-| Including
_States_ | _Acreage_| Pound Bales | imate | Seed
| | Exclusive of |Percent-| and Linters_
| | Linters_ | age_ |
----------------+----------+--------------+--------+---------------
Alabama | 1,977,000| 517,890 | 4.6 | $86,940,000
Arizona | | 21,737 | 0.1 | 6,300,000
Arkansas | 2,740,000| 973,752 | 8.6 | 164,840,000
California | | 57,826 | 0.5 | 9,410,000
Florida | 183,000| 37,858 | 0.3 | 10,260,000
Georgia | 5,195,000| 1,883,911 | 16.7 | 322,600,000
Louisiana | 1,454,000| 638,729 | 5.7 | 102,260,000
Mississippi | 2,788,000| 905,554 | 8.0 | 152,270,000
Missouri | 345,000| 60,831 | 0.5 | 10,100,000
North Carolina | 1,515,000| 617,989 | 5.5 | 103,940,000
Oklahoma | 2,783,000| 959,081 | 8.5 | 150,270,000
South Carolina | 2,837,000| 1,236,871 | 10.9 | 207,220,000
Tennessee | 882,000| 240,525 | 2.1 | 40,130,000
Texas |11,092,000| 3,125,378 | 27.7 | 495,590,000
Virginia | 50,000| 18,777 | 0.2 | 3,140,000
All Other States| | 5,666 | 0.1 | 970,000
+----------+--------------+--------+--------------
Totals |33,841,000| 11,302,375 | 100.00 | 1,866,240,000
================+==========+==============+========+==============

There are generally speaking, two kinds of cotton produced in the United
States--Upland cotton, and Sea Island cotton. The former makes up the
great bulk of the crop, the relative percentages in 1917 being 99.2 and
.8.

The Constant Search
For Long Staples

A few years ago the terms short-staple and Upland were practically
interchangeable, but the great demand for long staple, chiefly from the
manufacturers of thread and of pneumatic tire fabrics has led to a
successful attempt to grow the longer fibers in the Upland districts, so
that now more than a million bales annually are being produced in the
Upland districts of cotton with a staple length of 1-1/8 inches and more.
The world's total production of long staple is in the neighborhood of
2,250,000 bales. Egypt is the chief producer outside the United States,
her