LENGTH OF COTTON LINT, CROPS 1916 AND 1917. 7 
COTTON VARIETIES COMMONLY GROWN. 
The following are the principal varieties reported as most generally 
grown in the different important staple-producing States: 
Producing length of over 1\ inches. — Sea Island in South Carolina, 
Georgia, and Florida ; Egyptian of the Pima and Yuma varieties in 
Arizona and California; Webber 49, Adair, Pemiscott, Mississippi 
Silk, Hartsville, Florodora, Foster, Keenan, and Coulette. 
Producing length of 1\ to 1\ inches. — Columbia, Columbia Big 
Boll, Black Rattler, Foster, Webber and Webber 49, Express, Floro- 
dora, Allen Silk, Mississippi, White Seed, and Durango. 
Producing length under 1\ inches. — Triumph, Mebane, Kings, Lone 
Star, Simpkins, Rowden, Cleveland, Big 'Boll, Trice, Moneymaker, 
Mortgage Lifter, Peterkin, Half and Half. 
Estimated length of cotton lint, crops of 1911 and 1916, in the principal staple- 
cotton producing States showing proportions, yield, and selling price of dif- 
ferent lengths. 
[In percentages and in equivalent 500-pound, gross weight, bales. Bales in thousands, i. 
e., 000 omitted.] 
Proportion of total crop composed of long staple, 
short staple, Sea Island, and Egyptian. 
State. 
Cotton ginned. 
Long staple, 1| inches or over. 
1917 
1916 
1917 
1916 
1917 
1916 
Bales. 
1,236 
903 
638 
3,124 
973 
958 
56 
21 
3,377 
Bales. 
930 
811 
443 
3,725 
1,134 
823 
44 
8 
3,519 
P. ct. 
11.5 
49.7 
4.0 
7.6 
24.0 
17.0 
23.2 
1.0 
2.7 
P.ct. 
9.0 
38.0 
7.0 
5.0 
17.0 
11.0 
30.0 
43.0 
2.8 
Bales. 
142 
449 
26 
237 
234 
163 
13 
""90* 
Bales. 
84 
308 
31 
186 
193 
91 
13 
4 
99 
11,286 
11,437 
12.0 
8.8 
1,354 
1,009 
Proportion of total crop composed of long staples, short staples, Sea Island, and 
Egyptian. 
State. 
Short staples under 1J inches. 
Sea Island orEgyptian. 
1917 
1916 
1917 
1916 
1917 
1916 
1917 
1916 
South Carolina 
P.ct. 
88.1 
51.3 
96 
92.4 
76 
83 
75.4 
35 
P. ct. 
90.1 
62 
93 
95 
83 
89 
70 
57 
Bales. 
1,089 
454 
612 
2,887 
739 
795 
42 
7 
Bales. 
843 
503 
412 
3,539 
941 
732 
31 
4 
P.ct. 
0.4 
P.ct. 
0.3 
Bales. 
5 
Bales. 
3 
Mississippi 
Louisiana 
Texas 
Arkansas 
Oklahoma 
California 
1.4 
63 
2.0 
74 , 
"""3.'5" 
63 
1 
13 
38 
28 
Arizona 
Georgia 
64 
Florida 
26 
All other States 
95.3 
97.2 
3,207 
3,331 
United States 
87.3 
90.4 
9,832 
10, 336 
.8 
.7 
85 
93 
