The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-04
FIGURES ON COLON
REPORT ON AMOUNT GINNED AND
 SOME COMPARISONS.
Ravases ef the Bon weeyil Msy Have Been ohkset by tncreasea Acre
 sge-Piclxfng Unusuaily IN Early.

Wa .htnrton. Nov. 3.--tSpeciai.t-- Has the boil weevil been of any inJuIy to the cotton crop of the soutnF Ine census report of amount or cotton ginned up to October is made pupno today, does not show # though i.s aas, ages may have been onset oy increaseo acreage. ing the returns of United States agents on cotton ginned for the present year m to october IS last was issued at noon today. It shows the total num- het. of running bales to be 6,590,l37 as against s,sss,627 running bales for last year. Counting the round bales in- cluded in these totals as half bales. the bales for 1904 Is reduced to s.4i7.- Ss4.
 The total number of running bales ginned to October IS in 1909 was 5.925.- S72.
 The reports gives as cotton produc- ing States for the present year as fol- lows:
 Alabama, 694,s7o bales: Arkansas. 237,778: Florida, 40,642: Georgia, 1.o56,- 679: Indian Territory. 1S1.316; Ken- lucky, 2S4; Louisiana, 392.758: Missis- sippi, 561.704: Missouri, 10,621: North Carolina, 309.097; Oklahoma, 1s,237: South Carolina, s29,s57: Tennessee, 7s.- 6Ss; Texas. 2.201.66 Virginia, 5.145.
 The total number of ginneries in op- eration was 2S,110.
 Up to October IS In 1908, 37.s per cent of the total crop had been ginned as compared with 53. per cent in 1902. This report will be followed by four others showing the quantity of cotton ginned In the growth of 1904 to No- vember IA, to December IS, to January 1s and to the end of the season.
 The report today would show that there were 2,711,646 commercial bales, or more than. 7s per cent. ginned last year, during the same period, counting round bales as half bales each year. Not including linters, the amount gin- ned this year up to october IS was within 3,402,075 commercial bales of sons may be misleading is shown by the fact that but 37 per cent of the en- tire crop had been ginned up to Octo- Der IS, ,1s03. Applying this per cent age to the amount ginned up to that date this year would give a total of I7,0S6,867 commercial bales which is undoubtedly far in excess of the crop.
 It is reasonable to suppose that owing to the earlier season this year, a much greater proportion of the crop had been ginned. If the proportion was the same as that up to October IS, 1902, when 1t was 53.05 per cent, the total, crop would be 11,996, ,063 bales. Calculations based on the average proportion for two years would give total crop of 14,105,26 commercial bales. The de- tailed figures by States seem to indicate that every State will probably exceed its record for last year, and that prob- ably every State, with the exception of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ten nessee and Indian Territory, will prob ably show totals at the end of the sea- son considerbiy in excess of those for 1909.
 The figures for Texas are of special interest. They show that the amount ginned in that State up to October IS, this year. exceeded the record, for last year. by 1.1ss.eso commercial bales. or more than 113 per cent. There is no exceed that of last year and it may approach the bumper crop of the State for 1900 when the total yield was s. s29,01S commercial bales. Up to Octo- Der 18th the amount ginned was only 163,291 bales less than the total crop for last year. The earlier beginning of ginning this year makes comparisons with last year less reliable for Texas than for any other State, but if the proportion ginned up to October 18th, this year, should be the same as In 1902, 1t would give total crop for the State of 3.110.675 bales. On the basis Of the average proportion for the two years the total crop would reach the unprecedented figures of 3.s75,6s7 bales.
 The figures also indicate an increase for Georgia. which ranks second to Texas as a cotton State. The amount ginned up to October 18th, this year. in Georgia was 445, ,475 bales more than
 last year and within 25s,752 conner .