Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-06-12

and sixty to one hundred and seventy millions
OF dollars for cotton from all parts of the
world, and after producing goods for the con-
SUMPTION OF her own people, exports to foreign
countries over fifty millions sterling in cotton
goods. The profit to England on the manu-
features OF cotton goods may be readily esti.
mated at nearly three hundred millions of dol
lars.
WE CANNOT SUPPLY ENGLAND's DEMANDS
Although in 1910 the crop of the United
States was 2,177,835 bales, and in 1860 it
reached q, 100000 bales, the growth has only
been doubled in twenty years, while the num-
Der OF spindles employed in England and on
the continent, in 1850, was 27,266,000, but
in 1860, 69,642000. In other words, while
the increase of growth has been doubled.
owing to the high prices of an almost exclu-
slve market, the increase of spndles has more
than doubled by the enormous addition of Is
ll0,OOO, requiring an additional one million
bales to give them employment The position
Of the trade is, therefore, in 1860, so far as Ameri,
ca as concerned, a0orSe By one million bales than at
'oas an the gear 1910. But this is not the whole
evil 1t is estimated "that at least one million
bales out of the present crop will class ordi
nariiy or beLoW p and further, "that the crop
has been materially increased by the quantity of
to'0, trashy and dusty cotton which planters have
thought 1t their interest to scrope together and
send to market. The dangers of our present
dependence npnn fho IIraitsd states thus grow,
more apparent every year, and the committee
are of opinion that now, in a season of COM
paratiye prosperity, it becomes the trade to
unite for few years in the steadfast and need
full determination to aid this Association i'll
realizing the Frightening prospects that now
open before it,
EFFORTS OF MANCHESTER COTTON SUPPLY
ASSOCIATION.
During the past year the correspondence of
the committee has been greatly extended
Cotton gins, cotton presses, and other machin-
cry have been shipped to Cyprus, Larnaca,
Cavalla, Larissa, Latakia, Alexandria, and Mo-
rocco; to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cape Coast
Castle, Accra, Cameroons, Bulama, and the
Rijonga Islands, Lagos, Abbeokuta, and Be
min; to the governor of Cape Colony and Ma
tai to Peru. Maracaibo, and Ecuador; to
Sonsonate, Trinidad, Demerara, and Hondur-
as to the governor general of New South
Wales and Port Curtis; to the Fejee Islands
to Batavia and Arra2an; to Bombay, Calcut-
ia, Madras, Ahmebabad, Chynepore and
Lucknow, in India; in all 254 cotton gins,
besides cotton presses and driving machinery.
Cotton seed, varying in quantities from few
pounds to five tons, have been shipped to Ath-
ems, Volo, Letaka and Alexandria to Made
ira, Lagos and Abbeokuta Benin and the Ca
meroons TO Cape Colony, Ecuador, Tobago,
jamaica Trinidad, San Salvador, San Mig
uel and Sydney New South Wales); to Bonn
bay, Calcutta, Madras, and to Batavia, besides
various other places in all 591 barrels OF seed
and numerous smaller parcels. Thirteen bar
rels of guano and one barrel of nitrate of soda
have been sent to each of the chambers of COM
merce at Bombay, Calcutta and Madras. The
seed thus distributed has been sufficient for
sowing many thousand acres of land, and the
committee are in possession OF letters received
from a great number Of their correspondents,
which show that hundreds of landed propre'
tors and farmers have commenced cotton Gull
tivaton in numerous regions OF the world, and
time and encouragement only are required to
develop from among these new sources
steady and ample increase to supplies for Eu-
rope.
EFFECT OF INTRODUCING IMPROVED MACHIN-
cry IN INDIA.
But the committee especially call attention
to the fact, that in countries such as India and
Africa, where cotton is already grown in great
if not superfuous abundance, all that IS need
ed is a supply of suitable, inexpensive cotton
gins for cleaning, presses for packing, and
agencies with capital for the purchase of that
cotton. The committee have therefore devot.
ed much labor and attention to these impor.
tant requirements. They have now succeed
ed, by the offer of prizes, in obtaining suitable
hand gins adapted to the wants either OF the
ryot of India or the native African farmer.
These gins have been highly appreciated in
those countries to which they have been sent.
They clean the cotton without injury TO the
staple, and greatly enhance its value as com.
pared either with the use of the saw gin, the
Indian churka, or the ruder process OF the
African, who cleans his cotton either by hand
or with the aid of a rude hand comb. 1t has
been estimated that the extensive introduction
of these simple gins among the ryots of India
will increase the value OF his cotton at least
ten to fifteen per cent. This difference, cal
culated upon the last years exports from
Bombay, would give an aggregate advantage
to the ill paid ryots of India of halt a million
sterling per annum. The saving in cost Of
carriage effected by the use of these hand gins
in countries where raw cotton now travels
long distances over bad roads, will afford an
ample margin to stimulate the growth
NEW YORK COMPANY.
From Lagos the bulk of the present African
supplies are obtained; several traders have
here entered more largely into the trade, anC
considerable amount of machinery for clean
ing and packing cotton has been sent out dur
ing the past year. During the twelve month";
preceding March, 1859, 1900 bales were i'm
ported from the west coast OF Africa into Lon
don and Liverpool, the greater portion 0
which was imported into London From
March, 1859, 10 March, 1860, nearly 1000 bale
have been imported into Liverpool alone. am
1847 bales into London From the west coas
the exports have therefore risen from 1870
bales in 1869, to 3447 bales in 1S59-60, Q
nearly one hundred per cent in u month:
A treaty has been negotiated with the chief
of Abbeokuta, by an exploring expeditio
connected with the African Civilization Soci,