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cotton to seed of 24, was valued at Rs. 220 ; Company No. 1 

 with percentage 27, valued at Rs. 245 ; Company No. 2 with 

 the percentage of 31, valued at Rs. 240; Company No. 3 

 with the percentage of 33, valued at Rs. 235 per candy of 

 784 lb. There has been an increase of 9 per cent, in the 

 percentage and an increase of Rs. 25 in the price. If the 

 acreage results had been supplied, we should have been in a 

 position to give the actual value of the cotton produced 

 per acre. 



Pulichai cotton is so largely contaminated with Berar 

 seed that it is valued at the same figure. Company No. 2 

 (Karanganni, special selection by Mr. Sampson from last 

 year's crop) is valued at Rs. 248, Tinnevelly of the day 

 standing at Rs. 235. 



The Cambodia samples from Koilpatti and Coimbatore 

 were valued a little below the price of good Cambodia in 

 Bombay. 



Samples of wppam from Koilpatti and Coimbatore are 

 valued at Rs. 205, the ordinary market rate. Bourbon 

 from Coimbatore is valued equal to Navasari cotton at 

 Rs. 270 and nadam from Coimbatore stands equal to 

 Westerns at Rs. 200. 



With Westerns selling at Rs. 200 in Bombay, the sample 

 from Hagari was valued at Rs. 215. 



With Northerns standing at Rs. 210, white-seeded 

 Northerns from Nandyal was valued at Rs. 230 ; black-seed- 

 ed Northerns from the same place at Rs. 225. 



Coconada standing at Rs. 210, Yerrapatti red was 

 valued at Rs. 215 and Coconada red, Rs. 205 and white 

 Coconada from Samalkota, at Rs. 215. 



Messrs. Tata make the following valuations and 

 remarks on these samples : — 



Basis of prices per candy of 784 lb. on 11th August 

 1915 :— 



Tinnevelly, Rs. 235 : Uppam, Rs. 205 : Westerns, 

 Rs. 200 : Cambodia, Rs. 240 : Northerns, 

 Rs. 210 : Navasari, Rs. 270 : Berar Jari (Akola), 

 Rs. 200 : Coconada, Rs. 210. 



