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1^ Ibs. of rags being necessary to produce one pound of paper. 

 The value of the rags, at the average of four cents per pound, 

 amounts to $16,000..000, to which, if the cost of making them 

 into paper, including If cents to each pound of paper in labor, 

 with wastage, chemicals, &c., be added, would swell the cost 

 to $23,625,000 to produce $^7,000,000 of paper leaving nett 

 profits on the total manufacture of $3,375,000. For the year 

 ending the 30th June, 1855, we imported 40,013,516 pounds 

 of foreign rags from twenty-six different countries. Of this 

 amount, Tuscany, in Italy, supplied 14,000,000 pounds, Two 

 Sicilies 6,000,000, Austria 4,000,000, Egypt 2,466,928, Turkey 

 2,466,928, England 2,591,178. The total value of the 40,- 

 013,516 pounds imported was $1,225,150. 



It is possible that the cotton fields of the south may furnish, 

 an almost inexhaustible supply of hemp, so as hereafter we 

 will reach the great desideratum in modern civilization, an 

 abundant and cheap supply of paper. Savannah Republican. 



SECTION VII. COTTON-SEED OIL. 



The Wakulla Times of a late date, says : " ' The proprie- 

 tors of one of our linseed oil mills have commenced the manu- 

 facture of oil from cotton seed, and about 400 bags of the seed 

 arrived here this week from Memphis, to be used for this pur- 

 pose. The oil is used for burning. How far the parties will 

 succeed in their enterprise remains to be demonstrated. We 

 believe the manufacture of oil from cotton seed has been car- 

 ried on in the South to a greater or less extent for several 

 years ; at Natchez, we believe, one of these mills has been 

 in operation for some ten years, but, so far, the oil has not 

 come into general use. The difficulty seems to be in clarify- 

 ing, as it will not burn in a crude state. Should our enter- 



