Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1852-06-17

for this material chiefly upon the crops
of the United States-It is true that
many parts Of the British possessions,
are by soil and climate adapted to fur
nlsh the most ample supplies of cotton
wool. British Guiana, British India,
and the North eastern part of New Hol-
land, are well adapted to produce the
best quality, in abundance. That the
scanty and high wages of labor in
Guiana and New Holland, will long
prevent our obtaining any great guam
/ tlty of cotton, except from the United
States, except we by improved cultiva-
ton, and new facilities for preparations
and bringing to market, increase the
quantity of cotton, which India in pro-
fusion can supply. Same Vol. 81, Page
Az, gives the amount of cotton i'm
ported IN 1924. The Fest India Com
pany exporting at an average of 1000
pieces per annum but our official ac-
counts are for long period deficient,
and the rapid extention, and chief pro-
duction Of the various manufactures of
cotton in Lancashire, and even in the
North of Ireland, and also in the New
England States and Switzerland, con-
stitute the most extraordinary branch
of industry which the world affords
France, Germany and Belgium, follow
next in order of manufacturing coun-
tries. Austria has also considerable fab
RIGS, Catalonia manufactures some, and
/ by contraband the safety valve of pro-
Ihibition, imports abundant cotton fab
RIGS into Spain. Russia has established
several factories, under a pernicious
system. Attempts to manufacture cot
ton have been making in Holland, Den
mark, Naples and Portugal.
\ great question for the consideration
Of the people of these Kingdoms, is in
volved IN an inquiry of almost vital I'M
portance, to the employment and sus-
tenance of not only the greatest mass
of the manufacturing population, but to
the commerce of the empire, the sources
from which, aud the necessary quan-
titles of the raw material, is to be here
after obtained.
The greatest producing country of
cotton wool, is the u. States of America
1t has become also a great manufac-
turing country, (see our report part
/ fifteen, on the United States for full
details of cotton crops, and of the cot
ton manufactures ofthe United States
And we must in our enquiry and con-
cluSion, bear in mind, that all the above
named countries, are now become COM
petitors in the market of the world, for
the raw material of cotton wool, the
quantity of which produced in the
southern climate of Europe, the two
Sicllles and Span, need merely be
mentioned as being of utter insignifi-
canoe. America, Asia, and Africa are
the countries upon which we must de-
pend many parts of South America,
and of the West India Islands, are adj
mirably adapted by soil and climate,
for its cultivation, but with the excep-
ton Of the Spanish West Indies and
part of Brazil the want of sufficient la
Dor constitutes the greatest drawback,
on both abundant and cheap produce
ton. In Cuba and Porto Rico, sugar
cultivation is more profitable than cot
ton. In Brazil. even with slave labor,
agricultural energy is wanting.
The extensive and fertile regions of
the British Empire alone might supply
not only the United Kingdom but all
the world with cotton wool. The want
of labor, the consequent high cost of
production in the British West Indies
constitutes the impeachment, certainly
not the climate nor the soil. Guiana
has probably as great an area of soil,
genial to the growth of cotton wool, as
/ the extent now under cultivation in the
United States. But the laborers are
wanting.
Africa, otherwise congenial to the
cultivation of cotton, is in too hopeless
state of Barbarism to yield a supply,
at least, not at an early period. Egypt
has for some time exported cotton but
even under compulsory system, the
cultivation of cotton in Egypt, will for
long time be comparatively limited.
With respect to ASIA, the celestial EN-
pre- demands a large supply from India
or other countries. Cochin China, Siam
and Borneo, are III too rude condition
to grow it IN large quantities, although
in the two former some is grown, and
the soil and climate of the latter is adj
mirably adapted TO the growth of cot
ton, in the districts of Rassarah and
Arapaponls small quantities of cotton.
The Dutch Fest Indies yield some, and
might yield much.-Under Spain little
productive industry can be hoped for
in the Philippines, and the growth of
cotton wool in those large and naturally
fertile Islands is trifling in quantity
Borneo may in time yield consdera-
BILE supply of cotton. The south west
ern part of New Holland appears to be
well adapted by climate and soil, to
yield excellent cotton IN abundance.
But there are no laborers i'll the field (;
il may be said, no inhabitants Malacca
may also produce some.
1t becomes therefore almost policy
of necessity to direct our views and our
labors chiefly to British India for a sup