CHAPTER VI. 



COTTON CONSUMPTION AND COTTON TRADE COTTON 

 TEADE FROM 1825 TO 1850. BY PROFESSOR McKAY, LATE 

 OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. 



SECTION I. COTTON BAGGING. 



WILL not the planters of Georgia encourage the use of bag- 

 ging made from cotton ? Listen to these facts and decide for 

 yourselves. 



The cotton crop of 1839, by the published statistics, was 

 from Georgia, 163,000,000 Ibs. Averaging the bag at 400 Ibs., 

 this made the crop 407,500 bags. This required, at five yards 

 per bag, 2,036,500 yards, which at twenty cents per yard, is 

 $407,500. If the bagging made from cotton be used in place 

 of hemp, every dollar of this money is retained in the State ; 

 whereas, with the use of hemp, every dollar is carried out of 

 it, except the small items of transportations and commissions. 

 For safety's sake, we may say that $300,000 of this amount is 

 taken away from the State entirely. 



Again, to manufacture this bagging each yard requires two 

 Ibs. of raw cotton, which makes an amount of 4,077,000 Ibs. 

 Now if we use hemp bagging, we add just this amount an- 

 nually to the supply from the crop for manufacturing purpose, 

 and it tends to diminish the demand just so much. Suppose 

 we convert it into bagging, we furnish a new demand for 



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