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Show COTTON CROP FOUND LARGEST IN YEARS WASHINGTON, March 21. The largest cotton crop since 1 i 1 4 and ihe Mth largest In the history of the COUntry was grown last ye:ir dinning din-ning statistics for the 1920-21 seasoi announced today by the census bureau bu-reau show a total of 18,365,754 equivalent equiv-alent oOO-pound bales comprise the 1920 crop That is about 2.7fi'" 000 equivalent 500-POUnd bales less than the record crop of 19H. Thp census bureau's figures of cotton cot-ton actually ginned which are accepted accept-ed as the final production statistics, show the crop to be 3 7 K , 7 f, 4 bales more than estimated by the department of commerce laal December in final forecast fore-cast of the year. |