The cotton production of the United latter is called upland, also short-staple, and, from the mode in which it was for merly cleaned, "bowed Georgia cotton." This kind was at first chiefly raised in Georgia and South Carolina, but in later years its cultivation has been very greatly extended throughout the South ern States. (3) Sea-island, or long stapled cotton, the finest of all, is dis tinguished by the black color of its seed, and the fine yellowish-white, strong and silky long staple by which it is sur rounded; it is grown in the lower parts of Georgia and South Carolina, near the sea, between Charleston and Savannah, and on small islands adjoining the shore and in Florida.
All the varieties of the plant require a dry and sandy soil. Marshy ground is wholly unfit for it, and a wet season is States in 1920 was 12,987,000 bales, compared with 11,421,000 bales in 1919. The total acreage was 36,383,000 in 1920, compared with 33,566,000 in 1919. The total farm value of the 1920 pro duction was $914,590,000, compared with a value of the 1919 crop of $2,034, 658,000. The increased value of the 1919 crop is due to the unusually high prices received for cotton. Industrial conditions in 1920 produced a lessened demand and consequently lesser price.
The States producing the largest yields in 1920 were as follows: Texas, 4,200,000 bales; South Carolina, 1,530, 000 bales; Oklahoma, 1,300,000 bales; Georgia, 1,400,000 bales; North Caro lina, 840,000 bales; Mississippi, 885,000 bales; Alabama, 660,000 bales.
There were imported to the United States in 1920 345,314,126 pounds of unmanufactured cotton, valued at $156, 918,719. The largest quantity of this
was received from Egypt. Other coun tries from which cotton was imported were Mexico, Peru, China, and British India. There were exported from the United States in 1920 6,915,408 bales, weighing 3,543,743,487 pounds, valued at $1,381,707,502. In 1919 there were exported 5,353,895 bales, valued at $873, 579,669. Cotton growing has been greatly developed in recent years in Egypt. In 1919 there were grown about 1,188,000 bales of 500 pounds each. The Brazilian crop in the same year was estimated at 1,600,000 bales; the Mexi can crop at 120,000 bales; and the Span ish crop at 11,200 bales. The world's production of cotton in 1918 was ap proximately 18,000,000 bales of 500 pounds each, and the consumption for the year 1919 was approximately 15,970, 000 bales. The total number of spindles in the world was placed at 150,000,000.
South Africa is undoubtedly destined to become a large producer of cotton. About 12,000 acres were planted in 1919.
Cotton is affected by a variety of in sect pests and stringent measures have been taken in recent years to destroy these. The bollworm and the bollweevil are especially destructive. A World's Cotton Conference was held in New Or leans in 1919 with the purpose of adopt ing the uniform size of the bale, finding new sources of cotton, and bringing about uniform classification, etc. Ac cording to data submitted at this con ference there were more than 6,000,000 persons engaged in the cotton industry throughout the world and about $20, 000,000 was invested in the growing, sale, and manufacture of cotton.