St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1910-09-10
NUN REPORT 0 +
LUTON CROP FOR
TEARS i9O9l9lO.
g Crop Shows to Have Ag.
gregated IO,6O9,688
Bales.
Tuesday Colonel Il. q. Hester. sec.

0AS ASaa4HS bVpalS
81 which were given out On Aug. 81.
Iae following are copious extracts:
ihe cotton crop Of the United
stafas for ne year ending with the
slose q August. 1910, amounts to
Ao@a6s8 bales, showing . decrease
under shat u 10000 Of 8,215.989
under shat d 19o7-o8 Of 962.298,
that Of I9O6o7 Of 1,9o1,-
of TIE decrease compared with
last year, N percent was in Texas
and the group % uf States, !,
and 23 per b group Of
Atlantic STA
The fg are under
last year (m md numbers 1,I43,
0o0l bales oHp her Gulf
States l~enbtacing Lohis as, Mis-
sissipp, Tenn ee, Mis-
souri, 0llahena, Kansas. Arizona,
New Mexico ca orniaj, under last
year 1887, 600 he group 0f Attain
tie States, dncluding North Carolina,
South carolina Georgia Florida,
ehtay and Virginia. under last
$4,000 bales.
These constitute The face Of the
nes but, considering Che falling
Of ID weights, which averages s
63100 pounds bel bale, the decrease
Is equivalent 10 $4,000 greater in
bales 81 last Years crop. In other
words. The present crop Is equal to
l0a72,000 bales of last years
Weigh.
II aas been Six years since we have
had 4 ten-miIlion-bales crop, but the
difference between then and now is
that for the fve-year period prior TO
10000 the average yearly produc-
ton Nas lO,500,000 bales, while for
the fve-Year period up to 1909-I0
he average has been i ,764,O00;
nc while 100000 now spells
famine then 1O,O1I,000 meant
only q Short CROP The 100000
was the result Of the unfavorable con-
ditions; now I0,600,000 can only oc-
cur bhrough disaster.
d face Of the heavy shortage,
however, the grade Of the crop has
been good, averaging practically q
strict middling, d bare shade under
last year. but not up to the latter il
body and strength and length Of
staple. The difference is best illus
tgased BY the lessened weight Of the
bales which came in both years from
tbe same sized gin boxes.
The average price per pound, Of
M.37 cents for middling, compares
WIFI al average of 9 45-I00 cents
BEL pound last season, and la 42-100
cents The season before. The high
est figure for that grade was 1914
on tie 31st day Of December,
1903, aud The lowest u 3-l6 cents
81 The 18th Of September, 1909.
These are averages for markets in
the cotton belt, representing values
III afst hands, and do not, therefore,
take ii price ranges at New York,
Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, etc,
which are distributing centers mainly
for cotton that has changed hands
one or more times before it leaves
hs Cotton States, and the quotations
" which, therefore, By reason Of
bais and their distance from the
sources of production, include numer-
ous extra costs and transit charges
which do not enter into the actual
value Of the cotton itself.
AIS 4 rule. however, high prices in
New York 81 Liverpool have d favor
aBs influence ia Southern centers
aud the facts that spot cotton in New
york III the month Of MAY touched al
high Az 1906. III June as high q;
I5.A0. in July as high as 10.75. are
TOO important to omit from the rec.
ord. They are the most significant
rasalts ST i shortage ii supply which
reached the proportions Of a famine
The average commercial value Of
the bales was s78.4l. against S49.4t
last year, s58.10 the year before ane
$500 ii l906-07.
The money value Of the crop wa
greater than any eve before pro
dneed. he total (not including th,
cotton seed reaching S778,891,o95
swing that while the quantity o
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