The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-01-14
TIE CROP APPEARS TO BE LARGE.
e Department. OF Agriculture
Crop Figures.

including Dec. Is last. IS 9,3ll.''o
bales, irrespective Of shape Or weight
equal to S,905.5o according TO Tue
commercial counting. Inns IS 9o.2
per cent Of the crop.
The following is the number OF gin
neries reporting in the several States
and territories:
United States, 30,l94: Alabama,
3 $3.50: Arkansas, 2,5l0: Florida, 2S4:
Georgia, 5,0+6: Indian Territory, +2s;
Kentucky, 3: Louisiana, 2,l45: Mis-.
sissippi, 4,276; Missouri, 50: NoEIH
Carolina, 1858: Oklahoma: 2lS.S5uth
Carolina, 3lS1:--GenneSsee, SIS;
Texas:4r5542:: Virginia, 100.
following is the number OF bales OF
cotton ginned to and including Dec.
IS, growth OF 1929
United States, 9,3Il,S33: Alabama,
S96,e9 Arkansas, 16S.S6l: Florida:
Sab: Georgia, 1876, $50: Indian
Territory, 372,04 Kentucky, l,02':
Louisiana, 67e,4S6; Mississippi, l33,,
55.: Missouri, 80, lS5; North Carolina.
517,O6S: Oklahoma, l63. 100: South
Carolina, S63,9S9: Tennessee, 242,I5o;
Texas, 2.16T.472:: Virginia. l2,33t.
Following is the ginners' estimate
as to the quantity to be ginned from
this crop after Dec. -:
United States, 1867, 7,l:1; Alabama.
65,I6S: Arkansas, l49. .1l5: FLORIDA,
6,5eS: Georgia. 66. ia: Indian Terri
tory, 81, ,s3l: Kentucky, 15o; Louis
lana. 159,soS; Mississippi, 223,l3o;
Missouri, 3,l15: North Carolina, 2S,-
232: Oklahoma, 29.56S: South Caro-
lima, t,7754; Tennessee, 81 ,409: Texas,
lSS, ,e6S; Virginia, 2,49l.
Following is the canraSSing agents.
estimate Of the per cent. OF the crop
ginned to Dec. 13:
United States, 9o.2: Alabama, 81:
Arkansas, s5.l: Florida, SO; Georgia.
e5.4; Indian Territory, ST.; ken
tucky, s77.3: Louisiana, So: Mlssls-
sippi, S2.S: Missouri, s4.3: North
Carolina, 81. Oklahoma, So: South
Carolina, 96. Tennessee, SIS: Texas,
91.7; Virginia, SO.
The above statisicS of the quantity
Of cotton ginne6 to December 18th are
expressed in bales as pressed at the
ginneries, irrespective of shape or
weight. In the total Of e,3ll.sS5
6Ses there are Sl2,661 round bales
ayeraging- -frou-240 to 800 pounds
each. Counting such round bales as
half bales, as is the custom IN the
commercial community, the total
pinned to December 18th is S,9O3. .303.
The ginners have not yet returned
their bale weights for this crop. ouI
40 cotton compress companies dlstrl-
buted throughout the cotton states
advise this Office that they compressed
and actually weighed from the growth
OF 1902 up to December 18th, 1,OoO,-
434 bales averaging each 5O3.S pounds
gross. Using this weight as the aver
age for square bales for round bales
253 pounds the average obtained from
the weight returns Of the home OF
fees of the companies such patents,
the equivalent number Of 500 pound
bales ginned to December 18TH IS
found tosbe S,974,722 Deducting
she heweight OF the bagging and ties (22
pounds per square bale) the number
Of equivalent 500 pound bales, net
weight, is found to be S,600.15S.
BY two most thorough canvasSes
this season 32,52S ginneries, active
3 and idle, have been located. reported,
sof which number 30,194 have been
operated for this crop. In their De-
= cember canvass the local special agents
ascertained the quantity OF cotton
ginned from the beginning OF the
season to and including December 18th
and also secured from each OF the ac-
tive ginnerS his estimate OF the guam
tity OF cotton to be ginned by his
establishment after December -.
The estimate OF the percentage OF the
crop ginned is based on the estimates
Of 626 canvaSsing agents, who were III
structed to confne their estimates to
the territories canyaSsed by them and
to the knowledge gained therefrom.
One estimate therefore serves as a
check against the other. According
to the estimate of the ginnerS lO.2 per
cent. Of the crop remained TO De
einned after December l3, while ac-
cording to the estimate OF the can
vassing agents the percentage was
9.S. Applying these percentages and
the general average bale weight OBJ
tained round and square bales, the
crop according to the ginners is 1885,
800 bales. and according to the can
yassers 9,954.I06 bales Of an average
gross weight Of 500 pounds. The
census office assumes no responsibility
for the accuracy Of these estimates.
This report will be followed by a
third and final report az the end Of
the ginning season, about March 10th,
which will distribute the crop by
counties. segTegate upland and sea
island cottons, and give weight OF
bale.
TT is NOT GCESSWoRk.
In giving out the report Director
Merriam made the following state
ment:
1T seems important to again state,
III COuUGCGIOu WILL SSNSA.'SiS' VI
the cotton crop OF 1902. that is so far
as they relate to the bales OF cotton
pinned to December, last. they involve
no guessUork at any point, no estl-
mate by anybody. and no uncertainty
of any Kind. They represent the eN-
act number Of bales Of cotton that
have passed through the ginneries.
All that has been done by the census
Office is to make and verify the addi-
tions. Anybody is at liberty to ex-
anime the whole process adopted by
the census office in handling these re-
turns. The returns represent the
ginning operations OF every ginning
establishment which has handled any
portion of the growth OF 1902.
THE report is made at d time SO
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