The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-21
ISSUE BULLETIN ON COTTON DISTRIBUTION Completes 1909 Cotton Crop
 Statistics COTTON IMPORTATION In 1910, 30 Per Cent of Total Cotton Supply Was Consumed In This
 Country-Conditions Are
 Improved
COTTON
IMPORTATION

T Washington, January 20.-tSpecial.) Census bulletin 10 on the supply and distribution of cotton in the United States for the year ending August S1,
 1910, will be issued in the near future
 by Census Director Durand. The sta
 tistics were collected and compiled un- der the supervision of Mir. William NJ
 Steuart, chief statistican for manu-
 factures, assisted by MT. Daniel C. Ro- per, expert special agent.
 This annual bulletin forms the com plement to the report on production, compiled from the returns of the gin ners. It is the sixth of the series, and completes the statistics collected by the bureau relative to the cotton crop of 1909.
 The supply of cotton in the United States for the year ending August s1, 1910. was 12.1Ss.o21 bales a decrease of 20 per cent under the previous year, when the supply amounted to 15,S12,ss5 bales This decline apparently meas ures the difference between an ade- quate supply and one insufficient for the normal demand. The loss of 3,124.- s64 bales in the supply of cotton for 1910 is practically equal to the differ ence between the 1909 and 1908 cotton crops of the United States Although the production of cotton in India last year was about 65o.0OO bales in excess of that of the previous year. nearly all of this increase was required to offset the loss in the crops of Egypt and of other foreign countries.
 The Importation of Cotton
 The total quantity of cotton imported
 into the United States during the year ending August 31. 1910, amounted to 172.o75 bales of 800 pounds each Of this cotton the equivalent of 2o,ssO bales of 500 pounds each was re-ex- ported, leaving in the country 151,395 bales, valued at about 15.50O, 900. This l is an unimportant decrease in quantity of 14,056 bales compared with the mum Der in 1909, and it is more than ac- counted for by the loss in the imports of Egyptian cotton.
 Nearly all the cotton imported is Egyp- tian, used largely in the manufacture of thread, knit goods and machine lace and Peruvian, which is used as a substitute l goods. Recently a number of manufac- turers have been experimenting with Chi nese cotton in the manufacture of up- holstering materials and in some in stances in the manufacture of knit under wear. The direct importations from China for the cotton year 1910 amounted to 7129 bales and the direct importations of In | for mixing with the American fiber in the manufacture of cheaper grades of goods, amounted to s75s bales of 800 pounds each, a very large increase over any previous year.
 | Distribution of Cotton Supply 1 Of the total supply of cotton for 1910. 4,s0e,95S bales, or g per cent, including that destroyed by fire, were consumed in this country; 6,3s9,02S bales, or 52 per cent, were exported, while 1,O40040 bales, or per cent, remained in the country at the close of the year. Of the supply for the preceding year. 34 per cent was consumed at home, 56 per cent was ex- ported and 10 per cent remained in this | couptry.
 The total consumption of cotton in the United States for the year covered by the report, including that destroyed by fire, was 446. 323 bales less than during the year ending August 31, 1909.
 The exports during the year were g.. 234 996 bales less than for the previous year and were the smallest for any one | of the last five years.
 | The stocks of cotton in this country at the close of August a1, 1910, amounted to only 100000 bales. compared with 1,4S3,- | 5S5 bales on the corresponding date of | the preceding year Those held by man. ufacturers in the cotton growing states at the end of the year were B per cent 1 less than in 1909. and by manufacturers l fin all other states 43 per cent less. The quantity of stocks, 533, 232 bales, held by | all the manufacturers on August 31, 1910, was the smallest for any of the last five years and represents less than six weeks | supply for the American cotton mills | operating under normal conditions. The report states it is evident that the l tendency in the United States is to em- ploy ring rather than mule spindles, the | latter forming but IT per cent of tn e total number in 1910, as compared with 29 per cent in 1905, 29 per cent In 1900, and 3s per cent in 1890 About v per cent of all the mule spindles are in the New England states and most of the others | are in New York and New Jersey. | The quantity of cotton consumed dur | ing the year ending August 31. 1910. was | 4.79s, ,953 bales, compared with 5,240,719 | bales in 1909. decrease of Al, 766 bales, or per cent. The average weekly con- sumption of cotton in the United States In 1910 amounted to about 92O00 bales, compared with 10s,OOO in 1909, S7,00O in 1908, and s6,000 in 1907.
 Improved Conditions in 1910
 During the first six months of the year ending August 3l 1910, the improved condition of the cotton manufacturing industry is shown by the fact that the
 consumption prior to March 1 was 2,539,399 bales, compared with 2,259 4o4
 bales during the following six months.
 An analysis of these figures shows that the decrease in the consumption in the
 latter period was general, amounting to IA per cent for the cotton-growing states and per cent for the New England states
 | A significant feature of the report is the growth shown in the manufacturing in-
 dustry in the growing states since 1880 There were in these states 30 years ago only 561,360 active spindles, which consumed 1SS.74S bales of cotton. In 1910 there were 10,S0l 494 active spindes
 consuming 2,292,s3S bales of cotton.
 Value Of Cotton Exports
 The quantity of domestic raw cotton ex.
 ported during the year ended August 31 1910, amounted to 6.339,02S running bales equivalent to 6.4s4.429 bales of 300 pounds
 each. valued at $460.S6S,02O Of this cottor II 2, ,4S0 AGO equivalent 50O-pound bales, or 3 per cent, went to the United Kingdom |I 1,94S192 bales. or 30 per cent, to Ger. many, and 9S1, 1882 bales. or 15 per cent. tt | France, these three countries taking 8 par cent or about fye-sixths of the tota