The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-02-14
COLONIAL COTTON.

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TIE SOUTH TIE ONLY COUN-
TRYTaArCaN GROW COTTON
The Cettcn Growins associations Of
the United Kingd m, Germany
and Frsnes accomplish Lit le.
The Ctcr Reporter waich is pub
lished by authority # the Secretary
Of Agriculture, gives US aome straight
facts as to tie efforts to grow cotton
abroad, n compst tion with the South
ern STATES. Tns whole thing is dis
NAL failure. F .om original and tfic al
Sou Cas- OF ii f,fmation 1t is possible to
Compile statement OF tie production
or commercial c>ttCn IN the cClJnles
Of European countries and the bare
statement OF the facts shown how ut
ule there Is TO he expected frtm co..
onia) cotton" in new areas as compe.
tito1 OF the upland cotton OF the South
ern States for many years to come.
IO.d cotton areas such as the British
East indies, French lndio Clina, AND
the Du:cl E.s. ldles, are out OF the
problem, aiLnough these gions are
included ia the accompanying tabular
statements Excluding the British
East Inoiss, tie production OF exports
uf cotton TO: eli British Colonies, de-
psndencieS, and prolecborate lot in
c'u!ipg Egyp) anoua1ed il 1874 to
1910 bales OF int CT 500 pounas gross
weight. This Is mostly comm -IclGl
cotton, and nearly nsli Cf IL came
from western Africa, in tue N g~ria
region. TIE W4st Ildies aud B9:tlsh
Guiana contributed & Jalns, and
g, prus a;d Molta. in Il, Mediterranean
sea, contributed ! 463 balas; ircn
eastern Africa weIs exported 6U9
bale from central Africa and Ugsn-
da, 642 bales; from southern Africa. 8
bal:s; and from Australasia. l8 balsa
The British loriai cG~p OF 1904
mostly commercial, exc. udlng British
E ~ IldieS, vas three times the crop
II 1868 II tine entire Increase in al
British colonies, except toe East 1u-
dies is to be accredited to efforts o.
the British cotton manufacturers to
necJme independent Of tue upland
cotton OF une Uliued .stes, ~h ca Is
nos to be assumed fully, the sun OF
the results CT tie III for one year
U9o4 amounts to O73 bales, and less
L:.sl half Of this cotEen II at all like
he upland co5ton OF this countr7.
A Statement for four years his been
prspar,d for the cotton producing and
exporting colonies OF Fra. :. FIR N the
total OF these it i, prGper to exclude
French lido China, which is not At
all Implicated In the prob en Of pro-
duciog cotton In new colonial regi :ns,
aud had commercial crop OF l3 619
800. oould bales in 1903.
! Most Of tie. {, ,lonial grown cotton OF
France, out.ide Of Iado-Coina, Is ex
ported after ginning. Tae latest In
formation ootainabie IL for 1868. dut.
Ing ~h;ch year as many as Is tales OF
$50 pounds gross weight wsIe exported
itCm Ffencl colonies, and nearly al
Of this was exported from Tahiti.
Mayottee exported little oy&r eae
oale ard SsnaKal little over two
bales. NJ d.gascar has barely more
Jlian half bale 20 It's credit, and
Guade.oupe less than one bale.
According TO TIE prCspectuses or
the German Association OF Manufac
turers to promote cotton growing IN
the colonies, VIII ca have been widely
published as accomplished f.cts, the
auantiiy of colonial grown c0GtoI for
CONNIE. cal purposes might be exp=c
ed to exceed by far the actually re
ported quantities.
Tue STA eMeGtS with regard to tht
German experiments in regions IL
western Africa sre often ex -remely
Cos fie.irg, alth u b smenantiug from
p-ofessedly trustworthy sources the
I'll ;ial statements are that in 1894
German E .st Africa exported 868 bales
of 500 pounds gross weight; Togo, 499
bales; or, these tHo colonies together,
367 bales. To th may be added the
German colony New Guinea, from
which (Bismark Archipelago 240
bales we're exported in 1903. Thus the
c1tton exports Ct German colonies
amount 10 / 607 oales Of lint reduced
to the equ valent OF 500 pounds gross
weight, German experiments have
been made IL Kanerun and in Germ n
Southwest Africa, but their success in
any dsgree is still in doubt. A fe"
cotton growing experiments have been
made in the Ib6l an Est Africa colony
OF S3malia, but with no definite re-
suits. The Italian colony OF Eritrea
exported about eight 500 pound bales
In 1904.
In tie United Kingdom, Germany.
and France there are associations OF
cotton manufacturers for the purpose
OF promoting the production Of cot
ton in new regions in the colonies to
these countries, and the total evidence
Of their accomplishment In 1904 for
the United Kingdom, Gernany and
Italy and, in 1903, for France, Is as
follows In gross weight bales OF 500
pounds each:
United Kingdom. ........ 1910
Fiaacs. Is
Germany. y....................1,60 %. 1,607
Italy ....... ................
Total. ......... 49,. 1851
The above total would he far from