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but actually 628.374 above it, at the present price 

 of tbe indigenous staple! Such -was the improve- 

 ment in quality effected, by one resident Englishman, 

 in a comparatively small district of India; and as 

 equal, and often greater improvements might be made 

 in scores of other districts, I rejoice to hear thfit 

 one English company, at least, has already despatched 

 its agents to the best station in Berar, \vith gins, 

 packing-presses, carts, &c., and will advertise their 

 presence to every ryot throughout the cotton region. 

 If other companies follow this example their work 

 will soon bear fruit a hundredfold/ 



The operations of Government, however, it must 

 be admitted, were not carried out, on the most 

 approved or most scientific principles; but, in a very 

 slovenly and very desultory manner; and were 

 stopped short, it would appear, at that point at 

 which it was most essentially important they should 

 have been pressed on with the greatest vigour. So 

 desultory were the cotton experiments in their nature, 

 that no effort even was made to bequeath to suc- 

 ceeding generations, what would now be of par- 

 amount importance viz., a full and clear record of 

 the blunders that were committed. On this point, 

 Dr. Royle observes. ' How little attention has been 

 paid, or at least, how little information is given us, 

 respecting the attention that was paid, to all the points 

 essential to insure success in culture, and improve- 

 ment in produce. Also how seldom any attempts are 



