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Show ACREAGE Of COTTON SLIGHTLY INCREASED WASHINGTON, June J Th area planted to cotton In the United State waa estimated by the crop reporting board of the department of agriculture In . J tha firaf mn kms a ha UBUn In Ka about 104.7 per cent of the area planted last year; or SS, 004. 000 acres. Including that already planted and expected to be planted. This Is an Increase of 4.7 per cent, or 1 .484.000 acres, aa compered with 13 418.000 acres, the revised estimate esti-mate of last year's planted area. The contrition of the growing crop on May 25 was 87.8 per cent of a normal condition, as compared with SO. 2 per cent that date isst year and 8ft. 9 the ten-year ten-year average On that date. The details by slates of are planted In 1911. per cent of 1910 area and condition con-dition on May ii follows; Per Constates. Con-states. Acres. Cent, dltlon. Virginia 17.00 108 93 North Carolina .... 1, SST.ooe lor, A3 South Carolina ..... 2.701..OOO 103 80 Georgia I.ft.'i0.0'0 o l Florida , 24.000 Kit If. Alabama 3,81.r,0.0 105 91 Mississippi 3.4S4.0OO 101 M Ioulslana l.llR.ooo 104 PI Texas ... 10.88C.O00 I OF, M Arkansas 3. 444.000 in 87 Tennessee 822.000 105 83 Missouri . 115.000 112 8H Oklahoma J.422.0O0 11 87 California 13.000 103 i |