The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-20
SOUTH ATLANTIC STATES
PRODUCED BUMPER CROPS
Georgia Made Largest Increase With
Nearly MilIion-Texas Yield Four
And Half Million in Spite OF The
Boil Weevil.
tBy Associated Press.)

s Washington, March 20.-The Census
Bureaus preliminary report on cotton
ginning, giving the governments first
figures, other than estimates, on the
size of the 1911 cotton crop of the
United States was issued at 10 o'clock
this morning, and shows the total
crop to have reached the unprecedent-
ed size of 16,050,s19 running bales.
counting round as half bales and in
Guiding linters, which is equivalent
to 16.2O5,097 five-hundred pound bales.
The Crop Reporting Board of the
Department of Agriculture in its esti-
mate of the 1911 cotton crop, issued
| December IL last, reckoned the total
production at 14,SS5,0O0 bales Of 500
pounds. gross weight. The country's
1910 production was 12,005,6SS bales
of 500 pounds. In previous record
years the total crop was 1857, ,306
bales in 1908, 1885 4sS in 1906 and
| i3,G79,954 bales in 1904.
Included in the figures for 1911 are
239,1 bales, which ginners and de-
linters estimated would be turned out
after the time of the March canvass.
Round bales included in the 1911
figures are 100.439 bales, compared
with 112.SS7 bales for 1910 and 150.-
$50 bales for 1909.
Sea Island bales included in the
1911 total are 11s,252, compared with
90,36S bales for 1910 and e4,791 bales
for 1909.
Inter bales included in the 1911
total are 546,769, compared with ss7.-
62s bales fo- 1911 and S1S Ats bales
in 1909.
The average gross weight Of the
| bale for the crop, counting round as
half bales and including linters, was
! 5O4.s pounds for 1911, compared with
501.7 pounds for 1910 and 1866 pounds
for 1909.
The number Of ginneries operated
1 for the 1911 crop was 2e.34O. com
pared with 26,2s4 for 1910 and 26.sss
) for 1909.
Yield BY States.
By states the cotton crop grown in
1911, with that grown in 1910 and the
big crop years 1908 and 1906, ex-
: pressed in equivalent 50o-pound bales,
: follows
Alabama 1,75S,zS0; 1910, l.
22S 2S5; 1908, 1,374,s4O; 1906, 1,2s4.-
/, 421.
+ Arkansas-1911, 971,311; 1910, s47.-
| S74; 1908, 1,O1S.4O2; 1906. s23.6a5.
: Florida--1911, s4,977; 1910, 6O,O4s,
e Los, 6S,221; 1906. 57.1s5.
e -Georgia-1911 2,S3S,571, 1910, L.
+ S2O,61O; 1908. 1,sso,o77; 1906. 1926. $3.50.
; Louisiana-1911. sss.525; 1910. 255.-
t 7SS; 1908. 4se,350: 1906, 1,O12,57s.
Z Mississippi-1911, 1.24S,521; 1910, T.
y Sos,ses; 1908, 1.7O4,5s2; 1906, 1.56s.-
= $50.
Missouri-1911, "-; 1910. g.
n 159; 1908, s4.532; 1906, 5e,472.
North Carolina-1911, 1,101, ,104:
1910, 726,s5O; 1908. ses, s,1s7; 1906, 5s4.-
sS7.
Oklahoma-1911. 1,060,1Ss; 1910,
95S,s55; 1908, 7O6,s15; 1906. s1s.s75.
South Carolina-1s11. 1877, ,2O4;
i 1910, 1.191 ,92s; 1908. 1,1s5.2s5; 1906.
N S95,130
' Tennessee-191l, 47s,249 1910, 349,-
476; 1908. 359,s59; 1906. 1854.
7. Texas-1911, 4,4s7,476; 1910, s.172.-
ass; 1908 3,s13,0s4; 1906, 4,2S1, SPA
Virginia-1911, *--; 1910, IA
S26; 1906, 1882.
All Other States-1911, 154.lS7;
1910, s,611; 1908. 5.43s; 1906. 4,o2S
lie +Missouri and virginia included in
n all other states
k The statistics of today's report fol
u for the year 1911 are subject to slighI
ve correctionse in the full report to b
lie published about May /,
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