34 BULLETIN 1445, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Table 7. — Agencies of market information and data supplied 
Source of information 
Data 
Publication 
United States Government: 
Department of Agriculture. 
Department of Commerce- 
Federal Reserve Board- 
Department of Labor 
Private sources: 
New York Commercial and 
Financial Chronicle. 
New Orleans Cotton Ex- 
change. 
New York Cotton Exchange. 
Liverpool Cotton Associa- 
tion. 
International Institute of 
Agriculture. Rome, Italy. 
International Federation of 
Master Cotton Spinners' 
and Manufacturers' Asso- 
ciations, Manchester, Eng- 
land. 
Journal of Commerce, and 
Commercial Bulletin, 
New York. 
R. G. Dun& Co. 
The Bradstreet Co 
Iron Age Publishing Co 
Estimates of acreage, labor supply, 
and fertilizer sales in Cotton Belt. 
Forecasts of production, weather 
forecast. Estimates of production, 
average production per acre, percent- 
age reduction in yield due to differ- 
ent factors, estimated monthly mar- 
ketings, farm prices, monthly stocks 
of Government-classed cotton, value 
of crop, world production. 
Ginnings, carryover, world produc- 
of commercial cotton, production of 
linters, imports by countries, ex- 
ports by countries, stocks in public 
warehouses and in consuming estab- 
lishments, and average weight of 
bales. Consumption of cotton and 
linters by American mills, number 
and location of cotton spindles, im- 
port and export of manufactured 
cotton, and world's cotton spindles. 
Stocks of dry goods, billings, unfilled 
orders. 
Products made from cotton, value of 
machinery, laborers employed and 
value of output. 
Indexes of business conditions. 
Index numbers of wholesale prices 
Into sight movement, spinners' tak- 
ings, weekly exports, interior town 
movement, port stocks, visible sup- 
ply, and overland movement. 
Similar to that reported by the New 
York Commercial and Financial 
Chronicle. In addition, certified 
stocks, grade of crop, and value of 
crop. 
Similar to that reported by the New 
Orleans Cotton Exchange. 
Prices, stocks, mill takings, and move- 
ment of American and other cottons. 
World acreage, world production 
World consumption by countries, 
world spindles, world supplies, arti- 
cles, and miscellaneous statistics. 
Money rates, stocks and bond 
and prices, trade activity. 
Index of business 
Index of business 
Machinery 
Crops and Markets (weekly 
and monthly) . 
Yearbook. 
Weekly Weather Review. 
Releases. 
Cotton production and distri- 
bution. 
Survey of Current Business 
(monthly). 
Census reports of manufac- 
tures. 
Federal Reserve Bulletin 
(monthly) . 
Labor Review (monthly). 
New York Commercial and 
Financial Chronicle (weekly 
and annual summary). 
New Orleans Cotton Exchange 
Market Report (daily, and 
annual summary) . 
New York Cotton Exchange 
Market Report (daily and 
annual report). 
Liverpool Cotton Association 
Report (daily, weekly, an- 
nually). 
The Cotton-growing Coun- 
tries. Production and 
Trade. 
International Cotton Bulletin. 
Journal of Commerce and Com- 
mercial Bulletin (daily). 
Dun's Review. 
Bradstreet 's. 
Iron Age. 
SOME VALUABLE COMPILATIONS OF COTTON STATISTICS 
Source of information 
Publication 
Yearbook. 
Shepperson Publishing Co., New York _ ...... 
Cotton Facts. 
Annual Cotton Handbook 
Cotton Yearbook. 
PRICES 
The primary function of price quotation service is to give the 
buyer a chance to obtain his cotton in the cheapest market and the 
seller a chance to sell or bargain in the highest market. It is the 
