Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-06
COT TON CROP OF 1902.
NUMBER OF BALEs G1sNED Up TO
DECEMBER 18TH, s,so5,5oa.
CENSUS OFFICE PROGRAMME.
Practically Monthly Report. Dur
ing Next Year-Extcnsion Of sys-
tenn to Include cotton-secd Oil
business, Acreage, n1illtnkings,
and Consumption.
CENSUS OFFICE PROGRAMME
and Consumption.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. January 5.-The
Census Bureau report on the cotton gin
ned from the 1902 crop, up to and includ-
Ing December 18th last is 9,a11. s35 bales,
Irrespective Of shape or weight. equal to
sso5,503 according to the commercial
counting. This is 500 per cent. Of the
crop. The report follows:
Active - Ginners Reporting-United
Sa5es si Aa0ema Sos? Mrk indaa
Territory, AS: Kentucky, 3: Louisiana,
North Carolina, 1853; Oklahoma, rs:
T Seasa Gs 54 Vrg ys o5 Sl5
Cotton Ginned to and Including De-
States. s,sll,ss5 bales. Alabama, So, sH
eas ArkaasaE sssSl BALES FIorida
Territory. 372,042 bales; Kentucky. 1.027
bales: Louisiana, 67o4S5 bales; Missis-
sippi, LBS, 557 bales: Missouri, 80, 1s5 bales;
Tennessee. S272.1S5 bales; Texas, 2,167,4 Az
bales; Yirginia. 1887 bales
ci Ginnsrs 81. Estimate tina; Of Quantity to be
1ath-Unlted States. 1,o577n bales Ala
balna, Is, 16S bales: Arkansas, 1915 bales.
Florida, 6,5sS bales: Georgia. Sc. ia bales;
Indian Territory, 81, sal bales; Kentucky.
100 bale IS; Louisiana. l5s.sos bales; Missis-
North Carolina, 2s,232 bales: Oklahoma,
2,56Ss bales; South Carolina. 44754 bales;
Tennessee. 34,4o0 bales; Texas, 1ss,s6a
bales; Virginia. 2.4s 1bales;.
Is. Canvassing Agents Estimate of Per
Gent Of Crop Ginned to December 18th
United States, e.o2. Alabama. 94.2;; Ar
kansas ST. Porids s7s Gsorgia 81
| Louisiana. ss2; mississippi, 60 Missouri
s4.3, North Carolina, 9i.y; Oklahoma, SIS
| South Carolina, 1914; Tennessee, SS.Si
leSa RE ia5i Hs!rf FRoM III SeiSNER1Es.
! The above statistics of cotton ginned
to December 18th. are expressed in bales
as pressed at the ginneries. irrespective
sb bae h MSg ss rs tp poan9 Of S s
averaging from $40 to 800 pounds pei
bales. Counting such bales as half bales
as is the custom in the commercial com.
1st e. so tales snaSa & Rfsen Rays
not yet: returned their bale weights fol
this crop. but where the cotton com
press companies distributed throughout
they compressed and actually weighed
from the growth Of 1902 up to December
18th, 1.c60. 434 bales, averaging each 5qS-'
pounds gross.
square bales and for round bales IS
pounds, the average obtained from ths
| weight returns of the home offices OF thu
companies SO reporting, the equivalen
Cou-.tlOuHua UdiSSS 5 H4lcAg " 20E
esmber 18th, Is found to be 8, 72s De
Quoting thssWeight OF the baEging ant
the ties (23 pounds per square bale) thu
number Of squival lent 5o0-p pound bales, ne
weight, IS found to be s,,6o0,75s bales
i BY two most thorough canYasses Thu
season. 32.52s ginneriesac Give and idle
!l$hayes been located and reported. of which
number 3b,19i have bsen operated for sthi
crop.
In their December canvass. the sloca
| special agents ascertained the quantIt.
q cotton gtnned from the begtnnIng 9
| 18th. and also secured from each Of TIL
active ginners his estimate Of til
quality Of the cotton to be ginned by hi
i estab .ishment after December 18th. TIL
estimate. OF thy percentage OF the GRO
/ ginned IS based on the estimates .of E6s
4 <canvassing agents. who were tnstructa,
I to 4condne their estimates to the.terrritp
i sries canvassed by hem, i and TO the KNOW
/ Ledge gained theretrorn. One estimate
/ therefore, serves. as q check against tn
stSother. According TO the estimate Spf tn
sinner 20. z per cent tls. crop srsmstn
while according TO the estimate oe rs
.Icanvassing gents the percentage wa