214 



COTTON. 



Average 



Weight. 



508.17 

 466.00 

 507.35 

 464.22 

 444.00 

 457.00 

 438.00 

 473.00 



471.46 



The production of Sea - Island cotton was 

 14,996 bales, as follows : Florida, 8,950 bales ; 

 Georgia, 1,213 bales ; South Carolina, 4,756 

 bales ; Texas, 77 bales. In previous years the 

 production of Sea-Island cotton was as fol- 

 lows : 1874-'75, 17,027 bales; 1873-'74, 19,- 

 912; 1872-73,26,289; 187l-'72, 16,845; 1870 

 -'71,21,609; 1869-'70, 26,507. 



The annual cotton-crop since 1829 has been 

 as follows : 



YEARS. Balei. 



1875-'76 4,669,288 



1874- 1 75 8,832,991 



1873-'74 4,170,388 



1872-'78 3,930,508 



1871-'72 2.974,351 



1870-'71 4,352,317 



laog-^O 8,154,946 



186S-'69 2,43,n39 



1867-'6S 2,593.993 



1866-'67 2,019,774 



1865-'66 2,193,987 



1861-'65 no record. 



1860-'61 8,656,006 



1859-'60 4,669,770 



1858-'59 3,851,481 



1857-68 3,113,962 



1856-'57 2,939,519 



1855-'56 8,527,845 



1854-'55 2,847,889 



1853-'54 2,930,027 



1852-'53 8,302,882 



1851-'52 8,015,049 



1S50-'51 2,855,257 



YEARS. Blej. 



1849-'50 2.096,706 



1848-H9 2,728,596 



1847-'48 2,347,684 



1846-'47 1,778,651 



1845-'46 2,100,587 



1844-'45 2,894,503 



1848-'44 2,030,409 



1842- 1 43 2.878,875 



1841-'42 1,688,574 



1840-'41 1,634,945 



1889-'40 2,177,836 



l&38-'39 1,360,582 



18S7-'SS 1,801,497 



1886-'37 1,422,930 



1835-'36 1,860,752 



1884- 1 85 1,254,328 



1&J3-'S4 1,205,824 



1S32- 1 33 1,070,438 



1881-'82 987,487 



1880-'31 1,088,848 



1829-'30 976,845 



1828-'29 870,416 



The total exports to foreign ports, for six 

 years ending August 31st, have been, with the 

 points of shipment, as follows : 



The home consumption has been : 



The consumption of cotton in Great Britain 



was estimated at 1,227,453,000 pounds in 

 1872-'73 ; 1,259,836,000 pounds in 1873-'74 ; 

 1,224,377,000 pounds in 1874-'75 ; and 1,270,- 

 287,000 pounds in 1875-'76. The number of 

 spindles in the United Kingdom, at the end of 

 1874, was 37,515,000, exclusive of doubling spin- 

 dles. From 1,250,000 to 1,500,000 have since 

 been added, and a large number of old spindles 

 have been replaced by new ones. 



The Continental consumption in 1875-'76 

 was estimated as follows: 



The rate of increase in the Continental con- 

 sumption in 1873-'75 was about five per cent, 

 per annum. A year ago it was thought that 

 the increase in 1875-'76 would not exceed three 

 per cent., but it has reached about five per cent. 



Ellison & Co.'s Annual European Cotton Re- 

 view gives the following particulars of the im- 

 ports, deliveries, and stocks of cotton for Great 

 Britain and the Continent during the past two 

 seasons : 



