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MANDTACTUBE OF COTBOJT. 
MANUFACTURE OF COTTON BY ITS PRODUCERS. 
Suggestions of S. R. Cockrill seventeen years ago, commended for 
Reflection of Capitalists in 1866. 
The spindles and looms must be brought to the cotton 
fields. This is the true location of this powerful assistant 
of the grower. In the West, in the East, or in the North, 
would be better than any foreign country ; but the best lo- 
cation is the sunny South, where the cotton grows. The 
next best location is in the provision regions nearest the 
South. 
The inequality between the labor and capital for grow- 
ing and that for spinning is startling. A pound of cotton, 
ploughed, hoed, picked, ginned, baled, spun, and wove, ia 
worth eighteen cents. The spinning and weaving, it is 
said, can be afforded for three cents cost, which would 
leave fifteen cents per pound for the labor of the planter, 
supposing the cotton mill in the cotton field, and the mill 
to get cost only ; but as three cents may be too low an 
estimate, make it six, and then twelve cents is left for the 
planter. But now, what does he get? Four, five, and six. 
The question may now be asked, "Who gets the balance? 
Allowing six cents to the grower and six cents to the 
spinner, there will be six cents yet unaccounted for. It 
goes to pay warehouse charges, freight, insurance, drayage, 
storage, weighage, pickages, pressage, commissions, postage, 
bills of lading, exchange, freight to Liverpool, dock dues, 
freight on railroad to Manchester, and then it is at the mill, 
and the same process brings it back, and this will fully ac- 
count for the six cents a pound. Who pays these charges ? 
The grower. 
The growth and production of cotton are accomplished 
by the muscles of men and mules, laboring incessantly 
