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Jhina.* And how different are the prospects 

 the t\vo cultivations ? 



On the one hand, we find everybody calling on 

 somebody else, to undertake that which everybody 

 admits, that anybody can do, that somebody ought 

 to do, but which no body will do. 



On the other hand, we find monopolists destroy- 

 ing their seed, lest by any chance it should fall on 

 others ' ground, come up, and bear fruit; and knowing 

 men calling out : ' If you would save your money, 

 have nothing to do with tea, it is certain ruin/ 

 But these men are already deep, and plunging deeper, 

 into tea. Their warnings go unheeded. Govern, 

 ment is beseiged, on all sides, by applicants for 

 land on which to grow this ' certain ruin/ Give 

 it to us, rent it to us, sell it to us, grant it 

 to us on any terms. These are the cries. Thousands 

 upon thousands hundreds of thousands of acres 

 have been taken up for the cultivation, but 

 more is required more than there is means to 

 survey far more than there is labor to culti- 

 vate. Were all the land taken up in Assam and 

 Cachar alone planted and in full bearing, it would 



* There is another country coming- second to America in the 

 quantity of cotton produced. I mean India ; but the example of 

 India, is to be avoided rather than imitated. You have nothing- to 

 learn from India, except indeed how to inismanag-e your business, and 

 produce the worst cotton grown on the face of the Earth. Address 

 qf Mr. John Cheetham t to the Representatives of the Cotton growning 

 countries at the International Exhibition \3th August 1862, 



