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APPENDIX 



COTTON 

 COTTON CROP OF COUNTRIES NAMED, 1902-1906 



[No statistics for Siam and some other less important cotton-growing countries, 

 of 500 pounds, gross weight, or 478 pounds of lint, net] 



Bales 



NOTE. The total area of hay grown in the United States varies from 40 

 to 50 million acres, the production varies from 50 to 70 million tons, the 

 average value varies from 500 to 700 million dollars, and as a ten-year 

 average (1900 to 1909) the yield is 1.44 tons per acre and the farm price 

 $9.59 per ton. 



