The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-12-20
13,82O,0OO GALES OF
COTTON IS ESTIMATE
SECOND ONLY TO REcoRRBRsAk.
ING CROP OF 1911-MAY BE
MOST VALUABLE PRODUCED,
TEXAS FIGURES ARE 4,85O,ODO
Lone Star State Exceeds All Years.
According to Report of Depart.
ment Of Asrieulture-Esti.
mates by States.


crop this year will amount to 6,612,.
$4,000 pounds of lint, exclusive of
linters, the department of agriculture
estimated Saturday in it's annual re.
port. This is equivalent to 1890, 900
bales OF 500 pounds gross weight, and
makes the crop this year, in point of
quantity, second only to the great
record crop of 15,692,701 bales, exclu,
sive of linters, grown last year.
The quantity of linters cotton last
year amounted to 27S,79O,OOO pounds.
With this as basis, it is estimated
unofficially that Inter cotton pro.
duced this year will amount to 491 300
bales, or 2S5,038,000 pounds, making
the entire crop, including linters, ap,
proximate 14,311,3OO bales of 500
pounds gross weight, or 6,S47,373,OOO
pounds
With an average price of 121sc a
pound this quantity of cotton would
be worth about $S55,920,OOO. Approx
mating the value of this years cotton
seed at $131,000, the average for the
past three years, the total value OF
the cotton crop this year would rank
as the most valuable crop ever pro
| duced.
The department of agricultures of
fetal estimate of the crop last yeal
made at a corresponding date was
14,SS5,000 bales. The census bureaus
official report on production for the
year was 15,692,70l bales.
Texas this year grew the greatest
crop it ever produced, the depart
ment's estimate placing the quantity
at 4,S50,OOO bales.
The foregoing figures compare with
11,60S,616 bales in 1910, which, includ'
ing linters, amounted to 12,005,6SS
bales; 10,004,9 bales in 1909, which
including linters, amounted to 1885,,
9S2 bales; 13,241,709 bales in 1908
which, including linters, amounted to
13,5S7,306 bales, and 11,1O7,179 bales
in 1907 which, including linters,
amounted to 11,375,461 bales, The
average total production, exclusive of
linters, for the five years from 1906
to 1910, was 11,S47,270 bales. The
value of the crop, including seed, for
the same period averaged $775,S22,-
900, while last years record crop is
estimated to have been worth $685.
$4,000, and the 1910 crop 1868, $780,.
900, the most valuable ever produced.
The estimated production, exclusive
of linters, and stated in 500-pound
bales, by states, with comparisons,
follows:
Virginia-Total production, $4,000
bales, compared with 29,891 bales last
year and 12,064 bales, the average
19O6-10. The value of the crop last
year was $1,3SO,OOO.
North Carolina-Total production,
$4,000 bales, compared with 1876
826 bales last year, and 627,66S bales,
the average 1906-10. The value of the
crop last year was $58,S10,000.
| South Carolina-Total production,
1884, 900 bales, compared with 1,64S,-
TIP bales last year, and 1,OS5,S9o
bales, the average 19O6-1O The value
of the crop last year was SSO,12O,OOo'
Georgia-Total production, 100000
bales, compared with 2,76S,627 bales
last year, and 1,7S2,16o bales, the
average 1906-10. The value of the
crop last year was .$154,3So,oOo.
Florida-Total production, $4,000
bales, compared with s3.3SS bales last
year, and 56,15S bales, the average
1906-1O. The value of the crop last
year was $6,250.0OO.
Alabama-Total production. l,3SO,'
600 bales, compared with 1,716,554
bales last year, and 1,1S7,707 bales
| the average 1906-10. The value OF the
crop last year was ss3,1ooOoO.
| Mississippi-Total production, j.
los, 900 bales, compared with 1,2os,54S
bales last year, and 1,4Oo.15S bales
the average 1s9S-1o. The value OF the
crop las. year was $s6,5sO,oOo
Texas-Total production, 4,S5o,ooO
| h.Ios oomnarads with 4.256,427 bales