CHAPTER II. 
ACREAGE AND PRODUCTION: WHERE THE WORLD’S 
SUPPLY IS GROWN 
Of the 17,782,440 bales making up the 1904-5 
cotton crop of the world, it is estimated that the 
United States grew 13,420,440 bales, the East In- 
dies 2,960,000, Egypt 1,187,000, Brazil, etc., 215,- 
000. 
In India, the oldest of cotton-producing coun- 
tries, the total yield of late years has been de- 
creasing. In 1893-94 India grew 2,993,000 bales 
(she had grown more than 3,000,000 three years 
before) and in 1903-4 she produced only 2,634,400 
bales. The soil of India is well adapted to cotton 
growing, but the climate is largely unfavorable— 
too wet in some places, too dry in others—and the 
average yield per acre is hardly more than half 
the average American yield. 
EGYPTIAN AND INDIAN PRQDUCTION 
The abnormal demand for cotton during the Civil 
War stimulated Indian production, but “when the 
final result of the contest between America and 
India became apparent, America had gained com- 
mand of the market, and India was considered only 
as a supplementary source of supply, resorted to 
mainly in the event of a short crop in the West.” 
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