The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-11-11
A RECORD COTTON CROP.
"' nHA' REPORTS 9,96S,172
BALES PREPARED FOR
MARKET.
Apparently 1t is Maturing Much Earl.
Ter Than Usual-RepOrt Indicates
100000 to $4,000, 900 Bales.

OF 9.96S,172 bales of cotton of the
growth Of 1911 ginned prior to No
vember /. as announced today by the
census bureau, the promised record
breaking cotton crop Of this season is
fast being made ready for the manu-
facturer. At no time in the history
Of the American cotton industry has
so great a crop been ginned to this
time Of the year.
The amount ginned to November
l exceeds by 1,777.0OO bales the
amount ginned to this date in 1908,
the previous record. 1t also is greater
than the ginning to November IA Of
any other year, being about 200, 900
bales more than was ginned to that
date in 1904, the record year. This
would indicate that the crop was at
least two weeks earlier in maturing
and reaching the gins than in pre-
vious years. .s.... -.
| Calculations Of the years total
crop, based on the ginning reports,
would therefore. probably be more
accurate If figured on the November
IA reports Of other years. In pre-
vious record years. about 20 per
cent has beer ginned to thai date
and rough ESTIMATE Of this years
crop might be placed at a minimum
Of 100000 bales. Commercial ex-
perts estimates, however, range up
to more than 100000.
! The census bureaus fourth cotton
ginning report Of the season issued at
10 a. m. today. and showing the num-
Der of running bales, counting round
as half bales, Of cotton Of the growth
Of 1911 ginned to November /, with
comparative statistics to the corres-
ponding date for the past three years,
is as follows:
| United States: 9,96S,172 bales, COM
pared with 7,345,s53 bales last year,
when SS.5 per cent Of the entire crop
was ginned to November I; 7,O17,S49
bales in 1909, when 69.7 per cent was
ginned. and S.191,557 bales in 1908,
when 62.6 per cent Of the crop was
ginned.
| The number Of round bales included
were: 6S,343, compared with S1,1S3
bales in 1910.
The number Of bales Of sea island
cotton included were 56.t33, compar-
ed with 40,504 bales last year; 55,-
237 bales in 1909, and 45,479 bales
in 1908. The distribution Of sea is
land cotton by States was:
| Florida-20,974 bales, compared
with 1871 bales last year; 1870
bales in 1909. and 19,O64 bales in
1908.
Georgia-33.796 bales, compared
with 22.4sO bales last year; 31,277
bales in 1909 and 21,SO2 bales in 1908
South Carolina-1.363 bales, COM
pared with 1923 bales last year; A.
22o bales H. 1909, and 4,613 bales in
1908.
Ginning by States, with compara-
tive statistics and the percentage of
the total crop ginned to November
in previous years, follow:
Alabama. i.oSs.376 bales, COM
pared with 74S,s7S or 62.S per cent
in 1910, 676,331 or $50 per cent in
1909. Ss1,667 or 66.9 per cent in
1908.
ed with 324.769 or 4O.7 per cent in
1910; 472.252 or 67.7 per cent in
1909; 5S6,7S5 or $50 per cent in
1908.
Florida-55,973 bales, compared
with 3S,924 or 57.9 per cent in 1910;
1864 or 1873 per cent in 1909, and
4S,2S4 or 61.2 per cent in 1908.
Georgia-1,9O6,25 bales, compar-
ed with 1,241,S25 or 6S.5 per cent in
1910; 1.3S4.913 or 74.9 per cent in
1909; and 1,3S7,641 or 7O.2 per cent
in 1908.
Louisiana-232,O 2,O47 bales, compar-
ed with 154,634 or 62.T per cent in
1910; 1912 or 1913 per cent in
1909. and 2S7,SS5 or eli per cent in
1908.
,O21 bales, COM
pared with 576,641 or 476 per cent
in 1910; 67g.131 or 1913 per cent in
1909 and S93,14S or 55.1 per cent in
1908.
North Caroina-597,959 bales
| cent in 1910; 370,S91 or 5S.5 per
cent'in 1909. and 373,713 or 54.7 per
cent in 1908.
OklahOma-555 7b5 balas connnar