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COTTON-WOOL. 



No. 40. 



Letter from the Resident at Malwan to Mr, Chief 

 Secretary Warden, dated the 2'^th February 1818. 



Sir: 



Letter from Adverting to my former reports on the subject 

 Malwan, of the cultm'e of Bourbon cotton in this part of 

 ^ * ' the country, I have the satisfaction of acquainting 

 you, for the information of the Right Honourable 

 the Governor in Council, that the experiments I 

 have made, during the last monsoon and the pre- 

 sent dry season, have been entirely satisfactory, 

 and that I have established the fact of being able 

 to produce it in the districts under this Residency, 

 to any extent, as far as any natural impediments 

 offer, though the prejudice of the natives is still 

 far from being overcome. 



2. Such quantity of seed as I was possessed of 

 on the setting in of the monsoon, I distributed to 

 all those whom I found willing to cultivate it, and 

 the result has been, that in the month of Novem- 

 ber a luxuriant crop of cotton was produced, with- 

 out the necessity of irrigating the plants; and 

 subsequent to that, with the aid of water, which 

 is supplied with great facility, a succession of 

 crops have been obtained, and will continue I 

 believe till the rains. 



3. Though, from the small quantity of seed I 

 had obtained last year, I fear there is no chance 



of 



