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Table 34. — Distribution by Provinces in 1922 
[Direction de Economia Rural y Estadistica] 
Province 
Percentage 
of total 
acreage 
86.3 
10.4 
2.0 
1.3 
Total 
100.0 
During the last two years the Argentine Department of Agriculture 
has ' systematically encouraged the growing of cotton and has dis- 
tributed large quantities of seed. In 1924 two experienced cotton 
specialists from the United States were employed, N. E. Winters as 
director of the National Cotton Experiment Station at P. Roque 
Saenz Pena, Chaco, and Ernest L. Tutt as director of the commercial 
cotton division at Santa Fe. The area planted to cotton in 1924 for 
the 1925 crop has been increased to about 250,000 acres. New 
modern gin equipment has been provided for handling increased 
production, the industry is becoming well established, and there is 
every prospect that the area in production will continue to increase. 
Cotton can be grown throughout the northern third of Argentina, 
more especially the eastern half of this region where the rainfall is 
ample. The western hah of the northern third is semiarid and moun- 
tainous and irrigation is practicable only along the streams. The 
eastern half referred to, which includes the Provinces of Corrientes 
and Misiones east of the Parana River, and west of the river the 
Territories of Chaco and Formosa, the northern third of the Province 
of Santa Fe, and a large part of the Province of Santiago del Estero, 
is especially adapted to growing cotton. The climate and soils are 
similar to those of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. 
Table 35 shows the size of this region in comparison with some of 
our own States. 
Table 35. — Size of cotton area as corn-pared with certain of our oivn States 
Argentina 
United States 
Provinces 
Total area 
States 
Total area 
Acres 
21, 958, 000 
32, 451, 000 
33, 748, 845 
35, 440, 548 
26, 492, 726 
7, 366, 034 
Acres 
19, 516, 800 
Santa Fe 
32, 818, 560 
Arkansas. . -____. - 
33, 616, 000 
Florida 
35.111.040 
Tennessee .- 
26, 679, 6S0 
Maryland. - -- 
6, 362, 240 
Total 
157, 457, 153 
154, 104, 320 
This total of 157,000,000 acres in Argentina may be compared with 
the State of Texas which has an area of 167,935,000 acres, of which 
16,198,000 acres were devoted to cotton in 1924 with an estimated 
production of 4,770,000 bales. 
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