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railways, the market is extended, there is of course a. 

 proportional rise in price which, operating on the strongest 

 propensity in man, savage or civilized, produces results 

 such as I have described." 



It is my firm conviction that if the labour, time, and 

 money devoted to the acclimatization of the American 

 cotton in India, had been spent on the improvement 

 of the indigenous staple, Government would long 

 before this have enabled the ryot to send a quality 

 of cotton into the markets fully able to compete 

 and hold its own against the best " New Orleans. " 



I would exceed the limits of this work were I 

 to give even an outline of the various experiments 

 made by Government for the purpose of acclima- 

 tizing the American variety, and to note the 

 majority of failures and the inadequate success 

 attained inadequate considering the labour, time, 

 and money spent on them; but a careful perusal of 

 all the official reports on this subject cannot fail to 

 leave an impression upon the mind, that, as asserted 

 before, if such labour, time, and expense had been 

 devoted to the improvement of the indigenous cotton, 

 magnificent results would have been obtained. 



The culture of the cotton-plant has been brought 

 to greatest perfection in America, and we need do 

 little else, here in India, than adopt the mode of 

 cultivation followed there, with such alterations as 

 the peculiarities of districts and soils may demand. 



/S0z7.The deep, black cotton soil of the Deccan 



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