STATISTICS OF COTTON, SUGAR, AND TOBACCO

TABLE 134.-Cotton: Acreage, production, value, exports, etc., United States, 1849,

1859, 1866-1930

Bureau of Agricultural Economics; italic figures are census returns; other acreage, yield, and production figures are estimates by the crop-reporting board; acreage revised on census basis.

1500-pound gross weight bales, from 1899-1930.

Compiled from Cotton Fluctuation, 1849-1888, and are averages for crop year beginning September. From New York Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 1889-1899, and from reports of New York Cotton Exchange since 1900. Since 1889 the averages are for crop year beginning August.

3 Excluding linters from 1914 to 1920.

4 Compiled from Commerce and Navigation of the United States, 1849-1917; Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States, 1918; Monthly Summary of Foreign Commerce of the United States, June and July, 1919-1930, and January 1927 and 1930.

Bales of 500 pounds gross weight.

Bales of 478 pounds net, which are equivalent to bales of 500 pounds gross weight.

Total exports (domestic plus foreign) minus imports.

Year beginning July 1.

"Estimated from value of imports. Average import price per pound calculated by assuming that the percentage change in import price from the previous year is equal to the percentage change in the export prices.

TABLE 134.-Cotton: Acreage, production, value, exports, etc., United States, 1849 1859, 1866-1930-Continued

10 Average for nine months only. Exchange closed August-Nov. 17, on account of war. 11 Cotton ginned in the United States. Prior census reports include undetermined quantities Lower California cotton ginned in the United States. In later years no Lower California cotton ginned in the United States.

12 Preliminary.

TABLE 135.-Cotton: Acreage in cultivation and acreage abandoned, by States, averages, and annual 1925-1930

Acreage in cultivation June 25

Acreage abandoned after June 25

Av.

1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 19301 21919-1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 19303 1928

Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Estimates of the crop-reporting board.
1 In cultivation July 1. 2 Preliminary.
Abandoned after July 1.

47-year average.

State

TABLE 136.-Cotton: Acreage harvested, by States, 1918-1930

1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928

1929 1930 1

1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 acres acres acres acres acres астев acres

acres

acres

103 198 355 493 520 434 291 334 341 369 93 64 791 88

Missouri..

Virginia.

North Carolina..

acres acres acres
148 125 136
44
1,600 1, 490

acres

42

42
1,587 1, 403

34

55

74

102 100

88

South Carolina.

3, 0012, 835

2,964 2, 571

United States.. 36, 008 33, 566 35, 878 30, 509 33, 036 37, 123 41, 360 46, 053 47, 087 40, 138 45, 341 45, 793 45,218 Lower California 85 135 150 137 150 130 110 160 147 100

Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Estimates of the crop-reporting board. 1 Preliminary.

TABLE 137.-Cotton: Yield per acre and estimated price per pound, December 1, by States, averages, and annual 1925-1930

United States.. 155. 1 167. 2 182. 6 154. 5 152. 9 155. 0 150.8 17.9 18. 2 10.9 19. 6 18. 0 16. 4

9.5

Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Estimates of the crop-reporting board. 17-year average.

TABLE 138.-Cotton: Production of lint in 500-pound gross-weight bales, by States, and linters, United States, 1918-1930

State

1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 19301

1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000

Georgia..
Florida..

2, 122 1, 660

1, 415

787

715

5882 1,002

29

16

18

11

25

12

2 22

Tennessee..

2 515

730 726 830 1,040

1,100 1,030 1,343 1,625 32 217 29 2451 23592 428 2515 587 2 985 1,357 1, 49821, 191 1, 109 1,342 1,495 604 1,099 1, 991 1,888 1,355 1,475 1,915 1,500 62221, 0942 1, 600 1, 548 1,000 1, 246 1, 435 368 493 910 829 548 691 809 577 1,016 1,336 656 1,511 1,691 1,773 1,037 1, 205 1, 143 4, 345 2, 198 3, 2222 4,3102 4, 94924, 1632 5, 62824, 352 25, 10623, 940 4, 100 2 66 275 270 2 88 2.90 100

889

1,00

50 400

910

710

900

Arizona.

56

60

103

45

47

78

108

2 26

United States. 12, 04111, 421 13, 440 7, 954 9, 755 10, 140 13, 628 16, 104 17, 977 12, 955 14, 478 14, 828 14, 243 Linters, total U. S... 930 608 440 398 608 669 897 1, 115 1, 158 1,016 1, 282 1, 241 282

Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Compiled from reports of the Bureau of the Census.

1 Preliminary estimate of the Department of Agriculture.

2 Slight differences from census figures on ginnings are due to ginnings in one State of cotton grown in another.

Year beginning Aug. 1.

TABLE 139.-Cotton: Acreage and yield of lint per acre in specified countries, average 1909-10 to 1913-14, 1921-22 to 1925-26, annual 1927-28 to 1930-31

Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Official sources and International Institute of Agriculture. for crop year as given at the head of the table are for crops harvested between Aug. 1 and July 31. This applies to both Northern and Southern Hemispheres. For the United States prior to 1914 the figures apply to the harvest year beginning Sept. 1.

TABLE 140.-Cotton: Production of lint in specified countries, average 1909-10 to 1913-14, 1921-22 to 1925-26, annual 1926-27 to 1930-31

United States 2.
Mexico...

Total North American countries reporting 1926-27 to 1929-30...

SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA

AND WEST INDIES

Venezuela..

13, 033, 000 11, 516, 000 17, 977, 000 12, 955, 000 14, 478, 000 14, 828, 000 14, 243, 000
187,000 184, 152
169, 000

359, 820

179, 238

278, 460

246, 029

18, 336, 820 13, 134, 238 14, 756, 460 15, 074, 029

Algeria...

Morocco (French)

French West Africa:

Dahomey.

Ivory Coast

French Guinea..

1 Bales of 478 pounds net.

2 Linters not included. Production of linters during this period has been: Average 1909-10 to 1913-14, 502,711 bales; 1926-27, 1,157,861 bales; 1927-28, 1,016,375 bales; 1928-29, 1,282,061 bales; 1929-30, 1,241,355 bales.