The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-07-08
HUGE PRODUCTION
FIGURES SHOWN
IN REPORT
Census Bureau of Department
of Commerce Issues State
ment Showing Cotton Acre
age and Production In 1914

Washington. n c., July s.-The
forthcoming report on cotton produce
tion In the United states. soon to be
issued by Director sam. l.. Rogers Of
the bureau Of the census. department
OF commerce. and prepared under the
supervision OF Mr.. william NJ. steu-
art, chief statistician In charge Of the
inquiry, Will show the American cot
ton crop Of lg1i-iG.i3I.g $50 equiva-
lent 6O0-pOund bales-to have been
the largest ever produced. exceeding
the 1913 crop by nearly 1000. O0o
bales, or about II per cent. The
largest crop raised prior to 1914 was.
that of ta1t-t5,G92.10i bales. The
tables contained IN this report will be
reprinted In the annual cotton bulle.
tin, To be published in September.
which will also include further DATA
as - production. consumption, inn
ports and stocks of cotton.
Th@ increase In the production OF
liuters during the past 90 years IN
noteworthy Starting nt 1855 bales
in 1899. the output Of this product
Increased to 1a1.4G4 bales IN 19tl. or
by nearly 600 per cent. although the
amount ~ cotton ginued increased by
less than 70 per cent during the same
period. This Increase In the Inter
production Is due principally Ia closer
d%elintinR Of the seed for the better
separation Of the meat from the
hulls. Many mills now obtain cou-
siderably more han 100 pounds of
nnters per ton Of seed treated. where
ns In earlier years 80 pounds per ton
was "a high Yield
Sea island cotton. of which S1.65i
running bales were giuned in 1914,
represented ~ that year only a trifle
more than ono-hulf of ! per cent OF
the total cotton produced. The Law
gest crop OF sea island cotton raised
iu any year between 1889 and 1914
was that of lall-llg.293 bales. This
variety of cotton IS produced IN only
three states Georgia, Florida and
South Carolina
Although cotton Is grown IN O.,
states, only siS-TcXas. Georgia. Ala
hdma, South Carolina, oklahoma and
Mississippi produced more than O.
million bales each in 1914. The COM
bincd growth of these six statcs rep
resented over four-nuhs 81 the total
crop of that year.
Texas alone produced f.Is2.ll2
bales. or more than une-fourth of the
total grown an 1919 The next great
est production was that OF Georgia,
2,Il>,O31 bales. or onc-siNth of the
total other states producing large
crops were Alabama, with l,15l,375
bales. or los per cent Of the total;
South Carolina. with l,533,S1o bales,
or H5 per cent OF the total, okla
homa, with i,eG..l56 bales. or IS
per cent NJ the total, and Mississippi,
with l2ii,535 hal"sn or ~ per cent
OF the total
The cotton production of Califor-
ni1. which has recently taken up the
growth OF this staple. is increasing
rapidly In this state 1885 bales
were ginncd in lglt. is compared
with 22.N3N in 1913 and >,2l5 iu 1912.
Nut an this cotton was grown lon cali
iforuia, however, since the figures
given include cotton raised u the
Mexican portion Of the Imperial val
Icy and brought into California to be-
I]cinncd.
Although the cotton production of
Arizona still amounts 20 an insigniii-
cant fraction OF the total for the
country, ~ Is increasing rapidly, Ili2
bales being reported for this state In
1874, ne compaEed with 2,299 f'r
1913.
The banner cotton county In re-
spcet to number of bales produced h.
Ellis county. Texas, In which the gin
nings from the growth Of 1914
amounted 10 1914 bales -opproNi-
mntrly 70 per cont more than the
entire crnp Of Missouri or Florida.
about three times that % california,
and nearly six times that of virginia
The area of Ellie county Is 975 square
miles ana its population II about 3D.
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