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Show COTTON GINNING MAKES NEW RECORD; Washington. Dec. 21. Cotton ginning gin-ning this season up to the period ending end-ing December 12 made a new record, exceeding thai established in 1911. the year of previous record cotton production, produc-tion, by more than 206,000 bales. This was indicated today in the i -nsus bureau's report showing 13, 977,189 bales had been ginned prior to December 13. In the last lew cars approximately 92 per cent of the entire crop had been ginned prior j to January l Calculating this year's crop on that basis It would exceed 16,270,000 bales The department of agriculture In its preliminary estimate esti-mate of the crop placed it at 15.966,- 000 baleB. Last year the department's preliminary estimate was 13,677,000 bales while the final out turn was 14,156,000 bales, five hundred pound bales. Oklahoma to December 13 had ginned gin-ned 1,068.898 bales, or more than produced pro-duced there in any year heretofore. In Alabama, Florida. Georgia and Texas the ginnings to December 13 this year were greater than last year's entire production in those states. Ginning during (he period amounted to 900,982 bales, which is more than ginned in the same period In any year except in 1911. |