The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-07-14
Georgia's 1908 Cotton Crop.

According to a bulletin Of the cen
sus bureau in cotton production in
the United States Georgia ranked
second in the cotton-producing states
during the years 1904-'08, Texas
holding the first place during the
same years. Georgia's production of
upland cotton for the period year
named, including linters, was: 1904,
1,992,757; 1905, 1,759,083; 1906,
1,667,866; 1907, 1,9O1,576; 1908,
2,026,999. 1t is interesting to note
that the production for Georgia rep
resented practically the same proper
ton of the crop for the country in
1908 as in 1869; the proportions
were 14.6 per cent in 1908 and
1915 in 1869, although the crop in
creased from 2,409,597 bales in 1869
to 13,387,3O6 in 1908.
The average gross weight of bales,
counting round as half bales and in
Guiding linters, was 1854 pounds;
square bales, 490.3 pounds; round
bales, 1888 pounds; linters, 480.2
pounds. There were 930,861 square
bales returned, weighing 456,S47,-
/ 654 pounds.
! The gross weight of the cotton, in
Guiding linters, aggregated 99O,038,-
282 pounds, divided as follows: Lint
cotton, 965, 589,501 pounds; in
square bales, 947,397,581 pounds;
in round bales 1855 pounds; sea
island bales, 1915 05 pounds; lint
ers, 24,448,782 pounds.
The aggregate value of the crop
was $101,867, 947; the value of the
/ upland crops was $S3,61S,155, and
the sea island $3.166,986; the value
of the 866,82S tons of cottonseed was
SIS, 0S2,80
There were in Georgia during the
/ year under consideration 1850 gins
-4,475 active and AIS idle; the av-
erage number of bales ginned by
each establishment was 442, the
highest IN five years. Georgia with
| 1872 per cent. of the total active
ginning establishments in the couu-
try ginned 14.6 per cent of the total
crop production.
OF the 32,444,0O0 acres devoted to
cotton culture Georgia had 4,S4S,-
900 acres. In 1879, with 2,614,13S
acres, she produced S14,441 bales.
A series of shaded maps showing
the production of the states by coun-
| ties is a valuable feature of the bull
letin. According to the map OF
Georgia Dade, Fannin, Union, Towns
Rabun, Glascock and Glynn counties
made no return of cotton produced
Of the counties producing less than
5000 bales were Catoosa, Murray
Gilmer, Pickens, Lumpkin, Dawson
White, Habersham, Fulton, Miller
Echols, Clinch, jeff Davis, Appling
Ware, Pierce, Charlton, Effingham
Bryan, Chatham, Liberty, Wayne
Mcintosh and Camden. OF the coun.
ties producing from 5000 to 10000
bales were: Baker, Ben Hill, Bib
Chattahoochee, Coffee, Crawford
Douglas, Grady, Lincoln, Marion
Milton, Muscogee, Quitman, Rich,
mond, Rockdale, Schley, Stephens
Tattnall, Taylor, Walker, Webster
Whitfield, Wilkinson Or the coun
ties producing between 10000 anC
Berrien, Brooks, Butts, Calhoun
IGdmpDGl1, SndLJOUSd, OueIOh66
Clarke, Clay, Clayton, Colquitt, Co
lumbia, Decatur, DeKalb, Fayette
Forsyth, Gordon, HARRISON, Irwin
Jenkins, Johnson, Lee, Lowndes, Nc
Dune, Montgomery, Paulding, Tai
bot, Taliaferro, Telfair, Turner
Twiggs, Epson, Warren, Wilcox. The
counties producing $1,000 bales anC
over were Barlow, Bulloch, Cobb
Coweta, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly, Dough
erty, Early, Ebert, Emmanuel
Floyd, Franklin, Greene, Gwinnett
Hall, Hancock, Harris, Hart, Heard
Henry, Houston, Jasper, Jefferson
Jones, Macon, Madison, Meriwether
Mitchell, Monroe, Morgan, Newton
Oconee, Oglethorpe, Pike, Polk, Pu
laski, Putnam, Randolph, Screven
Spalding, Stewart, Sumter, Thomas
| iTroup, Walton, Washington, Wilke
and Worth. The counties producin!
! 5000 bales and over were Terrell