 294, embracing IS, 309 square and
3 9S5 round bales, active ginneries 20;
North Carolina, total commercial bales
407 1893. embracing 407 122 square and u
round bales, active gInnerleS 1852; Okla
homa. total commercial bales 1868, en-
bracing 100, 800 squar and 1920 round
bales, active ginneries 227; South Carolina
total commercial bales 625, 611. embracing
621 ,306 square and 1906 sea island bales
active ginneries 3.147; Tennessee, tota
commercial bales 1913 1873 embracing 149,
726 square and 1852 round bales, active
ginneries 756; Texas, total commercial
bales 1892, $40, embracing /, 700, or square
and 232. ATT round bales, active %ginneries
4,412; Virginia, total commercial bale:
Z. IA. all square, active ginnerles 158.