The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-22
NDIA'S COTTON TREE
BUREAU OF MANUFACTURES
 MAKES REPORT
staple Sells fin Liverpool at Fifteen Cents a Pound--Cotton Seed
 OH fin Foreign

Washington, Sept, 21-(SpeciaD-. For several years interesting reports have been coming from India about a wonderful cotton tree that was pro-- pagated out in that country. For a time considerable fun was made of the matter, not only in the United States but in England. a
 According to the Bureau of Manu- lactures, which issues in this city a daily publication, Consul John L. Grif- fiths writes that prominence has been given in the Liverpool newspapers to an annopncement of the sale on that market of sample consignment of five bales of Indian spence cotton" at fifteen cents per pound. The consul sends the following on this subject concerning which considerable has been printed from consuls fin India:
 The sample of cotton referred to IS the result of three years experiments with an indigenous Indian cotton by J. R. Spence. formerly member or the Liverpool Cotton Association. The, product Is stated to be strong and wiry, with staple of one to one and fourth inches In length. It is suggested that the sale of the sample of Spence cot-, ton" at the price named indicates im- portant possibilities in the vast cultiv- able area of India. A local paper says:
 There are now considerably over 20.- 900 trees on Mir. Spence's plantation
  most flourishing condition, growing to height of from six to seves feet, full of buds and hoils and bearing cotton daily. The yield of the first year has proved to be two and .one-haif ounces per tree, and as there are over 5000 trees to the acre, this gives as the first years yield 500 pounds per acre. The second years crop has proved double that of the first, and 1t increases every year.
 This cotton tree it is claimed Is able. to withstand long periods of drought, z and has so far escaped the ravages of. the troublesome bollworm. The Indian cotton tree does not appear to require much attention after it has been once planted, and it grows to a height of six or seven. feet. Its greatest produce . tions Is in its third year. An effort is { now being made in England to organize a company for the production and ex- ploitatlon of this cotton.
 Foreign Cotton Seed Oil.
 Additional reports have also been re- 2 ceived by the Bureau of Manufactures lands, from which the following ex- tracts are taken in order to show the trade in Alabama and other Southern States what is being accomplished:
 Consul-GeneraI w. H. Michael. of Calcutta, the opening for the introduc- tion of cotton-seed oil machinery into British India. says:
 The fact that India exported last year 219,537 tons of cotton seeds, and that this tonnage represents only ten per cent of the seeds produced annually in India, has caused an agitation on the subject of cotton-seed oil factories. The director of commercial intelligence of India calls attention to the great profit that awaits the enterprtsing man who puts in such mills. There would not only be a ready market for the oil, but also the oil cake.
 As the United Statek manufactures the simplest and best crushers for re- ducing the cotton seeds and the best machinery for expressing and treating the oil, why should not our manufao- turers of such machinery take advan- tage of the opening without delay, and thereby be able to hold 1t forever? A half dozen young men familiar with the business might get together at once and put in a cotton-seed oil plant, and thus secure to our manufacturers of cotton-seed oil manchinery this trade.
 Letters have been received by the Bureau of Manufacturers from British India. directing attention to the awak- ening interest in the manufacture of cotton seed products. Special Agent ton seed had been made from Bombay to North Carolina firm for experi- mentatfon. Tests are to be made, chemically and practically, to deter mine the value and best methods for utilizing the cotton seed of India. An American who occupies high po- sition with one of the Indian native rulers writes to the bureau in part:
 You are doubtless aware that India is exporting thousands of tons of cot ton and other oil seeds, and the coun- try does not boast of single crush ing and refining plant for cotton seed. a large field for American machines and enterprise. So many persons in India are approaching me nowadays with reference to the cotton seed oil hnSinaSQ that m that dafi- nite developments will come as soon as we can satisfy ourselves that ma chinery can be had to handle the In~ dian seed and that experts can be se-- perintend the crushing and the refn- ing of the oil. If the industry Is in troduced here there will be strong com petition from the British agents to place English machines.
 MT. Clark forwarded the name Of company that has just been formed In India to manufacture cotton seed oil, with whom American machinery deal CTS should enter into correspondence.
 Consular Agent D. Alexander Pow ell, of Alexandria, in a special report, writes:
 tion of American manufacturers and capitalists to the production of cot ton seed oil from Egyptian cotton and the sinking of wells for irrigation pur- poses. Both of these projects present great opportunities for enterprising Americans.
 An American consul reports that South American government Is like wise interested in the matter of in stalling cotton seed oil crushing equip ment. Their agents for its purchase may be communicated with through the Bureau of Manufactures.
 Visit Of European Spinners.
 Concerning the forthcoming visit to the United States of the European cotton spinners. Vice Consul J. w. Thomas writes from Manchester
 About 120 delegates from Europe, nearly half of whom will be Lanca- shire men representing England, have put down their names as being ready to take part in the trip to the United States for the purpose of attending the international conference of cotton growers, spinners and manufacturers whiehis to be held at Atlanta, Ga.' on october '. Much good work Is ex- pected to result from this worlds con gress of the representatives Of the Varied interests in the cotton industry, The majority of the European dele gates leave for New York from Liver pool on September 21. During their stay of nineteen days the visitors VIII traverse seventeen States, total dls- tance of 4600 miles. <.
 Vice Consul Samuel Galbraith, or Antigua, reports that the area Of Sea Island cotton planted in that west In