The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-03-25
CROP BIGGEST ON RECORD
GINNING FIGURES PLACE NUM-
BER OF BALES AT 6,1O2, 143.
Alabama Louisiana and Oklahoma
Only States to Make New
Records.

day, giving final ginning figures. Of
ficially place the 1914 crop as a rec
ord, with 16,1O2,143 bales of 500
pounds each. That is 409,442 equiv
alent 500-pound bales, or 204,721,-
900 pounds more than produced in
the great crop of 1911.
In addition to the great produc-
ton of lint cotton a record quantity
of Inter cotton, which is extensively
used in the manufacture of military
explosives, was obtained. This cot
ton, delinted from the seeds at oil
mills, amounted to 395,732,0O
pounds and brought the total 1914
crop to 16.S93,604 equivalent 500
pound bales. or S,446,S03,500
pounds.
While the crop was a record one,
the only States to make new records
in production were Alabama, Louisi-
ana and Oklahoma. The other cotton
States all came close to their records.
Official Summary.
The 1914 cotton crop of the United
States aggregated 15,S73,002 run
ming bales of lint, or 16,102, 143
equivalent 50O-pound bales, the CEN
sus bureau announced today. The
department of agriculture on Decem-
Der 10 estimated 15,966,O0O equlva-
lent 50O-pound bales. These figures
compare with 16,9S2,S11 running
bales, or 14,156,4S6 equivalent 500
pound bales in 1913, 13,4SS,539 run
ming bales, or 13,703,421 equivalent
500-pound bales in 1912, and 49,
553,073 running bales, or 15,693,-
701 equivalent 500-pound bales in
1911, the three largest crops prior
to 1914. Included in the 1914 fig
ures are 121,451 bales which. gin
ners estimated would be turned out
after the March canvass.
Refund bales included numbered
57,61S, compared with 99,962 in
1913, 81, ,52S in 1912 and 1O1,554
in 1911.
Sea Island bales included number
ed S1,59S, compared with 1853 in
1913, 1871 in 1912 and 1929
in 1911.
The average gross weight of bales
for the crop was 507.2 pounds, COM
pared with 5O6.2 in 1913, $3.50 in
1912 and 504.5 in 1911.
Ginneries operated for the crop
numbered 24,522, compared with
24,749 in 1918, 25,297 in 1912 and
26,349 in 1911.
Linter cotton, not included in to-
tai ginning figures, amounted to 49,,
27O running bales, or 1,464 equiv
alent 5OO-pound bales, compared with
631,l53 running bales, or 63S,SSl
equivalent 50O-pound bales in 1913
602,324 running bales, or 609,594
equivalent 500 pound bales in 1912
and 556,276 running bales, or 551,'
SIS equivalent 500-pound bales in
1911.
Production by States.
Production of States in equivalen,
5OO-pound bales, exclusive of linters
follow:
Alabama, 1,75O,2S1: Arkansas. =.
015,674; Florida, S0,963; Georgia
2,733,470: Louisiana, 447.S61; Mis-
sissippi, 1,244,7O3; Missouri, S1,5S7;
North Carolina, $685.; Oklahoma
1,261,350; South Carolina, 1924
595; Tennessee, 3S2,431; Texas, f.
5S4,933; Virginia. 25,1S2; all other
States, $3.50.
The census bureau announced that
the statistics of this report for 191 !
are subject to slight corrections in
the full report, to be published early
in May.
Increased Production.
A feature of the crop was greatly
increased production in California
and Arizona, two States where the
cotton growing industry is in its in
fancy, and where superior quality
of the staple is raised.
CALIFORNIA; production amounted
to 49,S35 bales, or 24,917,5OO
pounds, while Arizona's was 7.142
bales, or 3,571, 900 pounds.
Unofficial estimates place the value
of the crop, which this season has
been greatly reduced by the effect of
the European war, at S51O,OOO,OOO
for lint. That is based on an average
price of 10 cents pound to produc-
ers and an estimate of 20 per cent.
as the quantity already sold with the
remainder selling at an average OF
rs cents a pound. On the same
basis the value of the seed is esti-
mated at 1000. These make
the estimated value of the 1914-1 5
crop to cotton farmers s704,000,O00.