The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-12
Puts the Commercial Cotton
Crop for Year at 11,639,653
Bales.
SHORT IN TEXAS AND GULF
Larger Than Last Year in the
Atlantic States, But a De-
crease Under Crop of 1917
1918 Of 267,32O Bales.

New Orleans, Aug. 9.-Secretary
Hester's annual report on the COM
mercial cotton crop. issued today, puts
the crop of 191S-1919 at 11,639,653
bales, a decrease under the crop Of
1917-191S of 267,320 and a decrease
under 1916-1917 OF 1,301,2S1.
He says that the crop of Texas is
$4,000 bales less than last year, the
group Of "other gulf states Gem
bracing Louisiana, Mississippi, Ar
kansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma. Mis-
souri,, Arizona, California, Kansas
and New Mexico) shows a decrease or
$4,000 bales and the group of At
lantic states Gncluding Alabama,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, and vir-
ginia) an increase of $4,000. Crop
grade average barely middling.
He puts the average price per
pound of middling for the year at
1886 cents, as compared with 2S.S
last year, 1S.41 year before last. and
11.9s in 1915-1916 and the average
commercial value per bale at S155.14
against s147.39 last year and s94.S2
the year before and the value of the
crop, including the seed, at S2,O45.-
251,S6S against $2,0OI.6S2,9 last
year.
Mr.. Hester's report of commercial
crop by states is as follows In thous>
ands OF bales:
Alabama, 756 against 521 last
year: Arkansas, GA, against 1904;
Florida, "a, against so; Georgia. o.
O2S, against 1880: Louisiana, SAL,
against 665, Oklahoma, $50, against
LOIS; Mississippi, 1854, against
979; North Carolina, 9OS, against
III; South Carolina, 1,491, against
1925; Tennessee, SAB, against 400;
Texas, 2,6SO, against 3.22O. Total
crop bales, 11,640, against 1907 last
year.
Mr. Hester says that the prices
paid for this crop have been the high
est witnessed for the past So years.
He then gives a table showing the
exports for the five-year war period
compared with the five previous years
OF the antewar period, showing a to-
tai for the war period of 80, 100000,
and calls attention to the fact that
during the five years prior to the war
Germany and her allies took 13, 1000.
600 of the balance while iii The var
period they took only 3,449,OOO
Mr. Hester puts the actual growth
for 191S-1919 at 100000 and he
puts the number of bales carried over
in the interior of the South, includ-
ing Southern mill stocks. at 3.574-
600, against 2,1S4,OOO carried over
at the close of 1917-l91S. Mr.. Hes
ter then gives statement of the
total carry-over of American cotton
in the United States and abroad and
July 81. These figures show total In
interior of cotton belt 3.574.OOO
bales, United States, 5.291.OOO; Eu-
pean mill stocks. 2S5.0OO, European
P''' S'o'hS' i'-f 'pV", lOldl furO-
pean, 1888, 1000 total carry-over. G.
S244,0OO.
He says that of the total carry-over
$4,000 bales were linters.
Consumption of the South in round
figures was given as 1854 900 and
the north 2,5OO,OOO, total of c..
$4,000 bales OF American cotton
including linters. In addition to this.
American mills have consumed 49,
900 bales of foreign cotton, making a
total consumption of American and
foreign growth by American mills or
6,207, 900, against 100000 last
year.
Consumption of Hnters. included in
the preceding was $4,000 bales. in
Guiding 1880 in the South and
156,00O in the North, against total
last year of 100000. including
600, 900 in the South and 500, 900 in
the North.
Mr.. Hester puts the spindles in the
South at 15,1S7,000, including old,
new and idle and uncompleted
against 14,7S6,0 900 last year and says
there are in course of construction in
the mills and being added to new
mills in the South 209,226 spindles.