COTTON-WOOL. 



12. The example thus set will, it is hoped, lead Letter from 



Bombay, 



to the cultivation of the Bourbon cotton by the n April isis. 



ryots generally ; and, as a further inducement to 



them to do so, we have guaranteed to them a sale 



for all cotton of this description of an approved 



quality, at the rate of ten rupees per maund. 



This rate was offered by the Ahmedabad weavers 



for the cotton produced this year by Mr. Gilder, 



and is considered the very lowest at which it can 



be sold, and which we understand the merchants 



would readily give for a commodity of so superior 



a quality. 



Malwan. 



13. A satisfactory report has been received 

 from Mr. Hale, at Malwan, of an experiment made 

 in the cultivation of Bourbon cotton at that place, 

 but we have not received the cotton thus produced. 



15. If a supply of the seed of the Pernambuco 

 cotton could be procured and sent out to India, 

 wdth information of the mode observed in its cul- 

 tivation and the nature of the soil in which it is 

 produced, it would enable us to ascertain the 

 practicability of introducing its growth into this 

 country. The expense of the experiment would 

 be trifling, compared with advantages which must 

 result from the cultivation in the British territo- 

 ries in India of cotton of so superior a staple. 



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