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REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL COTTON 

 SPECIALIST 



(G. A. Gammie, F.L.S.) 



I. — Charge and Tours. 



I held charge of the appointment of Imperial Cotton 

 Specialist throughout the year. 



During the month of October 1912 I visited the North- 

 West Frontier Province to discuss present and future 

 operations in cotton cultivation with the Revenue Com- 

 missioner and the Superintendent of Farms. In Novem- 

 ber I attended the annual meeting of the District Agricul- 

 tural Associations at Akola, where I met the Director and 

 Deputy Director of Agriculture of the Central Provinces 

 and then went on to Nagpur to confer with the Economic 

 Botanist regarding his work on the improvement of his pro- 

 vincial cottons. In December I accompanied the Director 

 and Deputy Director of Agriculture, Bombay, on a tour to 

 all the experimental stations in Guzerat where we had 

 ample opportunities of discussing matters on the ground 

 greatly to our mutual benefit and understanding. In 

 March I was on tour with the Director and Assistant 

 Deputy Director of Agriculture in the Southern Mahratta 

 Country and here again we had an opportunity of settling 

 many points of interest in the fields. In April and May 

 I was on tour in Guzerat with the Deputy Director of 

 Agriculture. The intervening periods throughout the 

 year were spent at head-quarters, supervising my own ex- 

 perimental station, arranging for the distribution of seeds 

 required by many correspondents and also for the valua- 

 tion of samples of cottons received from all parts of India. 



II. — Cotton in the Provinces. 



(a) North-West Frontier* Province. — The following are 

 my notes drawn up after a visit to this province. The 



