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to appoint a whole-time officer for this particular crop. 

 Mention may here be made of the more important recom- 

 mendations of the Imperial Cotton Specialist which will 

 be found embodied in his report in greater detail. In 

 Eastern Bengal and Assam, the prevalent type is that known 

 as Gossyjjium neglectum var. Assamica of Watt and is 

 commonly called the Garo Hill Cotton. It is not used m 

 commerce as cotton but as a substitute or adulterant in wool 

 manufacture and any attempt to improve it from the point 

 of view of the cotton merchant would result in a serious 

 diminution of price. The Imperial Cotton Specialist 

 recommends that in any experiments carried out by the 

 Department, this type of cotton should be adhered to, lest 

 the experience of generations which has taught the use of 

 a kind of cotton capable of growing under excessive rain- 

 fall and the primitive agriculture of the Hill tracts, be 

 lost and the present variety substituted by an unsuitable 

 one. He, therefore, advises that trials should be confined 

 to improving in this one type, the length of staple and the 

 percentage of cotton to seed but that no attempt should be 

 made to alter the special characteristics of the product. 



In Bengal the cottons appear altogether to be of an 

 inferior type. Trials should be confined in this Province 

 to the possibilities of G. intermedium and G. hirsutum, the 

 latter preferably in its two forms of Buri and Cambodia. 



In the Central Provinces, it is pleasant to find that 

 Mr. Clouston, Deputy Director of Agriculture, has selected 

 a plant of the Buri variety which is promising well and 

 that most valuable work is being done in these provinces 

 by the introduction of Buri. The recommendations of the 

 Imperial Cotton Specialist in regard to these provinces 

 may be summarised as under : — 



(1) The introduction of Buri to accompany Bani but 



not to oast Jari. 



(2) The improvement of Bani in its percentage of 



cotton. 



(3) The isolation of the different types of Jan. 



