250 



COTTON. 



where direct to manufacturers, the result is the 

 following crop-statement for the two years : 



pounds, and that the average weight of the 

 bales is 469 pounds. 



Of the total exports (2,840,981 hales) above 

 given, 1,807,584 bales were shipped to Liver- 

 pool, 368,577 to Havre, and 200,705 to Bre- 

 men; 1,147,314 were exported from the port 

 of New Orleans, 132,367 from Mobile, 274,383 

 from Galveston, 247,866 from Charleston, 429,- 

 571 from Savannah, 485,596 from New York, 

 41,528 from Baltimore, and 82,350 from other 

 ports. 



The greater portion of the crop was shipped 

 in vessels directly from Southern ports, but 

 no small amount was sent North by railroad. 

 The total amount thus carried overland was 

 497,083 bales, while the overland movement 

 direct to manufacturers reached 237,572 bales. 

 This latter amount was doubtless increased in 

 consequence of the Southern floods, which 

 forced some cotton over Northern routes, 

 which would otherwise have passed through 

 a Southern port. The details of the entire 

 overland movement are shown in the follow- 

 ing statement : 



Bales. 



Shipments for the year from St. Louis 92,196 



Carried North over Illinois Central Railroad from 



Cairo,etc 4,600 



Carried North over Cairo & Vincennes Railroad. 18,783 

 Carried over the Mississippi River above St. 



Louis 6,148 



Carried North over St. Louis & Southeastern, 



less deductions ." 6,604 



Carried North over Evansville & Crawfordsville, 



less reshipments 27,749 



Carried North over Jeffersonville, Madison & In- 

 dianapolis Railroad ; 134.097 



Carried North over Ohio & Mississippi Branch. . 82,630 

 Shipped through Cincinnati by Louisville, Cin- 

 cinnati & Lexington Railroad 81,775 



Receipts at Cincinnati by Ohio River 71,501 



Shipped to mills adjacent to river and to points 



above Cincinnati 21,000 



Total carried ove rland. 497,083 



Deduct Receipts overland at New York, 



Boston, Philadelphia, etc 251,962 



" Shipments from Mobile 

 and other outports by 



rail 140,112 



Less deducted at New Or- 

 leans 107,138 



Less deducted at Savannah. 21,508 

 Less deducted at Charles- 

 ton 3,917132,563 7,549 



Total to deduct 259,511 



Leaving the direct overland movement not else- 

 where counted 237,572 



The distribution of the crop by States, to- 

 gether with the estimated weight of the. bales, 

 is given in the table below. According to this 

 statement, it will be seen that the total gross 

 weight of the latest crop reaches 1,956,742,297 



The following statement will afford a com- 

 parison between the crop of this year and 

 those of former years : 



Years. Bales. 



1873-'74 4,170,888 



1872- 1 73 3,930,508 



1871-'72 2,974,351 



1870- 1 71 4,352,317 



1869-'70 8,154,946 



186S-'69 3,439,039 



18G7-'68 2,593,993 



18'66-'67 2,019,774 



1865-'66 2,193,987 



1861-'65 no record. 



1860-'61 3.656,086 



1859-'60 4,669,770 



1858-'59 3,851,481 



1857-'58 3,113,962 



1856-'57 2,939,519 



1855-'56 3,527,845 



1854-'55 2.847,339 



1853-'54 2,930,027 



1852-'53 3,262,882 



1851-'52 3,015,029 



1850-'51 2,355,257 



1849-'50 2,090,706 



1848-M9 2,728,596 



Years. Bales. 



1847-M8 2,347,634 



1846-M7 1,778,651 



1845-'4G 2,100,537 



1844-M5 2,304,503 



1843-M4 2,030,409 



1842-' 43 2.378,875 



1841-'42 1,683,574 



1840-'41 1,634,945 



1839-'40 2,177,835 



1838-'39 ),360,532 



1837-'38 1.801,497 



1836-'37 1,422,930 



1835-'36 1,360,752 



1834-'35 1,254,328 



1833-'34 1,205,324 



1832-'33 1,070,438 



1831-'32 987,487 



1830-'31 1,038,848 



1829-'30 976,855 



1828-'29 870,425 



1827-'28 727,593 



1826-'27 957,281 



The crop of Sea-Island cotton this year 

 amounted to 19,912 bales, of which 8,825 were 

 the production of Florida, 1,408 of Georgia, 

 8,759 of South Carolina, and 920 of Texas. 

 Including the 1,667 bales on hand at the be- 

 ginning of the year, the total supply of this 

 kind of cotton was 21,577 bales. As the stock 

 on hand at the end of the year, September 1st, 

 was 593 bales, the total amount distributed 

 was 20,986 bales, of which 18,873 were ex- 

 ported to foreign ports, leaving 2,113 bales as 

 the amount consumed (or otherwise to be ac- 

 counted for) in the United States. The total 

 crop of Sea-Island cotton, in 1873, was 26,289 

 bales. 



Full returns of the cotton-manufacturing in- 

 dustry of the United States for the year end- 

 ing July 1, 1874, were also presented in the 

 Chronicle. These results were formerly ob- 

 tained and published by the " National Asso- 

 ciation of Cotton Planters and Manufacturers," 

 an organization which existed during the years 

 of 1868, 1869, and 1870, and which published 

 the first authentic statement of the actual con- 

 sumption of cotton by the mills of this coun- 

 try. This association has riot been in exist- 

 ence since 1870, but the statistics published 

 this year have been prepared by its former 

 secretary. The annual consumption of cotton 

 by American mills in recent years has been as 

 follows : 



