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being sufficient to destroy the whole depositive. 

 This labor may be pertbrmed in the same time that 

 would be employed in thinning the corn ; and 

 when the importance of the result is compared with 

 the means used in attaining it, I think no one 

 can doubt, even admitting liie time necessary to 

 perlbrm the labor twice as long as that supposed, 

 that " the end will justify the means." 



The young insects do the principal mischief^ by 

 beo^inning to suck tliejuices ol'thecorn where they 

 are deposited — and as their powers of locomotion 

 and their appetites increase, by attacking and 

 finally killing the whole stalk. 



Every other mode of destroying this voracious 

 insect that I have known to be resorted to has 

 proved abortive, or " the remedy has been worse 

 than the disease." And alter all, the only per- 

 manent consolation which I can offer to the suffer- 

 ing planters of your section, is to be Ibund in the 

 migratory habits of the chinch bug. Fn the par- 

 ticular neighborhood where I plant, they have 

 committed most distressing ravages for the last 

 three years ; and this, the fourth year, since their 

 first appearance, they are doing comparatively no 

 injury, whilst the adjoining districts, north and 

 west of us, which have been heretofore exempt, 

 are now suffering greatly. 



1 have known no remedy to be tried, and have 

 heard none suggested, to prevent the ravages of 

 the chinch bug upon small grain. 



J. T. 



Edgefield C. H., June 10, 1840. 



INDIAN COTTON, 



From tlie Agriculturist. 



The American Farmer and Natchez Free Tra- 

 der bring us some interesting remarks in relation 

 to the prospects of the coiton culture in India. 

 Mr. Boyles, commissioned Irom the British go- 

 vemnnHit, has lately visited Louisiana and Missis- 

 sippi lor the purposes of being initiated into all the 

 secrets of cultivating, gathering, ginning and pre- 

 paring cotton lor market. From the last accounts 

 he had engaged the services of eight younir gen- 

 tlemen of Adams and JeH'erson counties, Missis- 

 sippi, and one from Louisiana, who are all practi- 

 cally acquainted with the different varieties, as well 

 as the modes of cotton culture, to accompany him 

 to Surat, for the purpose ol' introducing this staple 

 and specie bringing production on a distant shore. 

 They have been engaged at a salary ol twelve 

 hundred pounds, and will shortly leave for New 

 York, and thence across the deep to the far east. 

 They take with them nine gin stands, models for 

 gin houses, presses, running gear, and all the fix- 

 tures of such establishments. The English, feel- 

 ing so much interest in this new undertaking, have 

 already appropriated twelve thousand pounds lor 

 its encouragement, and evince a determination 

 that the project shall not fail, if money and men 

 can make it successtul. Some experiments have 

 been made, with as good success as could have 

 been anticipated, taking into view the sparse inlbr- 

 mation, and of course, slovenly mode of cultivation 

 wiih the natives. They have worked without cot- 

 ton gins and the necessary implements for a cotton 

 field, and still the success, in the midst of embar- 

 rassments, has been so great that a bold effort is 



making for its extensive culture. As some proof 

 that the undertaking will be successful, we remark 

 that from all the inlbrmation we have of the coun- 

 try, the climate is well adapted to the growth of 

 cotton. 'J'hough Surat is further south — (being a 

 liitle over 20 degrees N. latitude.) than our best 

 cotton regions, yet fiom the trials made, we would 

 suppose as good cotton can be raisetl there as in 

 latitude 30 degrees of the United States. There 

 is, however, a vast region of country the most fer- 

 tile of earih between the Ganges and Himma- 

 leh mountains, running northwanl to Cashmere, 

 that will evidently crrow cotton as fine as any place 

 of the world. In China, India and China proper, 

 cotton has long been produced in great perleciion, 

 and we see no good reason why a section of coun- 

 try might not be selected on the eastern continent, 

 matiy times larger than the cotton planting regions 

 of North America, where this staple product might 

 not do as well as on any portion of the earth. 



The soils of India have been analyzed and com- 

 pared with the soils of Louisiana and Mississippi, 

 and found to contain about the same materials, 

 and very much resemble in texture. Another in- 

 ducement to embark in producing cotton in India 

 is, that the labor of the natives can be had at one 

 fifth, or one fourth at most of what it will cost in 

 Louisiana and Mississippi. Two dollars per month 

 is supposed to be about the average price per hand, 

 but in the cotton districts of America from ten to 

 fifteen dollars per month, is the price ol dull " col- 

 ton patch" negroes. Still another thing not to be 

 forgotten is, that the right men have taken hold of 

 this business. The English have wealth, intelli- 

 gence, enterprise and the untiring perseverence 

 that generally carries them through triumphantly. 

 After having placed these fads before the Ame- 

 rican reader, we ask, in the event the English are 

 successful in producing cotton in the east, what 

 effect will it have upon the cotton growing of the 

 south'] We answer, it will materially injure it, if 

 not quite destroy it. All, or very neailv all the 

 cotton we export for the consumption of European 

 manulactories, will no longer be needed, for per- 

 haps a better and certainly an article at less cost 

 can be produced in India. True, it may be the in- 

 terest of Efritain to exchange her surplusages, not 

 so much needed or consumed elsewhere for a small 

 portion ofourcoiton ; but the argument that south- 

 ern planters will ultimately be compelled to turn 

 their attention to other pursuits than that ofcoiton, 

 is very reasonable. VVe sugirested. as southerners 

 are generally very fond of silk, that ilipy com- 

 mence tlie pilk business. The climate of Gooriria, 

 Alabama, Mississippi and LoiiisiMtia, is equal we 

 su|)pose to any, and we should he pleased to liear 

 of experiments being made through ihe whole 

 south. 



REAIARKS ON CALCAREOUS EARTHS AND 

 SOILS. 



From tlie Souttiern Cabinet. 



iJ/r. Editor, — I observe that Mr. Ruffin has re- 

 published in the May number ol his Farmers' Re- 

 gister, [p. 301] the article on Calcareous Manures, 

 written by me lor your April number. I am sorry 

 that he should consider any part of that article 

 "personal." I wished only to point out, what I 

 considered an "error" in his statement, that the 



