COTTON-WOOL. 



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" fill throuo^hout the bale ; these have escaped the Letter 



^ to Bombay, 



"expected operation of the machine." These 27N0V. isis. 

 bags of cotton have sold at twelve-pence to 

 fourteen-pence per pound. 



35. We cannot but express our extreme regret, 

 that our endeavours to introduce into India an 

 improved method of cleaning cotton, so as to 

 render it more fit for the Europe market, have 

 failed : the process of more perfectly cleaning 

 Indian cotton is, however, a desideratum that must 

 not be lost sight of. 



36. We recommend that you send to Bengal 

 one of the instruments for cleaning cotton called 

 a churka^ in order that the Board of Trade at 

 Calcutta may see if they cannot make some im- 

 provement in the machine used for cleaning cotton 

 in Bengal, which is merely two small round pieces 

 of wood worked in opposite directions by means 

 of a winch, and what mechanics call an ''endless 

 screw." It is worthy of trial whether fluted 

 wooden cylinders, instead of plain, would not 

 be an improvement, or whether small fluted cylin- 

 ders of iron or other metal would not be still 

 better. 



The cleaning of cotton is so important a matter, 

 that we are very unwilling to suppose that no im- 

 provement can be made therein except by the 

 expensive process of hand-picking, which from an 

 ex;periment made at Bengal is not likely to answer, 

 on account of the great expense of it. The 



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