COTTON IN THE UNITED STATES .51 



Year. Millions of Ib. Year. Millions of Ib 



1830 . . 62 1890 . . 1,245 



1840 . .Il8 IpOO . . 1,701 



1850 . . 202 1910 . . 2,l68 



1860 . . 403 1912 . . 2,737 



1870 . . 490 1913 . . 2,760 



1880 . . 892 1914 . . 2,830 



British cotton manufacturers rely mainly on the 

 United States for supplies of their raw material, and 

 the extended utilisation of the product in that country 

 has therefore caused considerable anxiety to them as 

 well as to the cotton manufacturers of other Euro- 

 pean countries. This has given rise to efforts to 

 create new sources of supply in order to render the 

 industry less dependent on the American crop (com- 

 pare page 76). 



The quantities of cotton imported into the United 

 Kingdom from the United States in certain specified 

 years are given below : 



Year. Millions of Ib. Year. Millions of Ib. 



1875 . . 841 1908 . . 1,589 



1880 . . ,224 1909 . . 1,640 



1885 . . ,051 1910 . . 1,470 



1890 . . ,317 1911 . . 1,682 



1895 ,395 1912 . . 2,165 



1900 . . ,365 1913 . . 1,585 



1905 ,734 I9H 1,284 



1907 ,756 I9 r 5 2,022 



The United States Department of Agriculture are 

 conducting important investigations with the object 

 of improving the cotton both in yield and quality. 

 Efforts are also being made to encourage farmers to 

 adopt scientific methods of cultivation, and educa- 

 tional work is being carried on in order to increase 

 their knowledge of the best ways of preparing and 

 manuring the soil, of selecting the seed, and of 

 establishing rotations of crops. 



In view of the large quantities of Egyptian cotton 

 now being imported into the United States, the 



