The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-03-27
BUREAU PLACES 1913 FIGURE AT
14,767,151 BALES, SECOND LARG.
EST YIELD ON RECORD.
3,943, 1888 BALES GROWN IN TEXAS
Crop Weighed 7,383,557,50o Pounds,
and Is Valued at $1,000, 100000, In
GLIDING Seed-Texas Leads
Them All.

CELSIUS SATURDAY IIlulCdlSu IL dlllOulISu
to 1888, 5575O0 pounds, or 14,767,151
bales of lint and Inter cotton. The
total value of the crop, including the
value of cotton seed, is unoffiCially
estimated round at more than $1,000
100000, compared with $920,OOO,0OO
last year and $936,00O,O0O for the pre-
vious most valuable crop, that of 1910
These figures compare with 1873
421 equivalent 500pound bales of lint
and 6O9,594 bales of linters last year.
and 15,692,7O bales Of lint and 557575
bales of linters in 1911.
The department of agriculture's es-
innate, announced Dec. II, placed the
1913 crop at 13,677,O0O equivalent 500
pound bales.
With this report the bureau OF CEN
sus departed from its previous meth
cd of reporting the cotton crop by not
including the quantity of linters in
the total production Director Will
liam J. Harris announced this was
done because with the installation of
modern machinery closer delinting OF
seed had largely increased the guam
tity of linters and at the same time
lowered the average quality of the
fiber, so that now only small part,
if any, was used as a substitute for
lint cotton.
The number of running bales of lint
cotton, counting round as half bales,
was 13,964,981, and Of Inter cotton,
629,O19 running bales, compared with
13,48S,539 running bales of lint and
602,324 running bales of linters last
year and 15,553,073 running bales of
lint and 556,276 running bales of lint
ers in 1911.
Included in the production for 1913
are 29,267 bales, which ginners esti-
mated would be turned out after the
time of the March canvass.
Round bales included numbered 3d.
GIG, compared with S1,52S last year
and 101,554 in 1911.
Sea Island bales included 77,490,
compared with 1871 last year and
1928 in 1911.
The average gross weight of bale
for the crop, counting round as half
bales and excluding linters, was 5O5.S
pounds, compared with sos last year
and 504.5 in 1911.
Texas Leads All.
Texas-Total production, 3,943,193
bales, compared with 4,S80,210 in 1912
and 4,256,427 in 1911. Department of
agriculture estimated 100000 bales
for 1913
Alabama-Total production, 1882
254 bales, compared with 1,342,275 in
1912 and 1,716,534 in 1911. Depart
ment of agriculture estimated 100000
bales for 1918.
Arkansas-Total production, 1885,
S41 bales, compared with 702,04S in
1912 and 939,302 in 1911 Department
of agriculture estimated 100000 bales
for 1913.
Florida-Total production, 1854
bales, compared with 52,76O in 1912
and 1888 in 1911. Department of ag-
riculture estimated $4,000 bales for
1913.
Georgia-Total production, 2,345,S22
bales, compared with 1,776,546 in 1912
and 2,768,627 in 1911. Department Of
agriculture estimated 2,275,000 bales
for 1913.
Louisiana-Total production, 442, 1872
bales, compared with 376,096 in 1912
and 3S4,597 in 1911. Department of
agriculture estimated 100000 bales for
1913.
Mississippi-Total production, 1,248,-
724 bales, compared with 1,046,418 in
1912 and 1,2O3,545 in 1911. Depart
ment of agriculture estimated 1,195, 900
bales for 1913
Missouri-Total production, 63,775
bales, compared with 55,691 in 1913
and 96,S0S in 1911. Department of ag-
riculture estimated $4,000 bales for
1918.
North Carolina-Total production,
S35,4S5 bales, compared with 1856
in 1912 and 1,075,S26 in 1911. Depart
ment of agriculture estimated 765,000
bales for 1913.
Oklahoma-Total production, 81, 1884
bales, compared with 1921 $50 in 1912
and 1,022,092 in 1911. Department of
agriculture estimated 800, 900 bales fer
1913.
South Carolina-Total production,
1,414,409 bales, compared with 1882.
128 in 1912 and 1,64S,712 in 1911. De-
partment of agriculture estimated L.
100000 bales for 1918.
Tennessee production, $685.
SAG bales, compared with 276,546 in
1912 and 449.737 in 1911. Department
of agriculture estimated $4,000 bales
for 1918
Virginia-Total production, PASS
bales, compared with 24,39S in 1912
and 29,S91 in 1911. Department of ag-
riculture estimated $4,000 bales for