NATURAL PRODUCTIONS. 
Trinidad, viz., at Maj^aro, Guayaguayara, and Chacaclia- 
cara, and a few indi^'iduals then made tiieir fortunes by 
its growth and exportation. This cultivation was, how- 
ever, afterwards abandoned for the more lucrative pro- 
duction of sugar. The soil and climate of Trinidad seem 
to be well adapted to the production of cotton of the 
best quality, its enemies being locusts and caterpillars. 
The cold northerly winds are injurious, causing the pod 
to freeze — that is to say, occasioning a blight which 
prevents its regular development to maturity. 
Since the American war, and the consequent scarcity 
of cotton for the Manchester mills, and the' rapid and 
unprecedented rise in the markets, the cultivation of 
cotton has been more attended to, and lands too poor to 
produce cane liave been laid down in cotton. Trinidad 
could produce an immense (luantity of cotton, were the 
small settlers to turn their attention to its cultivation, 
and at even the present prices, 1865, though much lower 
than they were, it would give good interest upon the 
outlay. To small settlers there would be but little out- 
lay, as tlicmselves and families would be able to plant 
and pick a good quantity. The weeding of cotton is- 
simple, it being only necessary to keep down the grass 
by the cutlass, the hoe not requiring to be used. 
The cotton that has lately been exported from Trini- 
dad has netted good prices, proving that if attention 
were given to the selection of the seed, and the picking, 
and ginning of the cotton, the very best article might 
be shipped from the island. Some of the estates have- 
laid down a few acres in cotton, but as yet no consider- 
able breadth of land is in cotton. The spirit of enter- 
prise is somewhat languid in Trinidad ; and it is to be- 
feared that if cotton is not planted at once, the time of 
high prices will pass away, fot many countries are put- 
ting forth their best energies in the cultivation 
of cotton. One result of the American war will most 
probably be that England, and indeed the world, will 
never again be so heljilessly dependent upon America 
