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V.
	Looms.
The 131,280 spindles will occupy (working only by day)	8,753
The same, working day and night	14,880
	Number.
Operatives employed by day	17,000
Do.do. day and night	29,000
VI.
	Quintals of cotton
It will require for the 131,280 spindles working by day	145,666 2/5
The produce of the country, at the utmost, is not more than	50,000
Leaving a deficit of	95,666 2/5
	Quintals of cotton
But if the spindles work day and night, they will require	247,973 1/2
Produce of the country, as above	50,000
Leaving a deficit of	197,973 1/2

 

Many persons have been induced by this condition of the market and the prohibition of importing the raw material to commence plantations of cotton: it is doubtful whether the habits of the agricultural population are