The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-07

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distributed 1t amoDs his friends for eultivstion Ano-
Their account OF it, Introduction into Oaxous Is that
Ashley encouraged to send bag Of seed rice TO that
province from the crops Of which sixty tons ship
ped to England in 1905 1t soon after became the chief
staple Of the colony Its culture was nrodaced into
Louisiana in Ills by the Company Of the West"
The present culture Of rice In the United States
chiefly confined to South Carolina Georgia Plords Ala
bams mississippi and Texas. The yield per acre varies
fol eight pounds when cleaned Under favorable cir
cumstances many Is ninety bushels to an acre have
been raised
Another variety is cultivated In thi, country to alm
ted extent, called Cochin China, dry ain rice,
from its adaptation to dry SOIL without irrigation 1t
will grow degrees further North or South the
Carolina and been cultivated With success
northern provinces Of Hungary, China Westphsia vr
gna and Maryland but the yield i much less than that
OF the preceding being only fifteen to twenty bushels to
an 1t was first introduced into Charleston from
Canton byJohn Brcdly Blake, In 1772
The amount Of rice exported from South Carolina In
1924 was 0l0 barrels: In 1871 957 barrels in 174O
eO1l0 barrels in 7 49, $4,000 barrels in 1854 l0t 6S2
bsrrels inl76o 81 100 GOO barrels from Savaunah in
300 barrels besides 237 bushels paddy or rough
in l760 a2sa barrels besides 2oS bushels Of paddy
1770 20 100 barrels besides 1904 bushels Of paddy from
Philadelphia In It'll, 258 375 pounds The amount
ported from the United States In l770 was 1850 52s
in 1791 90 $50 terces in 1909 liz 056 tercss; in
1910 13l S4l Herces In 1870 49, 22l terces in
l16 SIT tierces in 1910 A. 1917 terces in 1916 49,
l24 007 terces in 1sa6 A. 144427 terces; in lS5o5l
1o5 500 tierces.
United States amounted to sOs4 422 pounds; in 1880
2l5 3l2,710 pounds.
Tobacco from the extent which Is cultivated its
importance in commerce. and the modes Of employing it
to crafty the constitutes Of the most remark
able features in the history of man From the soace
only of the wild Indian Of America it has become
the uxuries Of the rich and gives pleasure poor
throughout the habitabe globe from the burning desert
to the frozen In short its snuff for chew.
ing for smoking is almost universal and for other
than sort Of CONFUSION sneezing produced by
the first and degree Of intoxicaton by the last two
modes Of usuge This Ia indigenous tropical America,
and waeulvated by the aborgnes In various parts Of
the continent previous to It's discovery BY Europeans
he was invited by chief to parake segsr In 1896 Ro
Pane published the first ount of it growing
in st. Domingo, calling it cohobs, cohObla and gioa
Sir Richard Grenville found it in Virginia. in 1885,
when the English, for the first time, saw it smoked
to hays bsen introduced into q ESUsna by
coloniss their return romvrgnis in 1886 Soon
the settlement Of jamestown from the increased demand
culture considerable quantities raised and nume-
rous individuals interested in the colony contribute
induce that taste for It, which had already been dused
among all classes.
In 1911 tobacco was first cultivated in Virginia by the
use OF the spade previous to which 1t had only been
raised after the rude of the Indians In 1916 it
cultiva in that colony to alarming extent
that the streets Of jamestown planted with it,
and various regulations we're framed to restrain it's pro
duotioD; but every admoniton to the settler
garded james attempted by repeated proc atoms
and publications to restrain Its use butlhs efforts had
ence more rapidly increasing and better demand for
this staple than for any other in the province.
Independence,
spread into Maryland Carolina Georgia and Louisiana
from which nearly all Europe supplied But at pre-
sent most Of the soveregns Of the old world derive
siderable part Of their from the cultivation Of
this plant
Independent Of its production in the Middle and
Southern States Of the Union tobacco extensively cu
tivated in Mexico, the Spanish Main Cuba, Brazil,
Trinidad, st Domingo, Turkey, Persia, India China,
Australia the Philippines and Japan It has also been
raised with in nearly every country in Europe
Egypt Algeria the Cape Of Good Hope the Canaries and
numerous other islands in the ocean, Canada, New
IL, ~ q 81
The principal varieties cultivated in the United Statos
the virgnsn the large esfed the dwarf the Cuba
In 1892 there were raised in Virginia 10000 pounds
the amount exported from that colony in 1882
10000 POUNDS annually for ten preceding 17os
666 pounds annually for several preceding
the revolution IS 900 hogbesds in 1853 10 900 hogs
heads from North Carolina, in 1853, 100 hogsheads ;
from Georgia in 1772, 1912 pounds The ex-
ported from the United Colonies in 1772 o. 79s 1853
pounds in 1880 II 424 267 pounds from the United
States in l7s7 pounds in 17el lol 272 hogs
Of snuff in 1900. 1880 hogsheads 4577l3 pounds
manufactured and Al 453 pounds Of snuff in 1870 81 l34
pounds OF snuff in 1920 81 68 1858 hogsheads 1892 $40
pounds manufactured aud H. $50 pounds Of snuff; In
tured and 1867 pounds of snuff in 1910 Al l47 1913
hogsheads 1903 GA pounds mauufac ured and 6S 553
pounds of su in 1880 81 95 945 hogsheads 235 35s
pounds man ufa ctured and 7.422 pounds of snuff.
According to the returns OF 1910 the amount OF
tobacco raised in tn, United states was 2le 1863 $40
pounds; 1850 199752 6i6 pounds showing decrease
in lite culture, of 10, 4l0 67S pounds.
COTTON
Cotton which administers bountifully to the wants
Of civilized we'll to man and to the wealth
and economy Of the countries producing it stands pre-
eminent in the United 81 ates both regards lis superior
staple and the degree of perfection 70 which its cultivation
bias been brought One or more Of Its peces is found
growing wild throughout the torrd whence it has
been disseminated and become important object Of cul
in several countries thereto adjacent from time i'm
memorial 1t is mentioned by asrodotus growing in
India where the natives manufactured it into CLOTH by
Theophrastus n product OF Ethiopia; and by Pliny
growing Egypt towards Arabia and the borders
of the Persisn Gulf Newhof who visited China in 1865,
SAYS that it was then cultivated in great in
that country where the seed had been about
$50 before Columbus found it In by the Ame
rcsn Indians of Cuba in 1892 Corez by those of Mexico
in 1919 PiZsrro and Amagro by the lucas OF Peru in
1882 and Cabeca de Vaca by the nations of Texas and
California. in 1886
cultivation Of this plant into the North American Colo
MES, history il silent. In pamphlet entitled. Nova
Britannia offering most excellent frnts by planting in
Virginia published in London in 1863 IL Is stated that
would grow well in that province, in Italy
1t Is also stated the authority OF Beverly in his his
tory OF Virginia that Sir Edmund Andros, while Go
Of the Colony in 1902 gave particular marks of
bis towards the propogaing of cotton which since
bis time has been much neglected 1t further appears
that IL cutivsted for long time in the eastern
parts Of Maryland Virginia Carolina and Georgia in
the garden though moi at all "a planters crop tor do
nestle consumption. In aDeher pamphlet, entitled
State OF the Province of Georgia atested upon oah In
the Court Of savannah in l740 1t ayerred that
large quantities have been raised and 1; is much
planted; but the cotton which in parts is peren
nsl dies here in winter which nevertheless the ranua
s not inferior 10 In goodness bur requires more trouble
in cleansing from the seedn
In shout the year l7i2 Mr. Dubeui invented cotton
gin. which created epoch in the cultivation of this
product in Louisiana During the revolution the in.
habtants of st Marys asd Talbot counties In Maryland
well those Of Cape May county New Jersey raised
sufficient quantity OF cotton to meet their wants for the
time 1t formerly produced in small quantities for
family in he county Of Sussex in Delaware the
head waters of the ChoptaBk
The seed of the Sea leland cotton was originally OBJ
tanned from the Bahama Islands in about the 1895
being the kind then known in the West Indies "a the
"ADguila cotton 1t FIRST cultiy ated By Josiah
Tatnall and Nicholas Turnbu Skidaway Island
Savannah, and subsequently by James spsuding aud
Alexander Bisset st Smons Island at the mouth Of
the Altamaha aud Jeky Island by Richard Lcake.
For many years after its introduction 1t confined to
the elevated parts Of these ISLANDS bathcd by tho
eaD atmosphere and surrounded by the Gradually
however the cotton culture extended TO the lower
grounds aud b. yond the limits Of the sands to the ad
jacent sbores Of the continent into soils containing
mixture Of clay and lastly into clays deposited
along the great rivers where they meet the ocean tides
Previous to 1894 the year after the invention Of WHIT
ney gin. the annual sun OF cotton produced In
North America comparatively iDconsderable but,