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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. Bales 

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



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 50x3 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. 



