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Mr. Login says "From this abstract, it will be 

 seen that, in the case of the experiments at Shahabad, 

 where there was no irrigation, with Kapas selling at 

 Ks. 5 a maund, the value of the yield was no less 

 than Es. 68-2-5 per acre on an outlay of Es. 20, or 

 Bs. 48-2-5 profit ; so that, allowing Tor picking as 

 well as ordinary and extraordinary t charges, the 

 zemindars who cultivated these 7 acres [at^ Shaha- 

 bad must have cleared over two hundred~per cent, 

 net profit on these particular fields." 



This is the result where excessive care was not 

 taken ; but where a small patch of ground at 

 Kurnoul was sown a month earlier than at Sha- 

 habad, and was both watered and manured, the 

 value of the outturn per acre was above Es. 100, 

 the late Mr. Deacon having obtained not less than 

 535 Ibs. of clean cotton per acre, while the average 

 at the Chundee farm, owing to the lateness of the 

 season, was only 117^ Ibs. per acre, or less than 

 one-fourth of his. 



Manures. The object of cotton-culture being to 

 obtain a large yield of the filamentous substances 

 enveloping the seed of the plant, with wool 

 of good color, fair length and strength, and 

 free from dirt and other foreign matter, we 

 must consider how to improve the soil so as to 

 yield a large outturn and a good quality of the 

 staple, and what substances and conditions would 

 favor the development of the parts of fructification 



