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duce au iusiguilicaut quantity. It was at one timo supposed that Costa Rica would 

 become a large exporter of coffee, but the scarcity of capital and hands has reduced 

 the quantity expected from that quarter very much. Brazil has unquestionably 

 reached her maxiiuum production, and will not average more than two millions of bags 

 per year, duriug any decade of ten years, with .the probability of falling below tijat 

 ligure, owing to the edicts of emancipation i)romulgated there recently. In Ceylou 

 tbere is probably some increase. The production of Manilla is steadily, though slowly, 

 on the decline. In Hindostan English energy and capital are employed in planting 

 hundreds of new orchards, but the result is in the future. In Java and .Sumatra tiic 

 cultivation depends upon the forced labor of the inhabitants, who are not allowed to 

 participate in the proiits; hence the supply has reached its maximum, and it is main- 

 tained at its present height with the greatest difficulty. In Liberia a number of coffee- 

 orchards have been planted, and a source of new supply, of more or less extent, will 

 in time come into Ijeing. In the mean time consumption increases at the rate of 20 per 

 cent, in this country, and 10 per cent, counting the civilized nations of the world ; and 

 higher prices and adulteration seem almost certain to follow. 



Mr. Carey has certainly given us a work of valuable deductions, and 

 not among the least of these is this, that the interests of agriculture 

 and manufacture must be codependent. 



Chroxological and Statistical History of Cottox. :^y E. J. Donnell. 8vo., G50 

 pages. James Sutton & Co., New York : 1872. 



This work contains a mass of valuable statistics, the compilation of 

 which required long and patient research. A careful chronological his- 

 tory of the cotton-plant is given, from the period of its discovery as a 

 fiber-plant up to the present time. Copious statistics relating to its 

 production, manufacture, and consumption in many different countries, 

 are also given, together with tables showing the prices paid, and the 

 variety or quality of the fiber sold, during a long series of years, at the 

 more prominent cotton-centers of the world. 



In speaking of the immense interests involved in the cotton-trade, the 

 author states that in the United States and Europe, at the present time, 

 there are manufiictured about 7,000,000 bales annually, averagmg not 

 far from 400 pounds per bale. For this, the producers receive about 

 8400,000,000, gold value. When this cotton is manufactured, and 

 ultimately sold to the consumers in all parts of the world, it has risen in 

 market value to probably sixfold its original cost, leaving to the mer- 

 chants, ship-owners, manufacturers, and tax-receivers not less than 

 $2,000,000,000 per annum, as remuneration for their capital and labor. 



