6 BULLETIN 216, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



kept on the farm for several months. When this is taken into con- 

 sideration, it appears that the storage capacity of the buildings now 

 in use is entirely adequate. 



DISTRIBUTION OF WAREHOUSES. 



This, however, does not mean that every person who has cotton is 

 able to get it stored on favorable terms. While the facilities in a 

 general way are ample in most of the States, in others they are 

 entirely inadequate. By referring to Table VII it will be seen that 

 the warehouses of Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, and Louisiana have 

 a storage capacity much greater than the production of cotton in 

 those States, but most of the warehouses are located in the shipping 

 centers, namely, Norfolk, Newport News, Jacksonville, Pensacola, 

 Memphis, and New Orleans. While from a glance at the table it 

 would seem that the facilities in these States are adequate, probably 

 it is true that the cotton-producing sections are very poorly supplied 

 with storage houses. A farmer who wishes to hold cotton in these 

 sections would have to keep it on the farm uninsured or ship it to a 

 cotton factor in one of the large towns. 



In Table I (p. 7) an attempt is made to illustrate the distribu- 

 tion of warehouses in Georgia. The first half of the table shows the 

 10 counties having public and private cotton warehouses with the 

 greatest aggregate storage capacity, and the second section shows the 

 10 counties producing the most cotton in 1913. The same table shows 

 the total production of cotton in 1913 in running bales for all the 

 counties listed. The first section shows 103 public and private ware- 

 houses reported in the 10 counties, with a total storage capacity of 

 419,280 bales. The 47 cotton mills reporting can store 192,475. 

 This makes a total capacity for the 10 counties of 611,755 bales. 

 These figures are for uncompressed cotton. Many of these ware- 

 houses usually receive compressed cotton. There are also 37 ware- 

 houses located in these counties which have not reported. Taking 

 this into consideration it would be safe to say that, in all, the ware- 

 houses in these 10 counties could store almost 1,000,000 bales of 

 cotton. The table shows further that the production of these counties 

 for 1913 was only 170,375 bales, as reported by the United States 

 Census Bureau. 



The second section of this table shows the conditions in the 10 

 counties producing the most cotton in 1913. It will be seen that 112 

 warehouses in these counties have a storage capacity of only 118,255 

 bales. The 10 cotton mills reporting can store 15,400 bales, making 

 a total storage capacity for the 10 counties of only 133,655 bales, 

 while the 1913 production for these counties was 437,605 bales. 



