The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-02
The Possibilities Of Cotton.

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The Possibilities Of Cotton.
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Mr.. Edward Atkinson has recently
written letter toithe New Ybrk .He7cld
on the subject of cotton. raising il. this
country, and the gains to be expected
from q Thorough utilization of,Ewhat is
now wasted. It full of suggestiveness,
as. the subjeined EXTRACTS proge:S:
"Although the testimony is almost con-
elusive that. the ;laborersa iny the; cotton
fields are now less numerous than before
the war. because more males and less
;wemensa aud children are ;rnoW worked,
theif labor is so much more effective that
the,ffteen, crops of free labor exceed the
fifteen last Crops made by the labor of
slaves by 100000 bales, worth in gold
coin fully S600,000,000. When the crop
now about to be gathered is numbered,
if the season ends as propitiously as it has
begun, it will be more than double the
average of the fifteen ante-war crops, and
at least Is per cent. in excess of the larg-
est crop ever raised by the labor Of
-slaves.~.~4--,--
"Neyertheless, what has been done is
but o tithGo Of What remainss the present
power Of liking Cottoh is but the shad-
ow of the substance yet to come. The
value of the seed is yet an unknown
;dpahaity. 1tsmay seenafn ostfhef work
'of ayisional q compqteit: sE wemake
'6;D00, 900 bales IF cotton fibre in a: Year
the weight Of cotton seed that will re-
main after enough has been set aside for
thenext years planting will be 100000
tons. If the whole OF this seed be treated
as a small portion is now treated, this
seed Sill give the following results About
-9900O, 600 gallons Of oil, about 100000
-tons ofohlcake or meal, about 100000
tons of hulls, from which there is every
reason to suppose from experiments here
and acluals uses elseWh hefeS chat H50, 900
tons of-paper may Observation-Disclosures
these hulls ground into meal with the
oil cake will serve as food for stock
2,S0O,000 tons in all. Each ton of this
ground meal would carry at least. FIVE
sheep six months; the rest of the year
they would have ample food fromthe an
nual grasses that are the pest of the cot
ton planter, OF fomcorn fodder, cowpeas
or other refuse or alternate crops; The
vast of the cotton gin aud ofthe oil press,
with other waste of the cotton farm,, will
therefore suffice for not less than 14,0CO,-
600 to 2O,000,000 sheep, probably for
double that number. These sheept0lded
upon the cotton field, would So fertilize
the soil as to double the crop of cotton
on any given acre of uplands-the manure
of animals fed on cotton seed meal being
ricberrhan that from any Other, known
variety >0f !food. ssa .tfstS}-S
"The almost unrealized portion of the
product of a single years cultivation of
the;cpttou plant on thesarea now in use
fortRat purpose 1aboht' 100000 acres,
sor less than 2 per cent. of the area of
7 the Cotton States may therefore, consist
offs, ,00O, ,00O.t 90, 600, ,0o9-gallons.ef Oil,
SOC, 900 to 750, 900 tons Of paper, or 5O,-
100000, to i1o0O00Q00 pouhdsjof fine
clothing WOOL; and, as an dncideut' of
this progress, so to 100 per cent. more
cotton fbreafrom the same area of land
now cultivated will be produced with less
] LABOR than isfnoy7 expendeds Ha =
A sDnething is needed; and thatisagreat
exhibition exclusively devoted to cotton.
What is the secrets of its kingship ?
May it not be founlin the fact that cotton
or cotton fabrics are almost a legal.tender
for all the other commodities that the
world Yields or needs? In one form or an
other cotton works more international ex-
changes. than any other substance. Two
colored laborers working OIL good land
in Mississippi, Texas or Arkansas may
easily make twenty bales. lof. .cottonin a
year, or 10000 pounds, and with the aid
of their children will pick it, The labor
of ginning, baling and moving to Lowell
will not exceed the value of the work OF
one more hand. The work done in Low.
ell in one year by one operative will con-
vert the 10000 pounds Of cotton into s.
900 pounds of coarse cloth, with which
1900 Chinese may be eamply clio thed FOR
oneiyear, or3, zoo, East Indians may sup
ply themselves with the lesser clothing
needed by them in their tropical cline.
The farmer of the Southiis eager to learn
the methods ofthe North. If the result
of these efforts could be concentrated and
exhibited at one time and in one place, q
foundation would be laid for progress in
the next decade to which that Of the last
would seem as. nothing. Who will un:
dertake this work? Let the Agricultural
Department, the Cotton Exchanges, the
Northern associations of manufacturers
and the Southern associations of planter:
and farmers reply ?"
Atkinson's figures will startle cot
ton growers. It is evident that there
are millions upon millions Of dollars il
what is now thrown away, and such
Cotton Exhibition as is proposed will bt
useful to every one who is in any wa!
interested in the great staple. The
Agricultural Departments, the Cottor
Exchanges, the Associations of Manu-
facturers, and the Associations Of Planter
cannot apply themselves 10 an undertak
ing of greater utility.-Gharleston Nec
and Courier.
"A man must be hardened slime
when he "lies" at the point of death.