CULTIVATION OF INDIGO. 139 



manufacturing would end the middle of September. The 

 indigo plant requires to be only weeded once, and there 

 can be no hoeing after the seed be sown. If it is shown 

 that the manufacturing with labor at twenty cents in 

 America, is cheaper than in India where labor is put down 

 at five cents, it arises from the purchase of the plant. 

 The indigo fails so often in India from causes shown, 

 that if the riot did not get a fair profit when successful in 

 saving his crop, to pay for former losses, he could not 

 go on. 



Paying for labor fifty cents per day, the expense of 

 75 Ibs. would be 



Preparing and sowing land, 6 men per acre $3 00 



&quot; weeding 2 &quot; 1 00 



Cutting plant 6 &quot; 3 00 



Conveying to factory - 1 00 



Vats, filling and emptying, 2 &quot; 1 00 



Beating vats 2 &quot; .- w 1 00 



Boiling 10 



Firewood, &c. - 25 



Packing and chest, 3 monds, 75 cents, j - 15 



Raising water 20 



$10 70 

 m 



Say 220 monds to 75 Ibs. of indigo. Therefore as 130 

 : : 10 . 70 : : 220 : $18 10 for 75 Ibs. 



The lowest description of indigo sells in Calcutta for 

 not less than 30 dollars for the 75 .Ibs. The average 

 price for good, for the last years, would be about 65 dol 

 lars for 75 Ibs.; but the best Bengal indigo is rarely 

 under 80 dollars, and from that up to 100 dollars. Some 

 time ago it had been up as high as 340 Rs. or 170 dol- 



