St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-07-01
Big CROP WILL not
LOWER PRICES
Experts Declare that Demand VIII Absorb
Prospective Bumper Yield.
TEXAS GROWS The MOST
Consumption Of Cotton Is Increasing. and
Price and Production Have Grown
Heavily.

] Washington, June 26. Now
that the experts of the Depart
ment of Agriculture have made
their preliminary survey Of the
1911 cotton crop from which the
largest crop ever raised in the
| United States is predicted, cot
ton students are figuring on
| the probable effect upon the
price such a crop will have.
The brokers, spinners and
wholesale dealers who have been
holding their cotton purchases
down to an absolute minimum,
anticipating a drop in the price
because of larger supplies. are
due to receive a shock, say the
experts. The history of the cot
ton growing industry, written in
the statistics for the last half d
century, shows a steady, persist
ent increase in production ac-
companied by an equally steady,
persistent rise in price. In both
production and price there have
been fluctuations but they have
been temporary.
The cotton crop of 1911 will be
approximately 13, 500, 900 bales.
Three times before has the crop
reached Is, 600, 900 bales, in 1901,
1906 and 1908. A study OF the
figures would indicate, the ex-
perts say, that the normal de-
mand of the world, at the pre-
sent time, is a $4,000, 600 bale
crop in the United States.
The cotton acreage Of 1911
amounts to IS, 004, 900 acres. The
Governments experts estimate
the condition of the crop at 87.8
per cent or normal. On this
basis the yield per acre will be
181. z pounds, or a total OF 6, AGO,
226. 300 pounds. f it commands
the same price as the 1910 crop,
14.2 cents per pound, the crop
will be worth $917, 352, 1876, as
compared with S812, 514, 900 for
the 1910 crop.
There is an acre and quarter
for every man, woman and child
in the Is cotton-groWing states.
counting Missouri, with only
115, 900 acres of cotton. az one
The cotton will yield 1886 for
every man, woman and child Iiv-
ing in the 13 states.
These figures mean crop
worth more than $100, 600, 900
above that of 1910, and $3.50, 00O,-
600 more than the crop of 1909.
which up to that time was the
most valuable. An increase OF
$3.50, 600, 900 in one crop in three
years is a record to be proud of.
The largest previous crop was
in 1904, when it amounted to
:, 426, 697, 828 pounds. The crop
Of 1906 was 6, 354, 107, 861 pounds:
that of 1908 was s, 336, ,O72, 21l
pounds. In no other years has
the production exceeded 6,0OO.-
300, 600 pounds; in 1910 it
amounted to 5, 722, 600, 900.
The corn crop of the United
States in 1910 was worth ST, 523.-
968, 900. That was nearly double
hat of the cotton crop. But It
'equired Ia, ,002, 900 acres to
grow the corn, which yielded
'l3. 76 per acre. The same acre
lge in cotton on the basis Of the
stimulated yield for 1911 and the
$40 price would produce crop
worth So, 986, $50, 400 nearly ST.
100, 600, 600 more than the corn
vas worth.
The 1911 cotton crop will be
sroWn in IA states as usual, 4 of
hem raising very little, and
California such a small amount
IS to warrant it being left out
# the calculations. Texas con
inues far in the lead, though
1eorgia is creeping up on the
4one Star State.
A number of things indicate
hat the present price level win
ontinue, though there may be a
enporary drop to a slight ex-
ent. The cotton production of
he world outside of the United
'tates is nearly stationary. 1t
uns from 5000, GOO to 1900, 900
ales half Of which is grown in
ndia and practically all con-
umed there; 1000, 600 in China,
90, 600 in Asiatic Russia, 500, 900
! South America, / 1000, 600 to
500, 600 bales in Egypt, and the
in small quantities in
eyeral other countries