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REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



(d) Central Provinces. — I have reported so often and 

 so fully on the excellent work done in this province that I 

 have now little further to say. The outturn of the hardy 

 indigenous varieties is so satisfactory and the product 

 meets the demand of its market so well that there is no 

 incentive to push the claims of longer stapled cottons, more 

 specially as the conditions of soil and climate do not by 

 any means favour these. An experimental farm for their 

 cultivation may, however, be established in Western 

 Chhattisgarh where conditions seem more favourable to 

 exotic varieties. 



Valuation furnished by Messrs. Tata, Sons § Co., Bombay, on 

 the 9 samples of cotton from the AJcola Farm, on 8tJi January 

 1913. 



N.B. — We have compared Nos. 8 and 9 with a sample of Cambodia cotton which 

 we have purchased lately at Rs. 325, and we have based our valuation of these two 

 samples on this comparison. 



Basis. — F. Akola good at Rs. 320 per candy. 



Some of the cotton varieties from the Northern Division 

 of the Central Provinces, already alluded to in previous 



