S59 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. peas 1857, 
r” ~ ive the | se aratin the Cotton from ‘ ~ 
. h sed experiments to | at rest for ever.” ‘‘ We have only to give t pi g eal gi iia 
a ii tried Th eviey anime” the beak machinery | Indian Ryot an qual interest with the Manchester qnes A n, n, and oa on which we yh as yet Ea ~~ 
A groe distributed, persons supposed to be | spinner in bets fruit of grie labours.” _ | Hon, bu by maici one on rin it is vi ts 
i h h ) 5 
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let and of | Were equally celebrated for their octane 
d arian d thi ng facts condensed i mph ng cloths and muslins, l : 
a =n heen omitted arr cee likely to | the voluminous printed ce before us we can | 4p, y i fine Arpan ms ati i mer them with much of 
_ advantageously upon the et er conclusion. than that the diffi- | of their most beaut fabries . ie tate 
eed a charge more entirely unfounded than erie ee ei improving this raw material | that the deterioration whic core taal 
that of the Indian Government a disregarded | have arisen in a gre t degree ee irom, the want a a | of the Cotton of these districts is said to hay Be i, 
the improvement of Cotton growing robb ‘pinotionl Eiewiedes of cultivation in the | through carelessness in the collection, must have origi. 
That Indian Cotton bears a loi rice in the | persons employed. hat is wanted in India is | nated, not in ignorance of the proper method of prepar. 
ser eey gen igi exceptions, is very inferior that kind of knowledge which enables a man e ing and gathering or harvesting the crop, but in Cates 
ris a the United States, oa doubtless true, | cultivate successfully such a place as the island o similar in kind to those that have elsewhere rodno 
: produced 
-| the same effect, namely, inadequate d 
ie ta Ascension ; or which empowers the English eit : “omg quate demand, or a top 
‘oe <2 Be Tye aL is is tho most distinct aiig re class gardener to compel the productions of every | Steat reduction of prices in Laatste. the cost of 
clean i je a imate rive i his 0 Such men, afte te restoration 
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f ls, and observing the native processes aey r boka 1 prz apprehend, 
Company formed a great etib sh- | tew trials, ? | we can scarcely expect to wre through th 
seen of otai pla at Gctabatokot in the | could not fail to hit upon the Saplar of overcoming | of pelits ök Bounties 5 frh be ti e operation 
Madras territory, and placed it under one of their | many of the difficulties so much spoken of a arising | Co urt, but may be a mplished by agents p 
best officers Dr. Rosert Wicut. This gentle- from climate or local causes ; aby selecting the at fa irly kaga Ganer oarn ned (without reference to the 
; wines that Cotton, to compete with kinds of Cotton best iadt Sna Pe n, local aie ta ) all the really good Cotton offered e 
i TA improving the native races, and meeting the pecu- o rse, be calrulated 
ase Dr. ors. words Notwithstanding Ay Viarities of climate by those ‘means ae a gardener according t to the oat not, La Indian jan markets, so as 
i fertile in resources knows teach the growers ue value of the article” — . 
eves a had been en parks os jin a | is nothing very peculiar in the patiner ar ai of the; Be this as it may, it appears to us needless tp 
of the experiments may be briefly stated to have Cotton plant. Like others it comet in the presence | insist further upon the abundant proofs that 
a y= avit the. advantage of cultivating Ame- | _of circumstances unsuited to it. When the soil is | exist of the indefatigable zeal shown b Bie East 
Säh A reference to the indigenon us Cotton, too rich and too roe A and ee 4 runs to leaf, and India Company in encouraging the on 
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Wheat. If the hrni is ‘ried = it dries up also, | have the manufacturers done for their eir part 
ÎE succeeds wel in iy bth other the ta rol as happens to all sorts of garden plants >, if the soil | No men know better than A that business does 
e Cotton we tit least as rather in | is cold and wet it pgs s pods, in which respect | not consist in talking ; and we think none will be 
ns greater, while hah Sioportioi of "it behaves like an English TA tree. As to the | more ready to Hh that: no Government w hateve 
wool to seed is certainly greater in the American ppe and apy that assail it, a reference to can do well what depends upon multiplied indi- 
than in the in enone Cotton 4 the extent of American works otton cu ees. show that vidual skill and energy. Government officers, be 
7 to9 per cent 9 to 30 per ¢ ent. of clean | biel is no lack of. such oprane ts in the best | their merits what they may, can have no direct 
Cotton a asi ata and not more than Cotton farms of the United States. What With | interest in the result of their proceedings. As no 
21 per dent of native Cotton. But greater than | ‘sore shin,” “frenching,” “rusting,” “shedding,” | success adds to their remuneration, so no failure 
all ewe is the good quality of the American | and rotting, the cans oe planter has wy th eis affects their pecuniary “ittatok If they are inef- 
Cotton grown in the Coimbatore district, and the | contend with, to say nothing of ‘Co ee? e,” | ficient there i f i pya ng them ; if they are sūc- 
certainty of its being fully appreciated by Man- grasshoppers “cutworms,” “‘leathoppers,” and | cessful ther no rewards, The ry ne 
chester manufacturers and sold at prices ; | caterpillars or “‘armyworms”’ that a ae er bat success is Aken. A fie men of grea vA 
that is, for 1d. or 11d. above the native Cotton, What amount of talent, of this essential kind, | be it d to take me a scheme and push it ve 
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IGHT s an reantile ns- | Imported in i 
; i East India Company, under Capt, BAYLES, or |thousands. That Gotton equal to American may 
in Livergoo ay Temes pohe p hy Sid a what mo seed in difficult husbandry that be grown in India we have no doubt; that it ever 
at : ? Mice r may i s mer- 
allant o have possessed we cannot | will be grown there in the absence i 
adhe ai h 5 sold ys ells. at age Faye. According to his own statement he had | cantile activity we wholly disbelieve, an crore 
ee sa y tried some experiments at hae place called Ta turers if they want -= hae ger yoa ie 
and on one occasion had given away a in hand the work of development. 
gaa “ae seems ig eth a ep tba Ty Cotton seed among some natives: vonage what an Anti-Corn- la Fea has effected ; let the 
api ualifications for the very importan uty Ot! same energy and capital be 5 
nity amet ie “a sh rpeache im pe tudying the North Amonas 9 po fields, and an Indian’ Cotton League be formed, and pz 
of selecting planters capable of carrying out | so-called difficulties will 5 y ear, Ab 
Selmar remit the fat : t although experimental cultivation k India, where it cer- | is not a Government to Shean : cor 
whose fault is that? Surely» ha the tainly is not to the interest of New Orleans that a | a CoBDEN ; not to legislation but mercantile 
Government's If fine Cotton is to be grown in | rival Cotton market eye gro is it | prise, industry, and perseverance. 
elsewhere it must be made to ta ; the | easy to form an opinion of the capabilities of the ————— it a 
grower, "especially the pauperised Indian Ryot, | many other agents tented with the inquiry. rose who complain of a DISEASE ire 
é in of a market, and mir SER >| The numerous failures on record somewhat raise have seen, @ 
og and it will scarcely be urged that Govern- | the presump that there must have been just 
nt is to s those conditions. If Lancashire h a want of experience in cultivation as is to 
ant ian Cotton they om agents entirely unacquainted wit 
emse! ssary ractical cultivation. ressi 
í a ea er oy Tidig, ay sepa diet removed by the success that attended the trials at 
advance capital, fix a minimum price, and in short | Coimbatore by Dr. W1euT, an officer of undoubted 
rovi r K +_| ability ; in one of whose reports we find the whole 
atar vba whch innra nieve Unis case na well stated that we venture to extract it, 
rices sure market. As he notwithstanding its length :— 
Pues a phaser: ‘so long as the dem “The simple fact of the Bourbon Cotton of the e Coim- 
for ordinary Indian Cotton depend upon the anger | no alo districts esing Pid. the pond în 
smaller os fe Ameri otton, an the “se r 
n ito Tdo ar to prove that 
ep consequent thereon, so long will it be hope- the produce of this country is considered equal to even 
to et a ap 2 and ne import of| the finer s American sorts, and answers the | ste 
eer on i et as if w question in so far as quality simply is concerned, 
formerly to to legitimate trade in in foreign These prices, taking as the average 6d. and 9d. ang = 
ale.” | ively, allow the exporter about 140 and 180 rupees the 
corn weer: pegged Ghidrtatntlon oF of the sliding se: 
t Indian Cotton, of excellent quality, may be | candy of 500 lbs., for which he pays in this country 
ioia at a low ei is, as dt Sate heats only about 70 and 90; whence we may infer, that all 
observed, experimentally demonstrated. Mr. we want to insure constant supplies of such Cotton is 
in amon er f 
India the grower will have a profit of 3l. 11s. 4d. ey = the Stores, © Shaves bagio kand, Sates 
A every reason to believe that great sat of this cul- 
an acre, and that any quantity may be produced | ture would “follow, mithous ile any additional encourage- 
th that result, *‘ he. derved a 
me of thi 
he adds, “ was quoted at Liverpool on the authority of Mr. Fischer of Salem, who, as agent for the 
7th of November at 43d. The advance of a farthing | merchants of Madras, has the purchasing of a large pro- pl 
in the price of Cotton ad oo of on ro — in these districts. 
writes, es are willing to cultivate this 
(Bourbon) Cotton to pay extent they may expect re- 
bape A prices for, but, 8 the present rates, they can- | wi 
e | not afford to me or labour either upon its | į 
diy 
“Such being the facts of the case in these districts as g 
regards quality, we may conclude that sere is Tittle th th 
y ocsation in-anyof .t them for the aid of Am yh 
2 | men to teach the growers shie how to pe raat | 
| collect their Cotton, How far they ight be profitably of 
employed in teaching them the use of machinery for 
