Indiana State sentinel., 1845-11-20
Raising Cotton i'm India

An English correspondent of the Boston Alas we
perceve is reyivng the story that recent experiments
in the way of raising cotton in India. show that
England Will not depend much longer this country
for the supply of that staple. His account of the
matter is, that former experiments failed because
they made In climate untitled to the growth of
the plant, but that the East India Company had re-
Gently discovered region in Central India. TO the
eastward of Bombay, where the climate and soil are
vastly more propitlous He anticipates that the new
cotton will make its appearance in Liverpool during
the present season. 1t is true, that the expenses
getting the cotton from the interior to BOMBAY are
estimated very considerable, but then there is going
to be line of railway constructed between Bombay
on the western, and Conga the eastern coast of
India, which will obviate all difficulty
If we did not know that most of the writing which
appears in the newspapers this subject is intended
to influence the specuatons of the cotton market we
should express surprise the frequent repetition
Of this tale about the cotton of India. The truth is
that the East India Company have tried experiment
after experiment, at the enormous cost of half a
million of dollars, and in every instance have most
sgnally failed. passenger in the Zenobia lately
arrived from Calcutta, communicated to the CORES
pondent of the Union in this city series of facts
which entirely explode the hopes of England with
regard to the coon-productveness of her East India
possessions. This gentleman was one of the planters
who went out to India at the instance of the East
India Company to make trial of the lands, and his
clear conviction Is after several years of investigation
in all parts of the country and under the most favora
bic auspices, that Is impossible make il success
ful cotton-growing region. He thinks that the two
great and insuperable difficulties in the way of cult
vatlng cotton In India, attributable to the great
extremes of dry and wet weather either of which is
peculiarly fatal to cotton. During the continuance of
the rainy season, the cotton plants grow with unwont-
ed uxurance and apidty, to be as suddenly checked
and cut off by the intense heat of the sun, which
pours upon them during the following season. When
the dry weather sets n the sun rpens the bols pre-
maturey when apparently not more than half grown;
while the leaves of the plant crisped and burnt to
brown color by the intensity of the solar heat In
lower Bengal, the rainy season commences late in
May, and continues till October. In central India,
the rainy season begins about the middle of July, and
lasts till from the lst to the 18th September In lower
Bengal, much seventy-six inches of rain usually
falls III twelve months. In central India, no crops
be anticipated with much less than thirteen inches
of rain. Eleven inches fails to result in fam
inc, which is dreadful in its effects upon the natives
in addition to the uncomfortable difficulties of the
climate the cotton plant is exposed to the fatal attacks
of destructive insects. There is one, which lays an
egg in the flower of the plant Before the boil ma
lures, the forms within it, which feeds upon the
green and tender breS of the cotton eating out all
the cotton within the boil before natures; leaving
only lock or two in some bolls pods while, in
others, not fibre is left In parts of India it
is also subject TO the attacks of white ants which cut
down the plants while young, attack the young pods
and cut them off
All that the Americans could do, with their best
eXertion, only enables them to raise on the average
about ten pounds of clean cotton to the from the
best American cotton-seed and only seventy pounds
of clean cotton to the from native India cotton
seed
The inference from all which, made by the Wash
tngt0n Constitution, is, that it geographical and
practical fact, that betwee the southern line of Vr-
ginia and the Rio del NOrte, the southern boundary
of Texas, is comprised the BEST if not the only profit
able, cotton growing lands in the world The charac-
ter of the American staple is SUPERIOR that dees
all competition, and fears This fact considered
in relation to its political and economical influences
Is perhaps most fortunate. Thus viewed it in truth
becomes great element of power, whose influence is
to bind the nations in chain of peace when all other
circumstances might fail to preserve it. The immense
Value of the exports Of this article from the United
States has long since been and felt. 1t has al
ready doubled the value of the aggregate of all other
exports. With the acquisition of Texas and the
reduction of the high protective Tariff which has
imposed such burdens upon Its free exportation we
may expect to its production so increased as to
supply the markets of the world in all time to come
That the Tariff will be so reduced we cannot and do
not permit ourselves to doubt.-N. Y. Post