The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, February 25, 1920, Image 5
11 BRITISH TRtlSG TO
ATTAIN" INTO^ENDENCE
OF AMERICAN COTTON"
Cltmson College, February 21.?
From a recent report of the Department
of Airiculture on Foreian Markets
for Agricultural products comes
the following account, which is of interest
to cotton producers.
It has "been recognised that one of
the weak points in the British cotton
industry is its dependence upon foreign
supplies of raw material. Manyyears
ago it was realized that the
constantly growing ;demand pf the
United States industry for American/
grown cotton threatened the permanent
stability of the British industry.
According to the cotton section of
the London Times Imperial and Foreign
Trade Supplement, "the dominant
character of the British trade is indicated
by the fact that one-third of
the total number of spindles in the
world are in British mills."
That the British cotton industryshould
be so dependent upon foreign
sources 9f supply is a thorn in the
side of the Lancanshire trade. In 1902
considerable attention was drawn to
this important subject owing- to the
reduction of the American crop and
ii was decided o organize a cottongrowing
industry within the British
Empire. In the following year the
British Cotton Association was form6d
:
Statistics issued by this Association
show that from 1890 to 1914 the
United States consumed only about
' 31 to 3S per cent of the cotton pro""^duced
in the United States. Since that
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time the consumption in this country
. has been steadily increasing. From
a home use of slightly more than onethird
of the crop, the United States is
now using considerably mofce than
half. For the 1915-16 season it was
53 per cent; for 1916-17, 54 per cent,
and for 1917-18, it had increased to
58 per cent.
The work of stimulating the cotton j
sut>nlv within the. British Emnire was I
interrupted by the World War. Nevertheless,
5,500,000 bales of 500 lbs.
. of cotton are now produced within the
limits of the Empire. Mbst of this is
gron in India. Hoever, that country
requires more than 50 per cent of
the crop for her own consumption,
and the class of cotton poduced is
not suitable for the I?ancanshire trade
being of the short-stapled variety.
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produces 1,360,000 bales of long
staple.
An extra fine staple is being produced
experimentally in the West Indies;
long staple in Sudan; and medium.
staple in Uganda, Nyasaland,
Rhodesia, and Nigeria. However, less
than 100,000 hales are being produced
in these new regions, an amount
smaller than is produced in some
counties in the United States. The
British Cotton-Growing Association
is concentrating ts efforts on
those regions which have offered the
best prospects for immediate success.
GERMANY'S VAST
N ATIONAL DEBT.
Tt is officially reported from Berlin
that the national debt is expected
to reach 204,000,000,000 marks ($40,552,000,
000 in time of normal exchane)
by the end of March. Of this
amount 100,000,000,000 marks comprise
non-interest-bearing Treasury
notes.
The Finance Ministry Valuta Commission,
a special commission of the
Finance Ministry of,the National Gov
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the Federated States, will confer on
the matter within a few clays. The
gravity of the situation. the overwhelming
burden of the debt, is nowhere
denied.
NAVY BUILDS
RECORD-BREAKING SHELL
Word conies from Washington of
the new naval ordnance plant at South
Charleston, W. Va., of a sixteen-inch
projectile which can bore its way
through more than thirteen inches of
Armor-belt steel. The shell wnich accomplished
this was the third out of
a test roup of five which establishes
what naval officers believe to be a
record in big-shell production.
Of the three private plants that have
contracted sixteen-inch projectiles
for "the navy, officers said two had I
failed to produce a satisfactory shell j
in fifteen months, while the third
shell of the first group from the naval
plant same up to the requirements.
This new sixteen-inch
which weighs 2,100 pounds, against |
the 1,400 pounds of the fourteen-inch
shell, will be turned out in quantity at
the South Charleston plant for the
sixteen-inch guns of the dreadnaught
style under construction at the present
time.
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ANNUAL CONVENTION
AMERICAN COTTON ASSOSIATION
Columbia. Feb. 23?"The annual
convention of the American Cotton Association
to be held at Montgomery,
Ala., on March 9-11 will handle a
multitude of questions of national importance."
said J. Skottowe Wannamaker,
president of the association
yesterday. Indications, he said, pointed
to a big attendance from this state.
"Special consideration will be given
to the business side of production.
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legislation necessary to De exiauit;u ?.o
put into effect and force greatly needed
reforms will receive'the most careful
attention and consideration.
"This great convention is being called
for a specific purpose.- It is fully
realized that we have long suffered
on account of the neglect of the business
side of farming. The interest of
the various cotton producng states are |
mutual and we must cooperate for the
purpose of enactng uniform legislation.
If you think of any special
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