Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1911-06-22
1910 COTTON CROP REPORT
MOST VALUABLE EVER PRO.
pucE IN UNITED STATES.
Texas Crop More Than 100000 Bales
Larger Than 1soe-Hut Less Than
Three Previous Years.

Washington Salient features OF
the 1910 cotton crop report of the cen
sus bureau. made public Wednesday,
are as follows:
The estimated value OF the 1910
cotton crop. the most valuable ever
produced In the United States. is $685.
10000, compared with Ss12, 900
Tor 1903; S6Sl. 900. 1908; $500, $780,
900 Tor 1907. and Sal. $4,000 for 1906.
Tho value OF the crop of 1910 is
NSi.os0.OQ0. or 1866 per cent more
than that OF 1909. Notwithstanding the
tact that the quantity OF lint is only
LSeS,SS5 bales. or 16 per cent greater.
The value OF the cotton crops of the
nve-year period ending with 1910 is
sS,Sgs.ii0.O00. with the value of the
ftve-year period ending with 1899 is
N.Sss. 100000.
During the last five years the price
Of lint cotton has averaged about ~
per cent per pound, or about $50 per
lsle, and the value OF the cotton seed
has increased from $3.50 per ton in
1906 to $27.40 per ton in 1910.
The value of 500-pound bale of cot
ton, including the value of the seed.
was SS715 in 1910, compared with
S50.S7 for 1904 and with S30.22 in 1898.
To the producer of crop of twenty
bales this means that whereas he real
lied 5000 in 1898, he received $1.743
in 1910, which increase, notwithstand-
ing great cost of production at the
present time, measure the difference
between mere existence and COM
Portable and Independent living.
The quantity of cotton reported for
the crop of 1910, with linters included
and round bales, counted as half
bales, is 11,965,962 running bales; ex.
pressed in gross 50O-pound bales, the
crop amounted to 12,005,6SS bales,
which is 1,690,906 bales, or 1914 per
cent, greater than the crop of 1909,
but 1,5S1,61S bales, or 11.6 per cent,
less than the crop of 1908.
The average annual production of
cotton in the United States for the
past five years is 12,175,S37 bales, or
17O,17O bales more than the crop Of
1910.
The Texas crop in 1910 was more
than half million bales larger than in |
1903, but did not reach the dimensions
attained in 1908, 1906 or 1904. The
unstable condition -eotte-.--r-e doc
tion in Texas is disclosed by the fact
that the State showed decline OF |
44.9 per cent in 1907, compared with
1906, when the largest crop that was
ever produced was grown, and an in
crease of 1908, or 65.8 per cent, over
the crop of 1907, while in 1909 the |
crop decreased 1874 per cent from that |
preceding year, and in 1910 increased |
over that of 1909 by PIT per cent. |
This State produced 26.4 per cent of |
the total crop of the country in 1910;
25.3 per cent in 1903; 2S.S per cent in
1908; 20.8 per cent in 1907, and Bis
per cent in 1906. In 1910 the produc-
ton was 94,5S5 bales less than the
State average for the five years.
The estimated cotton, running
square bales, from the crop of 1910
remaining to be ginned, was for the
United States 71,OS4, as compared
with 49.44S in 1909, 94,27S in 1908,
1884 in 1907, and 14S,7S3 in 1906.
The quantity of linters produced
from reginning the seed from the crop
of 1899 amounted to 114.544 bales, as
compared with 397,62S bales from the
crop of 1910 The average price of
this cotton has been returned as 3.3
cents per pound.