4 BULLETIN" 742, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



1913 averaged about 10 per cent of the total, but the proportion has 

 recentty increased, this country having received 19, 35, and 17 per 

 cent, respectively, of the cotton produced in Egypt in the calendar 

 years 1914, 1915, and 1916. 



Table I. 



-Total annual production of cotton in Egypt during the 10-year period 

 from 1907 to 1916, inclusive. 1 



Year. 



500-pound 

 bales. 



Year. 



500-pound 

 bales. 



1907 



1,431,000 1 

 1,335,000 

 990,000 

 1,4S4,000 

 1,461,000 



1912 



1 484 000 



1908 



1913 



1, 517' 000 



1, 277, 000 



945,000 



1,000 000 



1909 



1914 



1910 



1915 



1911 



1916 









1 Computed from data given in Monthly Return, Ministry of Agriculture (Egypt), Nov. 30, 1917, and Dec. 

 31, 1917. 



AMERICAN CONSUMPTION OF EGYPTIAN COTTON. 



Notwithstanding the fact that nearly two-thirds of the American 

 cotton crop is exported * for manufacture in foreign countries, a 

 large quantity of raw cotton is imported for manufacture in the 

 United States. By far the larger part of this imported cotton is 

 obtained from Egypt, Table II shows the imports of Egyptian 

 cotton for the past 10 years. 



Table II. — Annual imports of Egyptian cotton into the United States for the 

 crop-distribution- years 1 during the 10-year period from 1901-8 to 1916-17, 

 inclusive. 



Year. 



500-pound 

 bales. 



Year. 



500-pound 

 bales. 



1907-8 



120, 187 

 129, 985 

 102,217 

 183, 786 

 175, 835 



1912-13 



191, 075 



1908-9 



1913-14 



137, 355 



1909-10 



1914-15 



261, 220 



1910-11 



1915-16 



339,854 

 198,805 



1911-12 



1916-17 









1 The crop distribution year covers the period from September 1 to August 31, in- 

 clusive. The figures shown in Table II are compiled from data given in publications of 

 the Bureau of the Census, the imports for the years 1908 to 1912 from Bulletin 117 

 (1913 I, p. 9; those for the years 1913 and 1914 from Bulletin 128 (1914), p. 10; and 

 those for 1915 to 1917 from Bulletin 135 (1918), pp. 65-66. In order to complete the 12 

 months' total for 1917, the imports during the month of August, 1917, were taken from 

 the monthly postal-card report issued by the Bureau of the Census. 



The imports markedly declined during the crop-distribution year 1917-18, having 

 amounted to the equivalent of 119,126 bales of 500 pounds each, which is about 60 per 

 cent of the quantity imported during the preceding year. 



The shorter kinds of Egyptian cotton (1-| to If inch staple), the 

 so-called brown Egyptian and Upper Egypt cottons, produced by the 

 Mit Afifi and Ashmuni varieties, respectively, are used by American 

 manufacturers largely as a substitute for American long-staple Up- 

 lands of corresponding lengths, the substitution being profitable 



1 This applies to the years preceding the outbreak of the war in Europe, 

 crops produced in 1914, 1915, and 1916, only about one-half was exported. 



Of the 



