INSTITUTE, PUSA, FOR 1918-19 115 



REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL COTTON 

 SPECIALIST. 



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



I. Charge. 



I was in charge of the post throughout the year. 



II. Cottons in the Provinces. 



Bombay Presidency. 



Khandesh. On the Jalgaon Farm, in East Khandesh, 

 experiments have been continued to test the actual values 

 of some of the inferior components of the local mixture, 

 and of the Sindewahi Cross which was developed in the 

 Central Provinces. 



The local N. R. (Khandesh neglectum roseum) is 

 declared to be good for spinning 10's. Poona N. R. and the 

 local N. R. C. have no staple and, although the proportion 

 of lint to seed is high, neither is worth any encouragement 

 and they should be thrown out. 



The cotton of the Sindewahi Cross is reported to be 

 near berar-oomra. It is silky, of good staple, though rather 

 variable, and it can spin lG's. 



The money value per acre works out as follows : — 

 N. R. C, Rs. 72-7-0; N. R., Rs. 69-10-0; and Sindewahi 

 Cross, Rs. 62-12-0. These figures prove that, if cottons 

 of better staple are desired by the trade from Khandesh, it 

 must be prepared to pay a premium to compensate for the 

 smaller yield to the cultivator who otherwise will continue 

 to grow the cotton which gives him the greater profit. I 

 would emphasize the necessity of maintaining on the 

 Jalgaon Farm tests with the more valuable yellow-flowered 

 forms of neglectums which do possess something in the 

 nature of a staple. 



Samples from five localities on the Nizam's Hyderabad- 

 Godavery Valley Railway were grown for comparison on 

 this farm. Messrs. Tata Sons & Co. carefully examined 



