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



NORTH CAROLINA. 



In North Carolina there are 326 cotton mills (Table VII). Re- 

 ports were received from 274 of these, showing the total storage 

 capacity of these mill warehouses to be 368,495 flat bales, or an aver- 

 age of 1,346 bales each. If it is assumed that the mills not report- 

 ing have an average capacity equal to those reporting, their com- 

 bined storage capacity would amount to about 70,000 bales. Adding 

 this to the amount actually reported, we have a total of about 

 440,000 bales, but, as in the case of Georgia, in order to avoid the 

 possibility of any overestimation it has been assumed that only 26 

 of the 52 mills have warehouses and that the average storage capacity 

 of these is only 1,250 bales. Their combined capacity at this rate 

 would be 32,500 bales, which, added to the amount actually reported, 

 gives the aggregate storage capacity of the cotton mills of the State 

 as 400,995 bales. There is every reason to believe that this is a very 

 low estimate. Some of the largest mills of the State are among those 

 which failed to make reports. The average storage capacity of the 

 warehouses belonging to the cotton mills thus failing to report is doubt- 

 less greater than that of those which have reported. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



In South Carolina there are 164 cotton mills. Reports from county 

 agents show that 62 of these mills have warehouse space for 234,900 

 bales, or an average of 3,600 bales each. If the average for all the 

 cotton mills of the State should equal the 62 included in these re- 

 ports, a total of 590,000 bales could be stored. From general obser- 

 vations and conferences with many of the cotton-mill men in South 

 Carolina it is believed that the storage space of the mills is on the 

 average very large. An estimate of 600,000 bales apparently would 

 be justified by the reports at hand. However, an estimate of only 

 300,000 bales for the State, or approximately one-half of the appar- 

 ent storage capacity, has been used. 



OTHER STATES. 



For all the remaining States it is assumed that each cotton mill has 

 a storage capacity of 1,000 bales. In no State which has been investi- 

 gated in detail is the average storage space of the mills so small as 

 this. Estimates of the capacity of mill warehouses in each of the 

 cotton-producing States, determined in the manner just explained, 

 will be found in Table VII, which shows the storage capacity of 

 warehouses for cotton as offered, as given in Table VI, with the 

 figures for the cotton mills added. This table shows the estimated 

 number of warehouses and their storage capacity in bales as offered, 

 and the number of cotton-mill warehouses with their estimated 

 capacity in flat bales. But many of the mills use compressed cotton, 



