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Show o o COTTON ALMOST REACHES RECORD Washington, Jan. 23 The announcement an-nouncement by the census bureau today to-day that 13,589,171 bales of cotton, exclusive of linters, had been ginned gin-ned prior to January 16. officially established es-tablished the fact that the 1913-14 cotton crop is the second in size the country has grown. Linters obtained ob-tained to January 1 amounted to 396,934 bales, bringing the total cotton cot-ton ginned, as far as official figures show, lo 13,986,105 running bales. This amount will be increased by ginnlngs during the remainder of the season, so that the final figures will show a crop of more than 14,000,000 bales nn |