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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 25 per cent of waste 

 and dirt, while the American contains only 121 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 3^ pence sterling will sell for 7 pence, while from 

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

 for Tf pence only, making up somewhat of the difference 

 in &quot;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, &quot; That cotton of good quality for English use is 

 always to be had in Berar at about 11 pence per lb., 

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

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

 difference of price (averaging about 15 per cent, less for 

 Indian than American), it can be used instead of Ameri 

 can for more than 50 per cent, of our manufactures ; that 

 is, will afford material for all yarns under No. 20.&quot; 

 (Royle on cotton in India.) Berar 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 



