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The 1918 cotton was submitted to the Cotton Contracts Board, Bombay, 

 and their opinion, very kindly furnished, is as follows : — " The sample in 

 spite of some nappiness and want of silkiness is a very excellent cotton which 

 if it continues to maintain its present characteristics and its superiority in 

 yield should have a great future before it. As compared with good kmnpta 

 the sample is fine and possesses an excellent strong staple. It is valued at 

 Rs. 30 to 1:0 per candij better than good humpta" 



We have thus a cotton which yields better, gins higher, and possesses a 

 staple which is larger and stronger than the ordinary kumpta, and is, therefore, 

 desirable in every way. It has now spread over 1,000 acres (in 1918), 

 and is being distributed to an area of 6.000 acres m the kumpta area (m 1919). 

 The characters are being maintained by fresh selection from protected and 

 self -fertilized plants every year, and it seems probable that it will have a 

 considerable future in the area now growing kumpta cotton. 



