Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1909-06-09

OF the bureau expressed in neweignt bales
13002000 and represents 66 per cent Of the commercial
cotton produced British India which ranks second pro-
duced 2914O00 bales, or Is per Most of the
maEder is raised in China and Brazil while smaller
quantities are contributed by Mexico Peru Turkey Per-
sia, and several other countries
OF the total production in the United States in 1908,
6232l28 bales. 1875 per cent from the territory
west of the Mississippi river while the states east Of the
Mississippi contributed $685. 178 bales, SAL per
The 1908 cotton crop for the United States represents
an increase over 1907 Of 22ll845 bales or 1874 per
1t is the third largest crop produced, being
ceeded only by the crops Of 1904 and 1906 and is 978
751 bales larger than the crop Of the last hve
years
In the state Of Texas the second largest crop is report
ed the figures for 1903 being 3yI384 bales which is
exceeded only by that Of 1906 which 368740 bales
larger In Texas there remarkable falling of in
the cotton production for 1907 the percentage being 449
per compared with 1906 But this state increased
its crop in 1908 by 658 per cent over 1908 Texas alone
produced 2S8 per of the total for the country for the
period covered In 1906 Texas produced 3l5 per cent
The bureau points out other states which have
made notable increases the cotton production 1907
Arkansas for 1908 made gain of 334; Alabama, 213
per cent and Mississippi 1873 per Two states
sustained serious losses Louisiana reporting Tor 1903 but
701 per Of the quantity returned for the previous
year and Oklahoma showing the decided loss of 80 per
cent.
OWlng TO unusually favorable condlonS georgia pro-
duccd in 1908 the largest crop in its history the
number of bales being l980077 exceeding the 1907 pro-
duction by 124228 bales. Georgia now takes second
rank in point of production Mississippi ranks third with
704972 bales or 125 per cent Of the total production
or the country and closely followed by Alabama
with 1874 140 bales, or 101 per cent Of the total
The aggregate value OF the cereal crops for the United
States in 1907 was estimated by the department Of agri-
culture at S2378000O00 while the the value Of the cot
Ton produced that year estimated at S701,000OO0
nearly one-thd the value Of all cereals The value Of the
1908 cotton crop growers is estimated at S68l 230956
Of which S5888l482S represents the aue Of the lint and
S92, ,4l6 l28 the value Of the seed.
The crop of 1908 IS remarkable for its spinning qua-
ties and cleanliness But Notwithstanding this fact and
the act that the crop 23l1S45 bales larger than the
crop of 1907 yet has been disposed of by the growers
at approximately S2000000O less than that Of 1907.
The bureau has gathered some valuable and in
teresng statistics bearing production with ref
erence the number OF persons employed in this indus
try According its figures not less than 100000 per-
sons employed in producing. handling and ranuac
turing American cotton of whom some 100000 are
farmers and farm aborers, 100000 otherwise engaged
with the fiber in this country and about 100000 are con-
cerned with it in foreign countaies The value Of the
goods manufactured from the average American cotton
crop is estimated at S2000000000
or the total quantity of the six leading textile 6bers
produced in 1908, namely 1S042245000 pounds cotton
constituted 81 per wool l45 per cent; ute IA per
cent, iax, III per cent hemp, per cent end silk less
than l2 Of per cent The relative Importance Of these
6bers has been reversed during the past century Flax
fiber which used larger extent than any other in
1900 ranks fourth and the quantity produced is only
about three times what ii was then During this period
the production Of wool has increased about ourfod and
OF cotton about thry-fold
The bureau estimates the quantity Of cotton seed
produced in 1908 at 5903,83S TONS Of which 1869 TAI
tons treated by the oil mills afordng products val
ued at S86092,58
The total supply Of cotton in the United States for the
months period ending with February 1909 is given
as 14363960 bales made up Of L23605S bales on hsnd
Sept l. 1908; 13029902 bales einned since and $500
imported The exports during this period amounted to
6566771 bales 2534040 bales.
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