136 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



The comparative values of the varieties now under 

 experiment can best be calculated from the following state- 

 ment, based on figures obtained at the Jalgaon farm :- 



On account of the partial 'failure of the cotton crop 

 throughout Khandesh, there is a shortage of good seed for 

 sowing purposes, and it is understood that large quantities 

 of seed have been brought from Jamner, a place bordering 

 on the Nizam's Dominions, which .grows the ordinary jari 

 mixture giving a ginning percentage of 34 to 36 and fetch- 

 ing a slightly higher price than the ordinary Khandesh 

 cotton. Efforts should be made to prevent such inferior 

 types from establishing themselves in tracts which can 

 carry better varieties. 



There is a village, called Saising, in the Bhusaval 

 Taluka, which grows a cotton exactly like N. R. excepting 

 that the cotton is not released when the boll opens, even 

 when unpicked for some time. This variety is worth 

 further enquiry on the part of the Department. 



Gujarat. In the Dhollera tract Mr. Mankad investi- 

 gated the extent and limits of the white-ilowered form of 

 mathio which resembles N. R. in its high ginning percent- 

 age. In some villages in the Dhandhuka Taluka of the 

 Ahmedabad District the percentage of white-flowered 

 plants was found larger (varying from 40 to 65 per cent.) 

 than in the tracts of Kathiawar growing mathio, where 

 the percentage of white-flowered plants rarely exceeds 25 

 per cent. The larger percentage of white-flowered plants 



