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•'export" and did not represent that used in the home, 

 for such cotton was evidently not baled. 



AMOUNT OF BALED LINT PRODUCED FROM 1839 TO 1880 



luced in Illinois was 402 bales. 



1186 " 



1482 " 



7609 " 



465 " 



13 " 



" about 1 



118 " 



6 " 



18 " 



95 " 



While available statistics do not show the production 

 for each year, yet they do show that cotton was probably 

 continuously grown from the period of the early English 

 settlements of Illinois to at least 1880. It is quite prob- 

 able that cotton continued to be grown on a small scale 

 till about 1910 or even later. The writer distinctly re- 

 members seeing a field of cotton between Mound and 

 Mound City about 1910. 



COTTOX IXDTTSTRY DUEIXG CIVIL WAP. 



In 1865 cotton culture in Illinois reached its high water 

 mark for the 19th century. This was due almost wholly 

 to the changed economic conditions caused by the war 

 itself. President Lincoln's proclamation closing the 

 southern ports to all foreign trade, together with lack of 

 labor on many southern plantations near the close of the 



COTTOX PRODUCTTOX IX 13 ILLIXOIS COUXTIES IX 1S65. 



Xo. of Xo. Price 



acros Yield of bales per lb. Amount 



Counties planted per acre of lint in seed realized 



Jackson 3,280 800 lbs. 1.S76 lQd $378,065 



Union 2,700 800 " 1.45S 10<* $199,757 



Williamson 1.678 S00 " 1.000 10rf $141,750 



Johnson 1,000 900 " 800 $136,800 



Massac 72S 800 " 370 9%tf $55,361 



Perry 661 800 " 639 9<J $56,563 



Franklin 625 800 " 356 9^0 $47,500 



Jefferson 435 800 " 240 9£ $ 27.920 



Pope 350 800 " 190 9i $ 22.6S0 



Alexander 310 800 " 250 9<* $ 18.700 



Gallatin 300 800 " 200 9c 4 $ 21,600 



Pulaski 123 1100 " 200 10%<? $13,500 



Hardin 45 800 " 30 $ 4.200 



Totals 12,835 7,609 $1,125,396 



