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kept on the farm for several months. ~When this is taken into con- 
sideration, it appears that the storage capacity of the speci now 
in use is entirely adequate. 
STRIBUTION OF WAREHOUSES. 
This, however, does not mean that every person who has cotton is 
able to get it eee on favorable terms. While the facilities in a 
general way are ample in most of the States, in others they are 
entirely inadequate. By referring to Table VII it will be seen that 
the warehouses of Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, and Louisiana have 
a storage capacity much greater than the production of cotton in | 
those States, but most of the warehouses are located in the shipping | 
centers, namely, Norfolk, Newport News, Jacksonville, Pensacola, 
Memphis, and New Orleans. While from a glance at the table it 
would seem that the facilities in these States are adequate, probably 
it is true that the cotton-producing sections are very poorly supplied 
with storage houses. A farmer who wishes to hold cotton in these 
sections would have to keep it on the farm uninsured or ship it to a 
cotton factor in one of the large towns. 
GEORGIA. 
In Table I (p. 7) an attempt is made to illustrate the distribu- 
tion of warehouses in Georgia. The first half of the table shows the 
10 counties having public and private cotton warehouses with the 
greatest aggregate storage capacity, and the second section shows the 
10 counties producing the most cotton in 1913. Thesame table shows 
the total production of cotton in 1913 in running bales for all the 
counties listed. The first section shows 103 public and private ware- 
houses reported in the 10 counties, with a total storage capacity of 
419,280 bales. The 47 cotton mills reporting can store 192,475. 
This makes a total capacity for the 10 counties of 611,755 bales. 
These figures are for uncompressed cotton. Many of these ware- 
houses usually receive compressed cotton. There are also 37 ware- 
houses located in these counties which have not reported. Taking 
this into consideration it would be safe to say that, in all, the ware- 
houses in these 10 counties could store almost 1,000,000 bales of 
cotton. The table shows further that the Sane etm of these counties 
for 1913 was only 170,375 bales, as reported by the United States 
Census Bureau. 
The second section of this table shows the conditions in the 10 
counties producing the most cotton in 1913. It will be seen that 112 
warehouses in these counties have a storage capacity of only 118,255 
bales. The 10 cotton mills reporting can store 15,400 bales, making 
a total storage capacity for the 10 counties of only 133,655 bales, 
while the 1913 production for these counties was 437,605 bales. 
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