Acreage, prodnction, and value of principal farm crops in the United States, 1866 to 1895, with other data as to cotton and wool-Continued.

a No estimate of crop prepared by U. S. Department of Agriculture for 1889 to 1892.

Acreage, production, and value of principal farm crops in the United States, 1866 to 1895. with other data as to cotton and wool-Continned.

a No estimate of crop prepared by U. S. Department of Agriculture for 1889 to 1892.

Acreage, production, and value of principal farm crops in the United States, 1866 to 1895, with other data as to cotton and wool-Continued.

a No estimate of crop prepared by U. S. Department of Agriculture for 1889 to 1892.

This table (compiled by Messrs. Ellison & Co., Liverpool) includes the cotton actually consumed by all the leading countries of the world engaged in its manufacture with modern machinery, except Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, and Mexico.

The above table is intended as an approximate estimate of the world's cotton crop at the present. time, as compared with 1834, a considerable proportion of which is home consumption; hence the greater magnitude of the crop here shown as compared with that in the first table. The figures for the latter year were compiled by Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury (Doc. No. 146, 1836). The figures under the column for 1892 were compiled from the latest reports of the Unites States consuls for that and subsequent years, and from other reliable authorities.

This table does not give the actual cotton production of the world, but only so far as shown by the United States crops and the imports into Europe from all other cotton-producing countries. There is comparatively little home consumption of raw cotton in Peru, the West Indies, Turkey, and Egypt. On the contrary, East India in recent years has consumed large quantities of her own growth. The crops of China and Japan are unknown, but that of the former is estimated at 1,500,000 bales, and the latter (including Java) at about 100,000 bales of 400 pounds, all of which is consumed at home. A small amount of cotton was exported from China to Europe during the cotton famine, from 1861 to 1866, which is included in the above table. To arrive at the world's crop, in uniform bales of 400 pounds, the United States crops were reduced from commercial bales to bales of 400 pounds and added to total imports into Europe.