Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-10-15

poyed in experimenting cotton estates i
y that section OF the Union for several year
j They were well recommended by mo.
respectable planters. They left with III
q agent for India, via England, and too
u win them large quantities of the hes
American cotton seed, agricultural nipple
= ments, coiion-gIns, presses, &c.
d The planters were engaged at an ave
rage selary of about f300 each, with al
allowance for subsistence of flOO more
Each entered into contract to remain il
such paris of India as the government
should point out. or the ten persons thu
: engaged, three after the first year returned
r home, being paid their salaries up 10 the
time of leaving, but were left TO bear tbeil
own expenses home; while according to
the agreement, those who remained five
years were TO have all the expenses borne
from America to India, and from thence,
al the expiration of the service, back 10
the United States. Seven of the party
remained TO the end of their engagement
one of whom is Mr.. T., who has Just
arrived in the Zenobia
lie says, on reaching India, their party
were distributed to different paris of the
Indian empire, in order that the expert.
meni might betesled 10 reference to The
different soils and varieties of climate in
that vast empire.
One (Mr. IT, was placed at Calpee, in
The district of Bundelcund. Another was
stationed Mt Goruckpore, under the NapaI
hills; another in Dooab; another was To-
Gated in Soomapore; another at Humea.
pore, IN the province of Banda; another
at Raatch, in Bundelpore; others in COIN.
batore and at Surat, on the western side
of the peninsula.
After experimenting year or two al
each place, without prospect OF success.
they were changed to other localities, SO
as 10 give every district in India, as far as
possible, trial. Mr.. T. was changed
from Bundecund to Rungpore, North In
dla--near the base, and in full view of the
Hlmalaya mountains, which were covered
with perpetual snow. Others were chang.
ed to Dahwar, in the southern Mahratta
country.
The American planter placed at Raatch,
during a rebellion which commenced with
The Decoyls, (robbers,) had his premises
attacked, his houses sacked and burnt,
barely escaping with his life and the clothes
he wore.
10 every part of India, where the Anne.
rlcans tried the cultivation of cotton, and |
endeavored TO instruct the natives in the |
best mode Of culture, they most signally
failed! Those who remained used every |
exertion to succeed, as they were liberal.
ly paid, having every facility granted that
they could ask, with the expectation of be.
ing literally rewarded if they succeeded.
Mr.. i. thinks the two great and insup-
rable difficulties, in the way of culiivating
cotton IN India, are attributable to the two
great extremesol DRY and WET WEATHER,
either of which is peculiarly fatal to cot
ton. During the continuance Of The rainy
season, the cotton plants grow with I'M
wonted luxurlance and rapidity, TO be as
suddenly checked and cut off by the in.
tense heat OF the sun. which pours upon
them during the succeeding season. When
the dry weather SETS in, the sun ripens the
bolls prematurely, when apparently notI
more than half grown, while the leaves oil
The plant are crlsped and burnt TO brown
color by the intensity Of the solar heat.
In lower Bengal, the rainy season com
mences late in May, and continues till ,
October. 10 central India, the rainy sea. ,
son begins about the middle Of july, and ,
lasts TIL from the Isl 10 the 18th of Sept.
In lower Bengal, as much as 76 inches /
Of rain usually tall in twelve months. 10 /
central India, no crops can be anticipated
with much less than 10 inches of RAIN
Clever inches never fails to result in !
anime, which is dreadful in its effects up. !
IN the natives.
10 addition to the uncomfortable diff. !
,ultles Of the climate, the cotton plant is |
exposed to the fatal attacks Of destructive :
nsecls. There is one, which lays an egg Il
n the flower of The plant. Before The n
,oll natures. The worm forms within il, Il
which leeds upon the green and tender fl c
'res OF the cotton, eating out all the cot b
on within The boil before it natures; eav- d
ng only a lock or two in some bolIs or
rods. while, III others, not fibre is LETT s.
n some parts Of India, il is also subject to {
he alta ks Of white ants, which cut down !,
he plants while Young, or attack the i
'oung pods, and cut them of. n
All that the Americans, could do, with ii
heir best exertion, only enabled them 10 I
aise, on the average, about ten pounds Of /,
lean cotton to the acre from the best
American coton-seed, and only seventy +,
POUNDS Of clean cotton TO the acre from !,
Iatiyc India coiton.seed 4
Mr.. I. before leaving Mississippi to go 4
/, I,.din sunarintended a cotton estate near 1