The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-01-04
The Indigo Trade. .

The Indigo Trade. .
Indigo, next to msdder and oochi-
zeal, ID the most important Of our Z
Before the war Florida b
md south Carolina were producers
md manufacturers Of II to Q moderate q
but of good quality, al indigo Z
plant being indigenous there. This I
plant, however, Ia the Bopttssa I
linctorSo, and Is not a species OF the I
genus MdigQfmd, to which most =,
the other indigoes belong. II
Welded In South Carolina about sixty .
pounds to the acre, and required only
the time from July to October lor l4
cultivation. Both the cultivation ana :
the preparation Of 1t for market arc
comparatively cheap, and sooner or !
later It's production will probably, Do
revived there, a. that OF madder has
besl. We imported during the fiscal
year ending July l., 1870, l,27o,b7S
bounds OF indigo, and In 1871, l,9S4,-
1852 pounds Of madder In 1870, $780,
ssh, and In 1871, 7,575,27S pounds the
money value OF both together IN me
latter year amounting to nearly ~
OUO, 900. Add cochineal, and we have
altogether $1,000, GOV we expended on
three dyes alone In . single Twelve
month. This will suffice to show the
Importance Of the subject. In TACT,
everything relating to the uyelng OF
our manufacturers OF cotton, wooi,
silk, paper and leather assumes
greater interest every year, rs Popuia.
ton and interest increase, n ~ u
business relations expand. The al
yautaves OF climate and soil In the
southern States thus invite US to pro-
duce cotton, to convert II into cotton
Inbricks, by using the ample water
mower which abounds in the very heart
Of the cotton region, and to raise the
indigo and madder to color them all
In the same district.
An extraordinary future is here
opened to our southern States, as has
been a%bundantly proved by the e1-
cellent cotton fabricks, plain and i'll
digo-b blue, which Augusta, Georgia
and Grainiteville, South Carolina
, have already produced for home con-
sumption and for export to Mexico
| and to the rest of Spanish America.
The quality Of these goods has been
, much approved so much 70, az to
? yain in certain bleached and unbleach-
> ed cOttOns - preference over the cor
: responding eastern fabricks. Indigo.
J blue ilannels Of American manufac-
j ture are also daily orderei by firms IN
!, Central America and other countries
n for the Indian population. All In
II diana, indeed, those Of our territories Ia
cluded, have IA special preference fol
+ stuna dyed with indigo; and indeed
l. this preference extends to the people
@ of the Indian Ocean, China ant
Japan.
q Before the enormous modern grown
} of the cultivation Of cotton, coffee an'
sugar, indigo Of excellent quality wa
produced throughout Spanish Americ'
al aud Brazils, and was then preferred t.
lt that of the East Indies. Later tn
H. culture was everywhere neglected, ex
n cept In Hindostan, and that country
r. especially Bengal, has borne the pain
u for the best quality until quite recent
u; ly, when indigo OF very superlO
III quality began to be produced at an
Nc near .isogota, commanding from eigh
us to nine shillins4 per pound in Loador
IL and equal to the better qualities @
cH Bengal. This fact proves what car
e' and attention may accomplish In IN
u, cultivation and preparation OF TN
{" leading dye, ard IL All encouragement
II to the resumption OF this abandOne
'P culture In our own land.
Nv The indigo used in this country Il
r' dyeing purposes In about equ'
~, parts from Benga! and from Sout
wv and Central America-the s6-cslle
IRE Guatemala indigo, which we impo
Nv LARGELY from the industrious little r.
ot' public OF san Salvador, on the Pacif
hg shore OF central America, Ia receive
"m by steamer by way OF Panama Ar
,''i, Aapinwall. This new indigo arriv
'cu at the beginning OF winter. 9th,
II qualities, like madras, Manila, Car
'ItI cas- and Mexican are more used for Il
manufacture OF " washign-bluc.'
W The Calcutta accounts of the indil
crop this year are decidedly unfavor'
',' BILE. Throughout the whole president
II there have been severe inundatiOn
prr and it is now estimated that the Bel
ral crop will not exceed seven million
pt' Of pounds, il IL even attains tn
''lh amount. This makes 1t probable thu
'N the demand for the Guatemala indig
''c, OF which nine hundred %cerOons, diff
'' cult Of sale, are carried over into Il
new scason by our Central-Americs
VI firms, will soon improve. Accordil
to the accounts from San Salvador,
good average crop had been maj
but high prices waspaid at the annu
fairs.
nts The indigo market in January, Fe
ity ruary and March may thus be act'
md in London aud here, the more no
All the war interfered with 1t last whit
the France and Germany being gre
consumers-anl the markets have
nj covered rather slowly-N New 70
Evening Post.