Natchez, Miss. 76 | Albany, Ga. 35
Atlanta, Ga. 134 | Houston, Tex. 2,423
Rome, Ga. 72 | Meridian, Miss. 133
Augusta, Ga 446 | Cincinnati, Ohio 167
Columbia, S.C. 68 | Yazoo City, Miss. 65
Newberry, S.C. 17 | ----
Charlotte, N.C. 21 | Total 6712
Raleigh, N. C. 19 | -----
St Louis, Mo. 672 | Crop. 13,565

_Receipts of Cotton at American Ports._
(In Thousand Statistical Bales of 500 lb. each.)

Galveston, Tex. 2,879 | Boston, Mass. 84
New Orleans, La. 2,690 | Philadelphia, Pa. 14
Mobile, Ala. 330 | Brunswick, Ga. 200
Savannah, Ga. 1,877 | Pensacola, Fla. 187
Charleston, S.C. 225 | Minor Ports 518
Wilmington, N.C. 375 | ------
Norfolk, Va. 820 | Total 10,295
Baltimore, Md. 62 | ------
New York 34 | Crop 13,565

Galveston and Savannah have risen considerably in relative importance of
late years.

Ginning and packing.

Before the Civil War each planter would have his own gin-house. Now,
however, ginning is a distinct business, and one gin will serve on an
average about thirty farmers. Moveable gins were tried for a time in
some places; they were dragged by traction engines from farm to farm,
like threshing machines in parts of England, but the plan proved
uneconomical because, among other reasons, farmers were not prepared to
meet the cost of providing facilities for storing their cotton. In
addition to the small country ginneries, large modern ginneries have now
been set up in all the leading Southern market towns. The cotton is
pressed locally and afterwards "compressed" into a very small compass.
The bales are usually square, but cylindrical bales are becoming more
common, though their cost is greater. In the latter, the cotton is
arranged in the form of a rolled sheet or "lap." Owing to complaints of
the careless packing of American cotton, attention has been devoted of
late to the improvement of the square bale.

English ports of entry.

London used to be the chief cotton port of England, but Liverpool had
assumed undisputed leadership before the 19th century began. Some
arrivals have been diverted to Manchester since the opening of