World's Supply Of Cotton

According to the best sources of inf ortnation, the world's supply of cotton in 1895 aggregated 18,200,000 bales, or 7,280,000,000 pounds. Of this Immense erop 10,500,000 balea were produced in the United States; 2,600,000 in India and 634,000 in Egypt. The remaining balee were produced in the various parts of the globe. In difterent countries difterent standard of measurement obtain, and in no two countries is the weight of a bale of cotton exactly the same. The American bale averages 450 pounds.the Indian bale 400 pounds,, and the Egyptian bale 717 pounda. Some idea of the vast e-xtent of the world's cotton área may be gath' ered from the fact that in the United States alone it covers over 20,000,000 acres. In 1830 the world's total output of cotton aggregated only 636,000,000 pounds or eleven times lesa than in 1835. Wíthin a single decade, however, the product almost doubled, amounting in 1840 to 1,192,000,000 pounds. Since then the world's product has been as follows: 2,391,000,000 pounds in 1860, 4,039,000,000 pounds in 1880, and 7,280,000,000 in 1895. From these figures Borne idea of the rast importance of the cotton plant ae a factor in the world's growth and progresa may be obtalned.