Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-10
STATISTICS GIVEN
| OF 1888. COTTON
Decrease Shown in Com
merciaI Crop Compared With
Two Previous Years.
PRODUCTION BY STATES

| By the Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS, August S.-Secre-
| tary Hester's annual report on the
commercial cotton crop. issued today,
puts the crop Of 1858 at II, 63s, 653
bales, a decrease under the crop Of
| 1s17-1S of 267.32o and a decrease I'M
der 1861 Of 1.so1,2s
I He says that the crop Of Texas is
$4,000 bales less than last year, the
group Of 'other gulf states" (embrac-
ing Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Tennessee. Oklahoma, Missouri. Ari-
iona, California. Kansas and New
Mexicol shows q decrease Of 3s1, 000
| bales and the group of Atlantic states
Cncluding Alabama, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ken
655, 900.
He puts the average price per pound
| OF middling for the year at 1896
cents, compared with 1856 last year,
| 1e15-16 and the average commercial
value, per bale, at $155.14 against
S147.39 last year and $s4.S2 the year
before and the value Of the crop. in
Guiding the seed, at $2.045.251 1868
against $2.oo4,ss2,sas last year.
Commercial Crop by States.
Mr.. Hester's report Of commercial crop
by states is as follows. in thousand
Daies: alabama. 756. against 521 last
florida A s. against g. e sso4sa sss
against 1880: Louisiana, 541. against 665:
Oklahoma. $50. against 1,016; Missis-
sippi, 1.154. against s7s; North Carolina,
etc; soS. against NJ; South Carolina,
against $50: Texas. $3.50, against 1920
last year
Mr.: Hester says that the prices paid
for this crop have been the highest wit
messed for the past fifty years.
Table Showing Exports.
He then gives table showing the ex.
ports Tor the fve-year war period COM
anti-w prices, showing total for the
war period of 30,666, 900, and calls at
tention to the fact that during the five
years prior to the war Germany and her
allies took 5000, 900 Of the balance while
II the war period they took only 34s, 900.
Mr.. Hester puts the actual growth
for 1888 at 1900. 900, and he puts
the number Of bales carried over in
the interior Of the south, including
close Of is17-1s.
MI: Hester then gives q statement
OF the total c--ry-over' Of American
cotton in the United states and
abroad on July 81. These figures
show total in interior Of cotton belt,
$4,000 bales: United States port
stocks, 1.213,000: northern mill stocks
$4,000; total United States 5.29i. 900:
European mill stocks, 2S5,O00; Euro.
pean port stocks 1.248, 900; total, Eu-
rope, l,533, ooo;; total carry-over,
s.s2l.ooo. He says that Of the total
Figures on Consumption.
Consumption Of the south in round
figures was given as 1854, 900 and the
north $500. ooo;. total Of $685., 900 bales
OF American cotton, including linters
In addition to this. American mills
have consumed $4,000 bales Of for
eign cotton. making total consump-
ton: OF American and foreign growth
~ american mills Of 6.2o7.0o against
Consumption OF linters, included in
the preceding. was $4,000 bales. in
Guiding 2s3. 900 in the south and i66.-
Oo0 IN the north, against q total last
year Of 100000, including 500. 600 in
the south and. GOT. 900 In the north.
MI: Hester puts the spindies In the
south at 1919, 900. including old, new
and idle and uncompleted, against IA
$4,000 last year, and says there are
IN course OF construction In the mills
ana being added to new mills in the
south EOS. 226 spindles.
He puts the worlds consumption Of
American cotton, including lfnters. at,
i0,e20.000. against 12.2s2,o00 bales
1aSI year. - : 1884,