The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-06
Secretary lIest ys the Last Year Co.'S Crop
 Brought $ 900
ALABAMA GAts
 OVER EAR
Hester Estimates This Years Crop at 12,120,195 Bales, or 12,275,00O Bales of Last Years Weight.
 Estimate by States

New Orleans, September.5.--''N No Anefl-i can cotton crop ever grown has sold for as much as the one just marketed. the total value, including the seed. having been si, i,osoOoo.o0o'
 | This remarkable statement is contained In the detailed statistics of last seasons cotton crop issued today by Col, Henry G. Hester, secretary of the New Orleans Cotton exchange.
 With i, 100000 bales less than contained in the bumper crop of 1s0S-'O9, the crop just marketed netted the south S254ooo.oOO more The 1S.5i1ooo bale crop of 1so6-o1 brought S222, ,Oo0,Ooo less than the past sea- sons crop.
 Another significant feature of the la- port Is the statement that even with the increase of more than 1,5Ooooo bales over last seasons crop, the supply was deficient notwithstanding the resulting high values and all the years growth found it's way to the mills As whole the crop averaged within shade of strict mddling and the farmer was paid an average of 146o cents per pound, or $75.6s per bale High prices were the rule throughout the season, the lowest quotations being witnessed in Au- l gust.
 l Regarding the consumption of cotton and the mill situation generally in the' country, the report says: Tn the United States the mills north and south have consumed nearly as much as last year, in addition to which they have imported the greatest quantity Of foreign cotton ever brought to this coun- 1 try in any one season, amounting to an 1 equivalent, in this years American weights, of 322 206 bales equal to 22S,056 bales of 300 pounds each
 Big Consumption l In fact of American and Amer ican cotton combined, our domestic consumption has run ahead of last season.
 | .''rhe importation of Egyptian cotton IS lnatural. but the increase ot Peruvian, Indian and Chinese cotton can only be explained by the superior average grade and high range of values for the do- nestle product within the past few years. As a matter of fact, there has been It, tle or no low cotton in the past two commercial crops. In recent letter J. T Ireau of statistics and labor, he refers to the fact that the imports of cotton from India have grown from 77eD pounds in 1906 to 5.5O0,000 pounds in 1910; the receipts from China have grown from 3eo pounds in 1906 to 4,50O,ooo pounds ,n 1910 while those from Peru have grown from less than S.o0o,0o pounds l in 1903 to over e,50o-0oo 1910. These are interesting and significant facts worthy of consideration In Peru the impetus received from the price is shown by an increase in cotton produc- ton of over 250 per cent between isoo and 1909. Averages of $75 to $50 per bale for American cotton are strong in- centive for other countries to increase their production of cotton. and as trade | is a matter of dollars and cents, and not sentimental whenever and wherever American mills can obtain the wherewith- al to run their spindles at a profit they will do so. Thus far the use Of foreign cotton in this country is trifling com pared with the total consumption, but it's increase is significance. l A continued interesting feature Is the widening between the quanties of Ameri-
 
 excess of the latter having increased this season 1oS, 900 bales, the total excess now amounting to 270,000 bales. Concerning the north, heavy curtailment of pro- duction was quite general during the later months of last season.
 "The situation recently has improved. and there Is an underlying impression that matters will readjust themselves on more satisfactory basis in the near fu- lture'
 l This Years Crop. | Secretary Hester puts the crop of l 191O-11 at 12,120,095 bales. an increase over that of 1909-10 of 1,510.425 and a decrease under that of 190S-09 of l .7O5,362.
 The increase in Texas over last year was, in round figures, 5S2,0oO bales; in the group of "other gulf states" em- bracing Louisiana. Mississippi, Arkan- sas Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma. Utah, Kansas, Arizona, California and New Mexico, 1t was 704,000, and in the group of Atlantic states, including North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor- gia Florida Alabama, Kentucky and Virginia, 224,000.
 These, MT. Hester says, constitute the face of the figures, but considering the increase in weight, which averages 5-10 pounds per bale, there Is the equivalent of an additional increase of | lbb,UUU DdleS, or, III OlncI WoluS, lHt crop is equal to 12.275,000 bales of last years weight
 Mr Hester's report of the crop by the different states is given as fol- lows, in thousands of bales.
 Estimate by States | Alabama: 1909. against 1o7S last | year
 l Arkansas: s46, against 71S last year. l Florida: 6S. against 66 last year. l Georgia: 1853, against 1927 last year. Louisiana: 273, against 2S2 last year. l Oklahoma, e24. against 566 last year. | Mississippi, 1239 against 1121 last year
 North Carolina. 794 against 676 last year.
 South Carolina. 123l, against 1lS4 last 1 year
 Tennessee 424 against 3f6 last year. l Texas, 3259, against 2676 last year. | Total crop. l20 bales, against 10.6l0 last l year.
 He puts the spindles in the south at H. S97. 4l4, including old idle and not com- plete, against II ,5S3,3 359 last year
 The consumption of American cotton by i, northern mills, Nh. Hester puts at 2.09i- ' 0oO, against 2.174.00o last year. He says north and south the aggregate consump- ton was i,4os,o0o bales. while they used