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the United Provinces. In this cross the long staple and red flower. 
of Nurma have been combined with the early flowering and silki-. 
ness of fibre of the Banz. In the second case, the long staple and 
red flower of Numa have been united to the high lint percentage 
and earliness of white flowered Desi cotton. The reports on the 
fibre of the new forms are very encouraging, and in one case the 
sample was valued at Rs. 50 a candy more than fine Cawnpore 
farm is being started near Aligarh from which it is hoped to 
produce enough seed to sow one thousand three hundred acres in 
one year producing five hundred bales (of four hundred pounds) of 
otton. The cultivators growing the one thousand three hundred 
acres of cotton will each year receive a fresh supply of seed from 
the central farm while their crop will be separately ginned and the 
seed distributed to a second series of cultivators controlling twenty 
thousand acres of land under cotton. In this way it is hoped a 
series of waves of cotton seed emanating from the seed farm will 
be started which will in a short period establish the crop on a firm 
asis. 
“The student of plant breeding will find a detailed account of 
the Cawnpore cotton experiments in the Journal of Genetics (vol. i., 
p- 205), while an abstract has appeared in the Proceedings of the 
Royal Society, The inheritance of several of the characters of 
cotton have been worked out in detail and especially the colour of the 
have been observed, two of which are of great interest. The 
-*One of the chief difficulties in the production of a new and 
improved type of cotton and in the maintenance of the seed supply 
arises from the fact that cottons readily cross-fertilize in India as 
in other countries. During the preliminary breeding and selection 
operations it is necessary to protect the flowers from foreign pollen, 
