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The Superintendent of the Surat Farm says that prices 

 fluctuate in different centres of the District and cotton 

 grown in the north invariably fetches a lower price than 

 that in the south. Cultivators gain by taking the trouble 

 to cart their cotton to the centre offering the highest price. 



Ghogari exists as an appreciable mixture in Broach 

 but not in Surat cotton. 



The Superintendent also emphasized the fact which is 

 true, viz., that the Surat District is peculiar in that its 

 conditions do not suit any outside variety of cotton so that 

 cultivators would lose if adulteration of seed occurred. So 

 far as we see then, Surat and Navasari cotton will always 

 be grown pure and if contamination appears in the market- 

 ed product, it must take place after it leaves the cultivator's 

 hands. 



The Superintendent also assures me that the bulk 

 of the Surat and Navasari cottons is bought forward 

 by agents from the Ahmedabad Mills before the Bombay 

 traders appear on the scene and that all the Broach 

 cotton of the Bombay market is really grown in the Broach 

 District. The prices offered by the Ahmedabad merchants 

 are in advance of those offered from Bombay. It might be 

 as well for the Department to bring its improved cottons 

 to the direct notice of the Ahmedabad mill owners. 



In ghogari the seed is larger than that of deshi 

 and the cotton is more adherent so that it is more difficult to 

 gin. The fuzz is white, while that of deshi is brown. 



As a result of an inspection of many fields of cotton 

 in the Jambusar Taluka of Broach we found that ghogari 

 was grown in a very pure state. The prevailing form is 

 round boiled and only a few plants with pointed bolls were 

 found. In the event of a seed farm being established here 

 to improve ghogari cotton, distribution could be easily 

 arranged, as the villagers would naturally accept seed 

 which is even only a little better than their own. There is 

 sufficient land in the close vicinity of Jambusar town alone 



to provide area for seed farm purposes. 



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