COTTON 5 



$1,700,000,000 yearly, while the estimated value 

 of the world's annual output of cotton goods is 

 $2,000,000,000. On cotton most of the human race 

 depends for clothing three times as much cotton 

 as wool being produced, and the world's 

 wool production having decreased from 2,750,000 

 bales in 1895 to 1,750,000 in 1905, while in the 

 same period the world's cotton supply has grown 

 from 10,304,000 bales to 17,782,000 bales. And 

 of this enormous cotton supply three-fourths is 

 grown in the Southern section of the United 

 States. Twice the world's total gold output last 

 year would have been required to pay Southern 

 farmers for lint and seed; three-fourths of the 

 capital stock of all the National Banks in the 

 country would have been inadequate, 



COTTON EXPORTS EXCEED IN VALUE ALL OTHEE 

 AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS 



Among our American export crops cotton is a 

 monarch that brooks no rivals. According to a 

 signed statement furnished the writer by Mr. O. 

 P. Austin, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, De- 

 partment of Commerce and Labor, January 23, 

 1906, the total value of our exports of cottonseed 

 and cottonseed products for the year ending June 

 30, 1905 (raw cotton alone $381,000,000), was 

 $410,657,752 as against $410,205,653 for "all 

 other agricultural exports." In other words, take 

 all other animal and vegetable products exported 

 any year wheat, corn, barley, oats, rye, flour, 

 meal, oatmeal, fruits, vegetables, liquors, tobacco, 

 wine, cattle, hogs, horses, sheep, beef, pork, mut- 

 ton, butter, cheese, canned goods, lard, oils, wool, 



