The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-06-02
COTTON PRODUCTION PAST YEAR
The Government Report Shows a
Crop Of 1875, 46l Bales.

Washington, June Bulletin
50, which has just been issued by
the bureau of census, consist of re-
port on the production OF cotton in
1907, prepared under the supervis-
ion of MIR. William M. Steuart, chief
statistician for manufactures, by Mr.
Daniel c. Roper, expert chief of di-
vision. The report is presented in
four divisions: % Annual cotton
production in the United States, as
returned by ginners and delinters,
distributed by states from 1899 to
1907 and by counties from 1903 to
1907, with statistics as to annual
production compiled from trustwor-
thy sources for previous years, be-
ginning with 1890; (2) worlds cot
ton production in 1907 by counties;
CD the growing, harvesting, and
handling of cotton. with illustrations
and (4) statistics as to the manufac-
ture of cottonseed products.
During the ginning seasons, ten
preliminary statements of cotton
ginned to specified dates were issued
The present rerort gives the aggre-
gate figures for the whole cotton
crop and covers the ninth consecu-
tive year for which statistics of cot
ton g1nnei have been collected and
published by the bureau of the CEN
sus.
The finally revised figures for the
crop of 1907, expressed in equival-
ent 500-pound bales and including
linters, show a total production of
II ,375, 461 bales This represents
falling off from 1906 of 2,220, 037
bales. or 1853 per cent, and is q
304,4 bales less than the crop of
1904, the largest on record: while it
falls snort of the average production
of the last six years by 345,914
bales.
OF the total production in 1907,
4,769, sos bales, or AZ per cent, came
from the territory west of the Mis-
sissippi river, while the states east
of the Mississippi contributed g.
GOSSIP bales, or SIS per cent. This
is in marked contrast with 1905,
when 1872 per cent of the crop came
from west of the Mississippi and
46.S per cent from the states east of
| it; in 1905, however, the correspond
ing percentages were 41.6 and 5S.4
respectively. These variations are
caused largely by the fluctuations
in the size of the crop in the states
west of the Mississippi, as the diff
ference between the largest and the
smallest crop in the eastern states
during the last three years was but
29S.970 bales.
The state reporting the largest
cotton crop in 1907, as well as in
every other year since the Inaugural
ton of the ginning reports, was Tex
as, with total of 2,360.47S bales
This represents an enormous decrease
from 1906, however, amounting to
,921 ,346 bales, or 44.9 per cent. AS
a result of this decrease Texas pro-
duced only 20.S per cent of the total
for the country as compared with
! 81, 5 per cent in 1906 and with "a 8
/ per cent. which represents the pro-
portion contributed by it to the ag-
| gregate production of the last six
| years.
! Other states showing large de-
creases are Louisiana and Arkansas,
which reported losses of about one
third and one-fifth, respectively, as
compared with 1906 The new state
! of Oklahoma reported 8S2,984 bales,
a loss of about per cent, which
however, was so insignificant as com
pared with the losses shown by other
states that Oklahoma actually ad-
vanced from seventh place to sixth
in the quantity of cotton produced
The total gross weight of the cot
ton reported from the crop of 1907
in the United States was 5,687,730,-
71S pounds. The total tare computed
amounted to 246,538,261 pounds.
leaving the quantity of lint produced
as 5,441,192,457 pounds. The guam
tity of cottonseed produced was es-
timated at 4,952,402 tons
The average price per pound of
upland cotton of the crop of 1907
was 11.46 cents; of Georgia and
Florida sea island. 24.27 cents; of
South Carolina sea island, 1853
cents The average price of cotton
seed per ton was s17.63 The aver
| age prices Of upland cotton market
ed prior to April l have ranged from
$40 cents to 1915 cents per pound
during the six years beginning with
1902, the average price for 1907 be-
Ing exceeded only by that for 1908.
The estimated total value of the
crop of 1907 was $700,956,011. of
this, $685., 063,592 represents the
value of the upland cotton produced,
$S,566,844 that of the sea-island,
and $7,325.575 that of the seed
| There was falling OFF in aggregate
value as compared with 1906 of 800
691,226, but this was due solely to
decrease of $2S, S09,795 in the val
ne of upland cotton, as the value Of
sea-island cotton and of cottonseed
increased $2,12S,693 and $5,989,-
876, respectively. The average value
of bale of upland cotton for the
i've year period ending with 1907
was $3.50, as compared with an
| average of $31.75 for the CORES
ponding period ending with 1899, an
increase of $25.55 per bale.
The crop of 1907 was ginned by
1852 ginneries, as compared with
| 2o,70S in 1906. In addition, 1920
idle ginneries were reported in 1907.
Georgia reported the largest number
of active ginneries, 1867, or 1876 per
cent of the total, but ginned only
1853 per cent of the crop; while Tex
as, with 14.5 per cent of the active
ginneries, ginned EOS per cent of
the crop. The average number of
bales ginned per active establish
ment in 1907 was 404, against an
average of 457 in 1906. This differ
| ence is occasioned by the fact that