The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-03
M|D-NOVEMBER
G|NNERS' REPORT
Bales Ginned to That
Time 7,070,437.
or THE CROP 0E 1Q03|
OF THE CROP OF 1903.
No Estimates are Made BY the Census
Bureau of the Amount of Cotton
Remaining unginned. Two
Reports to
Come.
(By the Associated Press.)

10y the AsSOCIdleu 9TeSS.D
Washington, d. c., Dec. 2.-The Census
Bureau today issued a report on the
quantity of cotton ginned from the growth
Oh 1903 up to and including November
ii, showing total commercial bales of
1870, 437.
Of these 6.519, 1872 were square bales and
510,55 sea island crop bales. There We're
29.50G ginneries operated this season UP
TO and including November Ii.
The cotton ginned in 1902. as reported
by the Census Bureau, was 5,925,S72 con-
merci2l bales up TO October Is and $751;
S35 commercial bales up 20 December IL.
Counting round bales the number this
year is 6.S15.162. In this report no ac-
count has been taken of the quantity of
linters obtained by the cotton seed oil
mills from re-gipning cotton seed of thi,
years growth, but statistics of such cot
ton will be included in the final report
fCr this season.
This report will be followed by two
others, showing the quantity of cotton
ginned from the growth of this year 20
December IS, 1908, and tc January Is.
1904.
of cotton remaining unginned. The
census agents were 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 for this, as announced by the Census
Bureau, Is that when the mai reports
were received a year ago. 1T appeared
that the estimates OF the agents made N
October, were six and four tenths per-
cent short OF the actual crop grown.
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-
tion between the Census and the Agricul-
tJral Departments IS adopted on the rec
concentration OF Secretary Cortelyou, of
the Department of the Commerce and
Labor, 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 q year ago. is to be regretted In
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
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,
end tie results compared with their es-
innate
The ste tistics fthe cotton ginned to
November IA. follow by States.
Alabama 1883, total commercial bales,
embracing 691, 153 square bales and 52,385
round bales, active ginneries 3,797;
Arkansas 406, 500, total commercial bales,
embracing 1856 square bales and 27,730
round bales, active ginneres 2,46S;
Florida 80 IA commercial bales embracing
90, $40 square bales and 1876 sea island
crop bales. active ginneries 264; Georgia
SOP .653. total commercial bales, embracing
e3S. $50 square bales, 34,632 round bales and
1895 sea island crop bales. active gin
neries 4913; Indian Territory, 172,793
total commercial bales. embracing 1884
square bales and 40,199 round bales. ac-
tive ginneries 4s5; Kansas. no returns;
Kentucky. total commercial 'bales 3OS. all
square bales active ginneries 2; Louisiana,
total commercial bales 0,494. including
acc. Az square bales, and 1901 round, ac
tive ginneries 2.OSS; Mississippi, total
commercial bales 929, 800, including SSS,545
square bcles. and 4i,345 round, active gin
neres 4,1o7; Missouri, total commercial