174 COTTON 



Round Cawnpore, an American variety is being grown, 

 and 200 bales of this were bought last season by a 

 Cawnpore millowner at 6Jd. per Ib. The ordinary cotton 

 round Cawnpore is very short Bengal. There is urgent 

 need for the work of an additional agricultural expert for 

 Bundelkhand, where the conditions are entirely different 

 from those in the Cawnpore area, the soil and climate of 

 Bundelkhand being almost identical with those of the 

 Central Provinces. In Bundelkhand has been inaugurated 

 during the last decade an extensive canal system, but 

 whereas in 1904 it had 160,000 acres under cotton, only 

 90,000 were cultivated last season with cotton. This is 

 all the more strange as all the other districts of the 

 United Provinces have gradually increased their cotton 

 acreage. The Department of Agriculture holds the 

 opinion that Bundelkhand offers a good future for the 

 growing of cotton. 



Central Provinces. 



The organizations which assist the Department of 

 Agriculture, and have been created by it, are excellent. 

 Agricultural Unions and Co-operative Agricultural 

 Societies attend to the distribution of cotton seed, and 

 it is probably due to the excellent organization of the 

 Department of Agriculture! of that Province that it is 

 now the second largest cotton producer of India. Since 

 1902, when the activities of the Agricultural Department 

 started, the area under cotton has increased by almost 

 900,000 acres. The cotton grown generally is short, 

 about J in. long, but the quantity is large and ever 

 increasing. Cambodia has been tried with enormous 

 success in Chanda, on the new Government farm, under 

 tank irrigation; it not only yielded well, but produced a 

 lint that has been spoken of by a Cawnpore millowner 

 as " the best cotton grown in any part of India." The 

 Central Provinces are the new home of Buri cotton, for 

 it is from here that the United Provinces and Assam have 

 received the seed. 



It is unfortunate that the good reputation which the 

 Agricultural Department is endeavouring to gain for the 

 cotton raised in the Central Provinces and Berar is 



