Texas Almanac and State Industrial Guide for 1910 with Map Page: 84
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84 THE TEXAS ALMANAC.
tions of the State. and Texas brands of canned goods are becoming
very popular in the markets of the country. Large plants are located
at Sulphur Springs, Como, Winnsboro, Mineola, Emory, Austin, San
Antonio, Gainesville, Ravenna, West Point, Mount Pleasant, Lufkin,
Tyler, Lindale and Big Sandy.
KING COTTON STILL REIGNS.
Texas is always up at the dawn of progress, with her armor girded
on, sallying forth in the resplendent sunshine of plenty with the compla-
cency and suavity of a queen of affluence; husbanding, culturing and
advancing her resources with the solicitude of parental duty. Her
citizenship, government and institutions abide in securest peace; but her
broad domain contains such a variegated mixture of thriving plant
races that she is often aroused in the night of her perplexity to penalize
some daring usurper for its insistence upon first honors at her right
hand. In fact, during the last few years an agricultural war has raged.
The cruel upturning of nature's virgin sods in the South and West, and
the lending of man's resistless and intrepid ambition to test the pro-
ductivity of this same nature's claims, fostered and created a revolution
among the crops that grow in Texas' soils. Corn and cattle, alfalfr
and swine, wheat and oats, fruits and vegetables, these and other
commercial products have repeatedly charged cotton's battlements,
often going into the latter's bailiwick to confuse his claims. But King
Cotton still reigns!
The Federal Government's recent report on cotton production Is most
interesting, giving, of course, to Texas first rank in cotton acreage,
production and money value. The year 1908 showed the greatest acre-
age ever known in the United States, being 32,444,000. The year 1904
showed the greatest aggregate yield, 13,697,310 bales. The year 1906
showed the greatest money value for the cotton crop in this country,
being $721,647,237. Thus it is seen that greatest acreage does not
always mean greatest yield; nor does greatest yield necessarily mean
greatest money value.
The year of the country's greatest cotton acreage, 1908, Texas culti-
vated a total of 9,316,000 acres. The year of the country's greatest
yield, 1904, Texas contributed 3,132,503 bales. The year of the country's
greatest crop in money value, 1906, the Texas crop brought the sum
of $223,546,247.
The year 1906 was Texas' banner year in cotton, even though the
acreage was 242,000 less than it was in 1908; the acreage was 8,894,000.
The yield was 4,066,472 bales, as against 3,724,575 bales for 1908, and the
value, as stated above, was $223,546,247, as against $192,609,640 for 1908.
The following statistics for the last five years (figures for 1909 not
available) reflect the commercial importance of the Texas cotton crop:
Year. Acreage. Yield. Crop Value. Cotton Value. Seed Tons.Seed Value.
1908 ......... ....9,316,00 3,724,575 $192,609,640 $168,957,433 1,697,933 $23,652.207
1907 ...............9,156,000 2,267,293 144,075,730 126,308,742 1,023.444 17,766,988
1906 ...................8,894,000 4,066,472 223,546,247 200,318,247 1,858,240 23,228,000
1935 .. .............6,945,501 2,490,128 148,874,464 133,334,968 1,218,784 15,539,495
1904 ... ........ ..8,355,491 3,132,503 152,163,661 130,469,039 1,506,571 21,694,622
There are in the United States 27,598 active ginneries; there are :n
Texas 4,169 active ginneries. The average number of cotton bales
ginned per establishment in Texas in 1908 was 887; during the year of
largest production in this State, 1906, the average number of bales
ginned per establishment was 952. There were 174 more active gin-
neries in Texas in 1908 than in 1907. It is interesting to observe that
Texas and Oklahoma, with 5,156 ginneries, or 18.7 pei cent of the total
for the country, ginned 34 per cent of the total crop in 1908. Texas
returned 15.1 per cent of the total number of active establishments,
with 28.8 per cent of the total production.
The value of the cotton crop of the country for 1908 was less than
that for 1907 by $19,725,055, notwithstanding the fact that the crop of
1908 was 2,211,845 bales larger than that of 1907, and that the spinning
qualities of this crop were superior. The average value of a 500-pound
bale of cotton for the five years ending the ginning season of 1908 was
$49.85, not including the value of the seed; the average value per bale
for the five-year period preceding was $31.75. Thus it is seen the. price
per pound advanced from a little better than 6c for the five-year period
ending with 1904, to nearly 10e for the five-year period ending with
1908, and this in the face of largely increased acreage and aggregate
yearly crop yields. Texas cotton sold at 11c on Sept. 1, 1909; it advanced
to 12c by Oct. 1, and by Nov. 1 was selling at 14c, occasional sales
being made at 15c.
It has been generally assumed that Texas cotton thirds itself at the
gin; that is, that one-third of the cotton's weight before it is ginned
is lint, and the remaining two-thirds seed. Care in seed selection, com-
bined with intensive and diversified farming, and improved methods
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