The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22
COTTON CROP TS ESTIMATED
 AT 12,992,O0O
Report Shows Large In- crease Over 1923
 Total
(Ry AssocIated Press)

WASHINGTON, Nov. N.-The cotton crop was estimated today at l2,992'ooo' equivalent 500-pound bales by the de- partment of agriculture. A crop or F. s16,ooO bales was forecast a Ior.m,g1, .an c1t ago. Last years crop was 1O,l39,o1 bales. The crop reporting board '1n statement commenting on the cotton crop report, said: esaF
 "Weather favorable to cottonapickfns during most of the time since Novem- Der 1 has prevailed throughout the cot ton belt and reports indicate that the picked cotton has gone promptly 10 the gin. There has been less weather dam age since November than is commonly expected.
 "As has been previously reported the quality of the lint and seed is not as good as usual in most of the Atlantic states The lint in these states Is re- ported to be shorter than usual, re- suit of drought following a cold, wet late spring. In the Atlantic states north of Florida September rains damaged many of the bolls and the lint from them is stained. Damage on this account in North Carolina Is reported to be great CT than that caused by the boil weevil. "In Tennessee, Arkansas and Okla homa, however, the quality of the lint seems to be about as good as usual, both with regard to discoloration and to length of fibre.
 "AIl along the northern border of the cotton belt there were many green bolls on the plants at the time of the first killing frost. In northeast Arkansas many of these are expected to open but in Tennessee and North Carolina only small proportion will yield any lint.
 Tn Texas weather conditions have been unusually good for picking and for maturing the top crop as well as the late planted. Freezing tempera- lures have not been general in Texas and thus some top crop has had op- portunity to mature"
 A report of the latest available in formation as to foreign cotton produc- tion compiled by the foreign service of the bureau of agricultural economies, says:
 "The cotton crop of Russia is esti- mated at 397, ,000 of 475 pounds accord ing to a report of the American agricul- tural representative in Berlin. This would be an increase of 76,000 bales, or about 25 per cent over the estimated pro- duction of 321 900 bales last year.
 "The estimated crop of the Chinese provinces of Hupeh and Human is placed at approximately 900 bales of 478 pounds, or an increase of 25 per cent, according to a report of Consul Heint- zleman.
 "The probable 1924 Greek crop is placed between 9,840 and 11,S06 bales of AIS pounds, according to a report of the trade commissioner of Athens, quoting the ministry of agriculture. Last years crop is given as 13,250 bales.
 Prospects for the area of the new cotton crop in the Sudan are favorable, indicating 20 per cent increase in acre age, according to incomplete reports re- ceived by the International Institute of Agriculture"
 The estimate of the crop was made on the basis of facts available to the crop reporting board as of the date of November IA, covering the probable yield, percent of acreage abandoned, per cent of the crop picked and ginned, and upon the actual ginnings to November IA.
 Alabama's estimated crop was re- ported as 980,0O0 bales; Georgia, 990,000; Mississippi 1,004,396 and Tennessee, 350,- 900.
 The ginning in running bales, count ing round as half bales in Alabama was 773,077; Georgia, 6S1,508 Mississippi, 921, ,002, and Tennessee, 331, 1,547.. Round bales included numbered 265,- 656, compared with 213,494 for 1923, and American Egyptian bales included num- bered 2,493, compared with 13,0S4 for 1923. The revised total of cotton gin- ned this season to November 1 was an- nounced as 9,719,332 bales.