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Show TOTAL COTTON YIELD IS 11,030,000 BALES yV?TTTNGTONT, Dec. 11. Total cotton production in the United States for the li 13-20 season will amount to 5,27 S, 096.-iViO 096.-iViO pounds, exclusive of Hnters, which is equivalent to .11 .030,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight, the department of agriculture agricul-ture announced todav In Its final esti-mnte esti-mnte of this year's crop. The department's last estimate, made on the cond'tion of the crop. September n. was lO.tDG 000, bales, while the first estimate of the season, baspd on June or, conditfons, was lO.OS'OO bales. Last year's crop was 12,0-10.532 bales, the average av-erage for the five years, 1913-17, was 12.M7.los bales, and the record crop 16.-13J 16.-13J 930 bales In 1914. The average groPs weight per running bate Is estimated at 500.2 pounds gross, compared with ypf.6 pounds last year and 506.3 pounds, the average of the five years. 1913-17. The estimated production by states follows: fol-lows: Virginia. 22. CM: North Carolina, S75,-OuO; S75,-OuO; South Carolina, 1. -175, 000: Georgia, 1 730.fi'tO ; Florida, 1 7,rr'0; Alabama. 715,-utvi; 715,-utvi; Mississippi. 9P'.. 000; Louisiana, 300.-n 300.-n r ' T - n a s . 2 . 7 ri o , o o o : Arkansas. R Z 0 . 00 0 ; Tenner-frt-e. 000; Missouri, fin.onfi; Oklahoma, Okla-homa, SiOiOO; California. 102.000; Arizona, Ari-zona, ' 75. '-0'"i ; all other states, 7,000. |