¦ Export from America ¦ ¦ Taken by ¦ ¦ to ¦ ¦ American ¦ Percentage ¦ Great ¦Continent, ¦Total in ¦ Spinners ¦of the crop ¦Britain ¦Japan etc. ¦thousands¦(in thousands¦used by the ¦in thousands of bales¦of bales ¦ of bales) ¦ U.S.A. + + + + + 1871/72 ¦ 1 474 ¦ 483 ¦ 1 957 ¦ 1 097 ¦ 37 1874/75 ¦ 1 833 ¦ 841 ¦ 2 674 ¦ 1 201 ¦ 31 1877/78 ¦ 2 047 ¦ 1 309 ¦ 3 356 ¦ 1 496 ¦ 31 1880/81 ¦ 2 832 ¦ 1 733 ¦ 4 565 ¦ 1 938 ¦ 29 1883/84 ¦ 2 485 ¦ 1 432 ¦ 3 917 ¦ 1 877 ¦ 33 1886/87 ¦ 2 704 ¦ 1 741 ¦ 4 445 ¦ 2 088 ¦ 32 1890/91 ¦ 3 345 ¦ 2 446 ¦ 5 791 ¦ 2 640 ¦ 30 1893/94 ¦ 2 861 ¦ 2 371 ¦ 5 232 ¦ 2 291 ¦ 30 1896/97 ¦ 3 022 ¦ 2 957 ¦ 5 979 ¦ 2 792 ¦ 32 1900/01 ¦ 3 050 ¦ 3 488 ¦ 6 538 ¦ 3 547 ¦ 34 1903/04 | 2 577 | 3 455 | 6 032 | 3 935 | 39 1906/07 | 3 750 | 4 614 | 8 364 | 5 005 | 37 1909/10 | 2 430 | 3 778 | 6 208 | 4 256 | 40 1912/13 | 3 604 | 5 176 | 8 780 | 5 389 | 38 1913/14 | 3 419 | 5 447 | 8 866 | 5 503 | 38 1914/15 | 3 798 | 4 571 | 8 369 | 6 088 | 40 1915/16 | 2 866 | 3 185 | 6 051 | 6 810 | 53 1916/17 | 2 888 | 3 076 | 5 764 | 6 914 | 55 1917/18 | 2 247 | 2 179 | 4 426 | 7 073 | 59 1918/19 | 2 621 | 3 025 | 5 646 | 5 460 | 48 1919/20 | 3 062 | 3 300 | 6 362 | 6 131 | 50 1920/21 | 1 583 | 3 771 | 5 353 | 4 914 | 48 1921/22 | 1 946 | 4 586 | 6 532 | 6 308 | 50 From these statistics the important lesson to be learnt, is, that America has surpassed all other countries in the growth of the cotton industry. Fifty years ago, and later, America used only about 30% of the crop for home consumption, while now, it requires more than half. Equally remarkable is also the rapid growth of Japan. For many decades after 1872, Japan used hardly any American cotton, but in 1913, it took 465 000 bales; in 1920 780 000 bales; in 1921: 600 000 bales, and the estimate for 1922, is 800 000 bales. Besides this, a great many other descriptions are spun there. The use of East Indian cotton is even greater than that of American, and it reached two thirds of East India's consumption, thus placing Japan, after America and England, in the third place of cotton consuming countries. During the first half year of 1921, it has even outdone America and England, because these two countries were in the throes of a crisis.