16 BULLETIN 216, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
New Orleans, Houston, Galveston, Memphis, and Pine Bluff (Ark.), 
is given as reported. In these towns there are many large storage 
houses, and the reports seem to indicate that they cover the complete 
storage capacity. 
Table VI (p. 16) is derived directly from Table V. The figures 
given in Table V are believed to be a very safe estimate of the avail- 
able storage facilities in the South in the early part of 1914 or during 
the cotton season of 1913-14. It is impossible to state, of course, 
just how many new warehouses have been erected and how much 
the total storage capacity has been increased in this way. Many 
storage houses have been constructed to help meet the present 
emergency. ‘This increase has been estimated at 10 per cent, which 
is a very conservative estimate. Table VI is the same as Table V 
with a 10 per cent increase in the number of warehouses and a like 
increase in the total storage capacity. In another column is shown 
the 1913 production by States in running bales! as reported by the 
Census. In this way a comparison between the storage facilities now 
available and the production can be made very readily. 
TaBLE VI.—Estimated number and storage capacity of all warehouses in the cotton belt, 
making allowance for a 10 per cent increase since August, 1914, compared with the 
production in running bales, by States. 
Storage capacity in bales. 1913 pro- 
State Num- duction in 
: ber. running 
Flat. As offered. |Compressed.} _ bales. 
AD AING sete ee ee Se ata neato 2 ck 581 | 1,628,935 | 1,884,355 2,741, 530 1, 483, 669 
IATEANSAS Sesh sso ees etal SIS eee essere 233 714, 780 965,800 | 1,017,500 1,038, 293 
HORI deen see oot keane ote eon eee 51 225, 060 357, 830 380, 270 66, 700 
CCONPIARE iso ncle cei ome te bo woce eB LAER tos. 1,089 ; 1,354,810 | 1,693, 280 2, 274, 866 2,346, 237 
AOITISIAT Steere ore ka ee. Ses ces Sigs aroma eee 200 809,600 | 1,095,930 1, 260, 490 436, 865 
MASSISSIP Dies mete i. Sos one hes oe Se Se 167 892,540 | 1,525,810 1, 665, 840 1, 251, 841 
IN GbOORTOUN AS oo on nce ders he ate eee ee 149 210, 216 264, 446 366, 141 842, 499 
ORIAHOMA epee ee tote. Se cece cee eeas 1120 540, 600 842, 330 927, 845 837,995 
Sout aALOlMAN ecco seed -  - ae  ee e 337 | 1,156,760 | 1,363, 560 1, 887, 380 1, 418, 704 
SRETINIGSSCE Meee «Semin ese sos cee webs Sb aee 33 582, 285 919, 435 935, 011 366, 786 
FRERAS oe eee es ays eS anros ee gato te 497 | 1,946,494 | 2,513,324 3,531, 770 3,773, 024 
WWE ORTIIA Spee meters Sie aly enone oat oe eee mace = 30 219, 890 316, 580 329, 065 24, 569 
JNU QUT ne esse BEES OBE Oe Senn Seer Tae MEeReOse! |- es eoetetn Be anamaonai anaes aan ols a. 95, 629 
Dy aiMeneUe Bey Bees ety et 2 3,485 | 10,281,970 | 13,742,680 | 17,317,708 | 13,982,811 
1 The names of 26 companies reporting to us have beenadded. This is more than the 10 per cent added for 
other States from which no reports were received of the number of new warehouses. 
In connection with the estimate of the probable increase in storage 
facilities, it may be well to state that the Marketing Division of the 
North Carolina Experiment Station has published the results of an 
investigation which indicate that the storage space provided since 
the 1913-14 season in that State would be sufficient to store 134,915 
bales. By referring to Table V it will be seen that this is an increase | 
of almost 100 per cent over the space available in 1913-14. 
In Oklahoma 41 warehouse companies were chartered from the 
first of September, 1914, to about the middle of October of the same 
1 By the term “running bales” is meant the actual number of bales produced, which is not exactly the 
same as the number of 500-pound bales ordinarily used for statistical purposes. 
