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rope for the year ending October 1, 1873, makes the total number of 
bales 5,219,000 ; of which 3,335,000 bales were distributed in England ; 
and 1, 834, 000 on the Continent. The English supply was received, 
1,654, 600 bales from America, 737,000 from India, 509,000 from Brazil, 
306, 000 from Egypt, and 129,000 from other countries ; the continental, 
669,000 bales from America, 795,000 from India, 144, 000 from Brazil, 
87, 600 from Egypt, and 189,000 from other countries. He reports the 
angual supply of the past twelve years as follows: 
Year. 
Bales. . Bales. 
1,884,000 | 5,219, 000 
1, 641, 000 4, 773, 000 
2,046,000 | 5, 268, 000 
1, 627,000 | 4, 387, 000 
1, 916, 000 4, 503, 000 
1,782,000 | 4, 604, 000 
1, 733, 000 4, 147, 000 
i 616, 000 3, 935, 000 
1,182,000 | 3, 055, 000 
1; 033,000 | 2,598, 000 
per 814, 000 2, 146, 000 
CRIS Le RS eee ee eee ee ee eee 4 ae ae 1, 217, 000 776, 000 | 1, 993, 000 
IRRIGATION IN INDIA.—The “imperial budget statement” for the 
government of India, for 1873~74, besides an estimate of £2,354,000 
(exclusive of the appropriations for roads and civil buildings) for ordi- 
nary public works, includes a proposed grant of £3,878,000 for extraor- 
dinary public works. Of this, £1,226,060 are intended for carrying for- 
ward canals of irrigation already in process of construction, that is, 
“the canals from the Jumna, near Agra, the Lower Ganges Canal, the 
canal from the river Soane, and the completion of the canal-system in 
the deltas of the Kistna and the Godavery, the improvement of the 
Western Jumna Canal, and the Moota project in the Bombay Presi- 
dency.” 
The canal revenue superintendent of the Cuttack district, in Bengal. 
reports to the irrigation branch of the public works department of 
Bengal upon irrigation in cotton-culture as follows: 
In pee Cuttack district only two varieties of cotton are grown, viz, the haldiya and the 
achna ; the former is, generally speaking, the cotton of the hills and rainy season; the 
latter of the plains and dry season. It will be convenient to describe the mode of culti- 
vating them separately. The haldiya variety is sown in June and July, and picked in 
October and November. Though generally grown in the Gurjeets, where newly re- 
claimed jungle-land is largely available and best suiting the crop, it is also occasionally 
met with in the delta of the Mugalbundi, but in very small quantities, and grown 
either on land reclaimed from jung ele or else within the precincts of the ryot’s own home- 
steads. It is but rarely grown on the ordinary dofasli or biyali lands. But little care 
is given, I believe, to its “eultiv ation, the earth being turned over as for rice, and the 
plant left to itself with the exception of an occasional weeding 
The achna variety is sown in November, December, and January on the dofasli or 
biyali lands,and is picked in May, June,and July. The seed used is the seed of the 
haldiya variety, and the ordinary mode of cultivation is as follows: The land is allowed 
to lie fallow for the whole of the rainy season, the rotation of crops being as follows: 
(1) biyali, followed by biri, mug, linseed, or other similar crop; (2) fallow ; (3) cotton. — 
The land is plowed at the end of November, in December, or at the beginning of 
January, as may happen to suit the rain-fall, the closing of ’the canals, or “the ryot’s 
convenience, and is brought: into the ordinary conditions of garden- -soils. Whatever 
manure the ryot has to spare (which is generally so little and of sucha quality as to 
be of but little benefit) he puts down. The soil is then worked up into ridges, and the 
seed dibbled in by hand, five or six seeds in each place at intervals along the ridges of 
about a foot. To prepare the soil water is required; and, as a rule, cotton is not grown 
