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American, and owing to its similarity in external characters 

 to that variety it is very difficult to detect admixture in the 

 fields although this has gone on very rapidly. 



Broach cotton has done well on a strip of country on 

 the eastern side of the district where the south-west monsoon 

 sets in early, but there is little chance of its ever extending 

 beyond this tract. 



The prices realized in the years 1913-1916 for Broach 

 seed cotton of the special class, which ginned 34 on an 

 average, have been 20 to 25 per cent, higher than those of 

 the local cotton, and the lowest class of Broach cotton, with 

 a ginning percentage of about 29-5, has fetched about Rs. 20 

 more than the local Kumpta. 



The Manager of the cotton mill at Gokak supplied the 

 following note on a test made with selected Kumpta of the 

 Dharwar Farm and compared with local Kumpta of many 

 parts of the Kumpta tract : — 



f( Tlie cotton was considerably superior to any of the Kumpta 

 cottons as supplied either direct by the ryots or which we have ob- 

 tained from the near markets; it is bright, clean, long in staple and 

 uniform and of middling strength ; from it we spun 3 counts, viz. : — 

 20's, 30's, 40's. The yarn ran smoothly and demanded very little 

 attention from the workpeople, and we would no doubt have received 

 better results had we had sufficient cotton to make it worth our 

 while to alter our machinery so that it should be spun into yarn 

 under the best conditions. 



" The loss in the blow room amounted to 8 per cent. 

 "The yarn gave the following tests : — 



