COTTON 317 
CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION IN SOUTHERN 
STATES 
Per cent, 
Year Bales consumed Bales produced of Crop 
used 
1850 80,300 2,469,093 | 17.2 
1860 101,688 5,387,052 3.3 
1870 83,068 3,011,994 1.9 
1880 188,398 5,755,359 2.8 
1890 526,856 7,472,511 3.3 
1900 1,570,812 9,142,938 7.1 
1905 2,172,992 10,697,013 20.3 
This table shows that from 1850 to 1890 there 
was little gain in the percentage of Southern cotton 
manufactured at home. While the quantity con- 
sumed increased all the while, the quantity pro- 
duced likewise increased, much of the time in 
reater ratio than the increase in consumption. 
In 1890, however, as indicated in the table, the 
percentage manufactured in the Southern States 
was more than twice what it was in 1880, al- 
though the production had itself increased as much 
as 25 percent. During the past ten years the con- 
sumption has grown very rapidly. 
SOUTHERN MANUFACTURING FAVORS THE 
PRODUCER 
Not only has the Southern factory-owner certain 
manifest advantages over his brother in New 
England, but the cotton farmer is also a gainer in 
having the factory at his door. Since New York 
and Liverpool are the important market places of 
the world, they naturally establish prices, and 
consequently the Southern consumer pays prices 
