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CHAP, to the growing plant. (112.) Five practical suggestions. (113.) First, 

 m - Choice of soil. (114.) Second, Preparation of the land for the seed. (115.) 

 Third, Ploughing and hoeing during the growing season. (116.) Fourth, 

 Distance between the Rows. (117.) Fifth, Treatment of the plant as an 

 Annual, and rotation of crops. (118) Profitable cultivation of American 

 Cotton throughout the Peninsula. 



(119.) Plans for extending the American Cotton culture amongst the 

 Ryots, 1845-49. (120.) Court of Directors order 6,000 bales of East Indian 

 Cotton, 1845. (121.) Proposition for reducing the Assessment of lands 

 under American Cotton cultivation. (122.) Mar quis of Tweeddale in favour 

 of the remission. (123.) Court of Directors decide against the remission. 

 (124.) Failure of the purchase system as regarded American Cotton. (125.) 

 Contemplated^establishment of a number of small Farms, 



