The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-07-10
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y The caston crop, grown over so widely
extended IN area Of country, and passing
in its process from seed to ashipment
through so many hands. has yet been
reduced to figures, so exact that few
articles of conanerce' can bc statistically
eopaidered with equal precision. The
immense advantage ofthe tabular state
ment in respect of cotton lies, of course,
in IFS enabling us to make conjectural
estimates of the future growth of the
plant, likely 20 fall not ifir ,sbort.of the
trufii. In this connection, The Following
facts from the New York Post will be
found pertinent: sr = + Z ir'e,'1ih
III The American cotton crop of last year
has been asccrtaincd as 2,430, ,S93 bales
The average Of weight is 400 pounds Ia
the bale, which givcsisan aggregate oi
72,357 200 pounds, worth in currency
I about $3.50, 100000. For practical .pur.
poses the bale may be set down at the
salue of 800. r. '1'' f."'
Three acres, as q rule, produce one
bale of cotton. The crop of 1868, upon
z this average, required the cultivation Of
1882, ,679 acres. The land devoted to
cotton bcfore the war was taken to re.
present money value of 1921 .7O7, i GO;
: but, by reason of the disorganization in
cident to the war, this value has fallen
to s72sa26.I9o-, The area of the States
growing, cntton, exclusive of KentdckE
Missouri and Nirginia-in portions
which the plant may DO successfully cd
tivated-is 426.3G5.4i0 acres. Til !
nrea may be fairly taken ss the pnssiL 1
cyttoh field Of the yIlatnre, setting of I'll
purtians of the cottnn-growing State
proper which cannot be employed Fl
cottnn production against the Keutuck
Mis- ouri aud Virginia lands which mi,
be so employed. The United State
then have capacity OF cation produ!
tian of 142.i2i ,sl3 bales. which at cxis
Ing prices ia currency would be wort
Sf4,2i2.uGU .9ng--a sum. which stnraeI
the imagination.
Tic crup "f last year occupied onl
aboat one fifiy-ninth part of this vast
area, and brought only about the same
proportion of the sum just mentioned
Practically, then. it may be said that
there is nolin'it to the quantity of cot
ten that uay he raised by combination
of effort nti the part of those immediately
interested.
The fall ia price of our staples since
the war has greatly crippled the cotton
planting Interests of India aud Egypt
The largest yield in India was that of
Z 1866, whcn it reached 1,SiO.6iS bales
This was brought down in 1868 to
l,42o,576 bales. Egypt produced, in
1860, 404All bales; in 1865, !, 19B, ,O35,
or not enough to disturb calculation Of
probable results hereafter Both these
countries paid the penalty of too cx.
elusive devotion Of their lands to cotton,
$ under the stimulus Of our war, in famine
which carried OF nearly million Of hu-
saan beings. In Smyrna, aud other
portions of the Lcvant, where, in 1864
.the fgI crop was sacrificed to tlc growtl,
Of cotton, the culture has been almost
entirely abandoned.
We see, then, that the United States
/, Is likely to remain the chief cotton grow
or of tho world; aud we see, also, that its
capacity for increased pro 'uction de-
Pends almost wholly upon the Increased
supply OF labor. The Importance of en-
couraging emigration becomes magnifed
k2 this view to the greatest extent,
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