4 BULLETIN 742, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
1913 averaged about 10 per cent of the total, but the proportion has 
recently increased, this country having received 19, 35, and 17 per 
cent, respectively, of the cotton produced in Egypt in the calendar 
years 1914, 1915, and 1916. 
TasrE I1—Total annual production of cotton in Egypt during the 10-year period 
from 1907 tio 1916, inclusive.* 
500-pound > 500-poun 
Year. bales. Mee pales 
OO Fikea is te eT oe Sao eR nee en hese PAST O00 OID se ce bes) eee eos Se eee ene 1, 484, 000 
RONGee Tee Tes Choos mee gu mn ta Seo 1, 335, 000 | I91S Ge et ee ee 1,517,000 
LGOQus STR mr se) SAR TRAE ee es OR GIO 000s PST 4S oS. ot os es be Ed ae 1, 277, 000 
GQ Ra eR ey Sees ah ee aS Bee aes Re eee if, 4840005 POUSsasee e toe ee ecee t p 945, 000 
TTS RC ee? ae ROE ee EES kare Cem ee 1463000; || AGIG: 6.0 wt ah ale uae ge 1, 000, 000 
ee po buted from data given in Monthly Return, Ministry of Agriculture (Egypt), Nov. 30, 1917, and Dec. - 
; A 
AMERICAN CONSUMPTION OF EGYPTIAN COTTON. 
Notwithstanding the fact that nearly two-thirds of the American 
cotton crop is exported* for manufacture in foreign countries, a 
large quantity of raw cotton is imported for manufacture in the 
United States. By far the larger part of this imported cotton is 
obtained from Egypt. Table II shows the imports of Egyptian 
cotton for the past 10 years. 
TABLE II.—Annual imports of Egyptian cotton into the United States for the 
crop-distribution years* during the 10-year period froin 1907-8 to 1916-17, 
inclusive. 
| 500-pound 500-pound 
Year. bales. ear ca 
LOO See. seca oc la oa ot antacids Re secn ease T20F 187) AGIZ 13 ooo ooo eae eee 191, 075 
ODS {Oe a na So inlaonin oe saelnieielelne a cielee eae E297 O85-i|s LOPS Tae ee ent cine le clcia alo one iene erecioee 137, 355 
BOSS eee =e Soncas aceencecececcess HOZS 207. |} AQUA HES oS arceindin oe a cis eine te area caer 261, 220 
POTOSI oie cscce se ba cmew see eta comes 183, '7865{) LOLS 1G 2 So Shocks Se gsoe ee aaa 339, 854 
TOTES 9 RA Sok DES en NY Se ae Genie 175,895.]| 1916 Woe ee gee So ea. 198, 805 
iThe crop distribution year covers the period from September 1 to August 31, in- 
clusive. The figures shown in Table II are compiled from data given in publications of 
the Bureau of the Census, the imports for the years 1908 to 1912 from Bulletin 117 
(1913), p. 9; those for the years 1913 and 1914 from Bulletin 128 (1914), p. 10; and 
those for 1915 to 1917 from Bulletin 135 (1918), pp. 65-66. In order to complete the 12 
months’ total for 1917, the imports during the month of August, 1917, were taken from 
the monthly postal-card report issued by the Bureau of the Census. 
The imports markedly declined during the crop-distribution year 1917-18, having 
amounted to the equivalent of 119,126 bales of 500 pounds each, which is about 60 per 
cent of the quantity imported during the preceding year. 
The shorter kinds of Egyptian cotton (13 to 12 inch staple), the 
so-called brown Egyptian and Upper Egypt cottons, produced by the 
Mit Afifi and Ashmuni varieties, respectively, are used by American 
manufacturers largely as a substitute for American long-staple Up- 
lands of corresponding lengths, the substitution being profitable 
1This applies to the years preceding the outbreak of the war in Hurope. Of the 
crops produced in 1914, 1915, and 1916, only about one-half was exported. 
