The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-12-19

census bulletin: NO. IS, on aae
supply ard distribution OF the cos'
ton" for the year ending Aug. 81,
1906, contains many comparative fig
ures and other facts Of interest In ad-
dition to the STATISTICS about the last
cotton crop, which The Columbia
Stste points out in the following edi-
torial:
The suggestion Is made that the law
be changed 30 that the cotton year"
shall close July 81, instead Of Aug. 81,
IS now. The changed conditions in
cotton growing make this recoEnen
dation prsctical. Several hundred
Thousand bales Of each new crop"
now come In during August, so the
crops are always merged. II the year
begins July. 81, each crop will stand
bY itself. This is particularly desir'
able aince ginners' reports are now &C.
cepted as the basis for the census crop
bulletins.
Cotton growers are more interested
in the distribution than the yield Of
the 1905 06 crop. There were two
million and ten thousand bales less ex
ported Of that crop than Of the one
| Just previous. Yet mills in Europe
have all this year bsen running full
time. Does not that indicate that
foreign mills have this year been oper'
sting on a narrow margin OF stocks
and will have to replenish OF acquire
safe margins out Of the crop now OF
the market? We can see how the e1'
rors demand can be I, 500, 900 bales
greater than on the 1905. 0s crop.
The State has several times SAID
that the average annual increase Of
|consumption is 400, 900 bales. Where
does that increase come from? Noi
from England, where the increase i1
iuuantitY OF American mannfactuIe:
cotton has bean slow. It is chiefly IL
America and on the Continent OF Eu
rope. In the ffties, Scutheraers look
ed upon New England as q large cot
ton manufacturing centre. 1t is diff
cult for Us to realize, therefore, that
South Carolina manufactured as mucr
cotton last year as the average OF thai
manufactured In the United States II
1856 and 1857!
Twenty-Five years ago England I'm
ported 2, ,433. .254 bales OF our Gotten
! last year her imports from the same
source were 8 1sl, 143 bales an incressi
Of about 80 per cent. In the same pc
rio6 Germany's imports Of our cottoI
advanced from sos, ,693 to 1871, Az
France took 359, ,694 bales in 1880; ths'
wss increased to Sl7, ,583 last year.
Italy imported only 50. .126 In 1880
last yea, 486,697. Twenty-Five year
ago Japan and Canada imported prao
ally the same qusntity-abouG l9. 6o'
bales; laet year one took l47 ,0e0, TIT
other l42, 600 bales.
Massachusetts with s. .904. 725 spin
dies holds 3 very long lead. Soutt
Carolina is second with 1851, ,304, JUS
q million more than North Carolina
which takes third place, Rhode ls
land being fourth among the cottol
manufacturing States. Georgia ii
ahead Of New Hampshire, Whlcl
stands in sixth place. But as to-
Northern mills consume much les
cotton per spindle On account OF tn
finer grade Of goods they nnanufac
ture. the two CarolinaE consum :
lis, 900 more bales last year thai
Massachusetts.
The cotton growing States hst
203, 1922 Idle spindlss-36 per cent. o
all the idle sptndles in the Whoi
count1y-snd scarcity Of labor is th
reported cause.
The production Of cotton in tn
United States increased from 5,755,
(; 35e bales in 1880 to 725, ,602 last year
while the consumption In the Unitet
States in the game period increased
from l,570, 344 to A,909.47 bales
Within the last six years the consump
tion in the cotton growing States In
crossed 55.S pei can't; In the New
England States 7.8 per cent, and Il
all other States s per cent. are no1
the mills coming to the cotton?"
The Importance Of the China trad
to the South is shown in the fact tha
while our cotton exports In l89;
amounted to but 81, 723, ,294, last yea:
they were valued a. s29,S14, ,075-o.
Is times the total tsktngs Of all Cen
sral America. The Census bulletin
again shows that cotton Is king ant
that South Carolina is an important
psrt OF the throne.
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