The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-06-12
Crop


II is interesting to observe. the bu'
letin states, that the value of the
cotton crop of last year was about
one-half that OF the corn crop in the
country in 1909 as estimated by tnt
Department of Agriculture was near
ly Sl0O,000,00 more than that of the
wheat crop; and was twice the value
Of the oat crop. The bulletin refers
to a leading engineering and mining
journals statement that the world $
production of gold in 1909, amounting
in value to about $3.50, 900 OO0 was the
greatest ever recorded; and ii points
ly more than one-half the value OF
the American cotton crop last year
report that the total building eXpendi.
lures for 1909 in lO5 cities OF the
669 or only about $i5,50O,OOO more
than the cotton crop of this country
The average annual production of
cotton in the United States for the
last five years was II l,935,Gil bales,
or 1,62O,259 bales more than the crop
of 1903. The value of the cotton crops
of the five-year period ending with
1909 was $3,54S,222,369, while the
value for the fiye-year period ending
with 1899 was $1.529, ,5O2,325,
The cotton growers were in a
wretched state financially, the report
asserts, when the crop of 1898 was
sold at an average price of l9 cents
per pound. Their independence real
ly began with the price ofl2.2 cents
per pound in 1903.
During the last five years the price
of lint cotton averaged about II
cents per pound, or about $55 per
bale, and the value of the cotton seed
increased from $l3.76 per ton in 1906
to $2773 per ton in 1909.
The value of a 500-pound bale OF
cotton, including the value of the
seed. was $S4.3l in 1909, compared
with $5O.37 in 1904, and with S3O.22 in
1898.
An Independent Living for a Cotton
Grower.
TO the producer of crop of %
bales this means that, whereas he
realized $6O4 in 1898, he received ST.,
CSC IN 1908. which increase, notwith
standing greater cost of production
at the present time, measures the dir
ference between "a mere existence and
inupendent living.
The bulletin notes that, according
to the Bureau of Statistics OF the
Department Of Agriculture, the area
planted to cotton in 1909 was 32,
2g2 900 acres, of which l,354,OOO
acres or Az per cent, were aband
oned, leaving 3O93S,O 900 acres as the
area from which the crop was harVesc
ed There was a reduction of 4.6 pei
cent in the area harvested and oi
PAL per cent in the production in l9O5
The average production per acre II
1909 was 1916 pounds, compared
with 1853 pounds in 1908.
Attention Is called 70 the fact thai
the acreage harvested between 1873
and 1909 increased ll37 per cent anC
the production 97.S per cent. How
ever. the crop of 1908, amounting t'
about 13,432,13l running bales, rep
resent more nearly the normal produc
ton. and it shows an increase OF l50.'
per cent over the crop OF 1873. |:
1899 Delaware, Maryland, lndiani
and Illinois all produced cotton, I'LL
nois alone contributing more than D,
600 bales. Simulated by the higt
prices following the civil war, cottor
was cultivated to Il limited extent u
West Virginia, Nevada, California
Illinois. and Utah, from all of whict
states it subsequently disappeared
New Mexico, which produced moro
than 1000 pounds Of cotton in 1853
afterward abandoned its culture, 5ui
has again established the industry
having produced about $4,000 pounds
in 1909. California also has resumed
the culture. with yield of nearls
POP, 900 pounds in 1909,
OF the total production in l9O9' me
territory west of the Mississippi rive
contributed 4,222,O4S bales, or 40.
DER cent, while in 1903 it contribute
& 23212S bales, or 45.9 per cent. Tht
states east of the Mississippi return
cd eO93.S34 bales. or 591 per cent, II
1909 and 7,355,17S bales or 541 pei
cent. in 1908. The statistics shoN
that the production in the eastern
states is much more regular than il