Evening star., 1927-11-01
COTTON CARRyOVER
|. FIGURE UNOFFICIAL
Jardine Explains That
Sources Not Under U. S. Su-
pervision Gave Some Data.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Department Of Agriculture's
cotton carryover estimate of about
1900 900 bales as of July 81 was not
official in the sense of having been
entirely compiled from data gathered
under governmental SUPERVISION Sec.
retary Jardine said today in formal
statement.
There has been considerable contro.
versy over the estimate made public
September IS, which was followed by
a drop in the price of cotton. Secre-
tary Hester of the New Orleans Cot
ton Exchange claimed the carryover
| was 100000 bales too high. and sew
eral Southern congressman requested
the department to furnish information
as to how the estimate was made up.
Later Representative Aswell of Louis
| lana and Secretary Hester requested
that the Government estimate be
withdrawn. Secretary Jardine has
stood by the figures compiled by his
department and in reply explained the
| source of the statistics used.
Today's statement followed a con-
| ference between the Secretary and an
| official of the New Orleans Cotton Ex.
change and was prepared by Lloyd
| S. Tenny, chief of the Bureau of Agri-
cultural Economics. whose bureau
mduc up the CdII yoSCA NOAhPAAe"S@NAA'
| Try to Cover Entire Field.
"In it's efforts to help the American
farmer produce and market his crops
| to best advantage" the statement
said. "the Department of Agricul-
| ture issues from time to time state
ments analyZing as completely as pos
! sible the situation with reference to
| important farm crops, including cot
| ton. In order to be of maximum
| service these statements must be COM
| prehensive and cover in so far as pos
sible the situation in foreign countries
as we'll as at home.
| I'm connection with these reports
some question has arisen why the De-
partment of Agriculture uses data
! from private sources. In the prepara-
! ton of these statements reliable Off
| cial sources are used whenever avail
able For some phases of these re-
! ports, however, the Department of
| Agriculture and other Government
! agencies do not have the necessary
| data.
| "This is particularly true of supply
land demand conditions in foreign coun-
tries. 1t becomes necessary at times.
| therefore, to use data from private
sources. In using such data, however,
| the department CRITICALLY eAdLlAiieS dil
available sources and selects what in
it's judgment supplies the most depend
able information. Naturally the use
by the Department of Agriculture of
data from private sources in this man
ner does not necessarily make these
| data official.
Held Not Official.
"With reference to the use Of cotton
carry-over figures Of about 100000
| bales in a report issued by the depart
ment on September Is, it should be no.
ticed that this calculation was made in
| part from figures furnished by the
United States Census Bureau and in
part from private agencies, foreign
and domestic, in the cotton trade. Of
the figures used 3,663,000 bales, or ap.
proximately Al per cent of the total,
were the official figures of the Bureau
| of the Census and the remaining bales
or approximately SO per cent, were
taken from private sources.
"It will, therefore, be seen that the
figure of 100000 bales was not Off
ciai in the sense of having been entire
ly compiled from data gathered under
Government supervision"