New-York daily tribune., 1845-04-19
Cotton.

This great element in the regulation of CONNER
cial exchanges, has gwen rise TO wonderful I'M
provements IN Mechanics, as well as TO extraordi-
nary Developments Of agricultural phenomena. In
the primeval stages of its culture the seed was sep
arated from the fibre, only by picking with the
fngers-another mode, said TO be still common IN
some parts of India, is by BEATING. A man manages
TO beat out four sers or Al pounds day, for which
he gets paid with 81 pounds of grain. To the hui
man hand succeeded the roler-then came in the
United States rude hand mill After that Kinsey
Burden, of South Carolina, constructed roller gin
which enabled him to "clohe his negroes in gar
ments fabricated at home" 1t was composed of
pieces of iron gun barrel, fixed on wooden rollers,
with wooden cranks to turn {" in the manner of the
sell corn mill"
Then came the food or treadle gin, into Georgia
from the Bahamas, where II was erected and put
into use under the direction Off lady, Mrs Brisbane,
who had temporarily resided at Providence, and.
being of an active and inquisitve mind, had watch
ed with interest the different processes OF preparing
cotton for market Bear that in mind, ye good
housewives, as you go along The next decided
improvement nj in the process of separating the seed
from the wool, was made by Mr.. Eaves, Yam
kee from Rhode Island, but then residing in the
Bahamas; and again his machine, by additional
mechanism, was made to feed itself, and the great
advance in power was effected by the application
of horse or OF porcer After this came improve
ments by Pote, Simpson, Nicholson and others,
In quick succession, in Georgia and the Caronas
One great desideratum besides the increase of
power, has ever been TO prevent injury to the sta
ple, ciiher By cutting on beating IL. To accom-
.ulE lion NJ oil
has been frutessly expended by artists melted by
the expectation of the highest rewards, and disnc-
ton for skill and perseverance IN their profession
In 1854 an American vessel that carried eight bags
of cotton TO Liverpool was seized on the ground
that so much cotton could not be the produce OF the
United States The exports from 1890 slowly but
steadily increased until 1891, when powerful I'M
petus was given TO the cotton culture by the lnven-
ton OF the saw gin, by another Yankee, Et' lbh,f-
aeV of Massachusetts,. IL we should assert SAID
Judge William Johnson, that the benefits OF this
invention exceed Sl00,0oO0Oo we can prove the
assertion by correct calculation
For the silky cottons produced on the Sea Islands
of South Carolina, the planter is indebted, says
that accomplished planter, w. Seabrook, TO The
botanical skill and perseverance Of Knsey Burden
II.
the Improvement of the staple We're held 10 be so
valuable that he was induced TO offer the secret TO
the State for $500 900, he resigning all his seed
cep, what was necessary for his own crop This
shows the connection of another beautiful science
botany, with agriculture
How remarkable have been the fluctuations In
the price of this great staple of the country In
ISIS, ten bags of Sea Island produced 80 cents a
pound The same planter for his two succeeding
crops received 81 and 81 % II pound. For two
bags of extra fine in l7sS 50 pound was received
'',hc highest price ever obtained IN this or any
other country from which cotton wool lsimported" J"
The Sea Island is undoubtedly superior 10 the
best cotton produced in any part of the world
where the plan! gossypium "a genus OF the pelyan-
dria order, belonging to the monoadolphia class of
plants is produced While pouad of the best
produced elsewhere can be spun into thread Of
only ll5 miles furlongs AND 60 yards, making $50
hanks 10 the pound, pound of Sea Island from
South Carolina has been spun a, Manchester. in
England. into thread 10 the length Of over 22SS
miles long