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they did not GET MORE COTTON FROM INDIA. Had they 

 distributed the money necessary to defray that expensive 

 mission to half a score of active planters, they would 

 have done something towards the object desired. 



These are the obstacles, and there are no others to 

 prevent cotton being grown to any extent, and of every 

 quality in the East Indies. 



The East Indian cotton contains i!5 per cent of waste 

 and dirt, while the American contains only 12 per cent. 

 It is more difficult to spin the Indian, from its often 

 breaking, and requiring more turns of the spindle, from 

 its shortness of fibre, than that of America. But the 

 yarn made from a pound of East Indian cotton, which 

 cost 3J pence sterling will sell for 7 pence, while from 

 the American, which cost 4* pence the lb., the yarn sells 

 for 7* pence only, making up somewhat of the difference 

 in value of the yarn. 



The capabilities of India to produce cotton is seen 

 from the following evidence. Mr. Chapman, manager of 

 the Great Peninsular Railway Company, stated to Mr. 

 Bazley, " That cotton of good quality for English use is 

 always to be had in Berar at about 1-J pence per lb., 

 ranging of late years from 11 to II pence per lb. The 

 quality of this cotton is such, that at a certain relative 

 difference of price (averaging about 1 "> per cent, less for 

 Indian than American^ it can be used instead of Ameri- 

 can for more than ;~>0 per cent, of our manufactures ; that 

 is, will afford material for all yarns under No. i>0." 

 (Kovle on cotton in India.) Hcrar is part of Central 

 India, three hundred to four hundred miles from Bombay ; 

 the railroads now making will open a communication with 

 Berar for exporting that cotton to the coasts. There is 



