The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-07-26
MANY FOREIGN COUNTRIES ARE
GROWING THE STAPLE WITH
INCREASING SUCCESS.
RUSSIA AND BRITISH linda LEAD

The Total Production of 1910 Was
1911, 900 Bales, of Which 12,-
COS, 6SS Were Grown in the United
States. India Raised 5000, 900
Bales and Russia 100000.
According to a bulletin that was
recently issued by the Department
Of Commerce and Labor the area in
which cotton can be successfully
grown is vast, but owing to the vary
ing conditions in the sections where
it will grow it's production is found
Improbable except in well-defned
areas. Because of the insufficiency
of the supply of this fiber to meet
fully the demands of the trade and
because of the desire of European
manufacturers to be independent of
the Influences due to the pTepOnder-
ance of the American crop many eff
forts have been made in recent years
to extend the cultivation of cotton
to new fields. While failure has Of
ten resulted success has attended
these efforts in a number of coun-
tries, among which may be mention
ed Russian Turkestan, Peru British
India and Persia In these coun-
tries, especially the first two, it's ex-
tension has been taken up in a more
serious manner-irrigation works
have been built and improved ma
chinery installed for treating the fl
Der. Efforts have been made to fos-
ter the cultivation of cotton in a
number of other countries, but the
United States still produces about
two-thirds of the entire mill supply
of the world. British India, Egypt, |
Russia and China follow in order of
importance.
The production of cotton in 1910, |
as measured by the factory supply
that is, the quantity ntering into /
commercial channels-was 19,171,-
600 bales; in 1909 it was 16,776,000 |
bales; in 1908 19,636,000 bales, and
in 1907 16, 512, 900 bales
Cotton Area of the United States.
The greatest cotton growing sec
ton in the world, both in area and
production, is located in she south
eastern part of the United States |
1t includes small portions of Vir-
ginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas
and New Mexico, as we'll as the states
lying to the southwark. This cot
producing area is about 1900
miles long from east to west, and
about 500 miles in width. Within
the past few years the cultivation of
cotton has been undertaken in Ari-
iona and California, and considera-
Bile success has attended its growth
in the latter state. The total area
of the counties in which cotton was
ginned from the crop in 1910 is ap-
proximately 625, 900 square miles,
or about 400,000,000 acres. Of this
only about one acre in every 13 was
devoted to cotton.
The quantity of cotton in the Unit
ed States reported for the crop of
1910, with linters included and
round bales counted as half bales,
is 1896 62 running bales; ex-
pressed in gross 500-pound bales the
crop amounted to 12,O05,688 bales,
which is 1,690,306 bales or 1914 per
cent greater than the crop of 1909,
but 1851, 61S bales or 116 per cent
less than the crop of 1908.
British India.
The cotton plant is Indigenous to
India, and it's fiber has been employ
ed by the people of that country for
making clothing for thousands of
years. This production, however, did
not attain commercial Importance in
the modern sense until it's culture
there, as in many other countries,
felt the stimulating effect OF the
high prices for cotton.
According to the statistics the
area devoted to cotton in 1910 was
21,948,0 acres, an increase of L.