The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-08-19
Highly Interesting Commercial Intelligence
The Cotton Cuiture-Its Projected nitro
duction into Turkey.

ductiOn into Turkey.
1t will be recolected that several years since
the cotton culture was introduced into Hndostan
by the East India Company, under the supern-
tendence of several American planters over
seers. One of these the overseer of South
Carolina planter and at his request he was pune
tualy furnished by his late steward, with state
ment OF the climate, seasons, soil, Sc, for eight
consecutive months, including the season of the
growth of the plant through al its stages. The
returns thus furnished were made the subject of
paper in one of our agricultural magazines, in
which the author predicted failure of the expe-
riment in India, from the excess of wet and
humidity during the growing season but he
also incidentally referred to Turkey in Asia as
very likely, at no remote period, to become a for
midable opponent to the United States in the pro-
ducton of the raw material.
The prediction of the result of the experiment
in India has since been verifed-for the cotton of
that country turns out to be far inferor in quality
and quantity, to the staple of the South and the
only obstacle that it has been to our trade is that
from itsvery inferior character the price at which
1t sells in England enables the manufacturer to
mix it into his fabrics, with fair profit at
a reduced price, upon the same fabric made ex-
clusivey from the American article. Yet this i'm
manufacturers in the sale of their coarser fabrics
in South America, where the secret OF the differ
ence in the staple between the British and Ame-
rican goods has been discovered. We have but
little to fear, therefore, from Inda for the better
quality will continue, in the spread ofcivilzaton,
to monopolize the advantages of the profitable
markets of the world.
But, returning to Turkey the Sultan, through
some agency unknOyyn IN t1s wae appr;sed Of, ba
publication to which we have adverted, and the
hint that his demnions, devoted, from the days
of the patnarchs, to silk and flax, " and purple
and fine lnen," were susceptible of cotton, and
that in its highest perfection, Immediately attract
ed his attention The very idea suggested to
him an element for the improvement of his PEG.
pie, and the strengthening of his empire by the
sinews of its domestic products. He has been
looking around him-he is anxious to appropriate
the experience of the western nations to the ad-
vancement of his own. He promptly, therefore,
through minister at Constantinople, (Mr.
Carr conferred with our Secretary of State, and
authorized him, in carte blanche to despatch him
especial instructor or two to undertake the ex-
pertinent of the cotton culture on the eastern side
of the DardaneLes, and among the kosks and
mosques of the Prophet. The Sultan desired as
frateInal favor, that the American government
would send him one or two 1.-TWO if they could be
procured to go) cotton planters, of intelligence,
experience, and competency, to introduce the
culture of cotton into his dominions
Under this authority, DIR. ]. l.. Smith, of Charles
ton, was appointed, a young gentleman educated
in Germany-a student of Liebeg, and who has
obtained some celebrity in agricultural chemistry
in this country, and as a man Of general science
The other gentleman selected is DR.. ]. b. Davis,
OF Fairfield, South Carolina, (whose overseer is
the one referred to in this article having been
employed to test the experiment in India, DR..
Davis, as we are informed, has established high
credit in South Carolina, practical planter and
farmer, making many successful experiments
upon the old system OF things
1t has been suggested that should the expert
ment succeed in Turkey, it will be necessary to
tne introduction Of cotton as a staple Of that en-
pre-, to export few thousand OF the free blacks
OF the south experienced in the art, on the most
favorable terms to themselves, as an inducement
to go; or that the Sultan may find it expedient to
hire Tor term OF years, on the condition that they
are then to have their liberty sufficient number of
slaves from the cotton planting States 10 ;nit;a,e
his subjects into the rudiments of the culture
We shall look to the results OF this exne,;,oa,,,
with the greatest interest. From the lstind.
climate, and productions Of Turkey, the cotton.
plant will take hold there as readily as the potato
N Ireland and if it be as successful, the de.