Edgefield Advertiser

COTTON IN ALGERIA.—The French Moniteur publishes the report of the jury charged to award the prize of 20,000f., given by the Emperor annually, for a period of five years from 1853, as an encouragement for the cultivation of cotton in Algeria. From this report it appears that although the plant suffered severely from drought during the last season, the yield has increased to upwards of 600 bales, whilst the United States, at the end of the fourth year of experiment, exported only 400 bales. Already, says the report, the planters in Algeria have obtained two important points towards competition with the United States—quality and equal yield, according to the quantity of ground planted. There remains a third to be attained, and that is the extent of production, which can only be accomplished when the number of hands employed can be sufficiently increased. The report suggests that the Government would do well to give special encouragement to works tending to facilitate irrigation.