The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-02-23
YORK HERALD SATURDAY 49,

(he bes and seventy pounds Of native cotton TO the
He says the American seed carried out from about
Rodney (he best in America, deterorated every year.
the staple fibre growing shorter while the yield grew
less II is his firm conviction that II the American seed
be planted and again in the same soil in India,
In fveyears will totally cease TO mature any cotton
whatever He also says, by changing 1t 10 other dis
rics Il may be made to yield something in few years
longer but would ultimately run out
Mr. T. tells us that when less than eleven inches OF rain
fall In central India, there is famine by reason OF the
failure the crop, which Is almost the only food Of
the natives Tho government makes NO allowance for
the failure Of crop, but enorces the collection Of its
dues from head renters (who hire land and employ ma
tves Of the country and villages to work it jus. the
same as no failure had occurred. He says these "a
mines have kind Of periodical recurrence once in seven
eight years That during the last most severe famine
n'lsa7 many thousands from absolute star vaton
Ihat n some portions ofda, to enable them to meet
hr government dues and obtain subss ence they
O 70 sell out their cattle and every oherhin they
possesscd They would cut down their trees strip Their
luses and themselves Of clothing, and sell their
children into bondage in order TO themselves
destruction He says that India never become set
lied with a European population, account Of the
treme heat preventing their aborng in the open field
heneath burning sum- without destruction Such Is the
Overwhelming oppressiveness Of the heat that all the
travelling is done at night The traveller is carried in
sedan, or paanquin supported by six eight men, who
relieve each other at the end of every eight miles,
They set of, usually at four O'Clock in the evening" ira
Yelling all night and until nine or ten O'Clock next
mg when they lay by FOR the remainder Of tho day. II
was in this way the American cotton growers were car
red from part Of India to another Troops march at
night, and often eight their battles at night.
Mr hat let dootr
white ant in many parts of India that they actually level
mud houses in few years-whch the only kind Of
houses that be used in tho interior account Of
scarcity Of timber. Machinery made Of wood and
Tlea into the country after while is liable to be at
lacked by them and destroyed
At his station in BundlecundJ he found the heat SO
great as to be compelled to sleep out Of doorsthe COM
mon practice In India In such 1t is necessary to
hire the natives TO keep watch all night twelve and
half cents per night, to keep Off jackals hyenas and
wolves with which the ungles abound and which often
venture upon the abodes Of the people in most rave
nous manner.
Wien attempts to sleep in a house the heat Is 40
that II becomes necessary TO hire natives to
fan you all night by turns, with continuance some
thing similar to that used for keeping the flies of the
table in this country, which the natives put in motion by
pulling rope the outside Of the house n, sxs
Turkey Tin Europe and in Asia Mnor) has been SPOKEN
of by missionaries and others suitable place for the
growth Of cotton. Dr. Davis, of South Carolina went to
Asia Minor years SINCE under the auspices Of the
Turkish government to engage in its cultivation and had
every facility granted him Of and labor such as II
was but the climate too much for his experiments
Where he found locality hot enough to grow cotton
there rain enough to render grain or grass
reliable crop The Jews In Syria often subjected
famines for the want Of ran and the early and the
latter rains were celebrated as blessings The Doctor
failed and returned with some interesting specimens OF
Eastern goats as mementoes of his experiment.
The increase in the culture OF cotton in the United
States has been extraordinary The crop and distribution
in the years named were as follows
1892 Rail,