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was requested. From this list a careful estimate has been made of 
the quantity in compressed cotton which these same warehouses 
could store. <A detailed study of the entire situation has been made 
in order to ascertain which warehouses ordinarily receive flat cotton 
and which receive compressed cotton. ‘Capacity as offered” in the 
table represents the total number of bales which these warehouses 
would hold, in the form in which it is usually offered, as thus esti- 
mated. This table also shows the total number of warehouses in the 
State, the number reporting, and the number not reporting. The 
capacities entered in the table are for those warehouses which made 
reports. 
Table III also shows the storage capacity of the warehouses 
owned by cotton mills in Georgia and North Carolina. The data 
upon which this table is based were secured directly from the mills. 
A letter of inquiry was sent to all cotton mills in these States asking 
for information regarding storage facilities, including the capacity of 
their warehouses, and insurance rates. The table shows the number 
of mills reporting, together with the total storage capacity of the 
warehouses belonging to those of each State. 
TasLeE III.—Number and storage capacity of warehouses in Georgia and North Carolina 
| (beginning of 1913-14 season). 
| Capacity in bales.? 
Number 
not re- 
Kind of ware- State Total | Number 
number|reporting. porting. 
houses. 
Com- 
Flat. As offered. pressed. 
Public and pri- |/Georgia...........-.-- 990 668 322 | 1,038,445 | 1,281,745 | 1,746, 060 
vate. North Carolina. ....... 128 114 14 182, 705 229,205 | ' 318,855 
Cotton mill..... EO 151 123 28 BOT S75 own can k jolie aaa 
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Lebel aad North Carolina. .....-. 326 274 52 368, 495 
1 Data secured from warehouses. 
2 The totals given here include only the warehouses reporting. 
THE COTTON BELT IN GENERAL. 
Table IV (p. 14) gives the result of a letter of inquiry sent. to the 
county agents in the cotton-growing States. Written reports were 
received from these agents which gave the names and storage capaci- 
ties of the number of warehouses in each State entered in this table. 
Some of these reports referred to cotton in the uncompressed form, 
“some to compressed bales, and still others did not indicate to which 
form they referred. As a result of a careful estimate, there is shown 
in one column the number of flat bales these warehouses could store, 
and in another the number of compressed bales. The form in which 
cotton is ordinarily offered for storage has also been determined as 
nearly as possible, and the capacity as thus estimated is given under 
the column headed “ As offered.”’ 
