Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1921-03-09
SOME FACTS ABOUT COTTON.
Pithy Paragraphs From Which Lots
of Things Can be Learned.


Ellis county, Texas, in total num-
ber Of bales produced, is the banner
cotton growing county Of the United
States.
The per acre yield, average for the
United States, has varied from 145
pounds Of lint in 1871 TO 224 in
1914. The ten-year average is 1872
pounds.
The Egyptian yield Of cotton aver
ages $50 pounds, about, to the acre.
Cotton production in Egypt is lin
tied to irrigation areas along the
Nile.
The area under cotton in India
about 25,OOO,00O acres-covers such
wide climatic range that at many
seasons or the year planting and
picking are going on in different
parts Of the country at the same
time.
Cotton IS grown in Asia as far
north as the latitude Of Chicago.
There Is now enough cotton In the
world, unspun, to last nearly two
years.
The Civil war was fought in the
cotton fields Of the South, Destroy
ling, temporarily, the means of sup
ply The recent World War was
fought in the great factory districts
of the world.
There Is now more cotton In the
stocks OF any one Of half a dozen
cotton markets in the South than
was produced in all Of the United
States a hundred years ago.
More than three bales of cotton,
averaging 500 pounds each in
weight, have been grown on O. sim
gle acre in South Carolina. .
The estimated number Of working
cotton spindles in the United States
is about 35,O00,O00, Of which 49,
, 100000 are in the cotton growing
States.
The largest cotton crop ever plant
ed in the United States was 37,45S,-
600 acres, in 1913, which yielded
Ia, 156,486 bales, 5OO-pound equiv
alents, Of lint.
Americas greatest crop of cot
ton-16,134,93O bales-was grown
on 36,832,OO0 acres.
The knowledge Of cotton growing
wild IN islands Of the West Indies
is as old rs the history OF their dis,
oorery by the Spauiards In 1882
Arkwright, Hargreaves and
Crompton are the great names con-
nected with the invention of cotton
spinning machinery. They were Eng
lishmen.
Ell Whitney, an American, invent
ed the saw-gin. The original patent
was March Ia, 1894.
On account Of the labor involved
IN separating the lint from the seed
by hand, cotton was Of unknown
commercial Importance prior to the
invention Of Whitney's gin.
Production Of cotton in Russia
Is confined almost exclusively to the
Asiatic provinces Of Turkestan and
Transcaucasia.
Since the outbreak of the Great
War in 1914 production Of cotton in
Russia has averaged about 100000
bales annually.
The world carry-over at July 81,
1920. OF cotton outside Of the United
States was 100000 bales greater
than it was at the end of the pre-
vious year.
The world carry-over at July 81,
1921, Of cotton grown outside Of
in the United States, according to
Hester, was 6,086.000 bales.
During the year 1919, the proper
tton of worlds mill supply of cot
ton contributed by each country was
as follows: United States, SGT
per cent; British India, 22.4 per
cent; Egypt, SO per cent; China,
81 per cent; Brazil, 2,7 per cent;
Russia, % per cent; all others, 4.3
per cent.
World production Of cotton des-
tined for factory consumption in
1919 Is indicated by United States
census figures to have been 19,26O,-
600 bales, not including $4,000
bales Of linters in the United States.
World production of cotton for
factory consumption in 1919 was L.
100000 bales greater than the
amount consumed.