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REPORT ON 



Report, manufacture in this country. Some fine sam- 



ples raised from the foreign seeds have also beeri 

 received. 



The desired success had not attended the intro- 

 duction of the American Saw-gin ; but as the 

 cotton of India adheres to its seed in a manner 

 similar to that of North America (Upland Geor- 

 gia), and although the latter certainly sustains 

 some injury by the process of ginning, it is found 

 on the whole beneficial to have recourse to it, 

 there seems encouragement to persevere in endea- 

 vours to adapt this economical and expeditious 

 mode of cleaning to the grow th of India. i 



In March 1835, the Court of Directors advised 

 their Government of Bombay, that measures had 

 been taken for transmitting, by the shortest route, 

 a renewed supply of the seeds of the best kinds 

 of cotton cultivated in South America and in 

 Egypt, and that it was intended to procure speci- 

 mens of the machines used for cleaning cotton in 

 those countries, which would be also forwarded. 

 The Court, at the same time, desired an Indian 

 churka and a foot-roller to be sent home, accompa- 

 nied with explanatory remarks, as some improve- 

 ments on these machines might perhaps be sug- 

 gested in England. 



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