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Show COTTON GRQP STATISTICS BUT Census Bureau Shows Yield for 1918 to Total 11,888,138 Bales. " WASHIXGTON". March 20. Final statistics sta-tistics on the 1918 cotton crop, announced today by the census bureau In its last ginning repoft, place production at 11,. SSS.13S running bales, or 12,022,601 equivalent equiva-lent 500-pound bales, both., exclusive ol linters. The 1917 crop, was 11.2-13,212 running bales, or 11,302,375 equivalent 500-pound bales. The department of agriculture in December estimated the 191S crop at 11,-700,000 11,-700,000 equivalent 500-pound bales. Inculded in the 1918 figures are 177,-121 177,-121 bales which ginners estimated would be turned out after the March canvasa. Round bales, counted as half bales in the running bales statistics, numbered 151,060, compared with 189,076 in 1917. Sea island bales included are 51.389, compared with 92,619 bales In 1917. Distribution Dis-tribution of sea island for 1918 by states was: Florida, 20,160 bales; Georgia, 21,265 bales, and South Carolina, 9961 bales. The average gross Weight of a bale. for the crop, counting round as half bales and excluding linters, is 505.6 pounds, compared com-pared with 602.4 pounds for 1017. Ginners operated number 19,219, compared com-pared with 20,351 in 1917. Glnnlngs of the 1918 crop by states, in equivalent 500-pound bales, were: Alabama, 800,121; Arizona, 65,560; .lr-kansas, .lr-kansas, 9S5.319; California, 67,322; Florida, 28.242: Georgia, 2,120.690; Louisiana, 686,-853; 686,-853; Mississippi. 1,225,348; Missouri, 61,-516- North Carolina, 895, S53; Oklahoma, 576 270; South Carolina, 1,666,900; Tennessee, Ten-nessee, 329,203; Texas, 2,692,810: Virginia, Vir-ginia, 24.SS5; all other states. 6157. |