The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-10-23

this species lasts from six to ten years
in India and Egypt. In temperate
zones it becomes an annual.
The cotton blossom resembles that
Of okra, its congener, and is pale
yellow, with a crimson spot at the
base of each of its five petals 1t has
peculiar habit of changing color.
pom opening the flower is pale vel
low: after few hours it gradually
turns first to delicate pink, then to
deep rich rose pink, when it closes
and twists over the young fruit, finally
dropping off.
Various insects ravagc the plants,
some dcvouring the leaves. others
feeding on the flower. while yet other
kinds make havoc with the young
| buds and bolts. The cut worm.
which gnaws off the young stalks
Just above the ground. often causes
| the planter much loss and trouble in
replanting.
But the most destructive enemies
of the cotton field are the boil worm
which borcs into the fruit to feed
upon its contents, not only when
young and succulcnt, but during
various stages of it's growth and the
cotton caterpillar or army worm. which
sometimes dcvastatcs an entire field
| in few hours. Other ruinouS agents
Which sometimes very materially blight
the planters hopes are the fungoidal
growths of rust and rot.
\ fine cotton field in the early har
vest season presents a slngularly
charming appearance. Plants of Wig
5rols growth two or three feet high,
Gf IN the uplands,) clad in luxuriant
LEAKAGE, ycincd in purple or reddish
brown, will at one and the same time
be laden with their handsome flowers
in different stages of bloom and color,
with the new FORMS" very young
fruit,) green bols and ripcncd pods,
the latter wide expanded and crowded
with its soft sphere of fluffy, snowy
fleece. If late in the season when the
plants are dried and brown, but still
bearing their treasure, the appearance
is as though little snow drifts in reg
ular heaps covered the entire area.
Such scenes are well calculated to
strike the novice with astonishmcnt
and all with admiration.
Formerly the seed were considered
of but little value. Now they are
made to yield various useful products,
and year by year are found to approx
innate more and more nearly the value
of the lint.
Although cotton manufacture is as
yet in its infancy in the South. statis-
ties show that an era of rapid develop
ment is already in progress. The
South has in operation to-day over
three million spindlcs. AS capital
increases it will naturally seek invest
ment in cotton factories. With a
mild and salubrious climate, magni6-
cent water powers, abundant labor,
cheap coal and the contiguity of the
cotton fields it will not be many years
before this important industry will
spread over all the cotton States like a
conqucring army, as they certainly
will be in commercial sense. For
in the simple logic of events, "thc
mills must come to the cotton. .
Among all the good gifts of bounti-
full Providence to man, cotton is
among the most useful.
In view of it's inestimablc import
ance to the nations Of the world. and
with special reference to the need
of the raw material by the mills of
England, and the absolute dependence
of the factories of the Northern
States upon this great Southern
staple. did the late James II. Ham
mond in debate Oh the subject before
the United States Senate at Washing
ton utter the memorable words Got
ton is king