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BULLETIN 216, U. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 



New Orleans, Houston, Galveston, Memphis, and Pine Bluff (Ark.), 

 is given as reported. In these towns there are many large storage 

 houses, and the reports seem to indicate that they cover the complete 

 storage capacity. 



Table VI (p. 16) is derived directly from Table V. The figures 

 given in Table V are believed to be a very safe estimate of the avail- 

 able storage f acuities in the South in the early part of 1914 or during 

 the cotton season of 1913-14. It is impossible to state, of course, 

 just how many new warehouses have been erected and how much 

 the total storage capacity has been increased in this way. Many 

 storage houses have been constructed to help meet the present 

 emergency. This increase has been estimated at 10 per cent, which 

 is a very conservative estimate. Table VI is the same as Table V 

 with a 10 per cent increase in the number of warehouses and a like 

 increase in the total storage capacity. In another column is shown 

 the 1913 production by States in running bales * as reported by the 

 Census. In this way a comparison between the storage facilities now 

 available and the production can be made very readily. 



Table VI. — Estimated number and storage capacity of all warehouses in the cotton belt, 

 making allowance for a 10 per cent increase since August, 1914, compared with the 

 production in running bales, by States. 



State. 



Num- 

 ber. 



Storage capacity in bales. 



Flat. As offered. Compressed 



1913 pro- 

 duction in 

 running 

 bales. 



Alabama 



Arkansas 



Florida 



Georgia , 



Louisiana 



Mississippi 



North Carolina. 



Oklahoma 



South Carolina . 



Tennessee 



Texas 



Virginia 



All others 



1, 



581 

 233 



51 

 089 

 '200 

 167 

 149 

 i 120 

 337 



31 

 497 



30 



1,628,935 

 714, 780 

 225,060 



1,354,810 

 809, 600 

 892, 540 

 210,216 

 540, 600 



1, 156, 760 

 582, 285 



1,946,494 

 219, 890 



884,355 

 965, 800 

 357, 830 

 693, 280 

 095, 930 

 525, 810 

 264, 446 

 842, 330 

 363, 560 

 919, 435 

 513,324 

 316,580 



2, 741, 530 

 1,017,500 



380, 270 

 2, 274, 866 

 1, 260, 490 

 1,665,840 



366, 141 



927,845 

 1, 887, 380 



935,011 

 3,531,770 



329,065 



1,483,669 



1,038,293 



66,700 



2.346,237 



436,865 



1,251,841 



842,499 



837,995 



1,418,704 



366, 786 



3,773,024 



24, 569 



95,629 



Total 3, 485 



10,2S1,970 



13,742,680 



17,317,708 



13,982,811 



i The names of 26 companies reporting to us have been added. This is more than the 10 per cent added for 

 other States from which no reports were received of the number of new warehouses. 



In connection with the estimate of the probable increase in storage 

 facilities, it may be well to state that the Marketing Division of the 

 North Carolina Experiment Station has published the results of an 

 investigation which indicate that the storage space provided since 

 the 1913-14 season in that State would be sufficient to store 134,915 

 bales. By referring to Table V it will be seen that this is an increase 

 of almost 100 per cent over the space available in 1913-14. 



In Oklahoma 41 warehouse companies were chartered from the 

 first of September, 1914, to about the middle of October of the same 



i By the term "running bales" is meant the actual number of bales produced, which is not exactly the 

 same as the number of 500-pound bales ordinarily used for statistical purposes. 



