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These figures prove that any one of the three selections 

 is considerably in advance of the ordinary local cotton 

 (the last) and it would pay the cultivator to take them up. 



Sisodra Plot. In the Sisodra plot two of the above 

 named varieties again come in and the three stand in the 

 following order : — 



Per acre 

 Us. A. 



(1) 1027 A L F 36 11 



(2) Selection I 30 5 



(3) Local Sisodra . . . . 29 12 



There must be some good reason for the discrepancy 

 in the value of the cottons from this plot as compared with 

 those from Surat. It is probable that the cotton from 

 Billimora and Chikhli furnishes the best so called Navasari 

 cotton and that the product from Navasari itself is not 

 quite so good as this. 



Broach Plot. We have already noticed that the pre- 

 vailing form ghogari is round-boiled and that only a few 

 plants have pointed bolls. It is interesting to find from 

 the market valuations that the commoner form yields the 

 better cotton. 



Next season when we will have outturn results from the 

 two types of ghogari we may be able to say definitely which 

 is the more profitable to grow. 



Nadiad Farm. The acreage value of the indigenous 

 lalio is Rs. 85-9 against Rs. 77-12 in Cambodia. This 

 goes to prove that in the long run the local cotton will pay 

 the cultivator best. 



Madras. Although not requested to do so, I have taken 

 the liberty of obtaining the expert opinion of Messrs. Tata, 

 of Bombay on the cottons grown in the Presidency, samples 

 of which were supplied for museum purposes. 



Four samples of karanganni were received from Koil- 

 patti Agricultural Station, of which three were special 

 strains. The price of Tinnevelly for the day being Rs. 235, 

 the ordinary karanganni sample with the percentage of 



