The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1842-05-07


1918 1925 1877 468
1880 1907 134 s58
The English took possession of Bonn
bay in 1868, having taken it from the
Portuguese. 1t then contained 10000
inhabitants. By the year 1906 its popu-
latlon reached to Isl, OOO,of which there
were only 1880 English people residing
there, exclusive Of the military. uring
l62 years of English possession. In
1880 the population of the place amour
ted to $4,000, the greater partof whom
were Hindoos, the English residents con
'inuing about the same, or but little in
creased.
9th. As to Climate withstanding
all that has been said to the contrarv.the
climate of India is unlavorable to the
production of cotton, and especially that
OF fine quality. All who know any
thing OF the cotton plant, know that it
requires alterations of showers and fair
weather to perfect its growth! That ex-
cess of rain or drought proves alike in
| furious, and sometimes destructive Of the
crop. 1t is well know that the climate Of
India les within latitudes which divide the
year into two grand seasons, the dry and
rainy seasons. The dry season is the
part of the year devoted to cultivation,
and which is unsuited to the full deveI-
opment Of the cotton plant. A long
season Of dry weather, never fails TO
stint its growth, and produce a short and
inferior article of cotton; such as the
Surat now appears in the Liverpool mar
ket.*
During the long rainy season, the cul-
tiyatioh of cotton is out of the question.
! Long continued wet weather never fails
to prove more destructive to the plant
than the severest drought. The Hin
docs have attempted to grow cotton by
irrigation; but of all crops, it is the least
benefited by such process an excessive
moisture to the roots of the plant while
the branches and leaves are left unwa-
tered renders its pods or fruit less pro-
ductive, smaller in size, and the fbres oil
cotton more short and brittle and its
! whole Weld limited and defective.
! An American laborer on good land in
: Mississippi Favored as it is with a good
I climate) will produce at least one bale Of
400lbs.cIean cotton to the acre And a HAND
5 can cultivate from five TO six acres, II
= cotton, and raise his own provisions
: Say he produces five bales, or 1900 lbs
n Of clean cotton. This is more, proba
+ bly,, than twenty acres in India vii
produce, in Surats, with twenty Hin
n docs employed to make it, by thei
g imperfect and rude method of cultiva
! ton.
It And we do not believe the American
y verseers who have gone to India, vii
y be able to overcome the difficulties W
i have stated, and especially those G
: climate, or succeed, to equal their own
}, or the expectations Of their employ
y ers.
d 9th. The culture Of other products 4
e India IS more profitable. This circun
L stance will have a tendency TO retard,
d not TO prevent, the extension of the Gu
d ture of cotton in India. Rice, indigo
d and opium are all more profitable pre-
4 ducts, both to the native growers and tn
honorable East India Company, tha
! cotton; as they are much more simpl
Il in their cultivation, and much more va
a, liable according to their bulk. They ar
h also better suited to the climate, as the
g. all flourish we'll by irrigation. An
as none of them require ingenious machin
n ry to prepare them for market, such {
ct cotton gins and presses, propelled
e. horse or steam power, acting on gear
to wheels and bands.
K When the China trade is open, opiu
A. is by far the most profitable crop produ
~ ed in India, and would, under such CT
OF cumstances, soon take the precedence
id all others. Sugar, also, is much mo
profitable crop than cotton in India; al
of its growth is likewise promoted by If
al CATION. Even in the climate Of Lou
lana, sugar, at six cents per pound,
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