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cotton. The seed farm at Jalgaon in East Khandesh has 

 been started for the supply of pure-bred seed of N.R. 

 variety to the cultivators, who are quite awake to its 

 advantages. 



Sind. 



In 1911 Mr, Keatinge says in his note on "Improved 

 and Exotic Cottons in the Bombay Presidency," that, 

 of various kinds of Egyptian cottons grown in Sind, 

 Mitaffifi is the only one that has given really good 

 results. Owing to difficulties connected with the supply 

 of irrigation water, the inferior agricultural methods of 

 the cultivators and the long growing season of Egyptian 

 compared with that of the local Sindhi cotton, and the 

 disinclination of the trade to pay proper prices for the 

 Egyptian cotton, its cultivation was abandoned, and since 

 then Mr. Henderson has decided that there will be a far 

 better chance for American Upland cottons, which can 

 be grown on a fairly large scale in many parts of Sind. 

 The local methods of cultivation are suitable for them, 

 and as the growing season is shorter than that of Sindhi 

 cotton they can be grown on the ordinary inundation 

 canals and they can also be grown in Upper Sind, where 

 at present practically no cotton is grown, and in many 

 parts of Lower Sind, where the autumn mists are pre- 

 judicial to the later maturing of Sindhi cotton. 



In the last published Departmental Report it is stated 

 that, of the American cottons, " Triumph " stood first 

 with regard to yield and suitability for growth in Sind 

 under irrigation. Forty tons of seed of this had been 

 imported and distributed amongst zaminders both in 

 Upper Sind and the Jamrao tract. The leading merchants 

 of the Bombay cotton trade have formed a syndicate 

 to set up ginning and buying centres at Shikarpur and 

 Mirpurkhas with the undertaking that the price paid for 

 the produce will be based on the grading of samples sent 

 to Liverpool. 



From an experiment conducted with a view to seeing 

 how far Sindhi cotton would respond to better methods 

 of cultivation, it was found that an acre plot yielded 

 1,710 Ib. of seed-cotton a yield never before obtained 



