Estimated Output for ’39 Put at 11,412,000—Last Year’s
Output Was 11,943,000—Higher Output in Carolinas
Washington, Aug. 8—(AP)—The agriculture department forecast
today a cotton crop of 11,412,000 of production in bales in its first estimate
of this year’s production.
The estimate of production bales of 500 pounds gross weight
was based on conditions as of August 1, and on the area n cultivation July 1,
adjusted to abandonment. The cultivation area, less the 10-year average
abandonment of acreage, was placed at 24,424,000 acres.
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74 Per Cent of Normal
The condition of the crop August 1 was 74 per cent of
normal, compared to 78 a year ago, and 70 the 1928-37 average.
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The condition of the crop August 1 and indicated production
by state follow:
Missouri, condition 90 per cent of normal and production
326,000 bales; Virginia 82 and 20,000; North Carolina 83 and 489,000; South
Carolina 80 and 810,000; Georgia 72 and 1,000,000; Florida 62 and 17,000; Tennessee
74 and 430,000; Alabama 69 and 945,000.
Mississippi 72 and 1,612,000; Arkansas 80 and 1,316,000;
Louisiana 79 and 702,000; Oklahoma 67 and 457,000; Texas 67 and 2,577,000; New
Mexico 93 and 100,000; Arizona 92 and 174,000; California 95 and 419,000; Lower
California (Old Mexico) 71 and 40,000. (Latter not included in California nor
in United States total.)
The crop reporting board said that in the Carolinas and
Georgia the prospective yields per acre this year were higher than in 1938, and
also above the 10-year average.
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