COTTON-WOOL. 



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The seed for planting must be thorouglily ^^^'^^[^^^^''^'1) 

 cleaned of the cotton, which is o-enerally done in Governor-gen.^ 



^ 27 Jan. 1790. 



this country by rubbing it over a cott, close and 

 well strung with coir, the cotton and bad seed 

 remaining on the cott and the good seed falling 

 through. 



Seed for transportation to other countries, 

 should not be separated from the cotton but 

 covered with it, be put into dry sweet casks, and 

 placed in a dry part of the ship or vessel convey- 

 ing it, not in the hold, as the heat will be too 

 great and the air foul, nor exposed to wet or damp 

 air, but in an open, airy, thorough dry situation, 

 and it will in that state preserve for two or three 

 years. If separated from the cotton it decays in 

 a short time ; and moisture, of course, occasions 

 a premature vegetation. 



The cotton is cleaned of seed by small wheels, 

 and the expense of this process comes to about a 

 rupee for five or six maunds. The seed, when ex- 

 tracted, is used for sowing and feeding the cattle, 

 and sells for two or three maunds per rupee. The 

 best cotton is produced in the districts of Jamboo- 

 seer and Ahmood, and throughout the pergunnah 

 of Broach. Good is also grown in the country 

 near to Surat, but inferior to Broach or Ahmood ; 

 and the Bownaghur cotton is the worst of all, 

 being estimated near seven per cent, inferior to 

 the Ahmood, owing in a great measure to the soil, 



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