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The following are the valuations kindly furnished by 

 Messrs. Tata, Sons & Co., Bombay, on the 5 samples grown 

 at the Agricultural Station, Aligarh, last year : — 



Valuation of the samples from Aligarh Agricultural 

 Station {valued on 18th January 1912). 



Out of 5 samples, Nos. 1 to 5, sample No. 2 is the best of 

 the lot in point of length of fibre and feel. We value it to- 

 day at Rs. 265 per Bombay candy, or say Rs. 15 more than 

 the price of Fine Bengal (F. Bengal Rs. 245). 



No. 3 is slightly inferior to the above in length of staple, 

 value Rs. 260. 



Nos. 1, 4 and 5 are all alike and may be valued at 

 Rs. 255. 



The above cotton is harsh in feel like wool and resembles 

 Assam cotton. It can be used in mixing with wool as 

 Assam is on the continent, hence it has a special value of 

 its own. This kind of cotton is generally 15 to 20 rupees 

 higher in price than fine Bengal in normal times. We 

 value Assam cotton to-day at Rs. 265 per Bombay candy. 



Madras. — I have had no opportunity of visiting this 

 Province during the year, but a letter from Mr. Couchman,. 

 Director of Agriculture, to the Board of Revenue, last year, 

 fully explains the situation. From this it appears that in 

 Tinnevelly, the Karunganni variety of cotton and in Nand- 

 yal the white seeded Tellapathi cotton have been proved by 

 field experiments, supported by expert opinion from the 

 mills, to be superior to the mixed field crops of cottons 

 ordinarily grown in the Tinnevelly and Kurnool Districts. 

 To extend the cultivation of these varieties seed farms were 

 opened in Tinnevelly in 1908 to grow Karunganni on a large 

 scale. In Kurnool a beginning was made last year with 35 

 acres of seed farm for growing pure Tellajmthi seed. 



The rapid increase of the area under Karunganni 

 showed that the people were keeping the seed themselves. 

 With a view, therefore, to extend the variety to new tracts, 

 43 seed depots were opened, many of them in new tracts, 



