The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-06-13

tude and the twentieth degree of south latitude, and that about two-thirds of the commercial crop Is produced in the southern portion of the United States.
 The production of cotton in 1909 as treasured by the factory supply-that IS the quantity entering commercial chan nels-shows loss Of 3,055.0O0 bales. or 15.6 per cent, when compared with the sup Fly for 1908, and shows a gain of 46,ooO bales, or three-tenths of 1 per cent, when compared with the supply of 1so7
 The Worlds Production
 The statistics of the worlds production present quite q seesaw in alternate years, being 16,55S GOO bales in 1909; 19, 6l3 900 bales in 1908. 16,5l2.0OO bales in 1907; 19,942,Ooo Tn 1906: 15.7470o0 bales in 1905, and 1S,So4,0o0 bales in 190I
 The average production of cotton for the world during the last six years was l7863,0OO bales. or about 1,S05,Go0 bales more than the production in 1909.
 It is cautioned that the figures concern the worlds mill consumption of cotton and not the total production.
 In 1909 the United States contributed 5a.6 per cent of the commercial cotton; British India, ELS per cent Egypt, 5.5 per cent, and Russia 4.3 per cent. The worlds production in 1909 amount ed to about S,279.000.000 pounds, valued at about S1 COG, ,000000
 The third part of the bulletin relates to the supply and distribution of cotton for specified periods in 1903 and 1910. It reviews the bureaus compliance with a point resolution of Congress, approved February g. 1905. under which reports have been compiled since that year show ing for each year, ending August 31. tho supply of cotton made up of that on hand at the beginning of the year, that ginned during the year and that imported during the year. 1t states that the next step l in the extension of the method of col- | lectng statistics of cotton production from ginners was taken when Congress passed joint resolution, approved March 9, 1909, which directed the bureau of the census to prepare three additional re- ports of the stock of cotton in this coun- try summarized as of November l. Jan- uary l and March 1.
 The bulletin then goes on to show that, of the total supply of cotton for the six months ending February 2S, 1910, amount- ing to 11,5753 80 bales, there were 2,5S9. .399 bales. or 21 g per cent, consumed in this country; 4,599, 6s2 bales 397 per cent. exported; while 1. 4.436.249 bales, or sS.3 per cent, remained in the United States at the close of the period.
 Of the total stocks of cotton in the country at the close of business Febrc- ary 2S 1909, 346 per cent was held by manufacturers, i2.5 per cent in indepen- dent warehouses, and % per cent ov other holders. These proportions com pare with the following for February 2s. 1910: 3S2 per cent was held by manu- lecturers. i2.9 per cent in independent warehouses and IS 9 per cent in the pos sessio nof other holders. Practically the same proportion of the stocks of the country in each year was stored in ware houses, but slightly larger proportion was held this year by manufacturers. Only three of the states show increases this year in the holdings of the inde- pendent warehouses: Massachusetts, with an increase of 25S4 bales; Mississippi, It, 879 bales. and New York. 29,554 bales. l The last part of the bulletin briefly covers the investigations of the govern ment with relation to cotton. It states
 that the expenditures made by the na-
 tional government and by the several cot-
 ton growing states and other local sub
 divisions, in the interest of cotton. not
 including the cost of education work in
 schools, colleges and institutes. amounted to approximately $1 0o,000 annually, and l it Is probable one-third is devoted to | cotton all the experiment stations. one third to statistical inquiries and the re- ] maining one-third to special phases of the plant and it's enemies. It states that a number of bureaus in several of the departments of the national government are now charged with work relative to some phase of the cotton industry, and it indicates the general scope and im- portance of these endeavors by naming the character of the investigations and the publications by each of these bu- reaus The report contains 22 tables, II maps and three diagrams