AND COLLEGE, PUSA, FOR 1915-16 99 



REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL COTTON 

 SPECIALIST. 



(G. A. Gammie, F.L.S.) 



I. Charge and Tours. 



Charge. I held charge of the office of the Imperial 

 Cotton Specialist throughout the year. 



Tours. In addition to the special investigations which 

 were under continuous observation, I visited Khandesh in 

 September and October; travelled through Central India 

 with Mr. Coventry in November; in December I toured in 

 the Central Provinces; in April I visited the Southern 

 Mahratta Country. 



My Assistant Mr. Mankad .made special researches 

 during the year in the Southern Mahratta Country, Gujerat 

 and the Garo and the Chittagong Hill tracts. 



II. Cottons in the Provinces. 



Central India. 



The following report was submitted to Mr. Coventry 

 "with whom I made a tour throughout the cotton tracts of 

 Central India : — 



" Gwalior is not really a cotton tract and for the purpose 

 •of improving what little cotton there is, the trials of the 

 following would be sufficient : — 



(1) Yellow-flowered Malvensis. 



(2) White-flowered Roseum. 



(3) Cambodia under the control of irrigation. 



(4) Leake's K 7, on account of its earliness. 



" At Bhopal, white-flowered cottons do not seem to come 

 in the mixture of varieties and the higher quality of the 

 local cotton is due to this fact. The cotton round Bhopal, 

 5,000 bales, is said to be capable of spinning 20's. It has a 

 percentage of 25, which is far too low. 



