The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-13
FIGURES ON LAST
 YEARS COTTON CROP
Was the Smallest Produced
 Since 1903
BROUGHT GOOD PRICE
Valuation Was Over 19 Per Cent More Than Crop of 100S-Most Effect i've Check For BolI WeeviI
 Found in Dry Weather

I've Sncck FOr DUH N ectll Found in Dry Weather | Washington, June 12.-(Special.)-Al
 though the cotton crop of the United States in 1909 was the smallest produced since 1903, it's value was 19.2 per cent
 more than that of 1908, and measured bs
 it's arn-producing quality and by the | financial results to the growers, it was the most valuable ever produced. This statement is taken from the proof
 sheets of the United States census bu.
 reau's bulletin 1o7 on the production oi
 cotton in 1909 prepared by William M Steuart, chief statistician for manufac. lures. assisted by Special Agent Danie c. Roper. The bulletin will issue from
 the press Of the government printing Of | flee In a short time.
 l The estimated value of the 1909 crop l. given by the bulletin as sS12089. .S33, as
 compared with s6s1, ,230, ,e5s for 19os s7Oo, 956,011 for 1907; s721. .647, ,2s7 for 1906, and | $632, 296, ,332 for 19o5 The amount of diff | ference between the 1909 and 1908 values l is, therefore, s13o.S5s,S77 an Increase oi l ie.2 per cent, as stated
 1 The figures as finally complied for the crop of 1909, including lnters and count. | ing round as half bales, show 10,3S6, 20.
 running bales .. amounted to 1o,3S6, ,20s
 bales, which is 27,924 bales, or 24.l per cent less than the total for 19OS Ii is interesting to observe, the bulle. tin states, that the value of the cottor crop of last year was about one-hal1 that of the corn crop in the country ir 1 1909, estimated by the department oi | agriculture; was nearly $1,00o, 100000 more | than that of the wheat crop; and was twice the value of the oat crop. The | and mining journals statement that the
 worlds production of gold in 1909, amount.
 ing in value to about s46o,OoO,OOO, was the greatest ever recorded; and 1t points out l that the sum stated is but slightly more | than one-half the value of the American cotton crop last year.
 | The average annual production of co,.
 ton in the United States for the last five years was 11,9s5,641 bales. or 1,62o, ,25s bales 'ioiC thdh ttc tlOp Ol lJJS. The Value O1
 the cotton crops of the five-year period
 ending with 1909 was s3,54s, ,222, 369, while I the value for the five-year period ending
 with 1899 was s1,52s, ,5O2325.
 Financial State in 1898 The cotton growers were in a wretched state financially, the report asserts, wher the crop of 1898 was sold at an average
 price of 4.s cents per pound. Their in. | dependence really began with the price | Of 12.2 cents per pound in 1903. | During the last five years the price ot | lint cotton averaged about Il cents pel 1 pound, or about s55 per bale, and the
 value of the cotton seed increased iron
 s1376 per ton in 1906 to s27. .i5 per ton ir | 1909
 The value Of 50O-pound bale of cotton
 including the value of the seed, was sS4. 3
 in 1909, compared with $5O. 37 in 1904 an,
 with $30. g in 1S9S
 l TO the producer of crop of 20 bale.
 this means that, whereas he realized
 s604 in 1898 he received $16s6 in 1908. whict
 increases, notwithstanding a greater cos | Of production at the present time, meas
 ures the difference between a mere ex.
 istence and independent living. | The bulletin notes that according to the | bureau of statistics of the department of agriculture, the area planted 10 cot. l ton in 1909 was S2,292, 600 acres, of which l l,354O00 acres, or Az per cent, were aban. | doned, leaving 30,93S, 900 acres as the areo from which the crop was harvested | rbarn wa of {
 the area harvested and of 241 per ceni in the production in 1909. The average | production per acre in 1909 was 154 ;, pounds, compared with 1853 pounds fir | 1908.
 | Attention is called to the fact that the | acreage harvested between 1879 and l9O. | increased 1137 per cent and the pro.
 duction SIS per cent. However, the cror l of 1908, amounting to about B, ,432 131 run.
 ming bales, represents more nearly the
 normal production, and 1t shows an in | crease of 160.6 per cent over the crop of 1879.
 The states sustaining the greatest loss in production In 1909, compared with the results of 1908, in the order of their rela- tive loss, are: Louisiana, 456 per cent Mississippi, 34.s per cent; Texas. 33.4 per cent; Arkansas, 30.6 per cent; Tennessee
 PTS per cent Alabama, 2S.6 per cent, and Oklahoma, 19.9 per cent. The result in Louisiana is said to be little short O.
 disastrous, as during the last few years
 this state sustained great loss repor ting in 1908, 701 per cent of the quantity | returned in 1907, while it's production i.1
 1909 was only about one-fourth that of 1906
 The unstable condition of cotton produc- tion in Texas is to be seen in the fact that | the crop in 1909 was the third from the smallest since 1904. while that of 1908 was
 next to the largest. The state showed q falling off of 44.9 per cent in 1907 com pared with 1906, and increased its crop in
 1908 by 6.o2 per cent over the crop of 19O7 Production in Texas Texas produced 253 per cent of the total for the country in 1909. 2S.S per cent in
 1908, and 31.5 per cent in 1906. The production for the state in 1909 was 544,S75 bales, or IFS per cent less than the average for the five years, 1905-19O9
 The bulletin states that Georgia and the two Carollnas have exhibited especially favorable conditions in the last three years; their combined production in 190s being only 6.3 per cent less than that of 1908, whereas the crop of the entire coun- try was 24.1 per cent less They contribu- ted in 1909 about 8 per cent of the entire production.
 Georgia was second in rank in the quan. tity of crop produced being exceeded