The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-23
COTTON CROP LAST YEAR.
TOTAL NUMBER OF BALES, OVER
THIRTEEN MILLIONS.

TOTAL NUMBER OF BALES, OVER
THIRTEEN MILLIONS.
South Cardinals Yield Was Less Than
Usual LOrangeburg Leads all
Counties in Pr 3duction.
| WASHINGTON, May 2O.-The Gen.
sus bureau of the department of COM
merce and labor has just issued a
bulletin giving the production of cot
ton by states and territories, with
per cent of quality produced in each,
forms of the total crop, and rank &C
cording to the quantity produced
from 1902 to 1906.
Including linters and counting
round as half bales, the crop Of 1906
is 1896, ,265 bales, compared with
10, ,725, ,602 for 1905 and 13, ,697 $40 for
1904. The 1906 crop for Texas ex-
ceeds all previous records, 4, 81 1924
bales, or 31.5 per cent of the country's
production. The next largest con-
tributor is Georgia, with 1,626, ,8N
bales, or IL per cent. Mississippi
ranks third, Alabama fourth and
South Carolina seventh. The states
of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Virginia each
produced less cotton in 1906 than in
1905, the combined loss amounted to
338, ,762 bales.
South Carolina produced in 1906,
in pounds, 1866, Sol; in 1905, 547,-
999, ZIG.
The Sea-island crop Of 1906, con-
sisting of 81 $50 bales, or 22,281 .889
pounds, is the smallest production
since 1892, when the crop was but
as, ,418 bales. The production of Sea-
island cotton in this country is con-
fined at present to II counties in
Florida, "a in Georgia and 4 in South
Carolina, or a total of AZ counties.
South Carolina has 1902 acres in
Sea-island cotton. The failure of this
staple in Texas shows that it can
only be grown to advantage in Ger
tain places in South Carolina, Florida
and Georgia. The increased demand
for superior staples in recent years
is developing better upland varieties
by seed selection and more careful
cultivation. The average price per
pound for upland cotton this season
| is 1901 cents, while the Sea-island
varieties sold from II to 80 cents.
Estates showing largest per cent Of
water power for cotton mills are
Florida, 10 per cent; Alabama IL;
Georgia, North Carolina and South
Carolina each 10.
South Carolina produced by coun-
ties as follows, in bales in. 1906:
Abbeville, 1925; Aiken, 23,018; An
derson, 50,791; Bamberg. 1876;
tBarnwell, 31,031; Beaufort, 6,W1;
Berkeley, 12,224; Charleston, 1885;
Cherokee, 12,466; Chester, 23,013;
Chesterfield, 1884; Clarendon, 21,-
696; Colleton, II 1924; Darlington, a.
513; Dorchester, 1913; Edgefeld,
Is, ,2O5; Fairfield, 23,578; Florence,
22,574; Georgetown, 1884; Green
vile, 3O,881; Greenwood, 1854;
Hampton, II, ,343; Horny, 5,997; Ker-
shaw, 15,042; Lancaster, 19, $50; Lau-
rens, Sc, ,874; Lee, 1858; Lexington,
| I17,144; Marion, 1856; Marlboro,
l4O,821; Newberry, 34,793; Oconee,
II ,876; Orangeburg, 0,319; Pickens,
13,5O1; Richland, 10,549; Saluda, 49,
218; Spartanburg, 48,328; Sumter,
| 22, GAS; Union, Il, ,436; Williamsburg,
lis, ,463, York, 34,778. !
Every county in South Carolina
produces the staple Of cotton; George
town being the lowest, with only L.
344 bales.
New Mexico appears in the list Of
states and territories in the produc-
ton of cotton in 1906, for the first
time. It shows a production OF near.
ly 100000 pounds. It is ahead of
Kansas and is expected soon to pass
Virginia.
The average crop for the past five
years is 1,790,558 bales.
| Of the total production in 1906, the
territory west of the Mississippi con-
tributed 7,233, ,210 bales or 53.2 per
cent, while the states east contribut-
ed 6,362,288 bales, or 1853 per cent,
showing that the country west of the
Mississippi has passed that east of
the Mississippi, Notwithstanding the
ravages of the boll-weayil in parts
of Texas.
The production of Texas, 1872 per
cent of the total for the country,
compared with 30.5 per cent in 1905,
a gain of TT per cent.
The production of 918, ,537 bales in
Oklahoma and Indian territory gives
the new state a respectable rank
among the cotton producing states,
being larger than North Carolina
and Tennessee combined.
Killing In Spartanburg.