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the size of the land that can be tilled by one draught animal bet- 
ween the 5th of May and the 1st of August. 
This is estimated at 20 bouws. ^ , 
The keeping of one horse, with the necessary implements, har- 
ness and insurance is estimated at /305 annually of which fi 35 
go to the account of the planting. 
For ploughing /160 and for weeding and banking/138 are 
paid per 20 bouws. a , 
The produce of 930 lbs. of raw cotton per bouw (including seed, 
waste, etc.) is equivalent to 310 lbs. of cleaned cotton, then the 
cost of harvesting amount to/183 per 20 bouws. 
If manure is used one reckons an extra expense 01/7.79 per 
bouw, thus for 20 bouws/i 55.B0. Rent and administration cost 
f 6 56 per bouw, or per 20 bouws f\ 31.20. I he total cost of pro- 
duction is thus for 20 bouws 903 guilders, or x 4$ guilders per 
bouw or per lb. of raw cotton 4.84 cts. or per lb. of clean cotton 
^Thisrefers to the cotton territories to the east of the Mississippi. 
For the west where the cost of production is cheaper, the cost 
price of one lb. of cleancotton is put at 14.2 cts. 
To this must be added the cost of cleaning and packing, but this 
v is largely covered by the value of the cotton seec • 
" Fifty-four percent, of the total cost come from the labour, which, 
compared with other industries, is very high, and as this figure is 
about 27 % in the cotton mills, the conclusion must be drawn, that 
labour in the cotton industry of America is a prominent fac or. 
It is interesting to compare with these figures the cost of pro- 
dnrtion in Earypt and India. 
For Egypt these amount to/170.63 per bouw, or, with an aver- 
age production of 600 lbs. per bouw, 28.3 cts. per lb., about four 
times as much again as in America. . , . 
The Egyptian planter would not be able to exist, it his harvest 
per bouw were not better and his sale-price moreover higher. 
P In the North West Provinces of British India, the cost of pioduc- 
tion amounts approximately to/31.76 per bouw. The average 
produce of cleaned cotton is 190 lbs. per bouw, the cost of produc- 
tion therefore amounts to 16.6 cents per lbs. 
We will here shortly sketch those cotton-growing states oi 
America, which specially grow Sea-Island cotton. . 
On the sea- islands of South Carolina the field work is exclusively 
done bv natives, of whom most are employed in farming. A large 
portionof them are owners of farms, but a still larger portion rent 
the ground, while, land is given to the actual workers in exchange 
t01 greatest area of land, actually cultivated with ctfton by one 
owner, is not more than 57 bouws. 
The white farmers have usually not more than 17 bouws planted 
with cotton. Such an area always necessitates their being owners 
of large stretches of land, as they have to pay for 2 days work 
in the S week with 3-4 bouws; for which they can then have about 
7 bouws of land, planted with cotton, so that if they want to 
