The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-10-13
YIELD OF COTTON
CROP FOR l0O4..5
SUGGESTIVE BULLETIN OF
THE CENSUS BUREAU.
Total Yield Nearly Fourteen and A
Half Million Bales Thirds
Exported, Other Third Manu-
factured in United States
The Crop has Doubled
in Last Twenty
Five Years. T

Washington, D. C., October o.
The census bureau today issued 4
bulletin showing the production and
distribution of the cotton of the Unit
ed States available between Septerl-
Der I, 1904. and September I, 1905, to
be 14,455,oo4 bales. OF tflis 81 per
cent was exported, 80 per cent was
used in domestic consumption, leav-
ing q surplus of 9 per cent. The do
mestic consumption includes 36,77o
bales destroyed by fire.
The expectation amounted to g.
8s4,e2o bales, the domestic eonsunp-
ton 4s15,756, and the surplus 1906
soo. Of the total, 13,6o3,27o bales
were included in the crop of 1904 and
the remainder in that of 1905. OF the
quantity consumed in the Unated
States 2,138,62o bales were used in
northern and 2,I4o,15I in southern
mills.
In addition to the totals given 1884,
400 bales of foreign cotton were inn
ported into the United STATES during
the year. The expectation for the
wear covered exceeded that of any pre-
vious IL months by i,144,452 bales,
and they exceeded the average for
the past ten years by 2,313,o4S bales.
New Orleans, with total of 2,4o3,421
bales, held first rank as an exporting
point, but was close pressed by Gal
weston, with 2,3S8,318 bales. Savan-
nah, with I,2oo,o8o bales, held third
place. The value of the total ex-
port was $4o4, ,2oo,2o3.
) The export of raw cotton was dis
tributed in bales as follows: To Unit
ed Kingdom, 4,o43ooo; Belgium, 1o1,-
ISL; France, S57,1o3; Germany, 2,115,-
o72; Italy, 536o2o; Russia, 125,4o3;
Spain, 28c,6S8: other 172,112; Japan,
324,ooS; British North America, 1885,
Ao7; Mexico, 1926; all other coun-
tries, e,461.
Southern Mills Use More Cotton.
The total number of producing
spindles in the United States is re-
ported at. 24,o77,524, of which S,21I,-
z3A were in the south and 15,S65.7oo
in the north. Notwithstanding the
great difference in the number of
spindies Of the two sections, the con-
SUMPTION Of cotton is practically the
same. The annua} consumption OF
of cotton per spindle in the northern
mills is g. pounds, compared with I24
pounds in the south. The difference
il? the per spindle consumption indi-
Gates that the northern mills are spin
mig yarns of very much greater fine
ness than those turned out by the
southern mills. The large outpur OF
the southern mills this season has
been mainly OF heavy fabrics 20 sup
ply a greatly increased demand from
China and the Orient.
Enormous Increase Of Crop.
The report shows that in twenty
five years the production OF the
United States has increased from
5,755,35o to 13,6o3,27o bales, the total
consumption of cotton in this coun-
try has increased from 1,671,383 tc
4,378,o88 bales. Within the last five
years the cotton consuming establish
ments If the southern states have in
creased their consumption from 1885,
711 to 2, 14o,I51 bales. During these
= five years the northern cotton con
Stunning establishments have actually
decreased their consumption by 1o,
.o55 bales, explained by these mills be-
ing engaged during this period in re-
placing old machinery by more mod
ern. The worlds cotton production
for 1904, entering commercial chan
nels was 18,o41,85o bales, with tota
.,.-,>4;o, ~ - 111o o2o halaS Tihis