Statistics of Commerce and Manufactures [pp. 543-550]

COTTON MANUFACTURES.
re:t, that the cotton of the first two gatherings is usually worth three
c' fou1r rupees per candy more than that of the later gatherings.
Produce.-In favorable seasons a biggah in Guzerat will produce
25 - maunds of cotton, mixed with the seeds. Where these have
been separated by the wheel or cheriah, the cotton will be found to,
weigh about 9 maunds, and the seed 15 maunds. In the eastern
andl southern parts of India, two or three maunds of clean cotton is
tile estimated average of a biggah.
Twenty-seven biggahs in Broach produce 44-L maunds of clean
Bourbon cotton, fully equal to that of the island after which it is
1nalned.
In Poorneah five mrnaunds of uncleaned cotton are usually grown
per biggah.
Dr. Buchanan says, that in Mllysorc the produce varies between
110 and 270 lbs. per acre.
Captain Hall states, that in America from 400 to 500 lbs. of
cleaned cotton is produced from a similar space of ground.
In Central India Baboo Radhakant Deb states, that a biggah yields
about one maund and three-quarters of cleaned cotton.
The comparative proportion in weight between the cotton and the
seed usually varies from one to four and one to three. It is, of
course, a great object in the growth of cotton to obtain an increase
in the proportion of wool produced above that of the seed. At Shahabad this was effected in the instance of Egyptian cotton. Mr.
Seyburne says, its produce there was not only superior in staple,
but was half cotton and half seed, while the country plants yielded
on.ly one part cotton and three parts seed.
STATISTICS OF CO)MIERCE AtND I!AN[FtCTUREI.
1.-FACTS IN THE COTTON MANUFACTURE.
'WE must be allowed to press the call that we have from time to tithe made for
information upon the present state of the cotton manufacture in the Southern and
Western States. We have been turning in every direction ftr this knowledge,
but have only obtained a limited amount. WVill not citizens in different States
aidi us in obtaining the correct data X We have abundance of notes which were
taken in the study of the manufthcturing sys-.tem, and in thie inspection of those
il our own country, which will be embodied in several interesting article.
her eafter.
DECLINE IN TIIE VALUE OP COTTON GOODS.
Mr. WVoodburv, in his report, 1836, made these remarks:
"The value of manufactured cottons, when the quantity of raw cotton in their
ii the same, differs greatly according to different periods of time in the same
countrvN, and according to the quality of the raw material, and the machinery
used, and the skill employed.
"Thus, in England, in twenty years after Arkwright's invention in spinnini.
manufactured cottons ifell nearly eight-ninths of their former price. Every ten
anars since, some have computed their fall in price as equal to 50 per cent. In
th.ie American Encyclopedia, article' cotton,' it is said that, from 1815 to l829 the
coarse cloths fell two-thirds. In 1810, yarn, on an average, was worth $S 12' p,r
p )nt,. In 1814, it was estimated under $1 per pound by C()ox. In 1:', it',s
saibi that the cost of making most species of yarn had been reduced, sinc i'1'
about a halt" and that of weaving by power-looims, &c., still more. So(me of tit
differences as to the whole value of ianufactured goods, spring fron not adveit.
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