2 BULLETIi^ 146^ U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
averaging about 400 pounds each, which is next to the lai^est yield 
on record; that the average price per pound for Georgias and Floridas 
was 20.41 cents ^ and for South Carolinas 23.73 cents; that consump- 
tion was unprecedented at 123,145 bales,^ and that the season ended 
with a small stock, 5,533 bales, ^ carried over. 
The crop of 1912-13 was only 73,777 bales, averaging ^about 382 
pounds each, of which only about 68,080 ^ reached the chief interior 
markets and seaports. The average price of Georgias and Floridas 
was 19.50 cents and for South Carolinas 25 cents. Consumption was 
only 58,019 bales,^ and the stock at the end of the season stood at the 
highest figure on record, 15,639 bales. ^ 
It will be noted that the crop of 1912-13 was, roughly, three-fifths 
of that of the preceding year, that prices were lower, and that exports 
decreased fully 20 per cent from those of the previous year. Attention 
is called especially to the fact that the American takings of Sea Island 
for 1911-12 were 102,846 bales,^ against 41,899 ^ for 1912-13, a de- 
crease of nearly 60 per cent \\T.thin a year. When calculated on the 
percentage of the entire Sea Island crop purchased by American mills, 
the takings show 83.79 per cent for 1911-12 against 56.79 per cent 
during 1912-13. 
EGYPTIAN COMPETITION. 
A glance at Table IV, which shows the imports of Egyptians into 
the United States, wiU demonstrate that no great increase has been 
made in the importation of that cotton by domestic miUs. While the 
year 1912-13 exhibits an increase of about 6,400 bales over the year 
before, imports are 1,548 bales less than in 1910-11. In other words, 
the importations of Egy[:)tian cotton into the United States were 
practically uniform during the past three years. 
As Egyptian bales usually weigh about 750 pounds each, while Sea 
Island bales average only 382, it is necessary to reduce both Idnds 
of bales to a common unit of weight for the purposes of comparison 
and addition. Accordingly, the usual 500-pound bale has been 
adopted. Table V is presented in this connection and shows the 
actual consumption of the various commercial varieties of cotton in 
the United States for the years 1911, 1912, and 1913. It is difficult 
to reconcile this table with the tables sho^\Tiig spinners^ takings, and 
no attempt is here made to do so, but the figures of Table V are 
accepted as true and accurate, as they were issued by the Census 
Bureau after careful investigation. From this table it may easily be 
determined that the total consumption of Sea Island and Egyptian for 
1912-13 was 243,118 equivalent 500-pound bales, against 256,293 for 
the year 1911-12, thus showing a decrease of 13,175 bales in the con- 
sumption of extra-long staple in the United States during 1912-13. 
1 All figiires, tmless otherwise specified, are from Census Bureau. 
2 Obtained by adding American consumption and exports; Gordon's figures. 
3 Gordon's figures obtained from Table I of appendix. 
