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of merit placed by the market value of the clean cotton 



alone : — 



Us. 



(1) Gossypium neglectum, var. Eosea . 60 per acre. 



(2) Gossypium neglectum, var. Cutchica . 58*5 



(3) Gossypium hirsutum, var. Bliuri . 53*75 



(4) Gossypium neglectum, var. Vera . 51'5 



(5) Gossypium neglectum, var. Vera 



(Berar Jari) ..... 45"5 



(6) Gossypium indicum (Bani) . . 41'4 



(7) Gossypium neglectum, var. Saugor 



Jari 41*12 



(8) Gossypium neglectum, var. Malvensis 40*5 



This proves that the cultivators are abundantly justi- 

 fied in their selection of white flowered cottons (of which 

 the two chief head the list), for profit, Bliuri follows closely 

 in value and the remaining yellow flowered indigenous 

 cottons fall appreciably in the rear. Saugor Jari has solid 

 qualities for its own tract but it cannot compete with the 

 natural denizens of the real cotton soil. 



Madras. — A parcel of Cambodia cotton grown at the 

 Hagari Station was the only material submitted to me for 

 opinion during the year. The outturn of kapas was 631 

 lbs. per acre and the ginning percentage was 37*5. In the 

 Bombay market the cotton was valued at Rs. 295, Madras 

 Cambodia of the day standing at Rs. 315. The value of 

 the cotton alone was therefore Rs. 89 per acre, a very 

 satisfactory result. 



Bombay. — Sholapur District. — Seed of Gossypium 

 neglectum, var. rosea, was supplied to the Inspector of 

 Agriculture, Sholapur, at the request of the Deputy 

 Director of Agriculture, Southern Division. It was 

 tried at Barsi, where the crop suffered much from want of 

 rain, and at Sholapur, where the crop was very vigorous, 

 perhaps owing to the fact that it was irrigated four times. 

 At Barsi the outturn of seed cotton per acre was 364 lbs. 

 and at Sholapur 1,510 lbs. 



Manjri Station. — At this station experiments, with the 

 view of introducing some paying sort of cotton into the 



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