Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-10
COTTON CROP FOR 1888
SHOWS YEARLY DECREASE
Report Denotes Drop OF 11,630,853
Bales From Output In
1017-18.
AVERAGE GRADE MIDDLING
Price Per Pound Runs 1896 Cents
Compared With 1855 Last icar.
Secretary Hester Says Prices for
Yield Are Highest In 81 Years.
AVERAGE GRADE M1DDLlNc
tBy Associated Pre@.)

r NEW ORLEANS. August 9.-secre-
t tafy Testers annual report on the
puts the crop Of 1siS.ie at 1888. s5s
oales. decrease under the crop OF
nsii-ls Of 267,a29 bales, and a decrease
He says that the crop OF Texas is
5ii.ooo bales less than last year; the
euf Ginsr MHs siaifs
Tennessee. Oklahoma. Missouri, Ari-
z 1 California. Kansas and N 6N%
bales, and the group Of Atlantic States
Inciuding Alabama. North Carolina.
south Carolina. Georgia. Florida. Ken.
lucky and Virginia) an increase Of
6o5, 600 bales.
Crop grade average barely middling.
Report by States Given.
no He puts the average price per
een CO w lG rs 2sss ei las, It Sear
lstl year before last. and 1893 In
tlt7.Sa last year and sy4.S2 the year
o 6;Hf%re: and the value OF .he crop. In
ssanai go ssss las, year S'S
Mr; Hester's report of commercial
crop by States is as follows. in thousand
Alabama. 73s. against 521 last year
,nrkansas; 9l4. against 1904
Florida. 81. against so.
Georgia. 2.029, against 1880.
louisiana. 81; agains. e65;
Sippl, against St3.
south Carolina, l:4sl, agaIns. 1896:
Tennessee; etc, 543. against $50.
Texas. ESQ, against 1920.
Total crop. bales. 1850, against
Mr.. Hester says tina, the prices paid
Witnessed FOR the past hfty-two years.
ne then gives table showing the
compared with the five previous years
o. the antewar period, showing total
TOT the war period OF 30s66.0o0. and
Calls attention to the fact that during
me hNe-ycar period prior TO the war
G,e!nany and her, allies took 1900. 900
the VA !ance. while in the war period
'hey look only $4,000.
Statement of Carry-over.
Mt Hester puts the actual growth
Tor lsls-'l9 at 100000 and he puts
In, the n in,nr;o Of bales carried oyer in
against 2ls4.C0O carried over at the
close q lsl7-ls.
MT; Hester then gives a. statement
cotton In the United States and abroad
on IVY 81. These hgures show total
bales; United States port stocks. l.ol3.-
vue: northern mill stocks $4,000; total
mni,ed States. !5.29l.ooo; European
stocks. l,24s.oOo: total European por;
stocks l.:is.0o0; total Europe. 1893
saw Soys , ,1n, car!y.ovsr. 6.s24,ooo. He
200 bales were lintcrs
Consumption Of the South in round
nRurts was given as 3.53i.U0O and tho
North. 100000, total OF 643O 0On
na.es Of American cotton. including
!inters: In addition to this, American
lni!ls have consumed 5000 bales OF
foreign cotton making "A total con-
" sumption OF American and foreign
growth by American mills OF 6.oO7. :
tooe against 100000 last year
. World Consumption Decreases.
Consumption OF lnters included :,
'i'e preceding was $4,000 bales in
Guiding $4,000 in the South and 1856
20" IN the North. against a total last
year, OF l,loo.oO0. Including COO in the
South and 100000 in the North.
MI. hester puts the spind!cs I'm the
South AT l5.Is7.oO0. Including old. new
a .rs az idle and uneomple,ed, against -
'oooo0 last year. and says there are
IN course OF construction in the mills
and being added TO new mills in the
south 20s,226 spindlcs
He puts the worlds consumption of
American cotton. including linters. al
ie.6Zo.oo0. against l2.2S2.0OO bales last
year.