The Newark journal., 1908-06-12
LAST YEARS COTTON CROP
Total Production and Value, as Com
pared With Crop of Other Years


ports that the finally revised figures
of the 1907 cotton crop, expressed in
equivalent 500-pound bales and includ-
ing linters, show total production OF
IL 1916, 46l bales. This is a decrease OF
2, 220, 037 bales, or 1868 per cent, from
from 1906, and is 1903, 1913 bales less
than the crop. of 1904, the largest on
record. 1t falls short of the average
production of the last years by 345,-
GA bales.
OF the total production in 1907,
q, 1853, 600 bales, or ~ per cent came
from the territory west of the Missis-
sippi river, while the States east of the
Observation-Disclosures 6,605, S52 bales,
or IS per cent.
Texas, which produces a large per
cent of the cotton crop, produced p
$50, AIS bales last year. This repre-
sents an enormous decrease from 1906,
however, amounting to 1921, 346 bales,
or 40 per cent As a result of this de-
crease Texas produced only POS per
cent of the total for the country, as
compared with 31.5 per cent in 1906.
Other states showing large'decreases
are Louisiana and Arkansas. which
reported losses of about one-third and
one-fifth, respectively, as compared
with 1906.
Georgia ranked second IN the guam
tity of cotton produced in 1907, with a
total of l, $50, 7s9 bales.
The average price per pound of up
land cotton of the crop of 1907 was
la cents. The average price for
Sea Island cotton was $3.50 cents.
The average price of cotton seed per
ton was sl7.63
The estimated total value of the crop
of 1907 was 300, $50, 2ll. OF this, $685.
o63, 592 represented the value of the
upland cotton produced; Ss, 266, s44
that of the Sea Island, and SS7, 325, 575
that of the seed. There was a falling
off in aggregate value as compared
with 1906 of $40, 691 ,226, but this was
due solely to decrease of S2S, 500, 795
in the value of upland cotton, as the
value of Sea Island cotton and seed
bale of upland cotton for the fve-year
period ending with 1907 was S57.30 as
compared with an average of S3l. IS
! for the corresponding period ending
with $780,
One of the most interesting tables in
the report is that showing the produc-
ton, consumption, exports and inn
ports of cotton for the United States
for each year from 1870 TO 1907, in
elusive. "A realization of the great
development of cotton growing in the
country is given by the fact that in
1890 the total production of the coun-
try amounted to but 3, l3S bales of 500
pound each, and that the exports for
the year beginning October l, 1870,
but $40 bales compared with 1925, 237
bales for 1906.
The second part of the bulletin gives
d Dllci vi the piSoSit etdtuS
of cotton growing in all of the coun-
tries where it is carried on to any ex-
tent. The total worlds production of
cotton for mill consumption 1907 was
estimated at 1852, lS5 bales of 500
pounds net, of which the United States
furnished 10,SS2, 3s5 bales, CT 65.9 per
cent. British India, which ranked
second, produced but 2,444, son bales,
or las per cent. Nulperous .fforts
have been made in recent yeais to
develop new fields of cotton prooac-
ton, but it will be years before the
United States will no longer be re
CURED to furnish the greater part o
the supply, if indeed that time viii
ever come.