August 2015 contained 31 days.
September 2015 contained 30 days.
October 2015 contained 31 days.
Extra long staple cotton consumed on the cotton system was 1,036 thousand pounds in October 2015, up 25 percent from September 2015 and up 4 percent from August 2015. October stocks on hand on the last Saturday of the month totaled 1.8 million pounds down 17 percent from September and down 20 percent from August.
Total Manmade fiber consumed on the cotton system was 32.4 million pounds during October 2015, down 7 percent from September 2015 and down 20 percent from August 2015. Of the total manmade fiber consumed, 91 percent was polyester staple.
Total number of spindles on the cotton system was 1.13 million during October 2015. Active spindles consuming 100 percent cotton was 589 thousand in October 2015, down slightly from September 2015 and down 1 percent from August 2015.