The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-05-24

LONDON. April 18th, 1912.

LONDON, April 18th, 1872
The growing Of cotton ssili attracts considerable
attention in this country, with the sanguine hope Of
eventually doing without the growth Of the unitea
States In the manufactures Of cotton mere ana u
making the staple in question source OF hmi'iess
wealth. 10 British India II is contended that It Is an
Uncomfortable weakness to give English custom 70 Ior
egn land not hostile because not yet prepared TOT
AID TO be by such custom the greatest patron and
holder Of negro slavery in the world II Is also boldly
ayowsd that India is capable of supplying England
with ali the cotton woo she requires, and ten times
more if requisite These the opinions advanced
by knot of enterprisng capitalists who have adopt
III the paper The Indian News to advocate their
views and to support them in all their positions and
future consequent operations. 1t is maintained that
the demand IN India for domestic alone is $780,
100000 lbs annualIy-that within the last twenty
years she has exported large quantities, and In one
year 39O0O,OO0 lbs. The consumption of cotton
wool by England, in her manufacture and sent 10y
her to foreign countries stated not to exceed four
five hundred million pounds; Of which India does
not furnish onetenb part, the greater portion beng
produced by America But this Indian cotton Is OF
the Indigenous kind and not fit for English consump-
ton. Its staple is the finest in the Market but it is
also the shortest and TO work il up to any advantage
here II requires mixing with the longer staples ofthe
United States. The mode in which it is ginned is
most Infamous and 1t arrives in this country mixed
up with foreign matter, mud leaves, twigs, &c. Now,
the object of the Assam Company to change all this
and to have the cotton clearly gathered and to intro
duce new system in eAfectng it. The gatherers are
be taught, and inspected, for time first and
considerable outlay is to be incurred.
All the American plants have been found to fail
where this Indigenous cotton is produced, and it
that the upland Georgia and New Orleans have
not aourshed any where to the South of North ati-
spots Bengal and Bahia but the Sea Island has fail
ed every where in the interior. The Pernambuco or
Brazil cotton, yields we'll in the Coromandel Ten
nasserim COASTS The Sea Island will answer at Viz
agapatam, SAUCER Island, and at Singapore. The
Bourbon also succeeds in the Southern part of the
Peninsula, and in Mysore, but the produce decreases
as the equator is approached.
The following are the words of the editor Of the
Indian News
"The specimens of the several varieties of Ameri-
can cotton nearly if not fully, equal in quality to
the article from America into the English market,
although grown only by amateurs not planters chiefly
to crafty the Horticultural Society of Calcutta. and
which efforts have proved satisfactorily, not only
that American cotton of the best qualities be pro-
duced but they have exhibited the places where they
be raised and underwhat circumstances they can
be brought into the market. There is, however, a
most important point still unnoced, and this is the
price at which the American cotton can be grow n
the spot where it is cultivated leaving out of the
question the expense of its conveyance to the
coast"
The yield of Indigenous cotton does not ex-
coed thirty or forty pounds per acre in the Coded Dis
tricts.' esThe average between Vzagapatam
III ~ Qcg. worm lat., llnneVcly III y ucR gives
l08 lbs. per acre. ssThe average yield in
the Madura Districts is less than 70 lbs of clean cot
ton an acre." stIn Guzerat MIR. Warden found
it lO7 lbs per acre. Proceeding to the North
however, as recede from the EQUATOR the yield
becomes greater and in the latitude of 81 deg North
at Calpee find MIR. Bruce reporting that the pro-
duce varies in the worst lands from 100 to 200 lbs OF
clean Indigenous cotton whilst in the best lands the
produce is average of 335 lbs. and in some as
high as 67l lbs. per In New Orleans, bag, OF
300 lbs. of clean cotton per acre is estimated fan
crop, while we have been informed that in the new
land of Texas as much 1000 lbs. have been
raised Now, it is clear that for the best indigenous
and New Orleans Cottons we must look to the North
Western Provinces of India alone, where the culture
may be carried with every prospect Of success
sufficiently low for the next twenty years. to enable
the enterprsng cotton planter to procure cotton, fo
the English market, to be grown for him with profit
since his plantations may be situated along the banks
of the two navigabe rivers of the Doab, and convey
ed by water to Calcutta. In like manner, the Egyp
tian cotton seems thrive best midway between Cal
cutta and Delhi and the Sea Island, of the yer.
finest quality, has been produced at the factories
the Ganges, at Vizagapatam, on the Burmese coast
and at Singapore. The produce at Vizagapatam wa
$50 lbs. per acre, which would pay we'll while indi
genous cotton in the neighborhood did not prOduc
more than "a lbs at Canaan, only 50 lbs. at Massul
patam and 81 l2 at Guntoor, in the same parallel o
latitude"
The following is table of the population of Grea
Britain, and the home consumption of sugar. for tina
nopaIlatiOn in the eleven years. from 1881 to lS4I