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Show COTTON MAKES NEW RECORD Crop of 1914 Largest Ever Produced, Says Census Report Total for Texas 4,592,112 Bales. The American cotton crop of 1914 was the largest ever produced, having reached 16,134,930 equivalent 500-pound 500-pound bales, which. If placed end to end, would reach more than half around the world at the equator. That figure, announced by the census bureau, bu-reau, is the government's final report. It removes any doubt whether last year's crop exceeded the former record rec-ord crop of 1911 and shows that 4-12,-229 equivalent 500-pound bales more were grown last year than in 1911. These statistics are 32,787 bales more than the census bureau's preliminary pre-liminary estimate of last March, and 168,930 bales more than estimated by the department of agriculture's crop-reporting crop-reporting board last December. Lin-ters Lin-ters cotton, now being used exteu sively in manufacturing shells for big guns, amounted to 791,464 bales, making a total production of 16,926.-394 16,926.-394 equivalent 500-pound bales of cotton, cot-ton, including linters. Texas alone produced more than one-fourth of the crop, 4,592,112 bales; Georgia one-sixth of the crop, 2,718,-037 2,718,-037 bales. Those states, with Alabama, Ala-bama, South Carolina, Oklahoma and Mississippi, produced more than four-filths four-filths of the entire crop. Alabama's total was 1,751,375 bales; South Carolina Caro-lina 1,533,810; Oklahoma, 1,2S,176, and Mississippi, 1,245,535. ;The remainder re-mainder of the 18 cotton-growing states each- grew less than one million bales. Ellis county, Texas, was the banner cotton county of the United States, having grown 143,714 bales, or approximately approx-imately 75 per cent more than the entire crop of Missouri or Florida, about three times that of California, and nearly six times that of Virginia. |
