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THE COTTON TRADE.-MISCELLANEOUS. 
THE COTTON TRADE. 
Professor McCay, of the University of Georgia, in 
a well-considered article in the Merchants' Maga¬ 
zine, thus sums up the probable production of Cotton 
(or the past year, and its probable consumption for 
the year to come. 
Bales;. 
United States Crop, — - - - - 2,460,000 
English Import from India, - - - 150,000 
English Import from other places, - 140,000 
Total Supply, 2,750,000 
Bales. 
Wants of the United States, - - - - 370,000 
“ France from the U. States, 420,000 
“ the Continent from “ 180,000 
“ of England, - - - 1,480,000 
2,450,000 
Excess of Supply, 300,000 
Mr. McCay anticipates that this additional burthen 
will be felt very severely. We must confess that 
we think so too. Since he wrote his article,, cotton 
has fallen considerably, and is at this moment accord¬ 
ing to quality, from £ to id. per pound lower than 
ever before known in England, and full \ to f of a 
cent in our own country. 
If our planters go on increasing their production, 
cotton will soon not be worth over 2 to 5 cents per 
lb., according to quality, on the plantation. At this 
price no man can live by it. What is the remedy ? 
Simply, raise less of this and more of other products. 
Here is one thing for example. We believe that a 
pound of fine Merino wool may be raised in that 
part of the south suitable for keeping sheep, as 
cheaply as 3 pounds of cotton can be grown. The 
former would be worth 40 cents on the plantation at 
the lowest, the latter not to exceed 12 cents, which 
makes a difference in favor of wool-growing of more 
than 300 per cent. 
But we hear the planters say, well, when we 
get to raising wool, the price of that must fall too. 
Suppose it does ? It will still be a profitable busi¬ 
ness, even at 20 cents per pound; for sheep will 
enrich your lands, and fit them for other good crops, 
while cotton impoverishes them. Yet so long as we 
import wool (which we still continue to do), there is 
little prospect of its becoming lower; and when we 
nave supplied ourselves, we can then look abroad 
for a market. Great Britain alone imports nearly, if 
not quite, 50,000,000 lbs. annually, and France a 
considerable quantity. Here, then, is a chance of a 
market for a long time; for we only raise now 
about three-fifths of what Great Britain alone imports, 
and it would be years before we could reach the pro¬ 
duction of 50 millions. In the mean while it must 
be recollected that our own consumption will be ra¬ 
pidly on the increase. Space forbids our pursuing this 
subject any further in this No., but we intend to revert 
to the general subject of growing wool in our next. 
General Agency.— Mr. A. Sherman is appointed 
a general agent for the American Agriculturist, and is 
authorized to take subscriptions and appoint sub¬ 
agents in any part of the United States. We recom¬ 
mend him to the attention of our friends wherever 
he may go, and hope they will give him such assist¬ 
ance as will forward the object of his exertions. 
Sale of the late Mr. Grove’s Saxon Flocxs.— 
We understand that the sale of these superior ana 
thorough bred Saxon sheep, particularly at Medina, 
Ohio, went off very spiritedly, and that the animals 
generally brought fair prices. The bucks were most¬ 
ly taken at from $10 to $50 each; the ewes from 
$5 to $30. A few, as choice as any sold, still re 
main on hand, which can be had at moderate prices 
by application to S. A. Cook, Esq. of Buskirk’s 
Bridge, N. Y. This is precious blood, and of un¬ 
doubted pedigree, and those wishing superior Saxons, 
would do well to apply before it is too late. 
Hulling Indian Corn. —It is said that the meal 
ground from Indian corn hulled, makes a much nicer 
article, and is greatly preferred not only in our country 
but in England, to that usually sent thither ground 
unhulled. The process of hulling corn, as practised 
among the French in Louisiana, is slow and expen¬ 
sive. Not long since we were informed that the 
same machine which is used for making pearl barley 
and split peas, with a slight modification, had been 
effectually used for hulling corn. Can any of our 
readers inform us as to this ? If it be a fact, we 
should be highly gratified to receive a description and 
drawing of the machine. Anything that can be done 
to promote the sale of corn, or corn meal, in England, 
would confer a great benefit on our western states, 
this being one of their chief products. 
Mr. Parsons in Europe.— Samuel B. Parsons, Esq., 
of the extensive nursery establishment of Parsons & 
Co., at Flushing, Long Island, sailed for Havre last 
month, in the packet-ship Argo. He will be absent 
nearly a year, and visit France, Italy, Germany, and 
Great Britain. He will pay particular attention to 
horticultural subjects while abroad, and we shall 
hope to hear from him occasionally while absent 
Mr. Robert Parsons, of the same firm, returned from 
his European tour last October. 
Mr. Newbould in Europe. —Thomas H. New- 
bould, Esq., one of the most extensive farmers and 
stock-breeders of Livingston County, recently sailed 
for France, with the view of making quite an Euro¬ 
pean tour. He will devote much of his time while 
absent to the improved systems of agriculture and 
fine stock abroad. It affords us great pleasure to no¬ 
tice such changes in regard to the views of gentlemen 
now crossing the Atlantic, and we cannot but hope 
that we shall have an opportunity of making such 
records often hereafter. 
The American Herd Book. —We beg gentlemen 
to recollect that we are not the proposers, and have 
nothing to do with getting up this work ; it is, conse¬ 
quently, very unfair in them to tax us with HEAV If 
POSTAGE on long pedigrees, the record of which they 
alone are interested in. It is a pitiful way of boring 
us and picking our pockets to boot. By referring to 
page 154 of our last volume, they will see the terms 
proposed for inserting pedigrees. It will be a labori 
ous and ungrateful task to whoever undertakes it; 
and it was expressly premised, that postage at least 
should be prepaid on all communications. In other 
matters in which we have no earthly concern, we are 
often most unceremoniously taxed. If those people 
who do this, had the smallest sense of justice or pro¬ 
priety, they would pay their own postages. 
