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Mysore. — In the Mysore State preliminary steps have 

 been taken to establish the cultivation of higher class cotton 

 in non-cotton growing areas and we expect that valauble 

 assistance will be renderd in this direction by the co- 

 operation of the European planters. 



North-West Frontier Province. — In consultation with 

 Mr. Robertson Brown it has been arranged that he is to 

 grow large plots of his cottons and that I shall visit his 

 farm when the crops are ripe, to arrange, on the spot, the 

 line of future work he should take in hand. 



He gave the following information in a letter to the 

 Inspector General of Agriculture (now the Agricultural 

 Adviser to the Government of India) : " I have just visited a 

 tract in the Peshawar District which is famous in the 

 North- West Frontier Province as producing heavy crops of 

 high class cotton. I was accompanied by the Revenue 

 Assistant, who fixes revenue, etc., so my information is 

 correct. I found that the banias in purchasing the crops 

 pay for 6 maunds and take their chances of profit on the 

 outturn beyond that weight. Good average cotton fields 

 in the tract yield 16 maunds per acre and 20 maunds is 

 occasionally produced. I have not seen such heavy outturns 

 of cotton recorded as being produced elsewhere in India, 

 and I am writing to you to find if equally good crops are 

 yielded in any other part. The soil is deep red alluvium 

 and the tract irrigated very sparingly and irregularly from 

 the rich, muddy, Bara River." 



Lalio cotton, in the Bawla Taluka, in the Ahmedabad 

 District, under two or three waterings in light soils, is said 

 to yield as high as 1,600 lbs. kapas per acre, but the high 

 returns quoted by Mr. Robertson Brown, so far as I know, 

 must be unequalled elsewhere in India. 



The following report on a sample of Mr. Robertson 

 Brown's cotton has been received from Messrs. Tata, Sons 

 & Co. : — 



'^ In all its characteristics it is Oomra style of cotton. 

 Comparing it with Fine Akola ginned at 

 Rs. 275 we value the sample at Rs. 270 as it 



