Weather, Crops, and Markets. Vol. 2, No. 6

by Anonymous

Cotton Movement from August 1 to July 28.
[Information from commercial sources.]
	1921–22	1920–21
	Bales.	Bales.
Port receipts	6,084,471	6,713,411
Port stocks	499,345	1,347,936
Interior receipts	7,224,067	7,546,577
Interior stocks	388,830	1,129,231
Into sight		11,565,262
Northern spinners’ takings		2,088,516
Southern spinners’ takings	4,126,522	2,874,678
World’s visible supply of American cotton	2,021,888	4,108,428

SPOT COTTON QUOTATIONS.
Price of Middling spot cotton for July 29 and the commercial differences in price between Middling and other grades of American Upland cotton at each of the 10 markets named, together with the total number of bales sold during the week ending July 29, as reported to the U. S. Department of Agriculture by the cotton exchanges in these markets.
		Norfolk.	Augusta.	Savannah.	Montgomery.	Memphis.	Little Rock.	Dallas.	Houston.	Galveston.	New Orleans.	Average.
White Standards:		On.[[33]]	On.	On.	On.	On.	On.	On.	On.	On.	On.	On.
	Middling Fair	200	125	125	163	225	200	200	150	250	175	181
	Strict Good Middling	150	100	100	125	150	150	150	125	175	150	138
	Good Middling	100	75	75	88	100	100	100	100	100	100	94
	Strict Middling	50	38	50	50	50	75	75	50	50	50	54
Middling		21.63	21.63	21.50	21.38	22.50	21.50	21.45	21.90	21.95	21.50	21.69
		Off.[[33]]	Off.	Off.	Off.	Off.	Off.	Off.	Off.	Off.	Off.	Off.
	Strict Low Middling	50	37	50	50	50	50	75	75	75	50	56
	Low Middling	100	100	100	125	125	125	150	150	150	125	125
	Strict Good Ordinary[[34]]	175	175	150	200	225	225	250	250	250	225	213
	Good Ordinary[[34]]	250	275	200	275	325	325	350	350	350	325	303
Yellow Tinged:
	Good Middling	Even.	Even.	Even.	Even.	Even.	[[35]]25	Even.	Even.	Even.	Even.	[[35]]3
	Strict Middling	50	37	50	75	50	50	75	50	50	50	54
	Middling[[34]]	100	100	150	175	150	150	175	175	175	200	155
	Strict Low Middling[[34]]	175	175	225	250	225	225	250	250	250	250	228
	Low Middling[[34]]	275	275	300	325	325	300	325	325	325	325	310
Yellow Stained:
	Good Middling	100	100	100	125	125	125	150	150	150	125	125
	Strict Middling[[34]]	200	175	200	200	225	200	250	250	225	250	218
	Middling[[34]]	275	300	300	275	275	275	350	350	325	300	303
Blue Stained:
	Good Middling[[34]]	150	100	150	150	100	125	175	150	150	125	138
	Strict Middling[[34]]	225	200	225	225	150	225	250	225	225	175	213
	Middling[[34]]	300	300	300	300	200	325	325	300	300	300	295
Sales for week, bales		531	233	169	472	1,200	56	7,113	7,283	6,739	5,261	[[36]]29,057

Exports of American Cotton from August 1 to July 28.
[Information from commercial sources.]
To—	1921–22	1920–21
	Bales.	Bales.
Great Britain	1,755,531	1,753,072
France	763,220	575,436
Germany	1,421,822	1,326,405
Italy	488,710	508,678
Japan	810,199	629,599
China	90,666	74,741
Spain	311,763	253,899
Belgium	172,485	195,473
Other countries	219,597	266,148
Total	6,033,993	5,583,451

Exports for the week ending July 28 amounted to 48,449 bales, compared with 96,434 bales the previous week and 157,465 bales for the corresponding week in 1921.

Stocks of Government Classed Cotton at Future

Markets.

Inspected cotton, Government classed, in warehouses at the ports of New York and New Orleans on July 28, 1922, and on the corresponding day in 1921, of the grades tenderable on future contracts made on the exchanges in these markets subject to section 5 of the United States cotton futures act, as amended:

Grade.	New York.		New Orleans.
	1922	1921	1922	1921
	Bales.	Bales.	Bales.	Bales.
Middling Fair	10			3
Strict Good Middling	812	239	89	290
Good Middling	9,155	4,531	295	3,532
Strict Middling	31,539	20,766	1,373	21,618
Middling	46,874	51,498	4,418	34,835
Strict Low Middling	25,588	43,045	3,052	19,408
Low Middling	4,475	10,590	368	7,264
Good Middling Yellow Tinged	3,941	4,518	665	3,130
Strict Middling Yellow Tinged	2,134	3,630	596	3,087
Good Middling Yellow Stained	21	35	3	4
Total	124,549	138,852	10,859	93,171

Total stocks of cotton, all kinds, on July 28 at the port of New York were 150,889 bales, and for the corresponding day in 1921, 156,141 bales; at the port of New Orleans 98,090 bales, and for the corresponding day in 1921, 421,349 bales.

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