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bales. These are the 10 counties having the largest amount of 

 storage space, yet the production for the same counties in 1913 was 

 183,483 bales, or approximately 50,000 bales more than could be 

 stored in all the public and private warehouses. These counties also 

 have 90 cotton mills, whose warehouses have a total capacity of 

 107,525 bales, making a combined storage capacity for these counties 

 of 241,295 bales. 



Table II. — Showing the production of cotton in certain counties in North Carolina, in 

 running bales, and the distribution of warehouses, their number, character, and storage 

 capacity in flat bales. 





Production 

 in ranning 

 bales, 1913. 



Mill warehouses. 



Other warehouses. 



Total 



County. 



Number 

 reporting. 



Capacity in 

 flat bales. 



Number 

 reporting. 



Capacity in 

 flat bales. 



capacity in 

 flat bales. 





23, 482 

 19, 155 

 15, 536 

 13, 706 

 435 

 31,164 



17 

 7 

 1 



35 

 7 



13 

 2 



13, 625 



7,600 



3,500 



34, 150 



22,500 



14, 750 



750 



7 

 3 

 5 

 6 

 1 

 5 

 2 

 4 

 3 

 3 



5,570 



11, 300 



6,800 



9,600 



15, 000 



32,000 



30,000 



9,300 



5,100 



9,100 



19, 195 





18,900 





10,300 





43 750 





37,500 





46 750 





30,750 





21, 510 

 28, 530 

 29, 965 



9 300 



Wake 



6 

 2 



8,050 

 2,600 



13,150 





11,700 







Total 



183, 483 



90 



107, 525 



39 



133, 770 



241,295 







Edgecombe 



29, 676 

 32,110 

 38, 751 

 31,164 

 29, 860 

 54, 039 

 27, 649 

 31, 409 

 28, 530 

 29, 965 



4 

 5 

 6 

 13 



8,100 

 11, 400 



9,900 

 14, 750 



4 

 2 

 2 

 5 



1,800 



1,700 



1,200 



32, 000 



9,900 





13, 100 





11,100 





46, 750 









6 

 6 

 4 

 6 

 2 



12, 400 

 10, 300 

 5,600 

 8,050 

 2,600 



3 



3,700 



16,100 





10,300 





3 

 3 

 3 



4,200 

 5,100 

 9,100 



9,800 



Wake 



13 150 



Wayne 



11,700 







Total 



333, 153 



52 



83, 100 



25 



58, 800 



141 900 







In the second part of this table it will be seen that the 10 counties 

 listed have only 25 warehouses and that these can store only 58,800 

 bales. On the other hand, the total production of cotton is 333,153 

 bales, or almost six times the amount of the total storage capacity of 

 all the public and private warehouses. More than one-half of this 

 space is located in one county, and this is used almost entirely by 

 cotton dealers. These counties have 52 cotton mills which can store 

 83,100 bales. Adding this to the capacity of public and private 

 warehouses, we have a maximum possible storage space for these 

 counties of only 141,900 bales, which is less than one-half the annual 

 production for the same counties. When we take into consideration 

 the fact that very few of the cotton mills allow the farmer to use any 

 of their storage houses and that many of the other warehouses are 

 intended primarily for the private use of merchants and cotton fac- 

 tors, it will be seen that the farmers at best could store only a very 

 small proportion of their annual production. 



