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Prices fixed upon the following basis: — 



Bombay candy weighs American Good Middlinc; . 

 784 lbs. The price 



of cotton in Bombay ,, „ „ 



includes a rebate of Fine Naosari . 

 5J per cent. For ex- 

 ample if you purchase „ Surafc .... 320 „ „ 

 cotton, say, at Rs. 300 



per candy, the seller „ Broach .... 285 „ „ 



allows you a rebate 

 of 5| per cent, so that 



the actual price of „ Warora-Hinganghat (Cen- 290 ,, „ 



cotton is Rs. 283^ per tral Provinces), 



candy. Therefore, the 



prices quoted are „ Wardha (Central Provinces) 285 „ „ 



subject to a rebate 

 of 5| per cent. „ Yeotmal (Berars) , 280 „ „ 



Good Tinnevelly . . . 320 „ „ 



United Provinces. — I visited these in October and tour- 

 ed in the company of Dr. A. E. Parr, the Deputy Director 

 of the Northern Division. 



I made the following notes on my inspection of the 

 cottons on the Agricultural Experimental Station at 

 Aligarh : — 



(1) Bhuri (G. hirsutum, variety, originally from 



Chota-Nagpur). This has grown well, but the 

 yield is low and last year it produced practi- 

 cally no crop. I pointed out to Dr. Parr that 

 the species normally consists of a mixture 

 of a productive and non-productive form, the 

 latter predominating in his plots. If selection 

 is continued by using the former type, he will 

 soon possess a strain of high class cotton suit- 

 able for his Division in all respects. 



(2) Mr. Leake's selection (white flowered cotton or G. 



roseum) yields well and is a moderately early 

 cotton. 



(3) Mr. Leake's selection (broad lobed white flowered 



cotton, var. cutchica) has produced at the rate 

 of 12 maunds of seed cotton per acre and on the 

 score of outturn alone is distinctly promising. 



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