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teristic of being a short season variety and being of a low 

 habit of growth it would not compete with a crop such as 

 rahar. Its behaviour at the Chaibassa Agricultural 

 Station proves that it thrives even under very unfavour- 

 able conditions. I would recommend that careful trials 

 be made with this cotton in the way I have suggested above 

 for G. intermedium and in the same localities. It was 

 growing well on the Bhagalpur Farm and I can see no 

 particular objection to its being grown on the Bengal plain. 

 There is another cotton of almost the same characteristics 

 known as Cambodia or Cochin China cotton. This is giving 

 good results both in the Madras and Bombay Presidencies 

 and I have reason to believe that it is still more resistant 

 to heavy rainfall than Burl. If early application be 

 made, a supply of seed could probably be obtained from the 

 Deputy Director of Agriculture, Bombay Presidency, 

 Poona. 



As regards the two varieties of G. neglectum, I con- 

 sider that they are scarcely worth dealing with, as they are 

 no better than the common low grade cottons which pre- 

 dominate tbiroughout the areas producing the so-called 

 commercial Bengal cottons. 



Of the tree cottons, Bourbon may be induced to yield as 

 an annual crop, but it would be advisable not to exploit 

 such an unsatisfactory class of plant. 



If the officers of the Bengal Agricultural Department 

 consent to carry out the trials I have suggested, they will 

 not have to undertake a complicated task. They need 

 merely study the possibilities of G. intermedium and 

 G. hirsutum, the latter preferably in its two forms of 

 Buri and Cambodia. 



Central Provinces. — At the Telinkheri Farm, which I 

 visited in the company of Mr. Clouston, the Deputy Direc- 

 tor of Agriculture, the field of selected Buri looked ex- 

 tremely well and promised to be highly productive. 

 Mr. Clouston had, with rare judgment, selected a type of 

 plant with short, lower branches and I consider it very 

 fortunate that at such an early period of the cultivation of 



