The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-10
COTTON CROP
 IN EUROPE Foreign Experiments Arc
 Unsuccessful. CULTIVATION IS PRIMITIVE Greater Area of Cotton in India
 Than America. The Average Yield, However. Is Only 0ne-Third Per Acre As Conn.,
 pared With The United
nY ALrREn U. srOFER.

Washington, Sept. e.-(Special.)- For the past five or six years United States consuls to many of the foreign countries have sent in numerous re- ports regarding the efforts of European governments to produce in their far on colonies sufficient cotton to make them independent in a measure. at least, of the United States, so far as full sup ply of the fleecy staple is concerned.
 Periodically, the news is also flashed around the world, that India and Egypt will ultimately have such heavy in~ crease in their cotton crops that Brit ish spinners will not be much longer at the mercy of American producers But every indication points to the fact that John Bull will be compelled to relay perpetually upon Uncle Sam for the great bulk of his raw cotton. Ex- periments in British, German, Dutch and French colonies. according even to the admissions of these governments have not been at all successful out side of Egypt and India.
 Indeed, remote parts of the world where companies were organized with ample capital the attempts have been farcical, and much money. has been squandered in a vain effort to do with out the usual imports from the United States. Capitalists behind these ven- lures reluctantly have been forced to admit as much.
 The Bureau of Manufacturers has just received, from Special Agent w. A. Graham Clark, an interesting re- port on the way in which 1ndia's cot ton crop is handled. Within the past two months, The Advertiser has pub Iished several extracts from MT. Clark's comprehensive reports to the bureau. the last one being on cotton seed oil products His latest contribution can not but interest all persons in Alabama and the adjoining States engaged In the cotton industry, for he compares oriental and American methods.
 system Is Described.
 MT. Clark, writing from Baroda, In the heart of the cotton growing re- zion of British India, describes the system of producing and marketing the cotton crop of that country and the obstacles that exist for its ex- pansion and improvement, together with some packing details which are more advanced than American methods.
 In proportion to total area India has more land in cotton than has the Uni ted States. Out of 1900, acres the United States In 1906-07 had BE- OA9,OOO acres in cotton, while out or 1,127,615,658 acres, India has z2,S4A,OVO in cotton. The average yield per acres of India, however, owing to the primitive methods of cultivation, has been only about one-third to three seyenths that of the United States. 1t has ranged for all India from fifty six pounds to the acre to the record of eighty eight pounds lint produced this last season when the conditions happened to be unusually favoraDle' This still compares unfavorably With inc American yield for 1906 of 20S hounds to the acre. British India s nroduction of cotton for the past ten wears in bales of 400 pounds and the equivalent in American of 500 pounds has been as follows: