Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-11-22
COTTON REPORT
TO NOV. Is
REAARkABLE COTTON FIGURES
IN LATEST REPORT ISSUED
YESTERDAY.
COMPARED WITH 1910
Report Greater Than Corresponding
bate Last Season By Over
2.0OO.00O Bales.

Tit gin report issued today. show
ing The number of bales of cotton GIN
ned i'll tn Tn ted States up to Novem-
Der 10, as compared with the number
ginned to November IA, of last yea,
develops the remark Bile fact that on
november II, of the present year, H.,
100000 bales of cotton have been gin
ned, as against approximately $3.50
600 bales by the same date last year
In other words, by a correspondents
dste this year, nearly two and hail
million bales more eototn had bec,,
ginned than for last year, showing, ap-
parently, an unusual advance in the
gathering season. Last year only
about IS per cent of the cotton crop
had been gathered by November IA.
The figures, IS compiled and sent
out from Washington today. are given
below, and will be read With unusual
interest throughout the entire South:
Washington, Nov. 21.-The Census
Bureaus fifth cotton ginning report of
the season, issued at 10 a. m., today,
and showing the number of running
bales, counting round as Aalf bales, Of
cotton of the growth of 1911 ginned
prior to November 10, with compare
tive statistics to the corresponding
date for the past three years, is as
follows:
United States, 11,269,9S6 bales, com
pared with S,7S0,433 bales last yea,
when 75.9 per cent of the entire crop
was nned prior to November IA; s.
1879 bales n 1909, when sos per
cent was ginned. and 9.5a5,So9 bal
in 1908, when 1873 per cent VS. gia-
ned.
The number of round bales includ-
ed We're 76,0f1, compared with 90
1854 bales last year; 123, 757 bales IN
1909, and 1739OS bales in in 1908.
The number Of bales of Sea Island
cotton included were II, 1919. compared
VIII 1881 bales last year, GS, 495 bales
in 1909, and 56,701 bales in 1908. The
distribution eff Sc Island cotton by
States was as follows:
Florida: 26,S1S bales compared with
1869 bales last year. 23,453 bales in
1903. and 23,62O bales in 1905
Georgia: 41.725 b2les, compared {
with 2S,0SS bales last year; $685.
bs1es in 1909. and 26,S33 bales in 1908
South Carol ma: 1858 bales, COM
pared with 4,S74 bales las year. 6.217 {
bales in 1909 and 6,24S bales in 1905.
Ginning by States, with comparative
statistics and the percentage of the to-
tai crop ginned to November Il Is,
previous years, follows:
Al bama: 1,19S,191 bales, compared
with S95,S94 a'es last year, when Isl
per cent was ginned; S05,S49 bales III
1909, when IT'S ptr cent was ginneG,
and 1,020,724 bales in 1908, when 76.5
per cent was ginned.
Arkansas: 562,542 bales, compared
with 419,122 bales last year, When 500 /
per cent was ginned; 557 ,S57 bales in
1909, W en- 500 per cent was ginned, !
and 665,232 bales in 1905. when &c IS T
per cent was ginned.
Florida: 65,238 bales, compared with !
1854 bales last year, when 69.7 per
cent was ginned; 81 ,612 bales in 1909, |
when S3.4 pr cent was ginned, ana /
51.497 bales i'll 1908, when 729 per
cent was ginned.
Georgia: 2,103.979 bales, compared
with 1,436997 b les last year, when /
1913 per cent was ginned; l,559,S2S (
bales in 1909, when SAB per cent was
ginned, and 1,564.037 bales III 1908, |
when 79.1 per cent was g nned.
Louisiana: 26S.40S bales, compare /
with 1888 bales last year, when 74s |
per cent was ginned; 217,433 bales Ii
1909, Wien SAL per cent was ginned,
and 341 1853 bales in 1908, when 735
per cent w S ginned.
Mississippi : 720,74S bales, compared
witt $50. 1872 bales last year. when
e2.6 per cent was ginned, 731, 1854
bales n 1899, when 6S.2 per cent was
ginned. ginn- d. and 1,0S6,1s3 bales in
1908, when 60 per cent was ginned.
Meth Carolina: 1851 bales, com
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