The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-10-15

etc, IN relation to this new enterprise. We make
few extracts from letters of the experimenters:
Sept g.
of sixteen months in this district rain ie about ihe
pnd Their % Own Og odna sa % % ape a35 6[ PT ST % sne s
eleven acres of CoGnoqe is 10 kidney Cotton and
tavoed Of the sprouts six feet high planted the
rst week in June last have had establishing
this species aud from the produce OF old garden
0bDut nine old. consider the very valuable ari
also paqed the first and second gr seed in separate
pTowb ann and nn iS s 1 'e esca 9, IN ei eaf
not 80 ,Sy e, The f% sree9 easier Prune ant mnc
much against cultivation the wool must be shaved
or eg away from the seed with sharp instrument which
sure America " i'll furnish machinery to perform tins opera
planted some American Seeds that appeared to me on
inspection to be like our first ginning the WOO
is shaved off the seeds and the brand pure The seeds
grew well, and at two moth' old the sprous threw ont
blossoms some red and some white, az which they continue
and now at ee months old they putting
DO IS about the slze OF a puets egg | do not know the
American Conon Planter, tel The believe came
from Robert Taylor, Esq, of Kingston MIR. GreenOUgh
" There danger Of failure from the climate and soil
on ne south side o ms Island aPd native labor be had
tnuous aDor VII not be required for Cotton after the first
bsng very st Work hey W viii e pse1 % S Sv SaS a MAJ
labonous operations of the hoe aud the bill"
Who is this famous American Cotton planter
We fear his fame is confined to the Island of ia.
maica.
Another planter, under date oil Sept g. writes:
The American Cotton that have seen looks very diff
feen from 1t blossoms and bears bos al an eariir
perlOd than ouf., and think very likely will yield more
land Cotton growing Feaon place, by Lime Savanna
planted The end May last by James Lawrence ESQ
in Caule Penit looks well, and quite bush, with the
under branches lying on the ground utl OF blossoms
pearance Ii bossomed an early sage-red and white In
every shrub and the bol lager and than the
ls+nd but do know its Our native oitons wl
not blossom before October, will they unfold their Cotton
before January"
IL.
curing laborers:
wanna -Four Paths and Smokey Ii des u in Winch "a,
sa.s Sl S s i9rF = usapd @ AZ and hays M
Kence for Their work generally very unsast, ii
fThey WORK sometimes halt hours a dav Ny.
tusng much tNertirn. The strongest men and women Se
even ad day for work they will not return to on
work. The create part OF these people work for an
the greater part OF the year.
In another neighborhood, however, an abundance
| of aborers can be procured at six and a ouarte,
cents per day.
The Kingston Journal of September 26 contains
long and sensible leader on the subject of The
cotton culture:
So the cotton experiment is fairly under way That is
subscribed, and the premnars have been agreed np0n
committee has been appointed 10 manas the affair and
TO be directed eXC!us vev TO the cultivation of Ons
cultivated ani, eXter ding om Yahahs Bay to the eastward
down Clarendon and We're the westward larre pro
of which NAV be pOuPhed may OF turned 10 no
count IN he cultivate OF cotton And lastly hehe cot.
ton b" profit sufficient Justify It's Gu yaIiou
| on an extensive a scale
The tropical cotton far exceeds that of the United
States in length and fneness of staple In 1910
| specimens of the Honduras cotton were brought To
this country by Mr.. Chas Savage, for many yea
| American Consul at Nicaragua. Old Sea Island
planters said they had never seen any thing 10 al
Droach these samples. We think it quite probable
| the Jamaica planters will succeed in the cul
| ture of the Sea Island. But the quantity con
sumed is comparatively small, and the improve
ments in machinery, which enable the manurac
turers to Use the common qualities, are teudi Q t
| decrease the consumption. Many of the fabric
which twenty or thirty years ago could only b
| manufactured from the Sea Island, or long staple
are now made with the finer qualities of the Up
| land or short staple This latter is not suited t
| the seasons of the tropics.