. Yearbook of agriculture . Fig. 47.—Noon hour at a modern southern cotton °—YBK 1921 26 396 Yearhook of the Department of At/iiculture^ 1021. COTTON CONSUMPTION FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. Fig. 4S.—The mills in the cotton-growing States took 61 per cent of the totaltaken by the United States mills. , North Carolina, SouthCarolina, and Georgia are the leading States. Most of the foreign cotton wastaken by the mills of New England. Cotton The average annual exports of cotton previous to the latewar were about 60 per cent of the crop. During the warperiod the United

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. Yearbook of agriculture . Fig. 47.—Noon hour at a modern southern cotton °—YBK 1921 26 396 Yearhook of the Department of At/iiculture^ 1021. COTTON CONSUMPTION FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. Fig. 4S.—The mills in the cotton-growing States took 61 per cent of the totaltaken by the United States mills. , North Carolina, SouthCarolina, and Georgia are the leading States. Most of the foreign cotton wastaken by the mills of New England. Cotton The average annual exports of cotton previous to the latewar were about 60 per cent of the crop. During the warperiod the United States consumed the larger proportionof the crop produced. In some years more than one-halfthe crop was consumed by the mills in this countr}-. Theeconomic depression of last year resulted in a reduction ofthe mill consumption at home. Exports were also reduced,leaving an unusually large carry over, bales, orone-half of the production. The movements of cotton through jDorts and to foreigncountries are indicated by the accompanying charts. The The Cotton Situation. 397

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