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It may be said in regard to this commo- 

 dity : ' Government has already done its duty ; 

 experiments have been twice carried out with great 

 care and attention, and at great expense to the 

 State, and resulted in miserable failure/ The first 

 is a fact, and facts are indisputable things ; but 

 I cannot admit that the cotton experiments 

 undertaken by the Government of India were a 

 total failure, or any thing like it; and we have 

 fortunately to disprove it, another fact viz : that the 

 cotton now reaching England from India would not 

 have been nearly so good in quality, or nearly so 

 great in quantity, if those experiments had never 

 been undertaken. 



An evidently competent authority, whose testi- 

 mony is supported by that of Mr. Haywood the 

 Agent of the Cotton Supply Association, says : 



' I forgot to mention that besides the difference 

 in price of more then 7 per candy, between the 

 indigenous cotton and the " New Orleans" intro- 

 duced by Mr. Shaw, there is a difference of nearly 

 twice as much in the yield, as it takes 13 acres to 

 produce a candy of clean cotton from the indigenous 

 plant, and only seven acres to produce one from the 

 exotic ; so that the difference in value between the 

 produce of the 280,000 acres of exotic cotton in 

 and near Dharwar, and now worth 1,200,000, is 

 not, as I said before, only 240,000 above what it 

 rould have been if sown with indigenous cotton, 



