Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1841-04-17
From HirhneHs Repoyter.
T7HH HFFH7fTH HEIV77ETs
TIE AMERICAN COTItON CULTURE
AND TRADE

avn NaDE5
the anpsnH wusbsa In AGRICULTURE.
Connected ~ The Cotton Trade aud CuIturs
afe. go Intimately and deeply will, The tJstes.
and prosperity Of Ibis county. eve,y thing ibal
has n bearing upon The %su'teet, and espet iaIy nj
tbs present moment, whFa modification ef the
Ts'lff Is Ia ked vi, cannot but possess more rlat
ofbiaafy interest. Tie history Of the cotton col.
lure, 20 far as II relates Ia tbs United STATES. Is ths
gfeasess modern wpHjer IN agriculture. and has
surFa ssed the widest dreams Of the tndst san
gnihe Of th'se WIN fret engaged in it. There il
no stibjeet which In fse. possesses 50 much iatfins
sic Importance 10 tbs business relations Of this
enant'y Y, ms that connected with the culture. the
esten. Of Tho annual crops, and tho price af rot
ton. IL forms cor nteat neiioital staple, and as
the demand increases for il abroad ~ DO our elan.
ees fot The balance Of trade improve. nur pre-
cent PURPOSE, fewsett is merely 10 notice il "a
condensed form. o valuable article in Tie Msf%
chants Magazine for March. Previous to the
waf Of the Revolution, mol a single pound Of col,
ton bad bFsn raised IN this county fpr sporla.
ton. mid AZ late hs 1884. an american vessel al.
lived al Liverpool, with eight bugs Of cotton.
which were Immediately seized by The Custom
haase Officers. becsuse II waz believed That tt,is
small quantity was not The produce Of the United
sts,ss. BIT thn invent n Of the ~yafiets improves
metts ealfulatpj to assist The cotton n%iinpfues
snte, served very m.ieriaIly 10 stimulate The r.
fo's nj those engaged In it, culture. Especially
was this The fact IN relation 10 Wbitney's saw gin
All invention Of tho greatest Importance, and
whieI, served n,uts to enrich the sdushsfn planter,
than airy before or since discovered. Thus IN
1907, thirteen years after Tho cotton gin was In
tfodaeej. ID, 900 900 lbs Of Upland cotton were
exported. nj . value Of more than NJ 900, Gbb.-
From 1927 to 1890, UPON an average Of four
years, 27D 900 600 lbs were exported enuuailyfni
a vs'ue Of $1,000 900. In 1888, tho quantity
exported wes. 3l3,b55,e 7l,s., valued nj about
R52, 900, 900. The prog ssss Is indeed ~oudefs
iui. =
II hes bsrp e%onpuisd thai thn entire gtoW Il, Of
cotton IN The world ls ons thou and millions of
pounds, and thai Of this amount i've hundred aud
fifty millions ae produced 10 TIE United States,
thirty In Bfazil; eight in The Yves, InJies: weuty.
seven in Egypt; thirty ak In Tho West Of Africa,
one hundred and nlnety in The West Of Asia,
tbitiy FIVE in Mexitp and South America, with
tho exception Of Dfazil: md %funtteen else " l.ere.-
This crop. a, ten esn's per pound -a pties which
l. tho lohst 10 which II has ever ntiains1~- " i,te
oct doubt, would DO uottb rns hundred millions
Of dollars. sOfthat amount. IL IL estimated that
three hundtej anil fifty milli,na Of pounds ate
consumed OF manufactured In England, one hun
bred aud fifty millions In The United States; eighty
in Ffenc,; " hundred and fifty in Iudla and
Chin: twenty-five Ia South America and Mesieo,
including B%faziIs; thirty i've in Germany; forty
Gse In Turkey and Africa; Ten In Spain; la enty
in Pfnssio; and the remainder elsewhere. by
ibis estimate, II IL stated That The value of cotton
manufactures. IN England. IL annually ons hun
dfed and seventy millions OF doilats. In France,
seventy millions; and in tho United States fifty
miliinnH. We have inserted tbeae estimates.
which must be considered very general, In order
10 show the great magnitude OF he eettop utter.
est, throughout. the world. so far as production
and capital arc concerned, aud its relative import,
ance 10 the United States.