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were sent over to discourage and decry the efforts 

 then being made to establish cotton factories of our 

 own. Millions were thus abstracted, or rather detain- 

 ed, from the pocket of John Bull, and he was left to 

 chew his lip with mortification and disappointed hope. 

 The cotton manufacture is now established upon a 

 base firm as adamant, and which can never be shaken 

 by the arrows of envy, or the shafts of malevolence 

 and jealousy. 



The proper time for sowing the seed, is about the 

 first of May; but the time may be extended to the , 

 beginning of September. A bed should be made, 

 large or small, according to the quantity to be sown. 

 Trenches should be made across the bed, and the 

 seed dropped in about two or three inches apart; for 

 if planted too closely together, they will smother 

 each other and come to naught. When winter ap- 

 proaches, the roots of the young trees should be cov- 

 ered with straw; for there alone lies the danger. 

 The shoot may be killed to the ground, but it will 

 come forth again the next spring, and will grow more 

 vigorously than before. Some culturists recommend 

 the cutting off all the stalks of the first year's growth, 

 and suffer them to come forth anew the next season. 

 I am inclined to think this a very good plan, so far as 

 my experience and judgment extends, When this ex- 

 periment is tried, they should be cut off about two or 

 three inches from the ground. 



In dry situations, and in dry weather, the young 



